Tokugawa Shogunate

During the Edo (Tokugawa) period, which position below held the most power on the social hierarchy?

• Shogun

• Daimyo

• Emperor

• Samurai

Appointed by the Emperor as a military ruler

• Bakufu

• Daimyo

• Shogun

• Samurai

Wealthy land owner, also the head of a clan group

• Bakufu

• Samurai

• Shogun

• Daimyo

How did the Tokugawa shoguns exert political control over the daimyo in 17th century Japan?

• They killed the daimyo’s draft animals.

• They kept the daimyo’s family in Edo as hostages.

• They exiled the daimyo to Korea.

• Nothing, the shoguns did not exert political control over the daimyo.

After the death of the Shogun in Tokugawa Japan, how was the next Shogun selected?

• Japanese religious leaders would choose the next Shogun

• Warfare broke out amongst the Nobles and the strongest took power

• The Japanese citizens voted for a new one (democracy)

• Power was passed down to their child (dynasty)

What title, "divinely" appointed by the Emperor, does Tokugawa use to rule Japan as absolute ruler?

• Shogun

• Ronin

• Yakuza

• Daimyo

Who was the final clan of Shoguns?

• Edo

• Yorimoto

• Tokugawa

• Morimoto

Define Eta

•  approximately 250 domains into which Japan was divided under the Tokugawa

•  a system used by the shogunate to control the daimyo in Tokugawa Japan; the family of a daimyo lord was forced to stay at their residence in the capital whenever the lord was absent from it

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

• a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

Define Hans

•  approximately 250 domains into which Japan was divided under the Tokugawa

•  a system used by the shogunate to control the daimyo in Tokugawa Japan; the family of a daimyo lord was forced to stay at their residence in the capital whenever the lord was absent from it

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

• a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

Which man completed the unification of Japan and set up a shogunate in Japan to maintain that control?

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi

• Ito Hirohito

• Oda Nobunaga

• Tokugawa Ieyasu