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4. JAPAN
• ARCHIPELAGO—chain of islands
• 100 miles east of the Asian mainland
• Four main islands—Hokkaido, Honshu,
Shikoku and Kyushu plus 3,000 smaller ones
• About the size of Montana
• Climate similar to eastern United States
5. JAPAN
• Only 20% of the land is suitable for farming
• Very mountainous
• Most people settled in narrow river valleys
and along coastal plains
• Used terracing to farm sides of mountains
• Japanese also turned to the sea for food
(protein)
6.
7. Japan
• Seas also protect Japan—seas kept Japan mostly
isolated from the Asian mainland
• Japan close enough to Korea and China for trade
• Far enough away not to be conquered
• Seas served as trade routes
• Japan located the “Ring of Fire”—earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions
• Cause tsunami
8.
9.
10. Early Japanese Traditions
• Early Japanese society divided into clans-
family groups that trace their origins to a
common ancestor
• Yamato clan will gain control around 500 CE
• Yamato set up Japan’s first and only dynasty
• Claimed descent from the Sun Goddess,
Amaterasu and the rising sun became the
Yamato symbol
11.
12. Early Japanese Traditions
• Traditional religion of Japan is Shinto means
“way of the gods”—based on the worship and
respect for nature—no sacred text
• Created out of the worship of Kami—word
means spirits—natural forces found in all
things
• Shrines built to honor nature usually around
waterfalls, mountains, grove of ancient trees
13.
14. Early Japanese Traditions
• Japanese language similar to Korean but
totally different from Chinese
• Korea and Japan in constant contact—
migrations and warfare a constant in early
centuries CE
• Buddhist missionaries from Korea introduced
religion to Japan around 500 CE
15. Chinese Influence
• Prince Shotoku will be very influential in
spreading Chinese culture and Buddhism
• Sent missions to Tang China to gather
knowledge of Chinese ways
• Many more missions will follow over next 200
years
• Returned and spread Chinese art, technology,
thought and ideas on government
16.
17. Chinese Influence
• Japanese emperor built new capital at Nara–
modeled on the Chinese capital
• Nobles spoke Chinese—dressed Chinese—ate
Chinese foods
• Tea drinking and tea ceremony introduced
• Chinese became official writing system of
officials and scholars
• Chinese influence only reached small group
18.
19. In architecture the Japanese adopted the pagoda
style
Buddhist monasteries were built—very powerful
Confucian ideas took root in Japanese society
20. Chinese Influence
• Japanese will later begin selective borrowing
• Will never adopt Chinese civil service exam
• Relied upon inheritance to fill government
positions—educated sons of nobles
• Japan produced its own unique civilization
• Added kana (phonetic symbols representing
syllables) to Chinese writing
21. Heian Period
• 794 to 1185 Heian period saw Chinese
influence reach it’s peak and then decline
• Capital located in Heian (present-day Kyoto)
• Fujiwara family in control of the throne
• Small population of nobles controlled society
• Emperors were figureheads (religious
ceremonies)
• Feudalism introduced during this period
23. Heian Period
• Court etiquette governed society—beauty
important (what made one a good person)
• Noblewomen/men blackened their teeth and
powdered their faces—men faint moustache and
thin goatee
• Noblewomen wore hair to ankles, dyed clothing
to match seasons (12 layered silk robe), eyebrows
plucked or shaved and redrawn higher up on
forehead
• Everyone in court expected to write
poetry/paint
24.
25. Heian Literature
• Women produced the most important
literature of the period (women were
forbidden to learn Chinese)—wrote in kana
• Sei Shonagon wrote The Pillow Book
• Lady Murasaki the best known writer of the
period wrote The Tale of Genji (1010) which is
considered by many to be the world’s first
novel
26. Zen Buddhism
• New Buddhist sect will win widespread
acceptance called Zen
• Zen means meditation and stresses devotion
to duty
• Values peace, simplicity, love of beauty and
reverence to nature
• Did not conflict with Shinto
• Landscape gardening and painting
27.
28. Artistic Traditions
• Two types of drama will become popular
• No (Noh) drama—performed on wooden stage
without scenery—men wore mask (1300s)
• Kabuki drama included comedy and melodrama
(1600s)—violence and emotion—portrayed
family and historical events—popular with
townspeople
• In poetry Japanese created the haiku—miniature
poem (3 lines 17 syllables in Japanese language)
• Woodblock printing art form (1600s)
29.
30.
31. Japanese Feudalism
• Feudal system developed in Japan during the
Heian period
• Warrior aristocracy dominated Japanese
society
• Warlords had men under their command loyal
to them not to the central government
• In theory the emperor was at the head of the
country but actually he was powerless
32.
33. Feudal Japan
• Power in the hands of the Shogun or supreme
military commander
• Gave land to vassals—great warrior lords
called Daimyo
• Lesser warriors called samurai “those who
serve”—fighting force in feudal Japan
• Ronin were samurai who had lost their master
34. Feudal Japan
• Samurai followed the code of Bushido which
means way of the warrior
• Loyalty to lord put above all other things
• Betray their code then they were expected to
commit seppuku, ritual suicide
• Dying an honorable death better than living a
long life that was dishonorable
35.
36. Kamakura Shogunate
• 1100s two powerful clans Taira and
Minamoto fought for control—lasted 30 years
• Minamoto emerged victorious and in 1192
Yoritomo Minamoto took title of shogun
• Emperor still ruled in Kyoto but real power
with shogun
37. Kamakura Shogunate
• Mongols launched two unsuccessful naval
invasions of Japan during this period
• Mongol ruler was Kublai Khan (grandson of
Genghis Khan) who sent fleets in 1274 and
1281
• Japan saved both times by typhoons which
the Japanese called “kamikaze” or divine wind
38.
39. Civil War Period
• Period between 1467 and 1568 known as the
Sengoku or “warring states” period
• Powerful daimyo controlled this period
warring amongst themselves for control
• Saw the arrival of the first Europeans to Japan,
the Portuguese brought their religion as well
• Oda Nobunaga will eventually defeat all
rivals—used firearms for the first time
effectively in Japan during a battle
40. Civil War Period
• Nobunaga will never unite all of Japan
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi will succeed Nobunaga
and will control most of country by 1590
• Failed expeditions against Korea kept him
from uniting all of Japan
41. Tokugawa Shogunate
• The unification of Japan will be completed by
Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Defeated his rivals at the battle of Sekigahara
in 1600
• In 1603 he took the title of Shogun
• Moved the capital to Edo (present-day) Tokyo
42.
43. Tokugawa Shogunate
• Required daimyo to spend every other year in
the capital—
• Family had to stay at Edo at all times
• Ieyasu will ban Christianity
• Kicked all Westerners out of Japan with the
exception of the Dutch
• Dutch allowed to come to Nagasaki to trade
once a year
44. Tokugawa Shogunate
• Shoguns able to control daimyo by setting up
a strong central government
• Brought peace and prosperity
• Orderly society because they put restrictions
on social classes