Jat Chapter 14

Chapter Introduction

Section 1 Early Japan

Section 2 Shoguns and Samurai

Section 3 Life in Medieval Japan

Reading Review

Chapter Assessment

Medieval Japan

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Chapter Objectives

• Describe the role of geography in the development of Japan.

• Discuss the rise and influence of shoguns and samurai in medieval Japan.

• Relate the impact of religion on Japan’s culture.

Medieval Japan

Medieval Japan

Get Ready to Read

Section OverviewThis section describes the geography of Japan, its early peoples, China’s early influences on the country, and the origin of the religion of Shinto.

Early Japan

Get Ready to Read (cont.)

Early Japan

• Japan’s mountains and islands isolated Japan and shaped its society.

• Japan was settled by people who came from northeast Asia. They were organized into clans and ruled by warriors.

• Prince Shotoku created Japan’s first constitution and borrowed many ideas from China.

Focusing on the Main Ideas


Focusing on the Main Ideas (cont.)

Early Japan

• The Japanese religion called Shinto was based on nature spirits.

Locating Places• Japan (juh·PAN)

• Hokkaido (hah·KY·doh)

• Honshu (HAHN·shoo)

• Shikoku (shih·KOH·koo)

• Kyushu (kee·OO·shoo)


• Jomon (JOH·mohn)

• Yayoi (YAH·yoy)

Meeting People

• Jimmu (jeem·mu)

Early Japan

• Shotoku (shoh·toh·koo)


Building Your Vocabulary

• clan (KLAN)

• constitution (KAHN·stuh·TOO·shuhn)

• animism (A·nuh·MIH·zuhm)

Early Japan

• shrine (SHRYN)


Reading StrategyOrganizing Information Create a diagram like the one on page 484 of your textbook to show the basics of the Shinto religion.

Early Japan

Japan’s Geography

• Japan is a chain of islands that stretches north to south in the northern Pacific Ocean.

• The islands of Japan’s are mountaintops that rise from the floor of the ocean.

(page 485)

• The four largest islands of Japan are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.

Early Japan

• Many of the mountains are volcanoes.

Japan’s Geography

• Very little of Japan’s land is farmable.

(page 485)

• Throughout history, Japanese people have fought for good farming land.

• Many Japanese people settled in coastal villages to fish for food.

Early Japan

• Because Japan is surrounded by water, merchants could travel easily on ships from town to town for trade.

Japan’s Geography (cont.)

• As a result, Japan developed an independent society with its own distinct culture.

(page 485)

• The ocean around the islands kept Japan isolated from outside influences.

Early Japan

Why did Japanese people settle along the coast?

Japan’s rugged, mountainous terrain left little farmable land, so people settled along the coast to fish for food.

Early Japan

The First Settlers

• The first people to arrive in Japan probably came from northeast Asia between 30,000 and 10,000 B.C.

• At that time, Japan was connected to the mainland of Asia.

• Wandering groups of people developed the Jomon culture around 5000 B.C.

(pages 486–487)

Early Japan

• The Jomon people settled along the coast of Japan and fished for food.

The First Settlers (cont.)

• Around 300 B.C., the Yayoi people appeared.

• The Yayoi are ancestors of the Japanese people.

• The Yayoi were skilled farmers, potters, and metalworkers.

(pages 486–487)

Early Japan

• The Yayoi people were organized in clans, or groups of families related by blood or marriage.


• Warrior chiefs headed each clan and protected the people in return for a share of the rice harvest each year.

• The Yayoi buried their chiefs in large mounds called kofun.

• According to a Japanese myth, two gods created Japan along with two gods to rule over Earth.

(pages 486–487)

Early Japan

• The children of one of the gods were the first Japanese people.


• The Yamato clan brought most of Japan under its rule in the A.D. 500s.

• According to myth, a Yamato leader named Jimmu founded a line of rulers of Japan that has never been broken.

(pages 486–487)

Early Japan

How did the Yayoi people bury their chiefs?

