TOPIC:Chapter 5,

Week 3

Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)

What is Japanese Buddhism?Notes (right side of paper)

•It came from Korea to Japan•Emperors liked it and helped to build temples and monasteries•Rich nobles did not like Buddhism because it was taking away their power

Sub topic #1 (left side of paper)

What is Japanese Buddhism?Notes (right side of paper)

•Two kinds of Buddhism in Japan•Pure Land Buddhism: believed in happy life after death and worshipped Lord Amida•Zen Buddhism:can find inner peace through self control and a simple life

-used martial arts-meditation

Sub topic #2 (left side of paper)

What is Shinto?Notes (right side of paper)

•Shinto is the original Japanese religion•It is based on animism, which means all natural things have a spirit•When people needed help the asked the nature spirits.•People would ask for a good harvest, a wife, or a child•Many people in Japan still follow this today

Sub topic #3 (left side of paper)

What was Japanese literature, art and drama like?

Notes (right side of paper)

•Literature-Tanka: Japan’s oldest form of

poetry-Haiku: 3 lines of words with 17 syllables total-Murasaki Shikibu: wrote the Tale of the Genji, worlds first novel

Sub topic #3 (left side of paper)

What was Japanese literature, art and drama like?

Notes (right side of paper)

•Drama- Noh: traditional plays that taught

Buddhism-used masks and simple sets

•Art-pottery, textiles: fabrics,

laquerware-created guilds: groups of artists

Sub topic #4 (left side of paper)

SAT vocabNotes (right side of paper)

•cathartic: cleansing, cleaning, purifying, healing

•collaboration: combining, working together