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STORY ON PAGE 500 AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:

WHAT SPORTS OR ACTIVITIES DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN THAT HELP STRENGTHEN YOUR MIND AND BODY?

So what? What is important to understand about this?

Main ideas

Poems & Plays

Japanese Religion & Culture

What is Zen Buddhism?

Pure Land Buddhism

Art & Architecture

Japanese Religion and Culture

• Practiced both Shinto and Buddhism.• Buddhism was divided into different

sects, or smaller religious groups.• Pure Land Buddhism – its message is

about a happy life after death.• Zen – teaches that people can find inner

peace through self-control and a simpler way of life.

Japanese Religion and Culture

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

• Includes wooden items coated in lacquer, landscape paintings, folded paper called origami, and tea ceremonies.

• Buildings were influenced by Chinese and Japanese styles. Shinto – Japanese. Buddhist – Chinese.

Japanese Religion and Culture

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

• Tanka – Japan's oldest form of Poetry. • Murasaki Shikibu – wrote The Tale of

Genji, the story of a Japanese prince.• Noh plays taught Buddhist ideas and

were preformed on a bare stage by actors in robes and masks.

Economy and Society• Most people were poor.• Farmers worked hard to grow rice,

wheat, millet, and barley. Irrigation in the 1100s allowed for improved farming.

• Artisans: weapons, armor, pottery, paper, textiles, and lacquered.

• Kyoto – capital of Japan. Center of production and trade.

Economy and Society• Extended families included grandparents,

parents, and children.• Men head the family. Women obey their

father, their husband, and their sons.• Before the Samurai and Daimyo took control

women could own property , and some wealthy women could be rulers.

• Marriages were arranged by parents. Farming families had more control over who they married.