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EAST255/HIST296
1st class: Legacies from the pre-modern era
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Relative size of contemporary Japan
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Geographic context
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Historical overview• Kofun era
– Tumuli– “Horse-rider” theories
• Aristocratic Society 6th c. f.– Yamato state formation--adoption of Chinese
culture– Heijo (Nara), Heian (Kyoto)
• Warrior Society 12th c. f.– Kamakura, Ashikaga, Tokugawa (Edo)
• Modern Society (“emperor system”) mid-19th c. ff– Meiji state formation--adoption of European-
American culture
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Pre-Edo fort(16th c. Sengoku period)
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Tokugawa era, 1600-1868
"Japan at the End of the Edo Period," Felix Beato (Yokohama Archives of History Collection)
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Geographic and Historical context (1808)
Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin
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Commodore Matthew Perry and the “Black Ships” 1853, 1854
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Trade with the “West”
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Samurai and attendant
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Japan in 1855
• Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin
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Japan in 1911 (plus Korea)
• Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin
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Emperor and Empress Meiji