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FROM UNIFICATION TO THE PERIOD (1560-1868)

Created by Cassidy Charles, Project Assistant at The George Washington University East Asia National Resource Center Muromachi (1603-1868) Period (1336-1573)

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Azuchi-Momoyama (1573-1603) (1336-1573) 室町時代・むろまちじだい

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Key Events & Ideas Key Places & Cultural Products

• Sengoku Jidai (W arring States Period) • • Incident • & Kyogen

Back to Timeline AZUCHI MOMOYAMA PERIOD (1573-1603) 安土桃山時代・あずちももやまじだい

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• Oda Nobunaga • Honnoji Incident • • • Ieyasu Key Places & Cultural Products

• Sadou (Tea Ceremony) • • Fushimi-Momoyama Castle • Castle Back to Timeline • ShinokoshoClass System EDO PERIOD (1603-1868) 江戸時代・えどじだい

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• • • Matthew Perry Key Events & Ideas Key Places & Cultural Products

• (“Chained Country”) • • • Theater • Era • Bunraku– Japanese Puppet Theate • Kurofune (The ) • -e Back to Timeline ASHIKAGA YOSHIAKI

• The 15th and last shogun(しょうぐん, leader of the military government) of the Muromachi Period.

• To take back the power of the shogunate/bakufu(ば くふ, military government) after the Eiroku Incident, Ashikaga Yoshiaki asked Oda Nobunaga to come to Kyoto to support him. He became shogunin 1568.

• He was removed from power by Oda Nobunaga in 1573.

Back to Muromachi ODA NOBUNAGA

• A powerful daimyo(だいみょう, feudal lord) who took control of Kyoto to help the /bakufu( ばくふ, military government) in 1568.

• He took power from Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573 and tried to unify Japan. He is known as the first Great Unifier.

• Under Nobunaga, the first Japanese coins were made, and Japan began to trade more with Europe.

• He died in the Honnoji Incident in 1582.

Back to Muromachi | Back to Azuchi-Momoyama TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI

• A former commander under Oda Nobunaga.

• When Oda Nobunaga died in the Honnoji Incident, Hideyoshi took revenge on in the Battle of Yamazaki.

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over Oda Nobunaga’s power in 1582.

• He is known as the second Great Unifier of Japan.

• Under Toyotomi, Japan adopted the shinokosho(しのう こうしょう) class system.

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama TOKUGAWA IEYASU

• Tokugawa Ieyasu was a military general under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

• He is the third and final Great Unifier of Japan. He was able to bring all of the separate daimyo(だいみょう, feudal lords) under his control.

• After Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in 1598 and the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu took power.

• The imperial court made him shogun(しょうぐん, leader of the military government) in 1603.

• His government was known as the /bakufu(ばくふ, military government).

• Under Tokugawa Ieyasu, the government moved from Heian-kyo (Kyoto) to Edo (Tokyo).

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama | Back t o Edo TOKUGAWA IEMITSU

• The 3rd Tokugawa shogun( しょうぐん, leader of the military government) and Tokugawa Ieyasu’s grandson.

• Under Iemitsu, Japan adopted the national seclusion policy, sakoku.

Back t o Edo MATTHEW PERRY

• A navy commander from the United States.

• He forced the Tokugawa bakufuto open Japan up to trade with Americans, ending thesakoku period.

Back to Edo • A period of constant civil war between daimyo(だいみょう , feudal lords) over control of land, and power over all of Japan.

SENGOKU JIDAI • The period started with the Onin War in 1467. Daimyo, (W ARRING (かんれい, deputies) and other families fought over who would become shogun( しょうぐん, leader of the STATES PERIO D ) military government) after the 8th shogunAshikaga 1467-1590 Yoshimasa.

• The Ashikaga shogunate or bakufu( ばくふ, military government) slowly lost power after the Onin War. The shogunate could not maintain control over central Japan, so daimyofought to expand their lands and their power. Back to Muromachi • The 13th shogunAshikaga Yoshiteru was killed in a coup by EIROKU kanrei(かんれい, deputies) who wanted to replace INCIDENT 1565 with Ashikaga Yoshihide. • Ashikaga Yoshihide became the 14th shogun( しょうぐん, leader of the military government).

Back to Muromachi HONNOJI INCIDENT 1582

Honno-ji Temple

• Oda Nobunaga was betrayed by one of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide.

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama • Akechi Mitsuhide led his army to Honno-ji Temple where Oda Nobunaga was resting. Caught by surprise, Nobunaga and his son, , died in the conflict. • After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, there was a struggle over who would become the leader of Japan after him.

BATTLE OF • Toyotomi Hideyoshi had chosen his son, , as his successor but he was only a child. Before he died, Hideyoshi wanted SEKIGAHARA 1600 five of his ministers to watch over the child until he was old enough to be the leader.

