In Depth: Comparing Feudalisms 1. Do you think the characteristics of feudalism help explain the later success of Western & Japanese societies? Yes‚ the militaristic characteristics of the Western and Japanese societies help explain how much land they conquered and how powerful they were. 2. Have the political accomplishments of both Japan & Western Europe matched their economic achievements? Both Japan and Western Europe practiced feudalism and they were both unusually successful in industrial
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“MEIJI ERA’s (1868-1912) IMPORTANCE IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION.” Japan is a country that has never been colonised and was never colonised during the colonial period. It was governed by the Emperors‚ Shoguns‚ Daimyos and the Samurais through the feudal structure of governance with the Emperor as the head of the hierarchy. It maintained its isolationist policy and never opened-up to the outside world for centuries and was in a stagnant stage in terms of development. However‚ in the 19th Century it dumped
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essentially socialist the end result was not and went against socialist values. The economy was based on different types of taxation for each level of government‚ meaning that the Shogun did have sufficient control over the money rather just the daimyo. This system
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problems. The rich were getting away with basically anything‚ and the poor were being taxed to death. This was especially big in France as well as other countries such as Japan. The taxation was mostly prominent in the era of Tokugawa. With all the Daimyos and Samurai‚ if you were a peasant‚ life would be incredibly hard to live. This was all changed by the Revolutionary Meiji Restoration. During the Tokugawa period‚ Japan had decided to close off any communication to anything western. They wouldn’t
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Background to the Story of the 47 Ronin: During the Tokugawa era in Japanese history‚ the country was ruled by the shogun‚ or highest military official‚ in the name of the emperor. Under him were a number of regional lords‚ the daimyo‚ each of whom employed a contingent of samurai warriors. All of these military elites were expected to follow the code of bushido - the "way of the warrior." Among the demands of bushido were loyalty to one’s master‚ and fearlessness in the face of death. The story
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found it very difficult to control all of the country‚ so they introduced the samurai which is a warrior in Japan which means a man who serves nobble. At first the samurai men were only born into being a samurai and they were called the Daimyo. This changed as the daimyo gathered vassals who were not related to them by blood and then these were known as the samurai. During the Shogunate period the samurai where under the warrior code of bushido. Under this this they were required to learn seven martial
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warriors arose out of the ashes of political turmoil and in to the feudal realm‚ in which the upper tier of society acquired reputable protectors of their large land holdings. As the imperial family slowly lost its domain of the Japanese mainland‚ “daimyos”‚ powerful magnates‚ jumped to assume authority over vast land expanses around Japan (Levy). Although samurai originated as simple guard on a master’s land‚ he would later evolve in to a complex and adept warrior as a result of inter-clan conflict
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Brad Fitzenreiter HIST 483 November 9th‚ 2014 History of Japan Essay 1 The Tokugawa period‚ which lasted from about 1603 to 1867‚ was the last era of traditional Japanese government‚ culture and society prior to the Meji Restoration in 1868 which conquered over the Tokugawa shoguns and moved the country forward into the modern era. This era provided many strengths and weaknesses to the traditional Japanese people in terms of economy‚ society and political authority. Because of the
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conditions that had enabled the gekokujo. Building off reforms implemented by Hideyoshi including the 1591 edict requiring samurai to live under daimyo supervision in castle towns‚ Ieyasu and his successors mandated the sankin kotai. This system made Edo arguably the most populated and dynamic city in the world as the Buke Shohatto required that the “daimyo…serve in turns at Edo” and they were soon followed by enterprising merchants and
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1.Jiedushi（节度使） regional military governors in China. Originally set up to counter external threats‚ the jiedushi were given enormous power‚ including the ability to maintain their own armies‚ collect taxes‚ and pass their titles on hereditarily. Powerful jiedushi eventually eclipsed the power of the central government; the jiedushi retained their powers and quickened the disintegration of the Tang Dynasty. （618-907） 2.Fanzhen (藩镇) a governmental system involving administration through regional
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