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Japanese History: Shinto Religion. Studies of Japanese culture and history
have always pointed to Shinto as the defining element ...
Brief Japanese History. The period from 1603 to 1867 was called Edo Period or
Tokugawa Period. This started when there 250 warring daimyos. ...
Japanese History. 1) Buddhism started on the Northern edge of India and
spread around to China. Japan then got China?s version ...
... The paper also explained about a couple of the important samurai in the Japanese
history. ... “Samurai.” Samurai Archives Japanese History Page. ...
... There follows three or four short anecdotes taken from Chinese and Japanese history
which act as teaching tales to show how such strategies can be used. ...
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1) Buddhism started on the Northern edge of India and spread around to China. Japan then got China’s version of Buddhism
a) Central them of reincarnation
i) The bodily desires are what drag us into the next body. Ridding yourself of these desires = Nirvana.
ii) Buddha ins’t supernatural. Cyclical time not linear.
iii) Theravada Hinayana ~ original Buddha
iv) Mahayana ~ Japanese version of Buddhism (from China)
(1) Prayer to those who have reached Nirvana
v) Shinto and Buddhists were able to get along
b) Shinto preoccupied with spiritual purity
i) Death is a very large spiritual impurity
(1) Emperor’s death considered the ultimate and so they moved Capitals after every death
ii) In 794 the government moves to Heian (Kyoto) and stayed there for over 1000 years
2) Often times they had puppet bosses with the real Emperor running things from behind the scenes
a) Regents from the Fujiwara family effectively ran the government with child emperors
b) When one of the retired emperors tries to regain power they call in the Samurai.
3) Minamoto Yoritomo won the Samurai Wars and named himself Shogun
a) Government then run by Shogun and called the Bakafu
i) Had the real power until the Hojo family
b) Bakafu was threatened by the Mongolian invasions
i) Were able to defeat the Mongols but were severely weakened in the process
c) No one effective ruler and so daimyo controlled their territory with taxes (rice)
d) First European contact (Portuguese) during this time~ around 1492
e) First Jesuit missionaries in 1549
i) Worked from top down. Converted some daimyo and Samurai
ii) Wanted to learn gun technology
f) Around this time some daimyo were able to concentrate power enough to unify large pieces of Japan
i) Oda Nobunaga got half of Japan
ii) Hideyoshi comes from a peasant family~ becomes a...
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