Tokugawa Shobunate- slide show

The Tokugawa Shogunate rule time frame

1603-1868

Key features of the Tokugawa Shogunate?

centralized power. peace, rigid social order

Social heierarchy of Tokugawa Shogunate?

Samurai- Peasants- artisans- mechants

The Tokugawa Shogunate capital

Capital at Edo (Modern day tokyo)

List the order of Hierarchy of the Tokyo Shogunate (in detail) from highest to lowest importance.

Emperor, Court Nobility, Shogun, Daimyo, Samuria, Peseants, Craftsman, Merchants,

What was the Tokugawa Shogunate?

a government that ruled japan ushering in a period of peace and stability known as the Edo period.

The Sakoku Policy (closed Country)

• Series of edicts in 1630’s-1640s 

• Portuguese expelled; Christianity banned

• Foreign travel and return prohibited

• Only dutch and chinase permitted to trade (Nagasaki

What was Dejima?

an artifical islan built in Nagasaki Bay (1636)

It was orginally for the portuegese, then dutch from 1641

15,000 m2, walled, conneced by guarded bridge

Japans only official european contact point.

What did Deijma manage?

Dutch trade and the VOC

10-15 dutch men lived on Deijima at a time

No familes, no travel, no christianity.

Annual tribute journey to Ed0 (shogun)

Good exchange at Deijima

• Japanease exports: siliver, copper, lacquer, ceramics.

• Dutch Imports: textime, clocks, telescopes, sugar, books

• Trade volume modest but symbolically significant

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Number of Ships arriving at Deijma?

• 606 dutch ships arrived at Dejima from 1641-1847

• 1641 to 1671- rather free on average 7 dutch ships every year (12 sank during this period

• 1671 to 1715- circa 5 dutch ships permitted each year

• from 1715- 2 ships permitted every year, reduced to 1 ship in 1790 and again increased to two ships in 1799 (No ships during napoleonic wars, 1803-1815, bc betherlands was occupied by france.)