The Yayoi buried their chiefs in large, dirt mounds surrounded by ditches. The mounds were filled with personal belongings, such as tools, weapons, and armor.

Early Japan

Prince Shotoku’s Reforms

• About A.D. 600, a Yamato prince named Shotoku took charge of Japan for his aunt, the empress Suiko.

• Shotoku wanted to reform Japan and based his reforms on the Chinese government, which had a strong emperor and trained officials.

• Shotoku created a constitution, or plan of government.

(page 488)

Early Japan

Prince Shotoku’s Reforms (cont.)

• The constitution set out rules officials had to follow that were based on the ideas of Confucius.

• The constitution gave the emperor all the power and the ability to appoint all officials.

• Shotoku sent officials and students to schools in China and ordered Buddhist temples and monasteries to be built throughout Japan.

(page 488)

Early Japan

Prince Shotoku’s Reforms (cont.)

• Horyuji is Japan’s oldest Buddhist temple and the world’s oldest surviving wooden building.

• The Great Change in A.D. 646 divided Japan into provinces run by officials who reported to the emperor.

• Government officials, instead of clan leaders, were responsible for collecting taxes.

(page 488)

Early Japan

What did Japanese officials and students learn in China?

They learned about Buddhist teachings and about Chinese art, medicine, and philosophy.

Early Japan

What is Shinto?

• Animism is the belief that all natural things are alive and have their own spirits.

• Early Japanese people believed in animism.

(page 490)

• The kami were nature spirits.

Early Japan

What is Shinto? (cont.)

• Shinto developed from animism and means “way of the spirits.”

(page 490)

Early Japan

• Japanese people worshiped at shrines, or holy places, to honor the kami.

What religious activities occurred at shrines?

Musicians, priests, and dancers performed for people who asked the gods for favors.

Early Japan

What skills did the Yayoi practice that they may have learned from the Chinese and Koreans?

using a potter’s wheel and growing rice in paddies

Early Japan

Early Japan

In the Shinto religion, what do people worship? How are they worshiped?

People worship spirits called kami, which reside in all natural things. They are worshiped through rituals at shrines.

Summarize Describe Japanese society under the Yayoi around A.D. 300.

Japanese society consisted of clans headed by a small group of warriors who protected the farmers, artisans, and servants.

Early Japan

Analyze In what ways did Shotoku look to China to improve Japan?

The government was centralized, with a powerful emperor and trained officials. People learned the Buddhist teachings, art, medicine, and philosophy.

Early Japan

Expository Writing Imagine you are visiting Japan sometime in the A.D. 300s. Write a letter to a friend describing what you have observed and learned about the Shinto religion.

Letter should describe the kami and religious practices.

Early Japan

Look at a map on page R23 in your textbook. Describe how China’s relative location and size might have led to its influence on Japan.

Early Japan

Shoguns and Samurai

Get Ready to Read

Section OverviewThis section describes the rise of the samurai and the shogunate in Japan.



Shoguns and Samurai

• Japan’s civilian government and the emperor came to be dominated by military rulers known as shoguns.

• During the A.D. 700s, Japan built a strong national government at Nara, and Buddhism became a popular religion.

• As the shogun’s power weakened, Japan broke into warring kingdoms run by rulers known as daimyo.


Locating Places

• Heian (HAY·ahn)

• Minamoto Yoritomo

(mee·nah·moh·toh yoh·ree·toh·moh)

• Ashikaga Takauji

(ah·shee·kah·gah tah·kow·jee)

Meeting People

Shoguns and Samurai

• Kamakura (kah·MAH·kuh·RAH)


Building Your Vocabulary• samurai (SA·muh·RY)

• shogun (SHOH·guhn)

• daimyo (DY·mee·OH)

Shoguns and Samurai

• vassal (VA·suhl)

• feudalism (FYOO·duhl·IH·zuhm)


Reading Strategy

Showing Relationships Create a diagram like the one on page 491 of your textbook to show the relationship between daimyo and samurai.

Shoguns and Samurai

Nara Japan

• Because of its importance, the history of Japan during this time is called the Nara Period. • Nara resembled the Chinese city of Changan.

