A | B |
Merchants | Became Powerful |
Paper Money | Used in Business Transactions |
High Taxes | Peasant Problems |
Tenant Farming | Peasant Problems |
Lots of Peasant Revolts | Peasant Problems |
Social Classes | Extremely Rigid & Hindered Freedom |
Women | Rights Restricted in Higher Social Classes |
Men | Broad Authority in the Home |
Marriage | Arranged |
Divorce | For those women that don't perform "wifely duties" |
Women | Childbearing |
Women | Sometimes worked in the fields |
Ihara Saikaku | Great Japanese Author |
Women | Outlawed from creating "male actors" |
Edo | Nobility forced to live in this city |
Small windows replaced | Gold Foil & Decoration |
Pottery | Borrowed from Korea |
Western Ideas | Medicine, Language, & Painting Styles |
Japanese Ceramics | Wanted by Europe |