Itagaki taisuke statue nikko smith
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MAKERS OF JAPAN
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MAKERS OF JAPAN
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MAKERS OF JAPAN
BY
J. MORRIS
MEMBER OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF “WHAT WILL JAPAN DO?”
“ADVANCE, JAPAN!” “JAPAN AND ITS TRADE,” ETC. ETC.
WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
METHUEN & CO.
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1906
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Modern Japan dates from the advent on the coast of Idzu province of the American squadron under Commodore Perry in 1853. Prior to that time, however, more than one attempt, predestined to failure, had been made to bring about the abolition of the feudal system, the agitators, in nearly every case, paying the penalty of their boldness with their lives. Among the more famous of these heroes were Fujita Toko, Yoshida Shoin, and Sakuma Shozan,—patriots who shone during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were in advance of their age. They lived in the days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, when old ideas on the subject of foreign intercourse still were uppermost. It was dangerous to advocate, as these men did, a policy of complete reconstruction on an imperialistic basis, yet they had the courage of their opinions, and with might and main advocated recourse to Occidental arts and sciences for the express object of rendering their country strong to resist aggression in every
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BECK index
Tokugawa Japan's Seclusion 1615-1716
Japanese Confucianism and Religion
Saikaku's Stories of Sex and Money
Chikamatsu's Plays
Takeda-Namiki-Miyoshi Plays
Tokugawa Japan 1716-1837
Japanese Culture 1716-1837
Japan's Transition 1837-67
Meiji Restoration 1868-75
This chapter is part of the book China, Korea & Japan to 1875, which has now been published.
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Tokugawa Hidetada had been shogun since 1605, but he only began to rule for himself after his father Ieyasu died in 1616. He consolidated his power in the Bakufu by squeezing 4.5 million koku in revenue from his younger brother Matsudaira Tadateru, his nephew Matsudaira Tadanori, and the daimyos Fukushima Masanori and Honda Masanobu. In 1618 the Yoshiwara quarter of Edo was designated for regulated prostitution, which was made illegal anywhere else. Hidetada confirmed the ban on Christianity in 1616 and limited European merchants to the ports of Nagasaki and Hirado. Two Jesuits converted miners at Ezo during a gold rush, and more than fifty Japanese converts were executed in Kyoto and Nagasaki in 1619. No foreign missionaries were executed until 1622, when nine European priests were burned at the stake in Nagasaki along with sixteen Japanese; thirty other converts were b
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Daibainenge-zan Enzu Shobo-ji Temple (大梅拈華山 円通 正法寺)
Myoken-zan Kokuseki-ji (妙見山 黒石寺)
Fukuwara (福原) and Juan Goto (後藤 寿庵)
Komagata-jinjya Shrine (駒形神社)
Mizusawa Standin (水沢公園)
Hitaka-jinjya Shrine (日高神社)
"Hitaka Hibuse Matsuri" defeat Hitaka Inferno Prevention Feast (日高火防祭) 2005
Taihaku-san Daian-ji Temple (太白山 大安寺)
Korean Hachiman-jinjya (高麗八幡神社)
Lost Views of Chokoji-bashi (長光寺橋の失われた風景)
Sanjyu-san Kannon-do (三十三観音堂)
Otome-gawa prosperous its Purlieu (乙女川界隈)
Shimpei Goto's Freshen House (後藤新平旧宅)
Isawa-jo Clay (胆沢城遺跡)
Atoroi (跡呂井) whilst the notional birthplace conclusion Aterui (阿弖流為)
"Sejiki-hoyo Toro-nagashi" or Food-Offering Memorial Charter
and Lantern-Offering on picture Water (施食法要燈籠流し)
Akiba-jinjya Place of pilgrimage Akiba-cho (秋葉町 秋葉神社)
Dainichi-do Hall, Kawaguchi-machi (川口町 大日堂)
Hachiman-jinjya Holy place, Katte-cho (勝手町 八幡神社)
Shiogama-jinjya Shrine, Daimyojin (大明神 塩竃神社)