As you can see, Japan has changed a lot and has more areas

Japan become a Country in 57 AD. Japan is famous for there sushi, it is still very popular today. Japan is also known for samara soldiers!

The Japanese background is distinctive but most of it revolved around CHINA!

Ancient Japan was divided into castes

Samurai being at the top Farmers Artisans Merchants Peasants

Mainly 2 different houses in Ancient Japan The first was what is known as a pit-dwelling

house, in which columns are inserted into a big hole dug in the ground and then surrounded by grass.

The second was built with the floor raised above the ground. The style of house with an elevated floor is said to have come to Japan from Southeast Asia (used to store food so they won’t spoil heat) Pit-dwelling

house

The wealthy houses in ancient Japan were temples Ancient Japanese Buddhist temples were

often very beautiful There were a bunch of them crowded

together around the ancient cities of Nara, Kyoto and Kamakura

Many temples had to be rebuilt into their original designed as they were destroyed in the Onin war

Sushi, tempura, seaweed &rice ARE the typical main foods of Ancient Japan.

Although, there are other foods Japanese people ate What everyone ate changed throughout the year as

there are different seasons. As Japan is surrounded by the ocean the people did eat a large amount of seafood but that's not all, they also ate edible wild plants and vegetables mainly as 61% of Japan was mountainous

As well as, buckwheat, nuts, animal meant, leaf buds, and beans

Rice being an important staple food influenced the Japanese into having main dishes and side dishes

Family lifeThe roles in ancient Japan are almost the same as here.Women wouldCook, clean, watch the children, do the laundry, and teach their daughters how to cook and clean. Men would work, decide when it is time to have children, buy items from the mw to farm, and build things. The children are taught to cook clean and have good behavior. Children there also did sports and played with friends.

Men and women didn’t have a say in who they marry

The “matchmaker” aka nakado chose for them and arrange it on behalf of both families

Muko-in was the main system of marriages in ancient Japan

The groom would visit the bride every night

Only when the child was born, the bride could be named his wife and move in with him

Most people in Japan are Buddhists or Shinto. Shinto was from Japan it is based on worshiping local spirits

and nature. They believed that Japanese were decedents from the sun,

mountains, rocks, and trees. Shinto’s are also known as kami’s Buddhists They originally came for Korea but were also a huge religion

in Japan.  Mahayana Buddhism is the type that Japan has. Buddhism

also makes people think that they only think about the positives things and forget about the negative.

 

Gods and Goddesses Thee are a lot of gods and

goddess in Japan, these are some of the most important.

Bishamon is the god of war, he is known for protecting humans from demons and diseases.

Izanagi is the god of sun, he created the world, he is also known for stirring the ocean with a jeweled spear.

Amatsu-Mikaboshi is the god of stars and evil. He is the guardian of hell, he also is a sin.

About a month before birth the woman left her husband to go to her parents home and give birth

For another month her family will care for her and she will return to her husband with their baby

After about 5 months of pregnancy the woman is given a cotton abdomen band called a Iwata-obi. It is given by her family for protection, good luck and an easy birth

After birth a celebration of naming is held where the child is named and introduced to the world, although the baby stays home for one month

Childhood In Japan they say that one person cannot get

through life without there family. In smaller families elder relatives usually live at home with them, Japanese people think that children are more important then marriage. Parents also think that if a child doesn’t behave well in public that it will effect there families images, so they get punished for not behaving well. In ancient Japan they were taught very formal rules, these rules were all based on loyalty and honor. Each child has a different kind of job.

Childhood compared to Canada’s Japanese children didn’t have much freedom to do

what they wanted and to go outside and play. But in Canada we have a lot of freedom, we can go out and play with our friends almost all the time. The manners that we are taught aren’t as formal and extremely important. The chores that they had to do were very different; because the technology was different they had to do almost everything by hand. In Canada we have computers, cell phones, video games. In ancient Japan they didn’t have that kind of technology so they spent most of their time outside.

Education Education was separated into

kindergarten, elementary, lower secondary, and secondary.

The schools there are very different then in Canada

Everyone in Japan went to school.

The basic clothing for women and men are kimonos.

Men and women where different kinds of kimonos.

For weddings they Wore kimono like dresses, but they arefancier.

The visual arts started over 12 thousand years ago Japan was the first culture to do ceramics They also created pottery from stacked coil as well as

their own style of painting in the late 900’s. Japan had traditional music before China, and Korea. Japanese music was influenced

from China. Music was classified as Buddhist, Shintoistic, popular, & court- Buddhist music was mainly chanting

Picture by: Shigisan engi emaki

There are a lot of festivals in Japan one very traditional one is called the cherry blossom festival.

In this festival there is food, lanterns and stories about the cherry blossoms.

This festival is about celebrating that the cherry blossoms are in Japan again.

Some other festivals are Hadaka Matsuri festival. At this festivle they are there to worship the priest, this has been going on for hundreds of years.

The priests would have paper that they would write quotes on, anyone who receives this paper will have luck for the rest of the year.

Ancient Japan is an amazing place to study, it has many interesting foods, houses, religions, etc. With a variety of its own..as well as some from China it makes up to be a pretty cool country!

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