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The period of time between 1600 and 1800 when the shoguns had more power and control than the
emperor.

Emperor - the emperor of Japan ruling by divine right believed to be a god top of the social
hierarchy

Shoguns – military generals of Japan’s military samurai and daimyo pledged allegiance to shoguns in
shogun Japan

Daimyo – Rich nobles of Japan controlled shoen and all taxes of the shoen went to the daimyo

Samurai- warriors of Japan followed bushido the way of the warrior pledged allegiance to the
daimyo or the shogun

Artisian – skilled craftsmen making clothing art and furniture too provide for their family

Merchants – selling people who sell objects low in the social ladder

Peasants- farmers made money by farming rice and paid taxes to the daimyo

Shoen an area of land that a daimyo controlled

Katana- a curved sword that is flexible a samurai’s weapon

Shugo- police of shogun Japan

Oda Nobunaga one of the great unifiers of Japan

Toyotomi one of the great unifiers of Japan later became shogun

Tokugawa ieyasu one of the great unifiers of Japan later became shogun

Bakufu a clan that claimed the emperor and made him a figurehead led to the rise of the shogun \

Edo – the capital of Japan because of shogun Japan later renamed Tokyo

Kyoto the capital of Japan in medieval Japan were the emperors government was

Bushido- the way of the warrior samurai followed this religion

Shinto – the way of the gods people believing in Shinto believed the kami were everywhere

Zen Buddhism- a religion believed to clear the mind

Satori – enlightenment in Zen Buddhism

Mushin - a clearing of the mind

The divine wind- two typhoons wiped out the Mongol army

Seppuku a ritual suicide down by samurai

Roin a lost samurai with no master many became criminals

Arabesque a Portuguese gone traded to Japan by Portuguese traders

Do maru armor the armor of the samurai

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The role of the Peasant was to work for their feudal lord the daimyo. As seen in source 1 “ Edict on
the Change of Status” – 1591 the upper class and the shogun manipulated peasants with new Laws
and manipulate their protection with samurai . The peasants Job was that the men would Farm, and
the woman would make silk at a loom (source B) “ her husband must work in the fields and the wife
at the loom”. Peasants were controlled by Taxes and the samurai ( source 4 ) . The lifestyle was not a
lavish one Their tax was anything they did not need to survive it would be taken and have to save
food for winter (Source B)” therefore they must not give rice to their wives and children at harvest
time but must save food for the future.”