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1. Ugetsu setting
Warring States period
animism
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period

2. hinin
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts
Non persons
sense of the mysterious and sublime
Created gardens as contemplative spaces

3. eta
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts
symbol used to write a morpheme
Those dealing in death (executioners - butchers - leathermakers etc)
no

4. innovations of Yamato Period
divine decrees- laws
Soga Family
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined

5. Taiho Code
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world

6. Yoritomo
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
divine decrees- laws
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
general and first shogun of Japan

7. Shoen
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
divine decrees- laws
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography

8. Tengu
Izanami and Izanagi give birth to the Japanese islands and then Amaterasu is born from Izanagi's ablutions
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
safe journey - return - long imperial reign

9. mono no aware
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
melancholy at the transience of things
symbol used to write a morpheme
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery

10. Haniwa figures
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki

11. Yoshitsune
the way of the bow and arrow
poet of Korean ancestry and wrote social criticism of China
Death - childbirth - blood
valiant warrior and romantic hero

12. Kenmu restoration
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words
symbol used to write a morpheme
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo

13. yamato-e
the way of the bow and arrow
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes

14. Shinto myth texts
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
Soga Family

15. What are the classifications of Gellner's model of culture in agrarian societies?
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
Warring States period
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants

16. Katagana is used to write...
Jomon - Yayoi
Created gardens as contemplative spaces
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan

17. Logograph
general and first shogun of Japan
essence of the spirit of the poems is that of makoto sincerity
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined
symbol used to write a morpheme

18. 4 Main islands (north -> south)
foreign words - mimetic words - and scientific words
modeled after Tang China that sought to limit the increasing power of influential families
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
sense of the mysterious and sublime

19. Ahikaga Yoshimitsu
3rd Shogun
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words

20. hagiography
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures
Served as regent - advocate of Buddhism/founded Horyuji Temple - constitution of 17 articles - Hagiography
divine decrees- laws
animism

21. Why is the Ise Shrine rebuilt every 20 years?
animism
belief in the spirit of words
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
decay of materials - affirmation of life and death cycles - expression of authority of the state

22. foxes
Ainu (Hokkaido) - Okinawans (Okinawa) - Koreans
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
King of Paekche
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality

23. Izumo shrine is dedicated to

24. Japan's first anthology of poetry
Manyoshu
sense of the mysterious and sublime
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts

25. mappo
Warring States period
symbol used to write a morpheme
no
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world

26. Heian period prominent aristocratic family
Fujiwara
inflections and function words
animism
sense of the mysterious and sublime

27. okashi
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
amusing
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
inflections and function words

28. Shinto is a form of
Izanami and Izanagi give birth to the Japanese islands and then Amaterasu is born from Izanagi's ablutions
animism
attendant stand-ins within Keyhole tombs
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals

29. Zen Buddhism
divine decrees- laws
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra
decline of Buddhist law leading to the end of the world
the way of the bow and arrow

30. Sumie
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
1st- destroyed by a typhoon - 2nd- defeated by Japanese forces and a typhoon
using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds/words

31. Shobogenzo
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
Ainu (Hokkaido) - Okinawans (Okinawa) - Koreans
Philosophical discourses designed to train the mind escape conventional modes of thought
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes

32. What is the Constitution of 17 Articles?
Hokkaido - Honshu - Shikoku - Kyushu
Non persons
followed Chinese model asserting the ruler as supreme authority of the land - did not adopt the concept of mandate of heaven - stipulated Confucian ideals
melancholy at the transience of things

33. 2 Archaeological periods
safe journey - return - long imperial reign
Jomon - Yayoi
Animals that were associated with possessing humans/being demons
the way of the bow and arrow

34. Otomo Yakamochi
Death - childbirth - blood
compiler of the Manyoshu
Warring States period
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song

35. No drama
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
Garden maker who Takauji based his style off - used stone and rock to represent vast landscapes

36. Ahikaga period
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality
essence of the spirit of the poems is that of makoto sincerity
1338-1573 following the collapse of the Kamakura Shogunate
compulsory education - elimination of the class system - unification of written and spoken Japanese based on upper-middle class Tokyoites

37. Heian period associated with a fear of
inflections and function words
Meiji Period (1868-1912)
pollution
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence

38. Innovations of the Yayoi period
Those dealing in death (executioners - butchers - leathermakers etc)
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
agriculture and wet-rice cultivation - bronze and iron tools - weaving - pottery
animism

39. Ahikaga Takauji
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra
pollution
Japanese style painting with outlines and color pigments
Created gardens as contemplative spaces

40. Tale of the Heiki
tells the story of the late Heian civil war between the Taira/Heiki clan and the Minamoto/Genji clan
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
Death - childbirth - blood
Warring States period

41. Concepts in the Nihon Ryoiki
Non persons
refined elegance
pollution
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence

42. is the Izumo shrine rebuilt?
valiant warrior and romantic hero
no
Rokudo (the six paths) - infiltration by bodhisattvas Kanon and Jizo - transcendence
devoted retainer to Yoshitsune

43. nori
compiler of the Manyoshu
animism
divine decrees- laws
pollution

44. Aesthetics believed
essence of the spirit of the poems is that of makoto sincerity
3rd Shogun
Fujiwara
Pure Land and Zen

45. Kamakura Period
Theater performed by male actors including simple musical accompaniment in the form of drums - flutes - and chanting
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
divine decrees- laws
set epithets that heighten the resonance of certain images by linking them to previous poems and contexts

46. Ise Shrine is dedicated to
divine decrees- laws
Sun Goddess (Amaterasu) in the inner shrine and Foodstuffs God (Toyouke) in the outer shrine
Literate Elites- rulers - powerful clans; intermediate- specialist producers; peasants
Brief restoration of imperial rule under Emperor Godaigo

47. Ugetsu director
Haunts - Humor - Buddhism/Supernatural - healing and spirituality
deity or awe-inspiring spirit
Mizoguchi Kenji
government and worshipping

48. Kakinomoto Hitormaro
large tombs - horses - contact with Korea - government and religion joined
court poet and most beloved poet of the anthology
tells the story of the late Heian civil war between the Taira/Heiki clan and the Minamoto/Genji clan
the study of saints/holy peoples/figures

49. 3 things that cause pollution
two attempts by Kublai Khan and the Mongols to invade Japan
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
Founded by Dogen following the study of Chan Buddhism in China - breaking down conventional modes of perception and reasoning - Heart Sutra
Death - childbirth - blood

50. Who were the early adopters of Buddhism?
Zen ink brush painting introduced to Japan through Southern Song
melancholy at the transience of things
tax free estates that grew in number during the Heian period
Soga Family