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Ohlson Japan Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural diffusion | Medieval Japan traded ideas and other things with China, India, and Korea. This caused cultural diffusion in Medival Japan. |
| Religion | The Japanese religion was originally Shinto, but they discovered Buddhism from China and Korea and mixed the two religions together. |
| Government | The Japanese used confucian ideas and created a set of ranks for government officials. The Seventeen Article Constitution was created and said the emperor had all the power. |
| System of Writing | The Japanese used chinese letters at first because their language could only be spoken. They later used these symbols to create their own form of writing, Kana. |
| Art and Architecture | Japanese architecture and art was influenced by ideas from India that came by way of China and Korea. |
| Social Structure | Medieval Japan's solcial structure was influenced by China introducing the idea of an emperor as the highest power. This then made the goverment officials second most powerful, and so on. |
| Technology | Japan's technology was influence the most by China because they passed on many things that would never have gotten there from the mainland. |
| Prince Shotoku | A young man who came to power in 593 and started encouraging contact with the mainland. |
| Literature | The literature was influenced by Chinese forms of poetry and the Japanese made their own type of poetry called tanka. |
| Music | The music was influenced by Chinese music. An example is the Chinese instrument called the sheng, which the Japanese altered to become the sho. |
| Buddism | This religion wqs where followers worshiped the Buddha and tried to reach Nirvana. It spread to Japan from India, by way of China and Korea. |
| Sculpture | Most of Japan's sculpture was based on religious things. For example, there were lots of statues of the Buddha. |
| Shinto | The original Japanese religion. It was where followers worshiped their ancestors and nature spirits and had a belief in kami, a sacred power. |
| China | They had the biggest impact in the cultural diffusion of Japan. |
| India | They gave Japan the religion of Buddhism, which affected them greatly. |
| Korea | Most ideas passed through Korea on their way to Japan from China and India. |
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