Social Skill: To contribute actively, asking and answering

open/fat questions in a team

Understanding:To draw conclusions

about Shogunate Japan society by summarising,

questioning and discussing primary and

secondary sources

Learning intention

What do your images & quotes say about Shogunate Japan society?

1. Write 3 questions and 1 fact (for each image).

2. Discuss in small groups.

3. In your group pick your 8 best questions.

4. Place them on your lotus diagram.

5. Circle time!

6. In small groups each person needs to

attempt to answer each question. Not sure?

GUESS!

7. PEC paragraph: What do your images &

quotes say about Shogunate Japan society?

8. Participation pie & parking lot

Rice taxes being paid to Daimyo, unknown artist, late 16th century.

Held at Tokyo University, Japan

‘The husband must work in the fields, the wife must work at the loom [a device for spinning cloth]. Both must do night work … Peasants are people without sense or foresight. Therefore they must not give rice to their wives at harvest time, but

must save food for the future.’

Instructions for peasants taken from the Edict 1649

‘Farmers of all provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any

swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of weapons.’

Japan: A Documentary History

‘If one were to say in a word what the condition of being a samurai is, its basis lies

first in seriously devoting one’s body and soul to his master. And if one is asked what to do beyond this, it would be to fit oneself

inwardly with intelligence, humanity and courage.’

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Original Nobukazu (1874 - 1944) Japanese Woodblock Print Tokugawa Ieyasu Escaping, 1893

‘It was a great occasion for a boy when he turned five, to be dressed as a samurai and have a real sword thrust in his waistband.

Lessons consisted of fencing (sword fighting), archery, jiujutsu (unarmed

combat), horsemanship, the use of spear, tactics, calligraphy, ethics, literature and

history.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Putting on samurai armour was a complicated and time-consuming procedure that involved many stages. Four stages of the procedure are shown here.

‘Shintoism, the first major religion to develop in Japan, was based on nature. Shinto shrines have few objects and instruments of worship. A plain mirror hung in the sanctuary forms an essential part of the furnishing, it

typifies the human heart, which when placed and clear reflects the very image of the Deity. When you

stand, therefore in front of the shrine to worship, you see your own image reflected on its shining surfaces,

and the act of worship ‘know thyself’’.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Station of Otsu: From the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (The "Reisho Tokaido"), Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1848–49

Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)Polychrome woodblock print

Utagama Hiroshiga: Evening shower at Atake and the Great Bridge 1857