• Nara became the capital city of Japan in the early A.D. 700s.

(pages 492–493)

Shoguns and Samurai

Nara Japan (cont.)

• Jobs could be passed on to the official’s son or another relative.

• The emperor’s power came from the control of land and crops.

• Government jobs were given to nobles of powerful families.

(pages 492–493)

• A census was conducted for tax-collecting purposes.

Shoguns and Samurai

• Japanese emperors at Nara organized government into ranks.

Nara Japan (cont.)

• Nobles who were not Buddhists opposed the religion, and struggles broke out between Buddhists and non-Buddhists for control of the government.

• Buddhism came to Japan from Korea and was popular during the Nara Period.

(pages 492–493)

• After stopping an attempt by a Buddhist monk to seize the throne, the emperor left Nara to the Buddhists.

Shoguns and Samurai

In what ways did Nara resemble Changan?

They both had broad streets, public squares, government offices, and Buddhist temples, though Nara was smaller than Changan.

Shoguns and Samurai

The Rise of the Shogun

• In A.D. 794, Heian became the new capital of Japan.

(pages 493–495)

• Today the city is known as Kyoto.

• The government of Japan declined during the A.D. 800s because of a series of weak emperors.

Shoguns and Samurai

• Since many of Japan’s emperors were children, regents ruled for them.

The Rise of the Shogun (cont.)

• Most regents were from the Fujiwara clan, and the clan grew wealthy and powerful in Heian.

(pages 493–495)

• Powerful nobles of other clans gained control in the provinces of Japan.

• To protect their lands, nobles built armies of warriors called samurai.

Shoguns and Samurai


• Samurai followed a code of conduct called Bushido, which demanded that a samurai be loyal to his master, courageous, and honorable.

(pages 493–495)

Shoguns and Samurai


• The Gempei War was a civil war between the two most powerful clans in Japan: the Taira family and the Minamoto family.

(pages 493–495)

Shoguns and Samurai

• Minamoto Yoritomo was the leader of the Minamoto clan and commander of their army.

• After the Minamoto won the Gempei War, the emperor decided to reward Yoritomo to keep him happy and loyal to the emperor.


• The emperor gave him the title of shogun, or commander of all of the emperor’s military.

(pages 493–495)

Shoguns and Samurai

• Yoritomo was a ruthless leader.

• He and the shoguns after him appointed samurai to run provinces.

• Kublai Kahn and the Mongols invaded Japan twice but were defeated.

• Typhoons called kamikaze by the Japanese helped defeat the Mongols.

What were the kamikaze pilots of World War II?

Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into enemy targets.

Shoguns and Samurai

The Daimyo Divide Japan

• As samurai divided their lands among their sons, the pieces of land got smaller, and the samurai grew resentful toward the shogun.

• In 1331, the emperor rebelled against the shoguns and many samurai joined him.

• Although he won, the emperor refused to give the samurai more land.

(pages 496–497)

Shoguns and Samurai

The Daimyo Divide Japan (cont.)

• Ashikaga Takauji was a general who turned against the emperor and made himself shogun.

• The daimyo were powerful military lords who controlled territories created after the Ashikaga shoguns took over.

• The daimyo protected their territories by creating their own armies of samurai warriors.

(pages 496–497)

Shoguns and Samurai

• This meant the samurai gave an oath of loyalty to his daimyo in exchange for land.

• This system of granting land for loyalty is known as feudalism.

• With no strong central government, Japanese warriors fought each other.

(pages 496–497)

Shoguns and Samurai

• Many samurai became vassals of a daimyo.


• Much of Kyoto was destroyed then.

• After the war, fighting spread throughout the country as daimyo resisted shoguns.

(pages 496–497)

Shoguns and Samurai

• The Ashikaga shogunate fell in 1567.

• The Onin War raged from 1467 to 1477.


Why did the samurai resent the shoguns?

As the samurai divided their land, the pieces got smaller and smaller. They felt the shoguns had not given them enough land.

