Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Use of regents
o
Fujiwara Family
Yoshifusa head of
wooden temple
Fujiwara
fewer than 4
daughters who
of Poetry (752)
married an emperor
Insei- cloister
government
Early Abdication
Michinaga- had no
Shirakawa
Emperor Shomu
amusing
Turned to Buddhism
things
lands in perpetuity
Bushi- warriors
Samurai- retainers
Manyoshu poet
Minamoto- Minamoto no
Tameyoshi
* Taira won
Emperor Kammu
son
aka Kyoto
Murasaki Shikibu
of Prince Genji)
ownership
Kiyomori
Purchase
mother
downfall of Taira
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
grand son
capital
westward
Founded by Shinran
Invocation of Amida
Nichiren
Lotus Sutra
Jito- steward
imperial rule
Shugo- protector
brother
in Kyoto
Yoritomos sons:
Yoriie
Sanetomo
base in Kamakura
Hojo Masako
Yorotimos wife
Nun-shogun
1568)
Institution of shogunal
regent
Shogun
allies
Japan
military tale
in Kyushu
retired shogun
wind
Shoen- estates
Aesthetic ideals:
Amida Buddha
Pavillion)
Nobutaka
Nobutada
Nobokatsu
otherworldliness
Appearance of Westerners
Confiscation of peasant
weapons (sword hunt)
(Sengoku era)
Sons of Nobunaga:
Edict of Christianity
Expulsion 1587
Sen no Rikyu
Oda Nobunaga
great elders)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
ceremony
Japans greatest daimyo (five
Tokugawa Ieyasu
o
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Daimyo from Owari Province
Yoshiaki- shogun
Battle of Nagashimo
Construction of castle at
Azuchi
Hideyoshi
Monkey (saru)
Battle of Sekigahara
Ieyasus triumph in
Nobunaga
Hideyori