2. Chapter 9

6. Religious Simplicity ...
love of beauty and respect for combat ...
Reverence for nature ...

7. Coming Up!

8. Geography
Japanese geography has played a huge role in shaping
Japanese religion, agriculture, government, art, and other
aspects.

10. A Land of Beauty and
Violence
Japanese reverence for the nature.
Japanese also respects natures violent aspects.
tidal waves and earthquakes.

12. The Early Japanese
• The early settlers brought the knowledge
of rice with them.

13. Rice
• Japan has a wet climate.
• Perfect for growing rice
• Staple crop
• It takes the whole community to grow and
cultivate rice.

14. Chinese culture in
Japan

15. Writing
• Japan first used Chinese’s writing system.
• Buddhism from China.
• Mixed with Local religion : Shinto
• Today people practice Shinto and Buddhism

16. Land of the Rising Sun
Chapter 9, Lesson 1

17. Timeline

18. Timeline
500 700 900 1100 1300 1500
552 710

20. Main Islands
• Hokkaido is in the northeast and the home
of the island's capital city of Sapporo.
• Honshu is the largest island and the
Japanese core area which includes Tokyo
and Osaka-Kyoto.
• Honshu is the world's seventh largest
island.
• Shikoku and Kyushu are in the south

21. Hokkaido
Honshu
Shikoku
Kyushu
Okinawa

22. Japanese!
Ohayou Gozaimasu
Good Morning

23. Japanese!
Thank You
Arigatou

24. Objectives
• Understand how Japan’s geography
influenced its early development.
• Describe the effects of Shinto religion on
the politics of Japan.
• Evaluate the effects of Chinese culture on
Japanese culture.

25. Vocabulary
• Isolation- being separated from a group
• Shinto - a Japanese religion.
• All things natural have divine spirits.

26. The Islands of Japan
• Volcanic mountains pushing out of the sea.
• Four main islands.
• Very unstable part of the earth’s surface.
• 1,500 earthquakes every year.
• 60 of the island’s 150 volcanoes are
active.
• Typhoons

28. Island Life
• Ocean provides food and transportation
• It has also isolated the island from other
lands.

29. Early People of Japan

30. Early People
• Hunter-Gatherer societies 10,000 years ago
• Immigrants pushed north.
• 200-100 B.C.

31. Ainu People
• Descendants of these early Hunter-
Gatherers

34. Ainu Honor
• Honored
• Indigenous
Inhabitants of Japan
• March 7, 2002

35. Early Cultures
• 8000 B.C.
• Jomon people
• Probably came from Korea

36. Pottery

37. Yayoi
• 200 B.C.
• Settled on the Yamato plain
• Honshu
• Brought with them the knowledge of
rice.

39. 2-300 A.D.
“tomb culture”
Yayoi
100 B.C.
Jomon
200 B.C.
8,000 B.C.
Ainu
10,000 B.C. Hunter-gatherer

40. Early
Religion

41. Shinto
• Revolves around nature
• Everything in nature has a spirit (Karmi)
• Highest - Sun Goddess
• Emperor is said to have come from this.

42. Chinese Influence in
Japan

43. Buddhism
• 522 A.D. a Korean King sent a statue of
Buddha to Japan.
• He got this from China.
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