Shoguns and Samurai

What was a shogun? Who was the first shogun, and how did he gain his position of power?

A shogun was a military ruler of Japan. The emperor appointed Minamoto Yoritomo as first shogun to keep him loyal.

Shoguns and Samurai

What prevented the Mongol conquest of Japan?

Violent storms, called typhoons, smashed most of the Mongol ships.

Shoguns and Samurai

Describe Describe events related to the growth of Buddhism in Japan.

Answers should match information in the text.

Shoguns and Samurai

Explain Why did the power of the Japanese emperors decline during the A.D. 800s?

Regents refused to give up their power, while nobles gained power and formed personal armies.

Shoguns and Samurai

Analyze How did the beliefs of the samurai affect Japanese soldiers in World War II?

They refused to surrender and fought to the death.

Shoguns and Samurai

Expository Writing Create a constitution, or plan for government, that describes the relationship between the emperor and shogun, the daimyo, and the samurai.

Constitutions should explain relative relationships.

Shoguns and Samurai

Discuss how the power of Japan’s emperor changed over time.

Shoguns and Samurai

Life in Medieval Japan

Get Ready to Read

Section OverviewThis section describes the influence of religion on Japan’s cultural development and the roles of various social groups.




• Buddhism and Shinto shaped much of Japan’s culture. These religions affected Japanese art, architecture, novels, and plays.

• Some Japanese nobles, merchants, and artisans grew wealthy during the shogun period, but the lives of women remained restricted in many areas of life.


Locating Places

• Kyoto (kee·OH·toh)

Meeting People• Murasaki Shikibu (MUR·uh·SAH·kee

shee·kee·boo)



Building Your Vocabulary

• sect (SEHKT)

• martial arts (mahr·shuhl)

• meditation (MEH·duh·TAY·shuhn)


• calligraphy (kuh·LIH·gruh·fee)

• tanka (TAHNG·kuh)

• guild (GIHLD)


Reading Strategy

Summarizing Information Complete a diagram like the one on page 498 of your textbook describing the role of women in the families of medieval Japan.


Japanese Religion and Culture

• During the Middle Ages, Japanese people practiced both Shinto and Buddhism.

• When it reached Japan, Buddhism had divided into different sects, or smaller religious groups.

(pages 499–501)

• Pure Land Buddhism was a sect of Mahayana Buddhism.


• Its message is about a happy life after death.

Japanese Religion and Culture (cont.)

• Zen Buddhism is another important sect of Buddhism brought to Japan from China.

• Zen teaches that people can find inner peace through self-control and a simple way of life.

(pages 499–501)

• Japanese art reveals the Japanese people’s love of beauty and simplicity.



• Art in the Middle Ages included wooden items coated in lacquer, landscape paintings, folded paper called origami, and tea ceremonies.

• Japanese buildings were influenced by Chinese or Japanese styles.

(pages 499–501)

• Shinto shrines followed the Japanese style; Buddhist temples followed the Chinese style.



• The Japanese borrowed and adapted the Chinese style of writing using characters.

• Calligraphy, the art of writing beautifully, was important in Japan.

(pages 499–501)

• The tanka is Japan’s oldest form of poetry.


• Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, the story of a Japanese prince.


• Noh plays taught Buddhist ideas and were performed on a bare stage by actors in robes and masks.

(pages 499–501)


How were Japanese gardens built? Why were they built this way?

Japanese gardens were designed to imitate nature in miniature form. The gardens contained rocks, a few plants, and raked sand. They were meant to create peace and calmness.


Economy and Society

• Most people in Japan remained poor.

(pages 503–504)

• Japanese farmers worked hard to grow rice, wheat, millet, and barley.

• Very few people benefited from Japan’s wealth under the shoguns.


Economy and Society (cont.)

(pages 503–504)

• In the 1100s, advances in irrigation and crops allowed them to grow more food and their lives improved.


• As trade increased, artisans began making pottery, paper, textiles, and lacquered items.

• Artisans made weapons, armor, and tools for merchants to sell.


