1400 Week 13

Question 1

What was Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s role in noh drama?

Answer 1

He was the only actor who could portray himself on stage, the plays must also celebrate his family and achievements while he paid a special court to praise his performances

Question 2

How did the Tokugawa period begin?

Answer 2

Ieyasu Tokugawa won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600

Question 3

How long did the Tokugawa period last?

Answer 3

1603-1867

Question 4

Where did the emperor reside during the Tokugawa period?

Answer 4

Tokyo

Question 5

What determined the rank of Daimyo?

Answer 5

Their name and the amount of rice they produced

Question 6

What are Shimpan?

Answer 6

Daimyo related to the shogun

Question 7

What are fudai?

Answer 7

The inside Daimyo who worked closely alongside the shogun (were more trusted than the shimpan)

Question 8

What are Tozama

Answer 8

Outside daimyo

Question 9

What was the Honjin?

Answer 9

A licensed inn where Daimyo erected banners to show prestige

Question 10

What was Hakone Pass?

Answer 10

A checkpoint outside of Edi where travellers had to ensure they had no weapons

Question 11

How much of Edo was occupied by samurai?

Answer 11

50%

Question 12

What were the Hatamoto?

Answer 12

Bannermen, they were the highest rank of the daimyo’s entourage

Question 13

What are Gokenin?

Answer 13

Impoverished warriors who depended on stipends of rice

Question 14

What are Ronin?

Answer 14

Masterless samurai, warriors without a Daimyo to follow

Question 15

What were the bakufu?

Answer 15

Tent governments or political governments within Edo

Question 16

Social relationships in a feudal society?

Answer 16

Are personal and hierarchical

Question 17

Political relations in a feudal society are

Answer 17

Between lord and vassal

Question 18

Economic relations in a feudal society are

Answer 18

Agrarian

Question 19

What is the Baku-Han system?

Answer 19

The distribution of power between the bakufu and the various han

Question 20

What were the habits and lifestyle of Tokugawa Daimyo based on?

Answer 20

They were warrior style variations of ancient Kyoto court customs, practices , and etiquette

Question 21

How did the bakufu treat warrior-officials?

Answer 21

Members of the military houses were treated differently than the positions held by court nobility

Question 22

What are some titles issued to warriors of the Tokugawa period (4)?

Answer 22

• Governor
• minister of the right
• major counselor
• minor counselor

Question 23

What did Hayashi Razan’s Honcho tsugan include?

Answer 23

Establishment of the lineages and behaviours of the shogun and Daimyo as ranks risen in Japanese society

Question 24

What does Munenori’s bamboo sword imply?

Answer 24

That sword fighting had evolved from a military technique to a martial art

Question 25

How many generations did it take for warriors to become true upper-class nobility?

Answer 25

Three or four months

Question 26

Where did the standard language of modern Japan originate?

Answer 26

The mix of upper-class warriors and Edo-born chi in who spent time with samurai

Question 27

How were chonin impacted by the production of Edo?

Answer 27

Their homes were often relocated due to fire safety and construction

Question 28

How large was the chonin population in Edo?

Answer 28

500,000

Question 29

Why is early Edo compared to civil war?

Answer 29

Due to ongoing conflicts between artisans and merchants

Question 30

What was the name of the “licensed ward” in Edo

Answer 30

The Yoshiwara Quarter

Question 31

What is tsu?

Answer 31

The connoisseurship of Edo lifestyle in the pleasure quarters

Question 32

Who brought prostitution under control for the first time in the last w 1500s?

Answer 32

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Question 33

Who set up the first licensed quarter in Kyoto in 1589?

Answer 33

Hara Saburoemon

Question 34

When did the Yoshiwara official quarter open?

Answer 34

1618

Question 35

Why were official pleasure quarters created?

Answer 35

To control thieves, kidnappers/prostitution, and unemployed samurai

Question 36

What were the three main rules of the official pleasure quarters?

Answer 36

- prostitution was only allowed within the quarter - courtesans couldn’t leave the quarter - suspicious loiterers were to be questioned

Question 37

What are tayu?

Answer 37

First class courtesans

Question 38

What is the name of second-class courtesans?

Answer 38

Tenjin

Question 39

How much did one night with a tayu cost?

Answer 39

Approximately 53 monme of silver

Question 40

How did courtesans inspire a drive for education and sensibility?

Answer 40

The higher up courtesans chose who they wanted regardless of how rich they were, and most preferred smarter men

Question 41

Why did pleasure quarters become more popular in the 1650s and 60s?

Answer 41

The townspeople and merchants had spend time amassing the wealth required to visit the quarters

Question 42

When did the culture of high-class courtesans end?

Answer 42

1760s

Question 43

Who replaced the tayu?

Answer 43

Yobidashi/call-girls

Question 44

What ended the role of the pleasure quarters for good?

Answer 44

The Kansei Reforms