Imagine this‚ you live in a world where many things are being invented at the time‚ and these things being constructed and invented were weapons. Both the samurais and knights have revolutionized the topic of combat. The similarities between samurai and knights were greater than the differences. This is shown by looking at their armor‚weapons‚ and choice of transportation. The first important similarity was combat. For example‚ the samurais would fight with swords and so would the knights. Also
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Patrick Long 6/4/13 HST 391 History within Japanese Literature Japanese literature spans over a large period of time for writing. Earlier literature work was greatly influenced by Chinese literature‚ but after opening its ports to Western trading‚ Japan eventually developed its own style and quality of literature. Like most literature around the world and through history‚ we can learn a lot about Japans history through its literature. The Heian‚ Kamakura‚ Muromachi‚ and Tokugawa periods are
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Samurai and Shogun Me: Hey‚ buddy I have some Critical Thinking questions. Do you mind going over them with me‚ Donkey Kong. DK: Yeah‚ sure why not! Me: Why do you think the Fujiwaras and the central government were declining? DK: Daimyos had a lot of power because of the vast amount of land they had. The government was losing money because they didn’t pay taxes. Me: Following that why did you think daimyos didn’t pay taxes? DK: Well‚ they had a lot more power than the government. Having
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Almost one million people die in Japan every year. In other words‚ people die every 31 seconds. Some people die because of illness. Some people die because of car accident. Some people commit suicide. There are many kinds of death in this world. I believe most of those deaths are disconsolate and absurd. However‚ the honorable but unbelievable death existed in Japan in the middle ages. We call that hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is basically an act of killing your self by cutting open your stomach with a sword
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The long period of peace under the Tokugawa shogunate made a dramatic rise in commerce and manufacturing‚ especially‚ especially in the growing cities. By the mid-eighteenth-century‚ edo was one of the largest cities in the world. The growth of trade and industry was stimulated by a rising standard of living and the voracious appetites of the aristocrats for new products. The daimyos need for income also contributed as many of them began to promote the sale of local goods from their domains. Most
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How did Amaterasu come into being? What role‚ according to legend‚ did she play in Japanese history? Per the earliest Japanese “mythohistories” (Kitagawa)‚ Kojiki (records of ancient matters‚ compiled in 712) and Nihongi (chronicles of Japan‚ complied in 720)‚ the origins of the empire date back to 660 BCE‚ a date calculated from a cyclical formula introduced from China during the fifth or sixth century CE (Kirkland 111); none of the persons or events mentioned can be firmly established in historical
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Sapna Rampersaud From the time of the Gempei Wars (1180-1185) between the Taira and Minamoto families and the rising of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the 1600’s‚ the Japanese government generally declined. As provincial families dominated the diminishing imperial court‚ there was a severe decline of the central administration and the supreme authority dissipated. Rival families‚ Taira and Minamoto‚ fought for 5 years in the period of Japanese history known as the Gempei Wars. During these 5 years
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EALC10111 Introduction to Japanese History and Culture How did the imperial clan (particularly Emperor Tmmu and his successors) go about the task of strengthening imperial rule duing 7th and 8th centuries? 9174026 Strengthening the power of the imperial family is the most essential element to show authority to other countries. However‚ a country must have a well-organized system‚ a strong defensive ability‚ and a cleaver ruler as the most important features
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1) : LITERARY MOVEMENT: * Realism- the situation in the story was once happened in the history of Japan‚ not by putting to death the aged people but abandoning them. It views the once history of a certain country and the simplicity of life. The story also contains lesson and the language used was simple and comprehensive. 2) “A mother’s love is something that no one can explain. It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain‚ it is endless and unselfish”. The story of the aged mother
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The Manchu dynasty began with the overthrowing of the Ming dynasty. As the state expanded‚ the Manchu used the traditional Chinese bureaucracy to help rule (Upshur 549). For the most part they maintained a system of checks and balances in their government. As the Kamakura shogunate declined a series of civil wars followed paving the way for the Tokugawa shogunate. Unlike the Manchu they used a feudal government system‚ incorporating emperors. A point of difference from the two is their ruler’s origins
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