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1. kotodama is reflected by wishing for...
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
Soga Family
safe journey - return - long imperial reign
animism

2. Hiragana is used to write...
inflections and function words
Death - childbirth - blood
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants

3. dragons' abilities
control the weather - linked to water
belief in the spirit of words
Death - childbirth - blood
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology

4. Zen Buddhism
Non persons
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra

5. No drama
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
pollution
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
deity or awe-inspiring spirit

6. Onin War
3rd Shogun
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control
possessors of magic items - supernatural duel-form monk figures who are fond of testing the mettle of Buddhist priests

7. two new major sects of Buddhism during the Kamakura period
refined elegance
Pure Land and Zen
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
Non persons

8. Kami
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
Warring States period

9. is the Izumo shrine rebuilt?
no
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
Non persons
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments

10. Ahikaga Takauji
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
King of Paekche

11. Innovations of the Yayoi period
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune
control the weather - linked to water

12. Concepts in the Nihon Ryoiki
Pure Land and Zen
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants

13. kotodama
safe journey - return - long imperial reign
belief in the spirit of words
King of Paekche
deity or awe-inspiring spirit

14. Heian Period Aesthetics writing/art styles
Okashi - Miyabi - mono no aware - e-maki - Yamato-e
1. Life is full of sorrow 2. the cause of this sorrow is desire 3. the only way to break this cycle is to free oneself from desire 4. the way to accomplish this is through the eightfold pasth
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words

15. Tengu
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
possessors of magic items - supernatural duel-form monk figures who are fond of testing the mettle of Buddhist priests
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery

16. Heian period prominent aristocratic family
Okuninushi- son of Susano-o the Sun Goddess' brother
Fujiwara
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Izanami and Izanagi give birth to the Japanese islands and then Amaterasu is born from Izanagi's ablutions

17. What is the Constitution of 17 Articles?
Okuninushi- son of Susano-o the Sun Goddess' brother
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
general and first shogun of Japan
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures

18. hinin
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
Non persons
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
sense of the mysterious and sublime

19. yamato-e
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state

20. Taiho Code
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
safe journey - return - long imperial reign
King of Paekche
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting

21. Logograph
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
symbol used to write a morpheme

22. 2 Archaeological periods
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Jomon - Yayoi
safe journey - return - long imperial reign
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon

23. 3 things that cause pollution
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
Death - childbirth - blood
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
no

24. okashi
King of Paekche
Fujiwara
Manyoshu
amusing

25. Yamanoue Okura
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
King of Paekche
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants

26. Pure Land Buddhism

27. Prince Shotoku accomplisments
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography
amusing
inflections and function words
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals

28. hagiography
no
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures
control the weather - linked to water
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts

29. matsuri
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
Jomon - Yayoi
animism
government and worshipping

30. makura kotoba
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts
no
symbol used to write a morpheme
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes

31. Kenmu restoration
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo
Jomon - Yayoi

32. Muso Soseki
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes
Gold pavilion in Kyoto constructed by Yoshimitsu
sympathy for the lieutenant

33. Heian period associated with a fear of
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
pollution
refined elegance

34. manyogana
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words

35. Genres of tales
King of Paekche
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality

36. Shinto is a form of
Pure Land and Zen
amusing
animism
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology

37. Creation myth

38. Shoen
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Soga Family
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology

39. Katagana is used to write...
divine decrees- laws
symbol used to write a morpheme
1. Life is full of sorrow 2. the cause of this sorrow is desire 3. the only way to break this cycle is to free oneself from desire 4. the way to accomplish this is through the eightfold pasth
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words

40. Ahikaga Yoshimitsu
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo
3rd Shogun
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
deity or awe-inspiring spirit

41. Kamakura Period
no
Warring States period
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan

42. hogan biiji
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
Jomon - Yayoi
sympathy for the lieutenant
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine

43. minority peoples within Japan
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
Ainu (Hokkaido) - Okinawans (Okinawa) - Koreans
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu

44. eta
8th shogun
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Those dealing in death (executioners - butchers - leathermakers etc)
tells the story of the late Heian civil war between the Taira/Heiki clan and the Minamoto/Genji clan

45. Ahikaga period
refined elegance
no
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology

46. Kakinomoto Hitormaro
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
compiler of the Manyoshu
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Mizoguchi Kenji

47. Japan's first anthology of poetry
Manyoshu
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
inflections and function words

48. foxes
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons

49. nori
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate
divine decrees- laws
Manyoshu
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'

50. Why is the Ise Shrine rebuilt every 20 years?
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
1. Life is full of sorrow 2. the cause of this sorrow is desire 3. the only way to break this cycle is to free oneself from desire 4. the way to accomplish this is through the eightfold pasth
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts