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Title: Chapter 11: Cultures of East Asia


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Chapter 11 Cultures of East Asia
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Section 3 - Japan and Korea
Main Idea Geography and cultural borrowing from
China shaped the early civilizations of Japan and
Korea.
  • Objectives
  • What factors shaped early Japanese civilization?
  • How did foreign influences shape life in early
    Japan?
  • What characteristics defined Japans Heian
    period?
  • What were the main events in the history of early
    Korea?

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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japan a 1500-mile archipelago east of Asia
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japanese call their country Nippon, meaning Land
of the Rising Sun
The flag of modern Japan
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japan lies on the Ring of Fire, a zone of
volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
  • People never far from sea, turned to sea for
    food, transportation
  • Sea protected and isolated Japan 100 miles from
    Korea, 400 from China

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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Early people were hunters and gatherers Ainu are
oldest Japanese culture
Ainu couple in their traditional dress
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Ainu driven onto northernmost island new peoples
organized into clans
Jomon period clay figurines known as dogu (ca.
14,000 - 300 B.C.E)
Storage jar, late Yayoi period (ca. 4th century
B.C.3rd century A.D.) ca. 100200
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japanese belief in nature spirits, or kami,
developed into the Shinto religion
 Raijin - The god lightning, thunder, and storms
Fujin the Wind God
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I. Early Japanese Civilization
  • Shinto - way of the kami
  • Everything in nature has a kami,
  • No sacred text or formal structure
  • Shrines built to honor kami

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I. Early Japanese Civilization
Sun goddess Amaterasu was a revered kami first
emperor of Yamato clan claimed to be her grandson

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II. Foreign Influences on Japan
By mid-500s Japan had increased contact with
Korea and China - cultural diffusion
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II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Korean traders, travelers brought foreign
influences, i.e. Chinese writing, Buddhism
 The kobuk-son Korea's Turtle Ship
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II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Prince Shotoku sent scholars to learn from Chinese
Prince Shotoku (574-622) Japans regent from 593
to 622
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II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Chinese religion, art, science, government, and
fashion influenced Japanese society
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III. The Heian Period
794 - Emperor moved capital to Heian (Kyoto)
elegant court society developed
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III. The Heian Period
Nobles called themselves dwellers among the
clouds
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III. The Heian Period
Culture flourished - Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote
the worlds first novel, The Tale of Genji
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III. The Heian Period
Fujiwara family controlled Japan for most of
Heian period
Nakatomi no Kamatari, was given the surname
Fujiwara and became the founder of a family that
was to dominate Japanese government for centuries
to come.
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IV. Korea
Korean Peninsula was settled by nomadic peoples
from northeastern Asia
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IV. Korea
Gojoseon (c.2333 - 108 BC) was the first Korean
kingdom
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IV. Korea
c. 108 B.C. Han China conquered Gojoseon and
controlled Korea for 400 years
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IV. Korea
About 670 the Silla united Korea for the first
time, but were overthrown in 935 by the Koryo
Celadon Pottery (Koryo period)
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IV. Korea
Mongols ruled from the mid-1200s until 1392, when
the Yi dynasty was established lasted until 1910
General Yi Song Gye, Founder of the Yi (or
Choson) Dynasty, which lasted from 1392 until
1910
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