Chapter 8 Self-Quiz

Becoming Imperial: Japan to 1895
. The shogunate was based in ________ under Minamoto Yoritomo and his successors.

. Which of these helps to explain why the imperial court was increasingly obsessed with ritual in the thirteenth century?

. Which of these is illustrated by comparision of the images of "Shogun Ashikaga Mounted in Battle" and "Toyotomi Hideyoshi"?

. The bushido was ________.

. Which of these was not a factor in the failure of Hideyoshi's 1592 attack on Korea?

. The term bakufu was a reference to the shogun's supposed role as a(n) ________.

. In the seventeenth century Japanese classes were ________.

. Which of these was threatened, leading the Tokugawa rulers to destroy most of Japan's firearms?

. Which of these peoples had a favored position in Japan from the seventeenth century?

. The treaty of Kanagawa was signed in 1854 with ________.

. It is most accurate to say that the samurai were ________ foreign interaction in Japan.

. In the portrait "Emperor Meiji," which of these characteristics are emphasized?

. Under Emperor Meiji the samurai and the daimyo saw their power ________.

. Which of these was instituted in 1889?

. The goal of the Chinese Eastern Railway was to ________.

. Shogun rule ________ urbanization in Japan.

. Mitsubishi is a classic example of ________.

. Which of these kept village registers in Japan from the time of the Tokugawa?

. By the nineteenth century Japan's literacy levels were ________ given its economic development.

. Which of these was Japanese puppet theater?

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