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Japan. History Timeline. Geography of Japan. Four main islands Mountainous; only 11 percent is arable land Ring of Fire How do you think the geography affected the people and history of Japan?. Yamato Period: 300-710. Began promoting the adoption of Chinese culture: Confucianism.

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  1. Japan

  2. History Timeline

  3. Geography of Japan • Four main islands • Mountainous; only 11 percent is arable land • Ring of Fire • How do you think the geography affected the people and history of Japan?

  4. Yamato Period: 300-710 • Began promoting the adoption of Chinese culture: • Confucianism. • Language (kanji characters). • Buddhist sects. • Chinese art & architecture. • Government structure.

  5. Prince Shotoku Taishi: 573-621 • Adopted Chinese culture and Confucianism. • Buddhist sects allowed to develop. • Created a new government structure: • 17 Article Constitution in 604.

  6. Heian Period: 794-1156 • Characteristics: • Growth of large landed estates. • Arts & literature of China flourished. • Elaborate court life [highly refined] • ETIQUETTE.

  7. Tale of Genji Scroll(first novel)

  8. Lady Murasaki Shikibu

  9. Heian Period:Cultural Selective Borrowing • Chinese writing. • Chinese artistic styles. • Buddhism [in the form of ZEN]. • BUT, not the Chinese civil service system!

  10. Minamoto Yoritomo Founded the Kamakura Shogunate: 1185-1333

  11. The emperor reigned, but did not always rule! Feudal Society

  12. Feudalism A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the holding of land, and military service.Japan: Shogun Land - Shoen Loyalty Land - Shoen Daimyo Daimyo Loyalty Samurai Samurai Samurai Food Protection Peasant Peasant Peasant Peasant

  13. Hostage System • The shogunate controlled the daimyo by requiring them to have two homes; one on their land and one in Edo • Samurai were to secure and protect the property and honor of their daimyo

  14. Samurai’s Code: Code of Bushido • Fidelity • Politeness • Virility • Simplicity Loyalty to one’s Lord

  15. Seppuku: Ritual Suicide It is honorable to die in this way.

  16. Samurai Sword

  17. Underpinnings: Basic Steps in Self Defense A COTTON BREECH CLOUT that extended up over the chest was the basic undergarment of a samurai’s costume A SHORT SLEEVED KIMONO, or “armor robe,” was tied snugly at the waist with a special knot (lower right)

  18. BILLOWING PANTALOONS,worn over the armor robe, fitted loosely in the legs to allow freedom of movement AN EXQUISITE BROCADE, richly worked with a design of peonies, was one of the extravagant materials used in an armor robe that may have been made for a 14th Century imperial prince STURDY SHINGUARDS of cloth or leather were reinforced with strips of iron to give protection from the front

  19. Feudalism A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the holding of land, and military service.Europe: King Land - Fief Loyalty Land - Fief Lord Lord Loyalty Knight Knight Knight Food Protection Peasant Peasant Peasant Peasant

  20. Code of Chivalry • Justice • Loyalty • Defense • Courage • Faith • Humility • Nobility

  21. Medieval Warriors vs. European knight Samurai Warrior

  22. Medieval Warriors vs. Knight’s Armor Samurai Armor

  23. Zen Buddhism • A Japanese variation of the Mahayana form of Buddhism, which came from India through China. • It reinforced the Bushido values of mental and self-discipline.

  24. Mongol“Invasions” of Japan 4,400 ships and 140,000 men, but kamikaze winds stopped them.

  25. Ashikaga Age: 1333-1582 • Shogunsfought for power. • Laws are unclear. • Less efficient than the Kamakura. • Armies of samurai protected the country.

  26. The Age of the Warring States:(1467 - 1568) • Castles built on hills in different provinces. • Power shifts from above to below. • Europeans arrive in Japan bringing firearms & Christianity. • Christianity & foreign trade flourish.

  27. Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) • Banishes the last Ashikaga shogun. • Unifies a large part of Japan.

  28. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) • Becomes suspicious of European territorial ambitions. • Orders all European missionaries expelled from Japan. • Tries to invade Korea and China, but fails. • By 1590, persuades most of the daimyo to accept his authority.

  29. Catholic Jesuits in Japan St. Francis Xavier[First Catholic Missionaries in Asia]

  30. First Christian Martyrs (1597): Shrine in NagasakiToday

  31. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) • Appointed shogun by the Emperor. • Four-class system laid down with marriage restricted to members of the same class! • Warriors. • Farmers. • Artisans. • Merchants.

  32. Tokugawa Shogunate Period • Japan closed off to all trade [except to the Dutch and Chinese]. • The Dutch were restricted to a small island in Nagasaki harbor. • Japanese Christians persecuted and Christianity is forbidden. • The government is centralized with all power in the hands of the shogun.

  33. Tokugawa Shogunate Period cont. • Domestic trade flourishes. • Towns, esp. castle towns, increase. • Merchant class becomes rich! • Eta class is discriminated against. • New art forms  haiku poetry, kabuki theater. • Government officials feared that Kabuki may corrupt the morals of the Japanese; so they forbid women from participating.

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