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U2 Social test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What's a Daimyo | A feudal lord of Japan, landowner , he was subject to the Shogun, and controlled the classes below him (farmers, artisan) |
| What's a Shogun | The leader of the military government of Japan |
| Why did Japan go into isolation | Because Christians were coming to Japan, spreading Christianity to the people of Japan. |
| What's a Bakufu | The centralized military government, headed by the shogun |
| What's an edict | Legal order; a command to the public by an authority |
| What's Confucianism | A system of beliefs that focused on morals, education, and a strict order in the government and society |
| What's a Han | The local government in each domain ruled by a daimyo |
| How did Bakufu control Daimyo | They could relocate and abolish them. |
| Japan's hierarchical classes in order from least to greatest | Non-humans, outcasts, merchants, artisans, farmers, samurai, shogun |
| What's a Samurai | Men who were hereditary upper class warriors who were part of bakufu, worked for the Shogun, some were daimyo. |
| Japan's 3 metropolises | Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto |
| How did culture change in Japan | More people wanted luxury items, and samurai turned to intellectual pursuits like poetry. |
| What foreign influences happened in Edo Japan | The Chinese influenced learning and culture. The Dutch influenced medicine |
| In Japan, 1400 - 1600 was a time of... | Religious intolerance |
| Who invented Haiku | Basho Matsuo in 1680 |
| People printed books with the | Woodblock printer |
| Who was the first popular fiction writer | Ihara Saikaku |
| Kabuki Theatre | A type of theatre popular with the merchant class, which featured actors on a stage acting out a story with elaborate costumes and make-up. |
| Who performed the first Kabuki | A woman named Okini in 1607 |
| When were women banned from kabuki theatre | 1629 |
| Bunraku Theatre | A type of theatre which was adults only and featured puppets acting out a story |
| Which class were actors classified towards | Non-humans |
| Geishas | Women in the entertainment business who were trained in dancing, singing, witty conversation, and the tea ceremony |
| Communities grew because | Entourages would travel with someone important, they would trade and stay at rest stops which were run by artisans and merchants. These places became more popular over time and grew because of it. |
| Non-Humans were | beggers, prostitutes, actors, fortune tellers |
| Outcasts were | people who had jobs related to death |
| Merchants were | People who distributed goods |
| Artisans were | people who made useful decorative objects |
| Farmers were | people who farmed the lands |
| Samurai were | men who were hereditary warriors |
| Shogun was | the man in charge of the government |
| bushido | the way of the warrior, and the code of behaviour of the Samurai |
| What caused the change in peoples roles in Japanese society in the Edo period | urbanization |
| Which city had more than 1,000,000 inhabitants by 1720 | Edo |
| Which 3 large castle towns became large urban centres | Osaka, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki |
| What helped to unify Japan | Transportation routes |
| What technology greatly improved food production | new methods of irrigation |
| What are the names of the four main islands of Japan | Kyushu, Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido |
| Japan in located on an area where there is lots of volcanic activity, what is it called | The Ring of Fire |
| What are the main things the Japanese eat | Fish, rice, and fruit |
| How long was the typical life expectancy of a healthy Japanese person | Around 60 - 80 years |
| What shogun finalized the unification of Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| What two shoguns helped with the Japanese unification process | Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
| The three types of daimyo | The most trusted and loyal, nobles of the Tokugawa family, and the ones who had little standing because they may have opposed the shogun before the shogun gained power. |
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