Lecture 19: Presenting the Past
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Presenting the Past
Administrative
DO NOT turn final exams into my mail box in Humanities Acad Services
If done early, turn in to my office, either under my door or to envelope on the door
It is not clear whether I can put a general class box out for papers on Dec. 7 in HAS so to be safe turn in
Lecture 18: Tokugawa Commoner Cultures
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Commoner Cultures of the Tokugawa Period
Overview
Tokugawa Class System
Ideological underpinnings
Tokugawa Rural Commoners
Views from above
Views from below
Tokugawa Urban Commoners
Samurai-merchant relations
Urban popular culture
Tokugawa Period Class System
Shogunate established 4 classes as
Lecture 17: Warring States to Tokugawa
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
From Warring States to the Tokugawa Shogunate
Reunification
Oda Nobunaga (1523-1582)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)
Key Daimyô Territories
Area of contention: central Honshû
Key players in mid-16th century
Uesugi (blue)
Takeda (yellow)
Imagawa (purple)
Hôjô (red)
Oda (
Lecture 16: Warring States
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Warring States: Order and Disorder
Gekokujô and Daimyô
Technology: Castles, Guns and Mobilization
International Trade
Tea Ceremony
Characteristics of the Warring States Era (late 15th-mid 16th c.)
Decentralized rule
Rule by court or shogunate largely replaced with rule by territorially based
Lecture 15: Collapse of the Center
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Muromachi to Warring States: Collapse of the Center
Collapse of the Center
Decline of the Ashikaga Shogunate
Contrasting Kamakura and Muromachi
Successional Disputes
The Onin War
New Orders in the Capital
Restructuring the City
Commoner Organization
New Orders Outside the Capital
The End of the