RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pit-House, Shamanism, Soga Clan

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: G Hori

Document Summary

Flag of japan shows rising sun - name is called nihon , origin of the sun. People refer to it as so, not as japan. In chinese language, it"s pronounced riben or jihpen which sounds familiar to japan - so that"s where it came from. China-centric assumption from origin of the sun. If you"re in china, sun arises from the east. So there"s a china- centric focus from the word nihon. Jomon: cord mark pottery, hunting/fishing culture, totems, tribes, goddesses, fertility rituals. Yayoi: japanese culture starts, sophisticated pottery, agriculture, wet rice cultivation, female shamans (himiko) Kofun: keyhole tombs, haniwa, two tiered society, horseback rider theory, uji. Chinese/korean culture, emperor system, confucian bureaucracy (taiko reform, taiho code) Nara: first imperial capital, monks for merit, temples are tombs. Pottery is one of the few things people made thousands of years ago still in tact today, other than wooden huts and clothing.