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Japanese Culture

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1. Tale of the Heiki
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
essence of the spirit of the poems is that of makoto sincerity
Ainu (Hokkaido) - Okinawans (Okinawa) - Koreans
tells the story of the late Heian civil war between the Taira/Heiki clan and the Minamoto/Genji clan

2. 4 Main islands (north -> south)
8th shogun
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes

3. Kami
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Okuninushi- son of Susano-o the Sun Goddess' brother

4. dragons' abilities
Manyoshu
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
control the weather - linked to water
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song

5. Yoshitsune
general and first shogun of Japan
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
valiant warrior and romantic hero
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song

6. Innovations of the Yayoi period
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
amusing
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state

7. Japan's first anthology of poetry
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality
Non persons
Manyoshu
essence of the spirit of the poems is that of makoto sincerity

8. Pure Land Buddhism

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9. Kamakura Period
Izanami and Izanagi give birth to the Japanese islands and then Amaterasu is born from Izanagi's ablutions
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
belief in the spirit of words
refined elegance

10. is the Izumo shrine rebuilt?
divine decrees- laws
no
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo

11. Ugetsu director
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
Mizoguchi Kenji
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
tells the story of the late Heian civil war between the Taira/Heiki clan and the Minamoto/Genji clan

12. hogan biiji
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
sympathy for the lieutenant
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined

13. Tengu
Pure Land and Zen
possessors of magic items - supernatural duel-form monk figures who are fond of testing the mettle of Buddhist priests
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate

14. matsuri
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
government and worshipping
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words

15. miyabi
Warring States period
pollution
refined elegance
Mizoguchi Kenji

16. Logograph
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
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

17. Yamanoue Okura
Manyoshu
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune

18. mono no aware
melancholy at the transience of things
3rd Shogun
King of Paekche
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography

19. Taiho Code
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
compulsory education - elimination of the class system - unification of written and spoken Japanese based on upper-middle class Tokyoites
Gold pavilion in Kyoto constructed by Yoshimitsu

20. Creation myth

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21. Hiragana is used to write...
sense of the mysterious and sublime
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined
refined elegance
inflections and function words

22. Kinkakuji
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra
Gold pavilion in Kyoto constructed by Yoshimitsu
valiant warrior and romantic hero
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China

23. What is the Constitution of 17 Articles?
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
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
Manyoshu
Death - childbirth - blood

24. Elements of Japanese language standardization
Okuninushi- son of Susano-o the Sun Goddess' brother
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
compulsory education - elimination of the class system - unification of written and spoken Japanese based on upper-middle class Tokyoites
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period

25. Shoen
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
inflections and function words
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons

26. hagiography
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate
Mizoguchi Kenji
Soga Family

27. Heian period prominent aristocratic family
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
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
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Fujiwara

28. Onin War
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
pollution
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control

29. Shinto myth texts
Those dealing in death (executioners - butchers - leathermakers etc)
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
3rd Shogun

30. Ahikaga Yoshimitsu
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world
compulsory education - elimination of the class system - unification of written and spoken Japanese based on upper-middle class Tokyoites
3rd Shogun
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine

31. eta
the way of the bow and arrow
Those dealing in death (executioners - butchers - leathermakers etc)
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
Created gardens as contemplative spaces

32. Ugetsu setting
Warring States period
valiant warrior and romantic hero
King of Paekche
3rd Shogun

33. Concepts in the Nihon Ryoiki
government and worshipping
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
Death - childbirth - blood

34. yamato-e
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments

35. Haniwa figures
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography
Non persons
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Mizoguchi Kenji

36. Sumie
King of Paekche
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
belief in the spirit of words
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song

37. Yugen
animism
Fujiwara
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
sense of the mysterious and sublime

38. Shobogenzo
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Civil war during the Ashikaga period caused by unrest due to loss of control of shoen estates with local constables seizing control
Mizoguchi Kenji

39. Benkei
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune
Soga Family
Gold pavilion in Kyoto constructed by Yoshimitsu
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought

40. Katagana is used to write...
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
melancholy at the transience of things

41. Why is the Ise Shrine rebuilt every 20 years?
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
no
reliance on Amida - salvation available for all - 'Essentials of Salvation'
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine

42. okashi
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography
Death - childbirth - blood
amusing

43. Ahikaga Takauji
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
government and worshipping
pollution
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words

44. Who were the early adopters of Buddhism?
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
King of Paekche
Soga Family

45. What are the classifications of Gellner's model of culture in agrarian societies?
the way of the bow and arrow
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
compulsory education - elimination of the class system - unification of written and spoken Japanese based on upper-middle class Tokyoites
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants

46. Prince Shotoku accomplisments
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
valiant warrior and romantic hero
refined elegance
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography

47. Shinto is a form of
animism
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments

48. Heian period associated with a fear of
pollution
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune

49. Ahikaga period
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate
Pure Land and Zen
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Manyoshu

50. How are the Mongol invasion attempts defeated?
inflections and function words
symbol used to write a morpheme
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song