Tradition: The Last Days of Feudal Japan C. A. Pollock Mark Ravina. The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. Hoboken‚ NJ: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ 2003. 265 pages. Hardcover $32.50; softcover $16.95. During the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the succession of a modernizing Meiji government‚ the so-called Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 became the definitive last stand of Japanese feudalistic resistance towards modernization. The life of Saigo Takamori‚ the books subtitle and
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The Tradition of the Onnagata: Cross-dressed Actors and Their Roles on the Classical Japanese Stage Theatre History I Dr. Kevin Browne December 7‚ 2011 Japan‚ like most cultures‚ has a long history of men playing the stage roles of women. This paper‚ The Tradition of the Onnagata: Cross-dressed Actors and Their Roles on the Classical Japanese Stage‚ will explore the representation of male and female gender in Japan’s highly stylized classical kabuki theatre. I will look at the history of
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Japan expansion evolved by unification where Japan regained their islands. Tokugawa Shogunate unified Japan by consolidating with islands near Japan’s territory. With all of Japan’s territory being under his rule‚ japan expanded. A cultural continuities in Japan would be feudalism. Japan became decentralized‚ where all people in Japan was under the rule of Tokugawa shogun or their emperor at that time. The 46 Ronin were also a continuities. The 46 Ronin was a story about the importance of the
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and the American’s. This change became a threat to the old Japanese culture which the Samurai warriors devoted their life to. Rurouni Kenshin is a name of a Samurai who fought the great Boshin war during the Meiji Restoration and at the end of Tokugawa era. After the war he was labeled as the legendary man slayer. Soon he realized how many innocent life he has taken and devoted his life to a reversed blade sword where the blade is at the opposite side of the sword and became a wonderer who traveled
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the firstFilipino saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; he is thus the protomartyr of the Philippines. He was killed for refusing to leave Japan and renounce his Roman Catholic beliefs during the persecution of Japanese Christians under the Tokugawa Shogunate in the 17th century. Saint Lorenzo is patron saint of‚ among others‚ the Philippines and Filipinos. Early life Lorenzo Ruiz was born in Binondo‚ Manila to a Chinese father and a Filipino mother who were bothCatholic
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They rather spend the money on defending China. Japan grew doubts with the European intentions‚ that both merchants and missionaries might subvert the existing social order. This led to official measures to restrict foreign activities in Japan. Under Ieyasu and his successors‚ the persecution of the Christians increased to isolate Japan from outside influences. In the 1630s‚ all the Japanese ships were forbidden to trade or even sail overseas. By the mid-17th century‚ Japan’s
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did foreign trade play in the economy of the Qing Empire? 4. How and why did Peter the Great’s attitude toward the west differ from that of Kangxi? 5. Both the Qing and the Tokugawa governments were in decline by 1800. What reasons lay behind the decline of each government? 6. How did the political structure of the Tokugawa Shogunate influence the economic development of
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The Samurai and the Bakumatsu Era Eric Lemaire 12/09/05 English Comp I Mrs. Halperin The Bakumatsu Era was a crucial period of Japanese history at the end of the Tokugawa Era or Edo Period. It was a period of war and anarchy that was brought about by the introduction of western culture and constant battles between the imperialists and the loyalists. During this time and throughout history‚ the samurai or bushi played an integral
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Chapter 27 Study Guide 1. The process of industrialism threatened traditional and social hierarchies in both societies. In Russia‚ the aristocracy was threatened by the abolition of serfdom‚ the creation of regional zemstvoes‚ and reforms of the army. In Japan‚ the samurai were almost destroyed by the fall of the shogunate‚ the destruction of feudalism‚ and military reform. Both nations used territorial expansion as a means of mollifying the aristocracy and building support for the imperial government
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society so torn apart that the major goal of the daimyo who reunify Japan in 1600 is the establishment of order. The Tokugawa period‚ 1600 -1868‚ is thus distinguished from the medieval period by the cessation of warfare and the evolution of a pre-modern society marked by commercial development and urbanization‚ as discussed in Topic 8: China‚ Japan and Korea: the Ming‚ the Qing‚ Tokugawa‚ and Chosun. • Literature in medieval Japan reflects the Buddhist notion of the impermanence of life and the need
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