(pages 503–504)

• Kyoto, the capital of Japan, was a major center of production and trade.

• Many groups of artisans and merchants were located there.


• Japanese extended families included grandparents, parents, and children, with a man heading the family.

• Women were expected to obey their father, their husband, and their sons.


(pages 503–504)

• Despite their lack of freedom, some women made important contributions to Japanese culture.

• During the time of Shotoku, wealthy women could be rulers and own property, but women lost these freedoms after the samurai and daimyo took control.


• Marriages were arranged by parents, but in farming families women had more control over whom they married.

What was life like for a Japanese farming woman?

Wives of farmers worked long, hard hours in the fields. They also had to cook, spin and weave cloth, and care for their children.


How did the Shinto and Buddhist religions meet different needs in Japan?

Shinto: concerned with daily life;

Buddhism: prepared people for the life to come.


What were Noh plays, and how were they performed?

Japan’s oldest form of play; performed on a simple, bare stage by actors who wore masks and danced, gestured, and chanted poetry to music.


Describe How did guilds benefit artisans and daimyos?

Guilds offered protection from rival artisans, and sold daimyo goods they could not get themselves.


Analyze Why do you think women lost some of their freedoms when Japan became a warrior society?

Answers will vary.


Descriptive Writing Write a brief article for a travel magazine describing the architecture of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan during the Middle Ages

Articles should note that Shinto shrines were Japanese in style, while Buddhist temples were built in a Chinese style.


Discuss what you have learned about the samurai in medieval Japan.


Section 1: Early Japan Focusing on the Main Ideas

Medieval Japan

• Japan’s mountains and islands isolated Japan and shaped its society.

• Japan was settled by people who came from northeast Asia. They were organized into clans and ruled by warriors.

Section 1: Early Japan Focusing on the Main Ideas

Medieval Japan

• Prince Shotoku created Japan’s first constitution and borrowed many ideas from China.

• The Japanese religion, called Shinto, was based on nature spirits.

Section 2: Shoguns and Samurai

• During the A.D. 700s, Japan built a strong national government at Nara, and Buddhism became a popular religion.

• Japan’s civilian government and the emperor came to be dominated by military rulers knows as shoguns.

Medieval Japan

• As the shogun’s power weakened, Japan broke into warring kingdoms run by rulers known as daimyo.


• Buddhism and Shinto shaped much of Japan’s culture. These religions affected Japanese art, architecture, novels, and plays.

• Some Japanese nobles, merchants, and artisans grew wealthy during the shogun period, but the lives of women remained restricted in many areas of life.

Section 3: Life in Medieval Japan

Medieval Japan


__ 1. The __ was the military leader of Japan.

__ 2. Many artisans and merchants formed __ for protection and profit.

__ 3. The Yayoi formed __ that were headed by a small group of warriors.

__ 4. In __, a person clears the mind of all thoughts and desires.

Review Vocabulary

F

C

Define Match the vocabulary word that completes the sentence.

E

H

A. tankaB. daimyoC. clansD. sectsE. shogunF. guildsG. samuraiH. meditation

Medieval Japan

__ 5. The __ is an unrhymed poem of five lines.

__ 6. Each vassal gave an oath of loyalty to his __.

__ 7. The private armies of Japanese nobles were made up of __.

__ 8. Buddhism was divided into many different __.

Review Vocabulary

B

G

Define Match the vocabulary word that completes the sentence.

A

D

A. tankaB. daimyoC. clansD. sectsE. shogunF. guildsG. samuraiH. meditation

Medieval Japan


How did geography shape Japanese society?

The many mountains limited the amount of farmland. Armies often fought over farmland, and people turned to fishing and trading among the islands.

Medieval Japan

Review Main Ideas

How did Shotoku use Chinese government and culture as a model?

He created a constitution that gave all power to the emperor. He also set up a bureaucracy. He sent officials and students to China to study religion, art, medicine, and philosophy. He also built Buddhist temples and monasteries.

Medieval Japan


Review Main Ideas


Describe the roles of shoguns.

