RISE OF THE SHOGUN

INTRO

• A.D. 749 emperor Kammu begins building
• New capitol called Heian.
• This city remained the capitol for 1,000 years

THE GOVERNMENT WEAKENS

• During the 800's the emperors power diminished
• A long period of weak rulers came and the empire started to fall
• Many of these rulers were only children, a government official known as
• A regent would govern
• A regent is a person who rules for the emperor because he is to young or sick

THE SAMURAI

• To protect their land and enforce the, nobles formed private armies
• To create their armies they gave land to warriors who agreed to fight for Japan
• In battle samurai fought with swords, daggers, bows amd arrows, and on horseback
• the word samurai means to serve
• The samurai lived by a strict code of conduct calles Bushido

SAMURAI CONTINUED

• Bushido demanded a samurai to be loyal and devoted to Japan
• A samurai would rather die in battle than to betray his lord

WHO IS SHOGUN?

• By the 1100's the most powerful families began to fight
• The two families were the Taira and the Minimoto
• In 1185 the Minamoto forces defeated the Taira in a sea battle
• The leader of the Minamoto was Minamoto Yoritomo
• In 1192 the emperor gave himself the title shogun

SHOGUN CONTINUED

• A shogun is a person in charge of all the emperor's military forces
• Yoritomo was a ruthless ruler, he killed his family because he was afriad that..
• they would take power from him

THE MONGOLS ATTACK

• In the late 1200s the Kamura shogunate faced their greatest test
• In 1274 and again in 1281, China's Mongol emperor Kublai Khan...
• Sent ships and warriors to invade Japan
• Both times Mongols were defeated because of violent storms
• The few Mongol warriors who made it ashore defeated the Japenese

MONGOLS CONTINUED

• The victorious Japanese named the typhoons Kamikaze...
• or divine windin honor of the sprits that saved their island
• Much later during WWII the Japanese pilots deliberately...
• crashed their planes in enemy ships
• They named them Kamikaze after the typhoons of 1200's