Tokugawa Quotes Flashcards
(17 cards)
Beasley - Control Mechanisms
“Alternate attendance was fundamental to the maintenance of political authority”
Hunter - Control Mechanisms
“The Tokugawa confirmed their hold on power by a complex structure of physical, political and economic controls over… the populace”
Hane - Control Mechanisms
“In order to ensure stability the Tokugawa Bakufu set out a rigid class system.”
Beasley - Class System
“Overwhelming the most important distinction was that between samurai and the rest.”
Waswo - Class System
“Conditions in Japan most closely resembled those of high feudalism in Europe.”
Bolitho - Internal Breakdown
“For damage inflicted on Tokugawa Japan’s system of government, the Tempo era had no peer.”
Bolitho - Internal Breakdown 2
“One by one the control mechanisms of the system failed.”
Hunter - Internal Breakdown
“The dynamic forces within society came into conflict with a national policy which sought to avoid change.”
Henshall - Internal Breakdown
“A class society which placed the merchants at the bottom was ultimately losing touch with reality”
Gordon - Internal Breakdown
“Nationalist thinkers formed a climate that made great change more likely and easier to achieve.”
Huber - Internal breakdowbn
“the most essential of these factors was the group of men known to history as the Choshu activists”
Storry - External Breakdown
“Tokugawa system of government might have continued unchanged had it not been for the forcible opening of the closed door.”
Gibney - External Breakdown
“Japan was a society about to explode; the coming of the west struck the spark”
Kornicki - External Breakdown
“it is more appropriate to see the pressures upon Japan as internationalist in nature”.
Hane - External Breakdown
Believes arrival of the West was the most important factor as while internal factors may have weakened the Bakufu, they were not enough to end them.
Jansen - External Breakdown
“Military and economic pressures from western imperialism hastened the collapse of the Tokugawa regime”
Reformer Fukuzawa Yukichi - External Breakdown
Says that the arrival of the Americans and the threat posed by them was so shocking to the Japanese that it was as if a deaf and blind man suddenly heard sounds and saw colours for the first time.
