Round 3: Tossup 8

This government’s rigid, four-tier class structure was the last in its country to give upper classes a “right to strike” lower ones. This government learned of strategic cannon fire from its English advisor William Adams. This government is sometimes named (10[1])for a city (10[1])where its nobles were forced to reside every other year. For (-5[1])two centuries, (-5[1])this government allowed a single port on Dejima Island for the (-5[1])import (0[1])of “Dutch learning.” (10[2])This government (10[2])was visited by Matthew Perry’s “black ships.” This government, whose loyalists lost the Boshin War, enacted isolationist policies called sakoku. For 10 points, Ieyasu (“ee-ay-AH-soo”) was the founder of what shogunate that ended with the Meiji Restoration? ■END■ (10[1])

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