Chapter 16 Japan, Tokugawa and Korea

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Chapter 16 Japan, Tokugawa and Korea

• By Andy, Anja, Milda, Lauryn and Andrew

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Life in the Tokugawa village

• Increase of central government on local levels.
• Family became increasingly important
• Women became even more restricted
• Expected to obey their husbands on pain of death

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Tokugawa Culture

• Was influenced by Confucian themes, Buddhist
  quietism, and the Samurai warrior tradition.
• Flourished under the patronage of the shogunate.
• With the development of woodblock printing in the
  17th century, literature became available to
  common people causing literacy levels to rise and
  lending libraries increased the accessibility of
  the printed texts.
• Previous mood of the area was gloom and doom but
  now it was cheerful and frivolous.
• New sets of cultures began to appear, especially
  in the cities.

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Literature of the New Middle Class

• Saikaku was best novelist in that era. He wrote
  The Five Women Who Loved Love.
• Theatrical achievements No, Kabuki styles which
  were focused on violence, music and dramatic
  gestures.
• Basho was the greatest of all poets.

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Tokugawa Art

• Gold foil was used in palaces to reflect light
• Western influence in medicine, astronomy,
  languages, oil painting. Woodstock printing was a
  very major influence.

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Korea The Hermit Kingdom

• 15th century Creation of Phonetic alphabet in
  Korean
• Manchu force invaded and took over Korea
• Contact with the West was extremely limited.

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CONCLUSION

• In 1540s small contingent of Portuguese merchants
  became 1st Europeans to set foot in Japan
• Welcomed at first but success was short lived
• Eventually evicted from China, Japan and Korea
  because they were seen as detrimental to law and
  order
• From 17th -19th century, all three countries were
  barely affected by events outside their borders

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CONCLUSION Cont.

• Tokugawa Japan was especially marked by change
• Emergence of new merchant class
• Powerful Tokugawa shogunate began to centralize
• Traditional classes and institutions came under
  increasing strain
• By beginning of 19th century powerful tensions
  were at work in China and Japan

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