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Azuchi-Momoyama Period

• )he nation was reunified by 0da $obunaga and )oyotomi Hideyoshi

• increased contact with uropeans

• lavishly ornate decorative style was developed at the hands of the warlords and the

emerging merchant classes• tea master +en no 1ikyu developed the tea ceremony into an esthetic discipline

Edo Period

• )okugawa 2eyasu, who defeated other vassals of the deceased )oyotomi Hideyoshi

gained control of Japan, established the )okugawa +hogunate in do 3now )okyo4

• for some 566 of these years the country was virtually shut off from foreign contact by

the shogunate!s policy of national seclusion

• a colorful, down%to%earth new culture developed among the townsmen of the older

cities of Kyoto and 0saka

• tragic puppet plays

• comic haiku to literary art

• art of the woodblock print 3ukiyoe4 was born

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