4.1 - Tokugawa Japan

• Alternate Attendance (sankin-kōtai)
• Daimyo
• First Great East Asian War
• "Floating Worlds" (ukiyo)
• Jesuits
• Tokugawa Shogunate

From the late 1500s to the early 1600s, Japan was unified after a long period of political division.

The unified government controlled the powerful territorial lords, daimyo, to prevent further civil war.

• Closely controlled relations with the outside world

Increased agricultural production lead to a population boom.

Lead to some birth control, but also a lot of infanticide.

Floating worlds - ukiyo - were at the center of culture in Japan

• secular
• satirical
• crazy
• theater
• geisha
• sumo

Jesuits brought Christianity to Japan

• brought backlash by those who wanted to preserve tradition
• Shoguns forced Japanese Christians to renounce their faith
• Christianity only survived as an underground religion

Led by an emperor

• more of figurehead
  and a shogun
• had military power
• from the house of Tokugawa