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FS: Japan- Uniqueness defined by Geography

...Or, a

Merely a

divine

simple
flag?...

Amaterasu

portrait?

Ise

Shrine
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How does

Torii

one enter a
sacred

space?...

...Via a
gateway,
of course.
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Pet Rocks & Animism

Historical
Periods

Why does Japan's


history date only to
the 6th C.?

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Heian Period: Japan's Golden Age


Say "Yes!" to
Noh Drama
Minimal Props => Maximum Skill

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Heian Period: Japan's Golden Age

Haiku
Poetic beauty
with an underlying frame
Of Five, Seven, Five.

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Feudal Period & the Warrior Class

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47 Ronin Gravesite

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Tokugawa Dilemma
16th C. (Portuguese)
Each European

The Tokugawa

contribution

Shogunate spent great

challenged an integral

effort to avoid the

part of the feudal

social/ political

order established by

collapse of the

the Tokugawa

Kamakura & Ashikaga.

Shogunate.

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Tokugawa Dilemma
16th C. (Portuguese)
What could be wrong

How can Christianity

with guns?

offend anyone?

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Europe

Japan

Land owner: Fief


Often Illiterate
Warrior Ethic
Code of Chivalry
Land Owner
Often Literate
Warrior Ethic

Bushido Code ("Way of the Warrior")

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Tokugawa Dilemma
16th C. (Portuguese)
Can increased or expanded
cultural diffusion imperil
social order?

Nanban Trade
Christianity

Gun Debate
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Tokugawa Dilemma
16th C. (Portuguese)

The Tokugawa React


Catholicism

Gun Ban

Banned

17th C.

17th C.

Sakoku Seclusion Laws


17th C.
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