November 1852 marked the dawn of a revolution for the Japanese people. Mutsuhito‚ known posthumously as Meiji‚ literally meaning “Enlightened Rule” served as the figurehead to the Meiji Oligarchy‚ a privileged ruling class clique formed by powerful Samurai‚ which reformed and revolutionised Japan‚ transforming it into a world power within half a century. The Meiji Oligarchy succeeded the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ a feudal military dictatorship which had ruled Japan for 256 years. The Meiji leadership revolutionised
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no political power and was primarily a remnant of the neo-Confucian ideological theory. This theory prescribed a very structured society in which all people in society fell into certain classes. The four major classes within Japanese society were samurai‚ farmers‚ artisans‚ and merchants. Some members of Japanese society were
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Jonathan Mendez Global Civilization II Professor Michael Efthimiades March 6‚ 2009 Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan’s History The Tokugawa shogunate‚ also known as the Tokugawa bakufu‚ and the Edo bakufu was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city of Edo‚ now Tokyo. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle from 1603 until 1868‚ when it was abolished
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John Allyn’s The 47 Ronin‚ is the true‚ although slightly embellished‚ tale of 47 masterless samurai bent on avenging their fallen leader‚ Lord Asano‚ as well as a fairly accurate portrayal of the culture of Japan during the eighteenth century. Each page of the 47 Ronin is steeped in the aura of Samurai‚ Confucian‚ Taoist‚ and Buddhist ethics. The most prominent of these ethics‚ is that of the Samurai; the code of Bushido is modeled by seven core virtues: rectitude (gi)‚ courage (yu)‚ benevolence
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or daimyo‚ emerged. The daimyo establish and maintain their domains (called han)‚ build castles‚ and establish towns around their castles where their samurai retainers reside and serve in their armies. Samurai values of service to a lord and personal loyalty became central to Japanese cultural tradition over the centuries. The loyalty of a samurai is said to have been unconditional and utterly
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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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women differed in that women were allowed to serve in Japanese warrior class but not in the European’s. European knights were very similar to the Japanese samurais; not only were they similar in their codes of conduct‚ but they had similar weaponry. The Knights were based on Chivalry which consisted bravery‚ respect and honor. The Samurais followed a similar code of conduct called bushido meaning “the way of the warrior” which consisted of loyalty‚ bravery in the martial arts‚ and honor until death
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provisions and protection for their shipwrecked people. Bringing in foreign trade was a major accomplishment for the Japanese industrialization. _______. The trade brought more foreign trade into Japan which disrupted the Japanese monetary system. Samurai leaders began to demand a change in leadership. Eventually the shogunate crumbled and was replaced by a centralized government with an emperor as the head. The Meiji Restoration was a turning point in Japanese history in 1868 when the last shogun
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at highest regard. They also were both taken for training from boyhood. Though there is one unmistakable difference between the two‚ the warrior code the Samurai of Japan went by‚ differed immensely from that of the European Knights. These codes were the code of ethics for their lifestyle. Knights in Europe were paid with money‚ while the Samurais
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Family Supper The Japanese fighter pilots in WWII committed suicide attacks on allied forces aka kamikaze; it was considered an honorable service to the Empire of Japan. Death instead of defeat and shame is the primary tradition in the Japanese samurai culture. They lived with the bushido code: “Loyalty and Honor before death”. The short story in discussion is “A Family Supper” written by Kazuo Ishigoru. This story tells us about an evening when the son-the protagonist and the narrator of this story
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