CORE-UA 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Izumo No Okuni, Ukiyo, Good Governance
12 Feb 2017
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Key words: yamato, samurai: comes from the word saburao to serve. Visible in the heian period in the shoen estates; put in the service of the emperor. A woman runs iron town; she is a warrior and wants to extract resources from nature that might kill off nature itself. Peoples were hunter-gatherers who were supplanted by the yayoi culture. The big change was rice cultivation that came from korea and also a population growth. Jomon knew how to kill and survive, and the yayoi were pacifist and creative. Nara: 710-794: start of what people consider the yamato period, or the start of japan as an idea. It started as a state, not a nation: before this period, when a ruler died the people would destroy that village so that another could develop. **shown in class*: poetry was still ritual, informs of its beauty. They have an emperor/female shaman who uses ritual/aesthetic power as a motive to organize a community.
