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Chapter 15 – Japan
日本
Study Guide
Section 1 – Geography and Early Japan
 Describe the geography of Japan –
Geography
Shapes
Life in
Japan
structure
 Explain how Japan’s geography shaped life there –
clans
 Who were the Ainu? –
Early
Japanese
Society
Briefly identify or describe
the importance of the
following vocabulary,
people, and places
Shinto
 Compare and contrast clan life in Japan with life in Africa (see ch. 13) –
Prince Shotoku
 How is Shinto similar to other religions we’ve studied this year? –
 Describe Japan’s first emperors. Who did they believe they were descended
from? –
 Identify and describe the three main influences on Japan from China and
Korea?
o
Japan
Learns
from
China
and
Korea
o
o
regent
Section 2 – Art and Culture in Heian
 Describe life at court in Heian –
Briefly identify or describe
the importance of the
following vocabulary,
people, and places
court
Art
 Why did Heian become a center of culture?
Lady Murasaki
Shikibu
 Briefly describe each of the following characteristics of Japanese society
 Fashion –
 Literature –
 Visual Art –
Tale of the
Genji
 Architecture –
 Performing Arts –
Zen
 How did Buddhism change in Japan?
Religion
Directions: Answer questions on page 450, #1-2 using complete sentences.
1a
1b
1c
2a
2b
2c
Section 3 – Growth of a Military Society
Samurai and Shoguns
Take Over Japan
 What was life like outside
Heian in the late 1100’s?
Samurai Live
Honorably
 Describe the life of a
samurai warrior –
 Describe the social
structure of Japan –
Order Breaks Down
 Describe the break down
of Japan’s military
society and how this led
to Isolation by describing
and summarizing the
following:
Briefly identify or describe
the importance of the
following vocabulary,
people, and places
daimyo
samurai
 Foreign Invasion –
figurehead
 What is Bushido? Define
and describe it –
 Internal Rebellion –
 List and describe the
levels of the social
classes –
shogun
 What impact has Bushido
had on modern Japan?
Explain –
Bushido
 Unification –
kamikaze

What was the difference
between the emperor and
the shogun?
 Isolation –
Notes