Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools



The History of the Samurai

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From the text given to you at your station, summarize what major events happened on each date:

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Japan’s Isolation and Manjiro/John Mung

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|1635 |The Tokugawa Shogunate decided to place Japan under a period of _____________ from the rest of the world. This was called Sakoku, which |

| |means “_________________.” He had decided that the foreign traders and missionaries, especially the Portuguese missionaries, were |

| |dangerous and were ______ for other countries to figure out how to attack Japan. For the next ______ years, the country of Japan was |

| |________________, depending on no one to help them and letting no one into their country. They also either ______________ or |

| |_____________ any Japanese who had left Japan and returned after having contact with any _____________. |

|1827 |Manjiro was born in a small village in Japan called ________________. His father died when he was __ years old and it was decided that |

| |he had to _________________ for the family. He had ___ sisters and an older brother, but his older brother was ________ most of the time|

| |and couldn’t help the family. |

|January 5, 1841 |Manjiro was hired as a young fisherman in 1841 when he was only ___ years old. As the youngest fisherman on the boat, his job was to |

| |cook _____ for the others and to unload the fishing nets after they hauled in their catch. The fished for a few days and then a huge |

| |storm came up and blew them off course. They floated for ___ days, eating the _________ they had already caught. |

|January 13, 1841 |Manjiro and his fellow fishermen were washed up on the active volcanic island of ________________ where they ate _________ and whatever |

| |they could find. They lived in the caves for six _________ until they were rescued. |

|June 27, 1841 |The _______________ whaler, John Howland, rescued the group of five fishermen. Captain __________ took them in, gave them clothes, made |

| |sure rice was cooked for them, and made sure that they were taken care of. He refused to take them back to Japan because he didn’t want |

| |them ________. They sailed with him for several ________ and four of them stayed on the island of Oahu, Hawaii when they had the chance.|

| |Manjiro stayed on the ship with the Captain and went _________with him. |

|May 6, 1843 |The John Howland sailed into ______________, Captain Whitfield’s home. Manjiro, whose American name was _____________, became the |

| |_______Japanese to live in America, learn English, and get an education in America. He lived with Captain Whitfield and his second wife,|

| |learning how to ride horses, navigate a ship and become a cooper. |

|May 16, 1846 |Wanting to go _________ and see his family again, Manjiro sailed on a ship called The Franklin with Captain Ira Davis. While they got |

| |close to Japan and Manjiro even talked with some _____________ fishermen, he didn’t go back on this voyage. The fishermen didn’t |

| |_____________ him and he was disappointed that they didn’t want to take him back with them. He sailed back to ____________ with a new |

| |plan to go back to Japan. |

|November 5, 1849 |Manjiro once again left New Bedford and sailed on the steamer ship The Stieglitz, bound for ______________, where he had heard of the |

| |______ rush. After _____ months of sailing, he went to Sacramento and spent ___ days finding _________ worth of gold to finance his trip|

| |back to Japan. He sailed to ___________ to invite his former fishermen friends to join him. Two of them, Denzo and Goerman, went with |

| |him. |

|December 17, 1851 |Manjiro and his ____ countrymen set sail on the Sarah Boyd to go home. They had purchased a small sail boat called the Adventurer, which|

| |they put ______ the larger ship, the Sarah Boyd. The plan was to lower the_____________ ship into the water once they got close to home |

| |and then sail back to Japan on their own. |

|January 1852 |After weathering a __________ at sea, Manjiro and his countrymen finally arrive back home. At first, they are welcomed cautiously, but |

| |then they are taken into______________ and repeatedly interrogated by the government. They were treated fairly well, but not granted |

| |their freedom until their final _________________________ in Nagasaki. |

|October 5, 1852 |Manjiro is finally allowed to go home to his family for the first time in ___ years and ____months. He reaches home where he is welcomed|

| |by his ___________ and _________________. However, he only gets to stay there for ____________ days before the Lord of Tosa orders him |

| |to come and teach _________________to the Samurai working for him, so he leaves home once again. |

|July 8, 1853 |Commodore ____________________ steamed into the Bay of Edo (_____________) with __________ warships and demanded that Japan open up |

| |trade with the West and stop its isolation. He said he would be back the next year to negotiate a ______________ with the Japanese. |

|December 1853 |Manjiro was made a ___________________ and allowed to take a second name, which was unheard of for a peasant fisherman. He chose to use |

| |the name of his village, ___________________, as his second name. He gave advice to the Shogunate about how to deal with the |

| |_______________ when they came back and convinced the Japanese that it was a _______________ idea to make a treaty with the Americans. |

|March 31, 1854 |Commodore Perry returned to Japan with _______ ships and forced the Japanese to sign a Peace and Trade agreement with the United States.|

| |They then celebrated the event with a demonstration of_________ wrestling from the Japanese. The Americans did a ______________ show (a |

| |show about black people) for the Japanese in return. The period of isolation in Japan ended with this treaty. Manjiro was not |

| |____________ involved in this event, but he advised the Japanese from the background. |

|1870 |Manjiro became a _________________ and taught Japanese how to navigate, build ships, and kill whales for oil. He went on a sailing trip |

| |to Europe and America as a sign of good will from Japan and stopped in New Bedford to see Captain Whitfield once again. They hadn’t seen|

| |each other for ____ years. After this, they ______________saw each other again. |

|November 12, 1898 |After suffering a ___________________ in 1871, Manjiro died in the home of his son, Toichiro. He was in Tokyo at the time and was ______|

| |years old when he died. He was buried in the Zoshigaya cemetery in Tokyo in a ____________ ceremony. |

Based on this information, why is Manjiro’s story so important to the history of Japan? Give at least one specific example from the timeline to support your point:

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Bushido: The Way of the Warrior

The Samurai lived by a code of ethics that they held very dear. It wasn’t written down until the 17th century, instead being passed orally from generation to generation. There are eight major parts of Bushido. Using the handouts at your table, summarize each one and do your best to draw the Japanese character for each one!

|Bushido Code Name |Description—What does this mean? Summarize. |Japanese Character—do your best with the sharpie… |

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|RECTITUDE OR JUSTICE | | |

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|COURAGE | | |

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|BENEVOLENCE OR MERCY | | |

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|POLITENESS | | |

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|HONESTY AND SINCERITY | | |

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|HONOR | | |

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|CHARACTER AND SELF-CONTROL | | |

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The Armor of the Samurai

While watching the video on the armor of the Samurai, list twelve important facts about the armor of the Samurai in complete thoughts.

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Samurai Legends

From the legends and documents in your packet, what can you infer about the Samurai, their way of life, what they valued, and who they were? List your specific inferences, with references to the story the inference came from.

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What do you think that the Samurai valued the most in life? What led you to that conclusion?

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