Vocab
Foreign Influences
Art
Government
Religion
100
One who rules in the name of another.
What is a regent?
100
The chiefs of the Japanese clans.
What are ujis?
100
This is a physical image of a person, place or thing.
What is a sculpture
100
Who mostly ruled japan before influences?
Who are ujis?
100
Japans religion before china influenced?
What is Shinto?
200
A spiritual decision that involves deep relaxation and emptying of thoughts from the mind.
What is meditation?
200
Chinese writing
What is kanji?
200
Clay figures of warriors, horses, robed ladies, and houses.
What is Japanese sculptures before foreign influences?
200
Who ruled mostly after influences?
Who is the emperor?
200
Where did Buddhism start?
What is India?
300
"borrowed letters"
What is kana?
300
A Chinese city whose streets were decorated in squares and rectangles
What is Chang'an?
300
After foreign influence, Japanese people made statues of which deity?
Who is the Buddha?
300
In the Shinto religion, what do people worship?
What are kami?
400
Form of chinese court music that arrived in japan in the 6th century.
What is Gagaku?
400
The Japanese borrowed this from India, which greatly increased architecture
What is the pagoda?
400
After foreign influence, did people paint paintings?
What is no?
400
Which century did Japan adopt a bureaucracy?
What is the 7th century?
400
Buddhas who've reached enlightenment but want to help others reach enlightenment are __________?
What are bodhisattvas?
500
The Chinese form of poetry, tanka, has 31 of these
What are syllables?
500
Who encouraged foreign contact with other nations, therefore bringing new ideas to Japan?
Who is Prince Shotoku?
500
What material did the Japanese use in their sculptures of the Buddha?
What is wood?
500
By the time Japan became a bureaucracy, China was a ______?
What is an aristocracy?
500
Kami represent _________.
What are objects in nature?