JAPANESE SOCIETY

Learning objectives:
● To understand the roles and relationships in
Japanese feudal society
● To create a social structure pyramid
 Starter
1.Arrange the following dates on a timeline from 1000 to 2000 CE

1868, 1281, 1338,1603

2.Match the dates with these events

Tokugawa shogunate begins

Ashikaga (Muromachi) shogunate begins
Second Mongol invasion of Japan
End of the Edo (Tokugawa) period
 Japanese Feudalism
• A system of feudalism, similar to that found in European
feudalism, arose in Japan.

• In a feudal society, land is exchanged for military service.

• Japanese lords gave away some of their land to other people

in exchange for loyalty and military service.

• A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the

holding of land, and military service.
 Japanese Feudalism

Emperor
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
Peasant
Merchant
 Japanese Feudalism

Emperor

Shogun
Land - Shoen Loyalty

Land - Shoen Daimyo Daimyo Loyalty

Samurai Samurai Samurai

Food
Protection

Peasant Peasant Peasant Peasant

The hierarchy of Japanese society
SHI-Warriors

NO-Peasants

KO-Artisans

SHO-Merchants

ETA-Outcast

HININ-Non people