RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Haniwa, Key Hole, Equestrianism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

Japan ( the land of the rising sun) Use pottery to determine what life was like back then. Simple society, go where the food was. Hunter, fishing, gathering & beginning of agriculture. Agriculture: giving a lot of time to a land and committing to it. Chinese text (wei chih) : 297 ce. Envoy sent from china to wa and brought back to china to write. Himiko and the unification of the tribes. Sister has authority and power, but the brother speak to the people. Kofu (tomb) period (250 ce - 552 ce) Major leaders of the tribes and clans. Labour and knowledge is v. involved in building. Cylindrical with circular shaped for eyes and mouth. Archeologist can figure out that those ship and houses from that time. Rows and rows of haniwa = more and more sacrid space. Travel by ship and horse rider theory . A society of hunting, gathering, fishing to a society from building tombs.