Exploring Japanese Culture through Buddhism and Shinto

1. TOPIC:Chapter 5, Week 3

2. Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)What is Japanese Buddhism? • Notes (right side of paper) • It came from Korea to Japan • Emperors liked it and helped to build temples and monasteries • Rich nobles did not like Buddhism because it was taking away their power

3. Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)What is Japanese Buddhism? • Notes (right side of paper) • Two kinds of Buddhism in Japan • Pure Land Buddhism: believed in happy life after death and worshipped Lord Amida • Zen Buddhism:can find inner peace through self control and a simple life -used martial arts -meditation

6. Sub topic #2 (left side of paper)What is Shinto? • Notes (right side of paper) • Shinto is the original Japanese religion • It is based on animism, which means all natural things have a spirit • When people needed help the asked the nature spirits. • People would ask for a good harvest, a wife, or a child • Many people in Japan still follow this today

8. Sub topic #3 (left side of paper)What was Japanese literature, art and drama like? • Notes (right side of paper) • Literature -Tanka: Japan’s oldest form of poetry -Haiku: 3 lines of words with 17 syllables total -Murasaki Shikibu: wrote the Tale of the Genji, worlds first novel

10. Sub topic #3 (left side of paper)What was Japanese literature, art and drama like? • Notes (right side of paper) • Drama - Noh: traditional plays that taught Buddhism -used masks and simple sets • Art • -pottery, textiles: fabrics, laquerware • -created guilds: groups of artists

13. Sub topic #4 (left side of paper)SAT vocab • Notes (right side of paper) • cathartic: cleansing, cleaning, purifying, healing • collaboration: combining, working together