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11,000 - 400 bce
Neolithic civilization of Japan. Name derives from rope pattern found on pottery coming from this period. Depends less on agriculture than normally associated with this term. Pretty hunter/gatherer. Clay. provincial. No real social hierarchy yet. |
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400 bce - 250 ce
Period following the Jomon period. Developments in :
new living patterns
new technologies: huge evolution of agricultural technologies, irrigation systems etc. much more dependent on agriculture than Jomon. Rice cultivation at core of Yayoi society (as we see with the art and shizzle).
Bronze and stuff.
People think this era starts when Koreans move in, bringing in their technologies, marrying in with Jomon folk. fun times.
Increasingly hierarchical society.
Kings of "wa" reign over "Yamatai". Then Himiko. |
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| Region which the kings of "wa" reign over. Yamato kings reign over this place. |
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| Chinese name for Japan. Shows that Jap people started to send envoys and shit to China. "WA" officially recorded in Chinese annals. sense of superiority of the Chinese over the "Wa" barbarians. |
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| Weird ass "sorceress" woman who reigns over the land of "wa" for a while. according to chinese chronicles, it's through sorcery. she has tons of female servants and one male one who serves as communication bridge. |
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Umbrella term for the aggregation of "native" religion involving kami worship, along with Chinese and Korean imported religions/rituals/etc.
This will eventually be connected to the emperor's legitimacy through mythological justification. Emperor is a direct descendant of Amaterasu, sun goddess. propaganda. |
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| "god" present in all natural things. trees, bush, trashcan, booger, hand, you name it. spirituality is present in the material world, the here and now, which will be interestingly opposed to buddhism's supra-materialism. |
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| Sun goddess of Shintoism. daughter of Izanami/Izanagi. Izanami basically hands down control of the universe to her. She is the supposed ancestor of the Imperial line. |
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| Bitch brother of Amaterasu. He breaks everything and shits everywhere in Amaterasu's palace since he's sad he can't see his dead mom. Kind of the representation of folly/incivility. Amaterasu shows him who's boss. but then they have kids, wtf. |
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| Amaterasu's dad. he made the land. |
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| Amaterasu's mom. she gives birth to fire god, her cooter catches on fire and she dies. |
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| Both big shinto shrines. shows the increasing support of Shintoism by the state, the patronage etc. Ise is believed to be the resting place of Amaterasu. |
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| These were enormous burial mounds placed all over Japan. Big indicator of a new period: shows intense hierarchy with very powerful/wealthy rulers who could have afforded such things. also shows centralization of power, since they're all in the same keyhole shape --> allegiance to a central Yamato court power. |
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So, Korea = three main regions. Two of them: Paekche and Silla. Silla, with help of the Chinese, takes over Paekche. Paekche are like "oh shit where do we go." So they decide to go to Japan and intermingle with the people there.
Lots of evidence for this:
art
rituals
TECHNOLOGIES
korean history
etc.
Marks the shift from Late Tomb Period to Early Tomb Period. |
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Type of clan. hereditary kinship group. monopolized ritual/military responsibilities. Lots of political control.
These started to get really autonomous from Yamato court. |
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Period following the kofun period. 592-710.
Characterized by huge development and many upheavals and power switches. importance of clans.
Huge institutionalization/solidification of the governmental system: development of an early Japanese state. wow, so complicated. don't do this ID.
-rulers legitimized by heredity, laws, histories, literary works
-hierarchy of elites
-central capital w/ceremonial and administrative structures
-religious institutions enlisted in support of rulers/government. |
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| a kinship group which seized power at court. earliest patrons of buddhism. married their daughters into the system rather than replacing it. |
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| Queen Suiko (554-628) of the Soga kinship group. reigned with her famous nephew, prince shotoku. Started new royal confidence, equaling chinese courts etc. |
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| Prince who wrote the 17-article constitution. we see the growing influence of confucianism, buddhism, ying-yang theory and so forth. more a constitution about social harmony than anything "political". |
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| Great Reform of 645. Took power away from provincial leaders, and made very centralized government (ritsu-ryo state). Copied from Chinese Tang models |
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| reformation of the state brought on by taika reforms. more centralized government adapted from Chinese Tang model. less power to provincial leaders. nationalization of land, etc. |
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Nara = establishment of a permanent capital city at the center of the new state. Nara Period: 710-794.
religious center: huge patronage of religious institutions, namely Buddhism here. Todaiji and shit. |
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vernacular script. Japanese style of writing, feminine, more common things
(novel) rather than the more formal and serious, masculine chinese script. |
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1185-1333.
Period following the Asuka period, in which the capital was moved to Heian (present day Kyoto) in order to detach somewhat from Buddhist stronghold and political power in Nara. A very strong court culture forms, centering on aesthetics and the notion of the "civilized" and "refined". |
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| Extremely wealthy and powerful kinship group which, through intermarriage with the imperial line, succeeds in "organically" taking over power without overhauling the imperial structure/authority. |
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| Spread Pure Land Buddhism to Japan, highly controversial for his ideas. |
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| estates - private land becomes increasingly more important, system of pseudo-feudalism is what makes the aristocrats so rich.
private landholdings outside of government control. |
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| grants/rights given from governers to stewards. |
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