Shoguns were military leaders appointed by the emperor to govern. They controlled military forces and ruled provinces through samurai.

Medieval Japan

Review Main Ideas

What happened when the shogun’s power weakened?

Japan broke into warring kingdoms ruled by daimyo.

Medieval Japan


Review Main Ideas


Which religions shaped much of Japan’s culture?

Shinto and Buddhism

Medieval Japan

Review Main Ideas

How did the shogun period affect different groups of Japanese people?

Some nobles, merchants, and artisans grew wealthy, but women’s lives remained restricted.

Medieval Japan


Review Main Ideas

Analyze Why do you think the early Japanese people were so independent?

Islands and mountains limited contact with the rest of Asia.

Medieval Japan

Contrast How were the Yayoi more advanced than the Jomon?

The Jomon were nomadic, fished, and made pottery. In contrast, the Yayoi farmed and made pottery on a wheel, metal tools, weapons, and bells.

Medieval Japan

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Sushi refers to a Japanese dish that combines rice, vinegar, and other ingredients. Some people believe all sushi has raw fish, but this is not true. Some varieties of sushi are made of vegetables.

Early Japan

Today, the Japanese city of Kyoto has a population of about 1.5 million people. Because the city was not bombed in World War II, it is the only major city in Japan to have a significant number of prewar buildings. It is now considered the cultural center of Japan.

Shoguns and Samurai

The Japanese martial art known as aikido can trace its origins to ancient self-defense techniques, perhaps as far back as the A.D. 800s. Aikido uses various throws and twists to immobilize an attacker. Originally, aikido had no offensive moves, and competitions were not possible.


Identifying Cause and Effect

Learn It!

Reading Social Studies

Learning to identify causes (reasons) and effects (results) will help you understand how and why things happen in history. Read the passage on the following slide and think about the result (effect) of Japan having mountains. Then see how the information can be pulled out and placed into a graphic organizer.

—from page 485


Because of Japan’s mountains, only about 20 percent of its land can be farmed. Throughout Japan’s history, local armies often fought over the few patches of fertile farmland. Just as in ancient Greece, the rugged terrain forced many Japanese to turn to the sea for a living.

Cause

Effects

—from page 485


Because of Japan’s mountains, only about 20 percent of its land can be farmed. Throughout Japan’s history, local armies often fought over the few patches of fertile farmland. Just as in ancient Greece, the rugged terrain forced many Japanese to turn to the sea for a living.

Cause:Japan’s mountains

Effect:land could not be farmed

Effect:armies fought for farmland

Effect:Japanese fished for a living

Using Graphic Organizers

Practice It!

Read the paragraph on page 483 of your textbook and create your own graphic organizer to show the effects of Yoritomo’s ruthless rule.


Medieval Japan Introduction

Early Japan

Shoguns and Samurai

Japan’s New Constitution

Bushido Code

Focus on Everyday Life

The path to becoming a samurai was difficult and dangerous. Mothers in samurai families began teaching their sons Bushido at a young age. They taught their sons to place bravery, honor, and loyalty above all else. Each young warrior knew and could recite from memory the brave feats of his samurai ancestors. For centuries, young samurai lived apart from their families in the castle of their lord or in the barracks of their lord’s town. Beginning in the 1800s, samurai schools were built, and boys lived there to continue the educations their mothers had started. From the age of 10, they trained in the martial arts and studied other subjects, such as math and astronomy. By the age of 16, some young men were already promising warriors who distinguished themselves in battle.

Samurai

Connecting to the Past

Bushido, and to place loyalty, honor, and bravery above all else

1. What lessons was the mother of a samurai responsible for teaching her young son?

2. Do you think soldiers today have a code of conduct similar to Bushido? Explain.

Answers will vary.

A.D. 573–621Prince Shotoku

Statue believed to be of Prince Shotoku

The Horyuji temple built by Prince Shotoku

Murasaki Shikibu c. A.D. 973–1025

Murasaki ShikibuScene from The Tale of Genji

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