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The education for women in the Meiji-period was heavily influenced by the essay "Creating Good Mothers", written by Nakamura Masanao. He argued that to create a stronger Japan, women should represent the religious as well as moral foundations in the households, acting as educators of their children and better halves of their husbands. [8]
Almost all kazoku heirs raised in Japan attended Gakushuin for their primary and secondary education. For higher education, the most preferred institutions included the University of Tokyo (called Tokyo Imperial University 1897-1947) (e.g., Prince Iemasa Tokugawa , Count Yoriyasu Arima ) and the naval and army academies (e.g., Viscount Naganari ...
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
Many Japanese people, including members of the samurai, began to blame the Tokugawa for Japan's "backwardness" and subsequent humiliation. A modernization movement which advocated the abolition of feudalism and return of power to the Imperial Court eventually overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
Henry Dyer, Pioneer Of Education In Japan. Global Oriental. ISBN 1-901903-66-4. Shibata, Masako (2005). Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation: A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1149-3. Toyoda, Toshio (1988). Vocational Education in the Industrialization of Japan. United Nations University.
The Kamakura period (鎌倉時代, Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
To gain the status of daimyo, one boo to produce 10,000 koku of rice or an equivalent form of produce. [6] The koku is a Japanese unit of measurement equal to about 180 litres, or 5 bushels. [ 7 ] The power of feudal lords was often directly quantified by their output in koku rather than acreage of land ownership or military might. [ 8 ]