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Japanese Culture
Mrs. WIlfert's class personal Japanese culture Study Stack
Term | Definition |
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regent | one who rules in the name of another |
imperial | belonging or related to the emperor |
meditation | a spiritual discipline that involves deep relaxation and an emptying of distracting thoughts from the mind |
pagoda | a tower-shaped structure with several stories and roofs |
syllable | a unit of sound in a word |
aristrocracy | a ruling class of noble families |
tanka | a style of Japanese poetry with the first line having 5 syllables, second having 7, third having 5, and the fourth anf fifth having 7. |
kana | a system of writing in Japan that uses syllables |
uji | clans in early Japan that were only loosely tied to the emperor |
cultural diffusion | the spread of different cultures into other cultures |
technology | innovations that were/are put into practical use |
government | the governing body of a country, territory, empire, etc. |
religion | a system of worship into a greater power, usually a god or multiple gods |
social structure | a social value which ranks people into different groups, or classes |
art | the using of imaginitive skill to make something, involves painting and music |
architecture | the art of making and constructing builsings |