MMW 12 Lecture 23: Fusions and Divisions in Nara and Heian Japan

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Alexander B Stewart

Document Summary

Mmw 12 lecture 23 fusions and divisions in nara and heian japan. Ancient japan: jomon and yayoi: jomon culture: cord-marked" (pottery that was marked with a rope) for pottery found. 10,000-200 bce, hunter-gatherers likely of southeast asian origin: yayoi culture: 300 bce-300 ad; beginning of rice cultivation, brought by immigrants from korea and china, develops division of labor, fortified communities on hilltops, warfare. Introduction of buddhism: yamato period divided into kofun (tomb) period and asuka period, with buddhism marking disappearance of tombs, buddhists practice cremation, not burial. Buddhist mononobes: eventually led to armed struggle. China: taking away power from the heads of the clans, empresses were common, especially during the nara period of japan. In japan, often you don"t really want to be the emperor: sort of a figurehead, more power behind the throne. Taika reforms: decline of the clans: head of soga clan snubs shotoku"s son, yamashiro, twice for the throne, then forces.