Feudal Japan

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• Feudal
• Japan

By Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS
Chappaqua, NY
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Yamato Period 300-710

• Began promoting the adoption of Chinese culture
• Confucianism.
• Language (kanji characters).
• Buddhist sects.
• Chinese art architecture.
• Government structure.

Great Kings era
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Prince Shotoku 573-621

• Adopted Chinese culture and Confucianism.
• Buddhism introduced to Japan by Korea
• Created a new government structure on how
  officials should act!

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After Shotokus Death

• Fujiwaras family seized power of the empire
• New reforms include emperor having control over
  all properties once owned by other clan members

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Heian Period 794-1156

• Characteristics
• Growth of large landed estates.
• New capital, later called Kyoto. It will
  remained the capital for the next 1,000 years
• Arts literature of China flourished.
• Elaborate court life highly refined
• ETIQUETTE.
• Persuit of beauty ?
• Personal diaries
• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon 10c

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• Great novel
• The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu
  1000 pgs. ?
• Moving away from Chinese models in religion,
  the arts, and government. ?
• The search for beauty will lead them away from
  government duties.
• What would the result be for this behavior?

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Heian PeriodCultural Borrowing

• Chinese writing.
• Chinese artistic styles.
• Buddhism in the form of ZEN.
• BUT, not the Chinese civil service system! ?

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Heian Court Dress
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The Pillow Bookby Sei Shonagon (diary)
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The Pillow Bookby Sei Shonagon (diary)
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Tale of Genji (first novel)
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Tale of Genji Scroll(first novel)
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu
She contributed much to the Japanese script known
as kana, while men wrote with Chinese characters,
kanji.
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Minamoto Yoritomo
Founded the Kamakura Shogunate 1185-1333
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The emperor reigned, but did not always rule!
Feudal Society
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Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on
loyalty, the holding of land, and military
service. Japan
Shogun
Land - Shoen
Loyalty
Daimyo
Daimyo
Land - Shoen
Loyalty
Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Food
Protection
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
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Code of Bushido

• Fidelity
• Politeness
• Virility
• Simplicity

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Seppuku Ritual Suicide
It is honorable to die in this way.
Kaishaku his seconds
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Full Samurai Attire
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Samurai Sword
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Early Mounted Samurai Warriors
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Underpinnings Basic Steps in Self Defense
A COTTON BREECH CLOUT that extended up over the
chest was the basic undergarment of a samurais
costume
A SHORT SLEEVED KIMONO, or armor robe, was
tied snugly at the waist with a special knot
(lower right)
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BILLOWING PANTALOONS,worn over the armor robe,
fitted loosely in the legs to allow freedom of
movement
AN EXQUISITE BROCADE, richly worked with a design
of peonies, was one of the extravagant materials
used in an armor robe that may have been made for
a 14th Century imperial prince
STURDY SHINGUARDS of cloth or leather were
reinforced with strips of iron to give protection
from the front
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Samurai Charging
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Modern-Day Samurai Warriors
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Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on
loyalty, the holding of land, and military
service. Europe
King
Land - Fief
Loyalty
Lord
Lord
Land - Fief
Loyalty
Knight
Knight
Knight
Food
Protection
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
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Code of Chivalry

• Justice
• Loyalty
• Defense
• Courage
• Faith
• Humility
• Nobility

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Medieval Warriors
vs.
European knight
Samurai Warrior
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Medieval Warriors
vs.
Knights Armor
Samurai Armor
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Zen Buddhism

• A Japanese variation of the Mahayana
  form of Buddhism, which came from India
  through China.
• It reinforced the Bushido values of mental
  and self-discipline.

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MongolInvasionsof Japan
4,400 ships and 140,000 men, but kamikaze winds
stopped them.
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Ashikaga Age 1338-1573

• Shoguns fought for power.
• Laws are unclear.
• Less efficient than the Kamakura.
• Armies of samurai protected the country. ?

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CASTLES
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Osaka Castle
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Main Gate of Hiroshima Castle
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Caernorfon Castle, Wales
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Warwick Castle, England
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R O E N S
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The Age of the Warring States(1467 - 1568)

• Castles built on hills in different
  provinces.
• Power shifts from above to below.
• Europeans arrive in Japan ? bringing
  firearms Christianity.
• Christianity foreign trade flourish.

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Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)

• Banishes the last Ashikaga shogun.
• Unifies a large part of Japan.

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Catholic Jesuits in Japan
St. Francis XavierFirst Catholic Missionaries
in Asia
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi(1536-1598)

• Becomes suspicious of European
  territorial ambitions.
• Orders all European missionaries expelled
  from Japan. ?
• Tries to invade Korea, but fails.

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First Christian Martyrs (1597) Shrine in
NagasakiToday
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Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)

• Appointed shogun by the Emperor.
• Four-class system laid down with marriage
  restricted to members of the same class! ?
• Warriors.
• Farmers.
• Artisans.
• Merchants.

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Tokugawa Shogunate Period

• Japan closed off to all trade except to the
  Dutch and Chinese. ?
• The Dutch were restricted to a small island
  in Nagasaki harbor.
• Japanese Christians persecuted and
  Christianity is forbidden.
• The government is centralized with all power
  in the hands of the shogun.
• Domestic trade flourishes.
• Towns, esp. castle towns, increase.
• Merchant class becomes rich! ?
• New art forms ? haiku poetry, kabuki theater.