Japan Unit Reading Questions        A Developing National Culture    P.227

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  1. Give 4 ways women of the court tried to make themselves lovely in Japan around the year 1000 AD.
  2. How many silk robes would a woman wear who was a member of the court?
  3. Who interfered with politics in the capital of Nara , causing the capital to be moved ?
  4. What was the new capital called ?
  5. How did members of the Fujiwara clan make sure their power with the emperor would grow?
  6. As regents, what did they do for the emperor ?
  7. What group of people created the culture of this period?
  8. In the poem on P.228, what natural beauty is dying?
  9. What did the Japanese borrow from China?
  10. What group of people wrote some of the greatest Japanese literature of the age ?
  11. In the diary of Murasaki Shikibu, how did she say she learned from her brother ?
  12. In the Tale of the Genji, what are the 2 virtues (good qualities) the prince had?
  13. Name the 2 ways courtiers were able to pay for their fancy lifestyles.
  14. Give the 2 reasons small landowners gave up their land .

The Power of the Shoguns   P.231

  1. According to the picture on P.232, samurai were sometimes compared to ________  __________ because his life was just as brief.
  2. Yoritomo set up a warrior government in 1192 and was given the title ___________, which means ___________   _____________.
  3. Why did Yoritomo make his headquarters in Tokyo ?
  4. Who had the real power in Japan, the shogun or the emperor ?
  5. Nobles who owned large estates were called ___________
  6. Owners of large estates depended on warriors to protect them called ______________
  7. In the 1200’s Japan was threatened by the Mongol leader _________  ___________.
  8. According to the picture of a Samurai on P. 233, what is the mask face made of?
  9. Why does the samurai burn incense in his helmet ?
  10. Why were the samurai angry with the Kamakura Shogun ?
  11. How many different families ruled Japan from 1185 to about 1600 ?
  12. What did believers of Pure Land Buddhism believe?
  13. Why did it become more popular in Japan ?
  14. What were followers of Zen Buddhism concerned with ?
  15. Why did Samurai like Zen Buddhism ?
  16. Why does Buddhism not want people to be in a hurry ?
  17. What is the purpose of a rock garden ?
  18. Who was the first leader to arm his soldiers with guns (muskets) ?
  19. Who brought guns to Japan ?
  20. What other name was Tokyo known as ?
  21. Why did the Japanese leaders think foreigners were a threat ?
  22. Give the 2 ways Japan chose to isolate itself from the world .
  23. What were the 4 official classes of Japan under the shogun and daimyo ?
  24. What were the 2 restrictions on Japanese peasants?
  25. Before money was used , how did people pay for things ?
  26. Name 5 of the new entertainments merchants created in the cities.