| 4. As concrete instances of the Chinese influence, we can take
civil engineering and astronomy. As invisible influences, law and calendar. As a matter of
fact, Japan, where longitude is different from that of China, had to make its own
calendar, referring to China. As will be stated in the following, an astronomical
observatory was constructed as an substantial expression of certain type of
ultra-nationalism. In other words, the core of the following story is in the phrase "referring to China" or being based on China. |
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| 5. Tycoon regime and Demarcacion The generals of the Tokugawa shogunate became a kind of emperor, named Tycoon, rather than not being contained by China. This should be seen from the view point of world history including occidental history. In the beginning of the 16th Century, Portugal and Espana concluded Zaragoza Treaty, in addition to Tordesillas Treaty, concluded at the end of the 15th Century, finally completing "demarcacion (demarcation)" (global partition). Since this partition line passed just on Japan, it was feared that monarchs (daimyos), residing both ends of the land of Japan, might divide up Japan. Then, the general, as the ultimate ruler of the armed forces, became a tycoon, in my opinion, having a defensive intention to avoid the east-western breakup of the land of Japan. |
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