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    Although dealing with similar topics of love‚ Love Suicides at Amijima and House of Trials use disguises and deceit in different ways. Love Suicides at Amijima uses disguises in a serious manner by focusing on social hierarchy. For instance‚ there is no cross dressing or outrageous disguise like there is in House of Trials. House of Trials uses a humorous approach to deceit and disguise by having stock characters and setting in one place makes it more clumpy and chaotic. In most cases‚ disguises

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    The samurai‚ members of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan‚ began as provincial warriors before rising to power in the 12th century with the beginning of the country’s first military dictatorship‚ known as the shogunate. As servants of the daimyos‚ or great lords‚ the samurai backed up the authority of the shogun and gave him power over the mikado (emperor).What I am trying to say is that the samurais would protect their region. Japan has been a constitutional

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    Cited: Lu‚ David. JAPAN. A Documentary History. Volume II. The late Tokugawa Period To the Present.n.d.Armonk‚ Newyork; East gate Fridell‚ Wilbur.” FAMILY-STATE” (KAZUKU-KUKKA): AN IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY FOR MEIJI JAPAN.1970. University of Hawaii Yukichi‚ Fukuzawa. An Outline of a Theory of Civilisation.2009. Newyork‚ NY: Columbia

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    AAS 331 Prof: M.Diaz Jingyi.deng (108289646) Gender Roles in Meiji Era Women’s right refers to the freedoms and entitlements of females of all ages. Gender roles and rights have been an important concept of hierarchy throughout Japanese history‚ but the cultural elaboration of gender differences has varied over time. The status and role of the standard woman has changed evolutionarily over the last couple centuries. However‚ the more significant change was women and

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    not a large reflector of change. The Edo painting is also a less significant source. The source appears to have been created as a commissioned piece‚ and as such‚ it reflects the tranquility and peace which was said to have been brought by the shogunate. The source has no known author‚ which causes the motives of the painter to become unclear. In this way‚ one must theorize the true meaning of the painting‚ and the change that it may have brought to the society it was created in. This makes the

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    Compare and Contrast Japanese and Western European Feudal Systems Both Western Europe and Japan used the feudal system from the 800s to the 1700s. The two regions show economic similarities‚ but differ greatly with respect to politics and society. Economically‚ Western Europe and Japan were similar. Both economies had systems which regulated trade. The Guild Regulations for Sharers of Arras details the rules and regulations of the shearing trade in the Holy Roman Empire in 1236. Japanese governments

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    open their ports to trade a. British‚ French‚ Russian and America officials occasionally anchored off the Japanese coast b. Japan refused to receive them c. 1853‚ US commodore Matthew Perry took four ships into Tokyo harbor‚ socked Japanese d. Tokugawa shogun dubiously received Perry and the letter Perry had brought form US president 2. Fillmore’s letter asked the shogun to allow free trade between the US and Japan a. Perry delivered w/ a threat‚ would come back w/ a larger fleet b. Treaty of

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    and civil codes which were modeled afterthe German and French codes. There was an urgent necessity to modernize the traditional Japanese legal system in order to amend the unequal treaties thrust upon Japan by the Western powers when the Tokugawa shogunate government was finally forced to open Japan after 260 years ofself-imposed isolation. Underthese treaties‚ theWestern nationsrefused to recognize the Japanese government ’sjurisdiction overforeign nationalsin Japan by claiming that the Japanese

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    Throughout history‚ the world has seen its fair share of both good and terrible rulers. Although both sides of the spectrum can be seen as purely subjective‚ the ruler in either case is all-powerful and have complete control‚ until the turn of democratic evolution. These leaders seem to convince their subjects of certain myths and thoughts that give the subjects a boosted morale when wartime comes. The subjects hold on to every word that the leaders say‚ giving the leaders even more control. Kagemusha

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    ideology. To do so I will be referencing Andrew Gordon’s book entitled: A Modern History of Japan. To start off I’d to address the role of women prior to the infiltration of western ideology. More precisely the the views of the Orthodox in the Tokugawa society‚ that being that “women should be kept ignorant and in the kitchen.”[1] However that wasn’t the case rather it was that this belief was more to keep women as submissive an obedient . It was further brought out that women worked as managers

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