Chapter 20 Section 2: The Reunification of Japan

Describe a Daimyo.

• o Heads of the kings, having land and a standing army

• o Head of the knights with land ownership

• o Heads of noble families, controlled their own lands and warred with their neighbors

• o Head of all peasant families, having ownership of lands and warred with neighboring areas

How was the Shogunate able to control the daimyo? Explain in few sentence.

• o Through the long period of peace known as the Great Peace – where the samurai who had served the daimyo gradually creased to be a warrior class

• o The Shogun established control over the daimyo and divided the state in 250 separate territories

• o Hostage system where the daimyo was required to maintain two residence – one in their own land and the other in Edo – where the shogun’s court was located.

• o Through political and economic change where many upper class Japanese had considered trade and industry beneath them

Explain the term eta.

• o Japan’s outcast class whose way of life was strictly regulated by Tokugawa

• o A system used by the Shogunate to control the daimyo in Japan

• o The Samurai in exchange for military service

• o Japan’s warriors who travelled the country side seeking service

He was considered one of Japan’s greatest writers.

• o Matsuo Basho

• o Ihara Saikaku

• o Ihara Kabuki

• o Ronin

Who succeeded Nobunaga? Where was his capital located?

• o Toyotomi Hideyoshi who located his capital at Osaka.

• o Tokugawa Ieyasu who located his capital at Edo

• o Tokugawa Nobunaga who located his capital at Nanjing

• o Tokugawa Ieyasu who located his capital at Kyoto

Name the first Jesuit missionary that arrived in 1549

• o The Dutch community

• o Xavier Esquire

• o Francis Xavier

• o Vasco da Gama

Name the greatest Japanese poet.

• o Matsuo Basho

• o Ihara Saikaku

• o Ihara Kabuki

• o Ronin

In Japan they were the first Europeans to arrive

• o The Dutch

• o The Portuguese

• o The French

• o The English

In theory how were the daimyo independent?

• o They were allowed to make their own decision and select their own standing army

• o They were able to support themselves from taxes on their lands

• o They brought a period of great peace and prosperity

• o They had the Dutch to support them in times of crises

Name the first political figure who seized the imperial capital of Kyoto

• o Oda Nobunaga

• o Tokugawa Ieyasu

• o Ieyasu Nobunaga

• o Tokugawa Ieyasu