• Tokugawa Ieyasu was one of the five ministers chosen but he wanted power for himself. He defeated the other ministers in battle to take power.

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama • After the Shimabara Rebellion, Japan closed itself off to other countries except and the for trade. SAKOKU (さこく ,“C HAIN ED • were not allowed to leave the country. C O UN TRY”) • Foreigners were not allowed to enter Japan.

• Sakokuended when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in 1853 on the kurofune(くろふね, black ships).

Back t o Edo • The Tokugawa shogunate/bakufu(ばくふ, military government) was worried about the power of foreign religions in Japan. SHIMABARA • Through their connections to and , Catholicism was REBELLION 1637- becoming popular in Japan. 1638 • The Tokugawa bakufubelieved in Confucianism so foreign religions were considered dangerous.

• In Prefecture, Catholics were being heavily taxed and discriminated against. Upset, they rebelled against the government.

• Once the rebellion was defeated, the bakufubanned Catholicism.

Back t o Edo • After Japan was finally unified under the Tokugawa shogunate/bakufu( ばくふ, military government), there was peace throughout Japan. GENROKU ERA 1688-1703 • The economy grew and cities in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo developed. • Without wars to fight, townspeople could focus on making money and selling goods and services. This led to new styles of entertainment, clothing and art.

Back t o Edo • Europeans and Americans wanted to force Japan to open to trade.

• Commodore Matthew Perry, a commander from the U.S. came to Japan on "black ships" and forced the Tokugawa shogunate/bakufu(ば くふ, military government) to allow Japan to trade with the U.S.

KUROFUNE(くろ ふね, THE BLAC K SHIPS) 1853, 1854

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Commodore Matthew Perry’s ships from 1854 KYOTO

• Home to the imperial family and the Emperor, Kyoto was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868.

• It was originally called Heian-kyo.

Kinkakuji (The Golden Pavilion)

A temple covered in gold, built by the third shogun Ashikaga in 1397.

Ginkakuji (The Silver Pavilion)

A temple built by the eighthshogun (しょうぐん, leader of the military government), Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the grandson of , in 1482. Back to Muromachi NOH & Noh is a theater performance of music, dance and drama. KYO G EN

Kyogen is a comedy performance during Noh. Back to Muromachi SADOU (さどう, TEA C EREMO N Y)

• A ceremonial way of preparing and drinking green tea. • One of the most important figures in sadouis Sen no Rikyu. • Sen no Rikyu was the tea master for Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Sen no Rikyu

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama AZUCHI CASTLE

• Oda Nobunaga’s castle, built in 1579 in near Lake . • The castle burnt down after Nobunaga’s death. • The Japanese government built a replica of the castle in 1992.

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama FUSHIMI-MO MO YAMA C ASTLE

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s castle, built in 1594 in Kyoto. • The castle was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1596 but destroyed by the Tokugawa shogunate/bakufu(ばくふ, military government) in 1623. • Parts of the original castle were spread to temples in Kyoto. • A replica of the castle was built in 1964.

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• This is one of the most famous castles in Japan, built in 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. • It was built on the site of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama SHINOKOSHO (しのうこうしょう)C LASS SYSTEM

A system of separating people into 4 groups • Warrior/ based on their families. No one could change し (士) the group they were born into. • Warrior/Samurai (shi, し) • Farmer (no, のう) Far mer • Artisan (ko, こう) のう (農) • Merchant (sho, しょう) • This system was in place until the end of the Edo period. Artisan こう(工)

Back to Azuchi-Momoyama Merchant しょう (商) • The capital of Japan from 1868 to the present.

• Tokyo was originally called Edo.

TOKYO • Tokugawa Ieyasu moved the government from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1603, but Kyoto was still the capital.

• The capital only changed after the Emperor and the imperial family moved from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1868.

Edo period buildings preserved and/or reconstructed at the Edo-Tokyo O pen-Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, Tokyo.

Back t o Edo KABUKI (かぶき) THEATER A form of Japanese theater that involves elaborate makeup, wigs, costumes and performances.

Back t o Edo BUNRAKU(ぶんらく ,JAPANESE PUPPET THEATER)

• A form of Japanese theater that uses puppets that are operated by 3 performers.

• Only one person narrates the story and speaks for all of the puppets.

• Bunrakustarted in Osaka.

Back t o Edo UKIYO-E(うきよえ)

• Ukiyo-e are prints, paintings or pictures made using woodblocks. • The term ukiyo-e means “paintings of the floating world.” • Ukiyo-e prints of wrestlers and kabuki actors were popular in the Edo Period. • The most famous ukiyo-e print is The Great Wave off Kanagawaby Katsushika .

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