Title: Chapter 11: Cultures of East Asia
1Chapter 11 Cultures of East Asia
2Section 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?
3I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japan a 1500-mile archipelago east of Asia
4I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japanese call their country Nippon, meaning Land
of the Rising Sun
The flag of modern Japan
5I. Early Japanese Civilization
Japan lies on the Ring of Fire, a zone of
volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis
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7I. 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
8I. Early Japanese Civilization
Early people were hunters and gatherers Ainu are
oldest Japanese culture
Ainu couple in their traditional dress
9I. 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
10I. 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
11I. 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
12I. Early Japanese Civilization
Sun goddess Amaterasu was a revered kami first
emperor of Yamato clan claimed to be her grandson
13II. Foreign Influences on Japan
By mid-500s Japan had increased contact with
Korea and China - cultural diffusion
14II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Korean traders, travelers brought foreign
influences, i.e. Chinese writing, Buddhism
The kobuk-son Korea's Turtle Ship
15II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Prince Shotoku sent scholars to learn from Chinese
Prince Shotoku (574-622) Japans regent from 593
to 622
16II. Foreign Influences on Japan
Chinese religion, art, science, government, and
fashion influenced Japanese society
17III. The Heian Period
794 - Emperor moved capital to Heian (Kyoto)
elegant court society developed
18III. The Heian Period
Nobles called themselves dwellers among the
clouds
19III. The Heian Period
Culture flourished - Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote
the worlds first novel, The Tale of Genji
20III. 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.
21IV. Korea
Korean Peninsula was settled by nomadic peoples
from northeastern Asia
22IV. Korea
Gojoseon (c.2333 - 108 BC) was the first Korean
kingdom
23IV. Korea
c. 108 B.C. Han China conquered Gojoseon and
controlled Korea for 400 years
24IV. Korea
About 670 the Silla united Korea for the first
time, but were overthrown in 935 by the Koryo
Celadon Pottery (Koryo period)
25IV. 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