Deck 1: The Tokugawa Polity

Question 1

What is the best characterization of Tokugawa attitudes towards the population they governed?

A) It was paternalistic and authoritarian.
B) It was permissive and distant.
C) It was conciliatory and loving.
D) It was vengeful and genocidal.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following groups won autonomy from the daimyo?

A) Merchants
B) The ikkō
C) Owari Domain
D) Untouchables

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A profound understanding of the ownership and productivity of Japanese land was needed for:

A) Wealthy farmers to purchase fields from neighbors
B) Oda Nobunaga to consolidate his rule
C) The emperor to receive his tribute
D) Effectively removing those who wanted to resist Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Toyotomi Hideyoshi:

A) Launched peasant hunts, converted to Catholicism, and was called a 'bald bat'.
B) Invaded India and was repulsed by the Mughal Empire
C) Ruled a federation of dimayo, launched sword hunts, and exiled the Jesuits.
D) Worked with the Jesuits to rule all of Japan, and left his son as his successor.

Question 5

Between which of the following years did Tokugawa Ieyasu consolidate his position as leader of Japan and secure position of shogun?

A) 1580 and 1590
B) 1590 and 1599
C) 1600 and 1603
D) 1623 and 1631

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT a method used by Tokugawa Ieyasu to control the daimyo?

A) Limiting castles to one per domain
B) Creating strong alliances
C) Requiring official permission for daimyo marriages
D) Insisting all daimyo live at his palace.

Question 7

What was sankin kōtai?

A) The requirement for daimyo to spend every other year in Edo
B) The requirement for daimyo to place their land at Tokugawa disposal
C) The requirement for samurai to give up their swords
D) The requirement for tozama daimyo to live at Japan's peripheries

Question 8

'Women going out, guns coming in' was taken by the Tokugawa as:

A) A sign of the success of their system
B) A sign of economic prosperity
C) A sign of coming rebellion
D) A sign of foreign invasion

Question 9

What mistake did Franklin Pierce make in his letter to the Shogun?

A) He addressed him as Lord
B) He addressed him as President
C) He addressed him as King
D) He addressed him as Emperor

Question 10

Samurai in the 18th century did all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Have the right to wear two swords
B) Engage in business activities
C) Become crucial elements of Tokugawa bureaucratic government
D) Receive income in accordance with the size of their fiefs

Question 11

In which year were temples required to guarantee religious loyalty?

A) 1590
B) 1665
C) 1672
D) 1693

Question 12

How did the Tokugawa government function at its lowest level?

A) Villages and merchant groups were overseen but expected to govern themselves.
B) Mercenaries from Korea were hired and brought in to maintain order
C) Buddhist temples were charged with guaranteeing the good behaviour of everyone in their parish.
D) Outcastes acted as a police force charged with managing village life.

Question 13

What was the name of the inhabitants of Ezo?

A) Aizu
B) Aita
C) Ainu
D) Aibo

Question 14

Interactions between the native inhabitants of Ezo and Japanese produced which of the following effects:

A) An increase in fur trade between the two
B) The incorporation of these inhabitants under their own domain at Matsumae
C) The conversion of almost all these inhabitants to Buddhism
D) A gradual decrease in their political and economic independence.

Question 15

The influence of the Portuguese was blamed by the Tokugawa for:

A) The Shimabara Rebellion
B) Iemitsu's enforcement of sankin kōtai
C) The fall of Ming China
D) Forcing the English out of Japan in 1623

Question 16

Which of the following was not an edict of the Bakufu?

A) Banning the importation of foreign books
B) Banning the wearing of religious symbols
C) Banning trade with the Dutch
D) Banning travel south beyond Ryūkyū

Question 17

What was the main reason for the Tokugawa refusing to establish diplomatic relations with China?

A) They did not want to upset the Korea monarchy
B) They did not want to learn Chinese in order to communicate with the imperial court
C) They did not want to acknowledge Chinese political or ideological superiority
D) They were not permitted to send embassies by Ietmitsu's edicts.

Question 18

Nagasaki was the centre for...

A) Trade with the Dutch and the Chinese
B) The arrival of Korean immigrants
C) The export of copper
D) The arrival of missions from the USA

Question 19

The Tokugawa viewed the Ryūkyūans as...

A) Inferior to the Koreans
B) On a par with the Koreans
C) Similar to the Koreans, but slightly higher ranked.
D) Superior to the Koreans

Question 20

What was the intention of the bakufu ordering daimyo to witness Korean embassies?

A) To bolster their own status
B) The emphasise the power and wealth of Korea
C) To pay homage to Ieyasu
D) To negotiate nationwide trade deals.