power. These daimyo hired samurai warriors to battle other daimyo and protect themselves. As certain daimyo increased their power‚ less powerful daimyo pledged loyalty and military service to them in return for protection and land. These protected and rewarded allies were also known as vassals. The trade between the daimyos and their vassals was also known as the lord-vassal system and it increased the power of the daimyo and marked the beginning of feudalism in Japan. Samurai fought for their lords
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they dress. The Daimyo were forced to go and live in Edo every second year. This left their families as hostages and cause income problems. The privileged classes in Japanese feudal society were the Imperial family‚ the court nobles and the Samurai. Samurai were fighters of feudal Japan who served and protected the Daimyo and followed the Bushido – a code of conduct expecting them to be loyal and brave. The rest of the social structure consisted of peasants who were farms who lived off the land
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The ancient Japanese ninja Ninja or Shinobi were known as Samurai spies of ancient Japan. They developed the skills of Ninjutsu (which means the “art of stealth”). The ninja were an elite group or secret brotherhood that used their special techniques for sabotage‚ infiltration and assassination‚ as well as open combat. Origins Historians believe that the first ninjas appeared around the 14th century however it was not until the 15th century that they were specially trained as spies and
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many beautiful and necessary goods‚ such as clothes‚ cooking utensils‚ and woodblock prints‚ they were considered less important than the farmers. Even skilled samurai sword makers and boatwrights belonged to this third tier of society in feudal Japan. The artisan class lived in its own section of the major cities‚ segregated from the samurai (who usually lived in the daimyos’ castles)‚ and from the lower merchant class. The Merchants: The bottom rung of feudal Japanese society was occupied by merchants
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During this period‚ Confucianism was prevalent . A hierarchical order was created : At the top‚ the samurai [9] stood .Then the farmers‚ artisans and the last being the merchants .The daimyos‚ shogun and the Emperor stood above [9] [9] the hierarchy . A fifth class‚ were outcasts and people with jobs considered impure‚ was created . The adoption of
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Before Perry: A Short History‚ Totman presents to the reader the emergence of bushi as the ruling class during the Kamakura period. With the decline of the Taira family‚ Minamoto Yoritomo succeed to establish the bushi regime. Although bushi embraced samurai principles of honoring a master and remaining loyal under any given -even deadly- circumstance‚ a greater motive might have motivated men to become bushi. Japan was facing difficult times in which there was a claim for social change amongst the non-aristocratic
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different in many ways. One way that feudalism in Japan and Europe were alike was that the soldiers/warriors in both cultures had a code of honor that they followed. The samurai’s (Japanese warriors) code of honour was called bushido. In bushido a true samurai would be “loyal‚ courageous‚ veracious (truthful)‚ compassionate‚ and honorable”. In the Code of Chivalry knights were expected to be “brave‚ courteous‚ honourable‚ and gallant to women”. Both are alike in that the soldiers believe in being brave
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1 The Tale of Genji and the Tale of the Heike are stories illustrating the Heian period of Japan. The Tale of Genji is a fictional work completed in the early eleventh century C.E. that takes place at the height of the court aristocracy‚ while the Tale of the Heike is a dramatic telling of the true events that led to the end of the era and the dominance of the warrior class. They show very different aspects of the time period‚ and while they both provide powerful sentiments‚ the Tale of Genji
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And so upon taking control‚ Hideyoshi decreed that all peasants be disarmed completely. He set the basis for the Confucian social order instituted by Tokugawa Ieyasu. This forbade any non-samurai to carry weapons. The weapons were used to help create a large Buddha image at Nara‚ still there today. This‚ in turn‚ provided a double pacification of the state. The image of Buddha supposedly calmed and protected the people‚ while the prohibition
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Initially the government was run by a few leading daimyos. Ito‚ who was a young samurai reformist leader visited Germany and was impressed by the aspects of its form of government‚ as it was aimed at unification and was seen as a good model. So‚ in 1889 a constitution was made in which it was based on the Prussian model‚ which allowed
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