A history of Japan from ancient times until the Feudal period. For use in a high school setting.
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A history of Japan from ancient times until the Feudal period. For use in a high school setting.
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Japanese HistoryANCIENT JAPANThe First JapaneseHum.docxvrickens
Japanese History
ANCIENT JAPAN
The First Japanese
Human beings have lived in Japan for at least 30,000 years. During the last ice age Japan was connected to mainland Asia by a land bridge and stone age hunters were able to walk across. When the ice age ended about 10,000 BC Japan became a group of islands.
About 8,000 BC the ancient Japanese learned to make pottery. The period from 8,000 BC to 300 BC is called the Jomon. The word Jomon means 'cord marked' because those people marked their pottery by wrapping cord around it. The Jomon people lived by hunting, fishing and collecting shellfish. The Jomon made tools of stone, wood and bone. They also made clay figurines of people and animals called dogu.
Between 300 BC and 300 AD a new era began in Japan. At that time the Japanese learned to grow rice. They also learned to make tools of bronze and iron. The Japanese also learned to weave cloth.
This period is called Yayoi. (It was named after a village called Yayoicho). Farming meant a more settled lifestyle. Yayoi people lived in villages of wooden huts. Farming and other skills also meant society became divided into classes. The leaders of Yayoi society were buried in mounds away from the ordinary people's burial grounds.
The Kofun Period in Japan
The Yayoi period was followed by the Kofun (from 300 AD to 710 AD).
At this time Japan gradually became united. The rich and powerful men of the era were buried in vast tombs called Kofun. Clay figures called haniwa were placed around the tombs to guard them. At that time Japan was heavily influenced by China. About 400 AD writing was introduced into Japan from China. The Japanese also learned to make paper from the Chinese. They also learned to make porcelain, silk and lacquer. The Japanese also learned to plan cities in the Chinese way.
According to tradition in 552 AD the king of Paekche in Korea sent priests to convert Japan to Buddhism. The native Japanese religion is called Shinto, which means 'the way of the gods'. Shinto teaches that spirits are present everywhere in nature. Every natural phenomena such as a mountain, lake, tree, waterfall and even rock has a spirit. Shinto does not have prophets or a sacred book but its teachings were passed on in myths. Shinto has many ceremonies and festivals. The two religions, Buddhism and Shinto co-existed peacefully in Japan. Shinto is more concerned with this life and its followers frequently pray for things they need or desire. Buddhism is more concerned with what happens after death. Most of the Japanese were happy to practice both religions.
The Kofun Period in Japan
Furthermore in the 7th century AD the emperor became more powerful. Prince Shotoku (574-622) ruled as regent to Empress Suiko. He was a patron of the arts and learning. He brought scholars from China and Korea to Japan and he adopted the Chinese calendar.
Shotoku also built the Horyuji Buddhist temple and monastery in 607. It burned down in 670 but it was rebuilt and became ...
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Superimposed on a painting of three women, one with a baby and one with a fan, are verses in Chinese from a Buddhist sutra. The aesthetic pairing of sacred and secular was a feature of life at the Heian court. The fan could well have been used by a figure in Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book.
Did this bow-legged and somehow modern-looking statuette adorn an emperor’s tomb in the period before 300 b.c.e.?
In 1972, Japanese archaeologists found this painting on the interior wall of a megalithic burial chamber at Takamatsuzuka in Nara Prefecture. The most
sophisticated tomb painting found in Japan, it dates to the sixth or seventh century and resembles paintings found in Korean and Chinese tombs.
Paekche was Japan’s ally on the Korean peninsula. Silla, Japan’s enemy, was the state that would eventually unify Korea. (Note: Nara was founded in 710; Heian in 794.)
On the little island of Miyajima not far from Hiroshima is the lovely Itsukushima shrine dedicated to the daughters of the Shintō god of the moon and oceans. Its outer
gate (torii) is constructed of camphor logs to resist the salt water. Originally built in the late sixth century, it was rebuilt in the sixteenth.
A commanding figure at the pre-Nara Yamato court, Prince Shōtoku (shown with his younger brother Prince Eguri and first son Prince Yamashiro) promoted Buddhism and began regular embassies to China. “This world is a lie,” he wrote, reflecting the Buddhist belief in an ultimate reality beyond.
In the Heiji War of 1159–1160, regional samurai bands became involved in Kyoto court politics. This is a scroll painting of the burning of the Sanjō Palace.
Founder of the Kamakura Shogunate. He is depicted here in court robes as a statesman and official, though he was, above all, a warrior-general.
The bakufu at Kamakura and the court at Kyoto were the two centers of power during the Kamakura period, 1185–1333. After 1336 the Ashikaga bakufu was established in Kyoto, absorbing the powers of the court.
Mongols invaded Japan in 1274 and 1281. Battles were fought. The invaders were eventually routed by typhoons known as kamikaze (“divine winds”).
1. Why did the Mongols invade Japan?
2. How did the Japanese respond?
3. What does this picture reveal?
From medieval times, Japanese artisans have made the world’s finest swords. They became a staple export to China. Worn only by samurai, they were also an emblem of class status, distinguishing the warriors from commoners.
The mid-Heian monk Kūya (903–972) preached Pure Land doctrines in Kyoto and throughout Japan. Little Buddhas emerge from his mouth.
This fifth- to sixth-century c.e. painting adorns a wall of a cave in Ajanta, India.
These nuns belong to a Tibetan sect of the Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) Buddhism that swept north to Central Asia and Tibet, and then east to China, Korea, and Japan.
Behind them, prayer flags blow in the wind.