GEOGRAPHIC TERMS

For geographic terms, it is important to be able to locate them on an outline map and understand the historical significance of these places as well as important historical events connected to them.

• Edo

• Kyoto

• Nagasaki

• Osaka

• Tokyo

• Honshu

• Kyushu

• Shikoku

• Satsuma

• Choshu

• Kanto plain

TERMS

On the test you will find a selection of the following terms and be asked to chose a certain number to write on.  I will not test you on material not presented in this study guide.

• Daimyo
• Oda Nobunaga
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Sekigahara
• Shogun
• bakufu
• sakoku
• samurai
• Edo
• Genroku culture
• Ukiyo-e
• Deshima
• Commodore Matthew Perry
• Townshend Harris
• Unequal treaties
• shishi
• Sonno joi
• Satsuma-Choshu Alliance
• Meiji Restoration
• Prefectures
• Council of State
• Conscription
• Saigo Takamori
• Satsuma Rebellion
• Fukoku kyohei
• Iwakura Mission
• The Charter Oath
• Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
• The Meiji Constitution
• The Diet
• Zaibatsu
• Shinto
• Imperial Rescript on Education
• Bunmei kaika
• Fukuzawa Yukichi
• rokumeikan
   

TOPICS FOR ESSAYS
(in all cases students are expected to draw relevant materials from the discussion readings)

• The Meiji Restoration as a revolutionary experience: analysis

• The creation of the Japanese state: politics, economics, military, etc.

• The view from below: the impact on and response of commoners during the Meiji transformation

• The cultivation of Civilization and nationalism by Meiji era elites