Japan Returns to Isolation

By brittany_downing
  • Feb 17, 1467

    new feudalism

    new feudalism
    civil war shattered Japan's old feudal system
  • Feb 17, 1489

    Local Lords Rule

    Local Lords Rule
    Powerful samurai seized control of old feudal estates
  • Feb 22, 1543

    Protugal Sends Ships, Merchants, and Techonlogy to Japan

    the japanese first encountered Europeans when shipwrecked portugese saliors wased up on the shores of souhern Japan.
  • Feb 22, 1549

    Christian Missionaries In Japan

    christian missionaries began arribing in japan.
  • Feb 17, 1568

    new leaders

    new leaders
    Oda Nobunaga defeated his rivals and seized the imperial capital kyoto
  • Feb 22, 1582

    new leaders restore order

    he committed seppuku, the ritual suicide of a samurai in 1582

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi

    combinind brute force with shrewd political alliances, he controlled most of the country.

  • Tokugawa shogunate unites Japan

    Hideyoshi's strongest daimyo allies Tokugawa Ieyasu, completed the unification of Japan.

  • christianity

    the shogun had come to fear religious uprisings more

  • christian missionries in japan part 1

    ieyasu died in 1616, but repression of christianity continued off and on for the next two decades under his successors.

  • Christian Missionaries in Japan

    Peasants shook the Tokugawa Shogunate.

  • The Closed Country Policy

    They had sealed Japan's borders and instituted a "closed country policy."

  • Society in Tokugawa Japan

    Japan began to shift from a rural to an urban society

  • Hiaku

    Mastsuo Basho, the greatest hiaku poet, worte before his death