AIM : What foreign ideas did Japan adopt & adapt? Do Now : Define & create a sentence for both adapt & adopt

1. AIM: What foreign ideas did Japan adopt & adapt? Do Now: Define & create a sentence for both adapt & adopt. HW: Create your own haiku.

2. Japanese Culture • Influence of China • Belief Systems • Buddhism  spread throughout Asia. • Confucianism  strong values. • Taoism  nature • The Arts  painting, architecture & sculpture. • Writing  adapted Chinese writing system. • Government  civil service exams. • Japanese Tradition • Shintoism – “the way of the gods.” • Early Japanese religion. • Kami  spirits/gods found throughout nature. • The Arts • Kabuki theatre – drama performed through singing & dancing. • Haiku – three-line Japanese poem (syllables  5, 7, 5).

8. Poverty's child -he starts to grind the rice,and gazes at the moon. 5 7 5