This document provides a summary of Japanese history and culture from ancient times to the present in 3 paragraphs: The first paragraph covers early Japanese history from 300 BCE to the 1600s CE, including the Jomon period, Yayoi period, emergence of Shinto and Buddhism, imperial rule under the Nara and Heian periods, and the rise of feudalism under military governments. The second paragraph discusses the Edo period from 1600-1867, where a military government unified the country and instituted isolationist policies for over 250 years, leading to growth of urban culture. The third paragraph summarizes modern Japanese history from the 1868 Meiji Restoration onward, including Westernization, becoming a world power

1. A St ro l l Th ro u g h t he H I s t o r y & C u l t u re of J a p a n A Stroll Through the History and Culture of Japan

2. Osaka Kansai (KIX) Hokkaido Honshu Kyushu Shikoku

6. The Search for the History of Japan begins at Tokyo National Museum North Tokyo, Ueno Park

7. DATES PERIODS EVENTS B.C.E. -to - 300 JOMON CULTURE Prehistoric culture characterized by hand-made pottery with rope pattern design.

8. Yayoi Pottery DATES PERIODS EVENTS JOMON CULTURE 300 BCE - 300 CE YAYOI CULTURE (ca. 300) Immigration of rice growers and rice culture from China Emergence of nature religion, Shinto

10. Shinto Shrine consists of... Torii The torii gate marks the approach and entrance to a shrine. Purification trough Near the entrance, for purification. Clean your hands and mouth before approaching the main hall. Main and offering hall The main contains the shrine's sacred object, and visitors make their prayers and offerings. Ema Shrine visitors write their wishes on these wooden plates and then leave them at the shrine in the hope that their wishes come true. Most people wish for good health, success in business, passing entrance exams, love or wealth Omikuji Fortune telling papers at shrines and temples. Randomly drawn, they contain predictions ranging from "great good luck“ to "great bad luck". By tying the paper around a tree's branch, good fortune will come true or bad fortune can be averted. Charm against evils

11. ISE Shrine : The Naiku Most revered Shinto shrine. The Naiku enshrines Amaterasu Omikami, the ancestral goddess of Japan's imperial house and the great ancestral deity of the Japanese people and home of the spirits of all past emperors. Amaterasu

12. Itsukushima Shinto Shrine

14. Money

16. Kasuga Shrine: Nara

17. Heian Shrine : Kyoto

20. Buddhism Buddha of Curing Pains Kannon (Deity of Mercy) with 11 faces and 1000 arms Siddhartha Gautama, Amida, the Buddha of Everlasting Light, was a previous incarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha Anyone who calls his name, with faith will get eternal life in the Pure Land

21. Jizo , guardian Bosatsu (bodhisattva) of those who suffer

23. Buddhist Temples consit of... Main hall The sacred objects of worship, such as statues, are displayed in the main hall. Lecture hall Lecture halls are for meetings and lectures and often also display objects of worship. Structure with up to five stories. Pagodas store remains of the Buddha Most cemeteries in Japan are Buddhist and are located at a temple. Gates mark the entrance to the temple grounds

24. Kiyomizu Temple: Kyoto

25. Many devout worshippers stand beneath the waterfall to perform the rite of cold water ablution while worshipping Fudo Myoo (the God King of Fire) who is enshrined at the waterfall's fount.

26. Main Hall is with 125 metres is the longest wooden structure in the world. 1164 AD Sanjusangendo Temple, Kyoto

27. Sanjusangen-do Temple . Kyoto 1001 statues of the Kannon (buddhist goddess of mercy),

28. Daibutsu-den Nara Period: 710-794 Chinese plan Chinese governmental structure 700 NARA (710-784) Establishment of first permanent capital at Nara ; emergence of Japanese patterns of administration and institutions. Beginning of classical period. 800 HEIAN (794-1185) (Late Heian: FUJIWARA) 1100 KAMAKURA (1185-1333) Kemmu Restoration (1333-1336) 1400 ASHIKAGA (1338-1573) (MUROMACHI)

29. Nara

30. Daibatsu (Great Buddha) of the Todaji Temple Todaji Temple

31. Kasuga Shrine

32. Kasuga Shrine

33.  Emperor’s Gate at the Imperial Palace Kyoto 700 NARA 800 HEIAN (794-1185) (Late Heian: FUJIWARA) Capital moved to Kyoto . Great flowering of classical Japanese culture. Elegant court life. Court aristocracy, especially women, produced a great body of literature--poetry, diaries, the novel The Tale of Genji. Development of “KANA” script

35. Kiyomizu Temple: Kyoto

36. Sanjusangendo Temple, Kyoto Main hall with 1,001 figures of Kannon carved in the 12th and 13th centuries. Tendai sect.

37. Shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo Feudal Age 700 NARA (710-784) 800 HEIAN (794-1185) 1100 KAMAKURA (1185-1333) A feudalistic, military government based on a Shogun (military general) who ruled in place of the emperor and was served by Daimyo (war lords) and Samurai (warriors). Imperial court remained in Kyoto but shogun's governing organization was based in Kamakura, which is south of modern Tokyo.

38. Himeji Castle Samurai Castle

44. Japanese Gardens come from a Shinto love of nature and Buddhist ideal of paradise Rock garden at Ryoanji - Kyoto Paradise Garden, Nijo-Castle Stroll Garden, Shukkeien Garden, Hiroshima Tea Garden -Tokyo

45. Beginning in the 15th Century the bonds of loyalty between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the daimyo grew frayed and decades of war followed.

50. In 1600 Ieyasu achieves hegemony in battle of Sekigahara

51. Ieyasu destruction of Hideyori ( Hideyoshi ’s heir) in Osaka Castle

52. Tokugawa Ieyasu Country at War Unification (1568-1598) 1600 1800 TOKUGAWA (EDO) (1600-1867) Country unified under military government which maintained 250 years of secluded peace, leading to development of vibrant urban "middle-class" culture with innovations in economic organization, literature, and the arts. 1900 .

55. The Kara-mon gate,

56. "nightingale" floors

58. Ieyasu moved the government to Edo (Tokyo)

59. Ieyasu moved into this place in Edo (Tokyo )

60. Asakusa, Senso-ji Temple

61. Tokugawa culture Bunraku Kabuki

62. Abe Masahiro Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Tokyo Bay, 1853-54 Opened Japan

64. Destruction of Tokugawa Meiji Restoration: 1867 Empress Haruko in Western garb 1900 MEIJI RESTORATION (1868) Meija Period (1868-1912) Taisho (1912-1926) Showa (1926-1989) CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 1945-Present Heisei (1989- ) Emergence, through Western Stimulus, into modern international world marked by drastic alterations in Institutions, traditional social organization, and culture.

65. Meija Period (Meija 1868-1912) Taisho (Yoshihito 1912-1926) Showa (Hirohito 1926-1989) ( Akihito 1989-) 125th emperor . Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada Imperial Houshold Agency

66. Rushing into Westernization

67. Sino-Japanese War, 1894 Russo-Japanese War, 1904 Manchurian Incident, 1931 World War II, 1941 Rapid Rise to World Power Status

68. Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

69. Military Command Building, Hiroshima

70. Hiroshima

72. Hiroshima

73. Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to the souls of the 2.5 million Japanese war dead from the mid 1800s to 1945. Class-A war criminals including Premier Tojo are enshrined here. Inside, there are military relics including artillery pieces and a kamikaze torpedo guided by a suicide pilot.

77. Cables everywhere

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