02/11 Bentley Textbook on Japan Think about the following: 1. What resources does a country need in order to industrialize & modernize? 2. How does Japan’s industrialization fit the “paradigm” we developed yesterday? 3. What are the impacts of industrialization – social, economic, positive & negative?

Case Studies in Industrialization:England (1750s the urban game)Germany (early 1800s)Meiji Japan in the 1860s

The American warships arrivedIn Edo bay in 1853 . . .

And by 1862 . . . Unemployment rose. Domestic prices soared sky high(conspicuous among them the price of rice and other cereals, silk and silkworms, tea, and sake rice wine). So precipitous was this inflation that a city magistrate in Edo reported that living costs had increased by 50 percent. Coincidentally, largely due to disastrous harvests, much of Japan was wracked by famine in the mid 1860s. By 1867, the price of rice—the most basic of staples—had increased twelvefold in some areas.

British Marines @ captured batteries at Shimonoseki, 1864

Your assignment:

With a partner:1. Read the intro (1st part) and beginning of chpt on Boomtownhttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yokohama/yb_essay04.html

2. Examine at least 8 of the woodblock prints and postcards

3. Create a chart that includes- Name/date of art- Traditional Japanese elements- Modern or western elements

4. Go back to the introduction Qsand answer # 3 based on theart

Click on the chapters of each “essay” and click on the images within the essay in order to enlarge

Yokohamahttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yokohama/yb_essay03.html

Modernizing Governmenthttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/toa_vis_02.html

Technology and Industryhttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/toa_essay02.htmlhttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/toa_vis_04.html

Tourist Photographs – a little later, but you get ideahttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yokohama/yb_essay03.html