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Japanese Cultural
History
a
series of illustrated lectures
The Floating World
MILITARY
- BUREAUCRATIC JAPAN
( 1600 - 1868 )
QUESTIONS FOR CONTEMPLATION
- Describe
the major features of the Tokugawa system imposed on Japan after 1600.
Why was each of these features instituted?
- Discuss the
role of Neo-Confucianism in Tokugawa period Japan.
- What innovations
emerged in the cultural style of the Tokugawa period? Where did many
of them originate? What impact might they have had beyond the immediate
environment which spawned them?
- Give examples
of the process of indigenous modernization in Japan between 1600 and
1868.
- By the time
of the arrival of Edward Sylvester Morse in Japan in 1877 what evidence
of modernization inspired by westernization has appeared (as documented
in the illustrated lecture)?
- Account for
the collapse of the Tokugawa system on the basis of evidence derived
from the illustrated lecture.
- Assess the
impact of the visual material shown in the illustrated lecture on your
understanding of Japan on the Eve of Westernization.
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