[HUMA 1400] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (42 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1400
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Study guide (lecture 1) culture & society in east asia: japan (pre-tokugawa period) We can understand japan exclusively in terms of its indigenous culture . Japan is very different from china (language, 2 readings of kanji, hiragana, Katakana: china influenced other east asian countries and a few in se asia (vietnam the most) Background to the tokugawa period: 1192 minamoto no yoritomo, ashikaga period 1338-1573. > thereafter, emperors would not hold real power . Samurai those who serve in close attendance to nobility: bushi, daimyo - warlord that ruled over large area of land, pledge allegiance to tokugawa, rank based on family name, shogun. Concerned about his own cultivation and culture: tokugawa ieyasu. The battle of sekigahara i. reigned opposers in submission. Important policy - system of shogun (all damiyo had to spend half their time in: sen no rikyu. > loyal retainer of oda nobunaga and toyotomi hideyoshi. > focused on aesthetics of the tea ceremony.