Flores_Guadalupe_Tokugawa_Project

=Culture Change in the Tokugawa period= = = ===The [|Tokugawa] or Edo period was a time of social change. During this time there was a huge mix between lower,middle, and high classes. The Edo period was also a time were culture in town's poeple changed. New food was introduced around different parts of [|Japan]. It was also the time when Woodblock art was populary=== ===The damand for novels,maps, poetry and [|woodblock art]was high. Many of the lower classes people would not be able to travel and experince different place around [|Japan], instead they would buy and collect woodblock prints. Many of the woodbloack print would inclued travel sites, (most comman was the [|Fuji montain].) house, plants, town's people, and common everyday places.===

[[image:http://www.erawoodblockprints.com/items/912006/catphoto.jpg width="460" height="280"]]


===Tea was first brought to Japan from China by the priest[| Eisai in 1191]and drunk in Japanese temples as a form of medicine. A tea ceremony was later developed in the 9th century. A formal tea ceremony today lasts up to four hours. The guests first gather in a waiting arbor in a quiet garden .Then the guest has to then wash their hands and mouth at a stone wash basin before entering the tea hut on their knees through a low door as a sign of equality. The host adds charcoal to the fire, then serves a meal. Followed by thick tea, which the guests drink from the same bowl in a spirit of fraternity, and then thin tea.===

===**Rice has long been the main staple of the traditional Japanese diet. It is only consumed daily as a staple food also used to brew sake, a traditional alcoholic drink. A** **meal consists of boiled plain rice, called //gohan// or //meshi,// and seasoned side dishes, called //okazu.// Cooked rice has always been the staple of a meal, so much so that the words //gohan// and //meshi// are used colloquially as synonyms for the word "meal."**===