8.1 Early Japanese Society

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8.1 Early Japanese Society

• Created by Michael Cahill, Jeremy Dinkin, Zaid
  Crawford
• 3/2/08
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Ainu

• Culture developed in Japan Ainu
• Thought they came from Siberia
• Language different from all of Asia
• Fought for land lost fights and own land
• Driven back onto a single island, Hokkaido
• Eventually culture disappeared

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Ainu Culture
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Clans

• Early Japanese lived in small farming villages
  ruled by clans
• People obeyed and respected members of the clan
• Each clan had a chief
• Clan chief descended from nature spirits called
  Kami
• Honored their Kami ancestors

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Farming Village
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Shinto Religion

• Shinto teaching everything in nature has a Kami
• Kami help people live and keep them from harm
• Built shrines to Kami
• Did ceremonies asking Kami to bless them

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Shinto Shrine
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Yamato Clan

• Most powerful clan lived in Yamato region
• Family history thought to be glorious
• Believed descendents of most powerful Kami
  Goddess of the Sun
• Extended control onto most of the Honshu Island
• Yamato Clan emperors of Japan

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Conclusion

• In the next section you will learn how Japan
  learned from China and Korea
• THE END