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292 Part IV: East Asian Civilization for the larger group. A Confucian proverb encouraged mothers to oversee both protracted str ...

Chapter 7 China 293 good match that impelled a woman to inflict such pain on her daughter. It was not overtly the eroticism of t ...

294 Part IV: East Asian Civilization women were not eligible for the examinations and the government careers that were their pur ...

Chapter 7 China 295 Dull, Jack L. 1990. The Evolution of Government in China. In Heritage of China; Con- temporary Perspectives ...

296 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Spence, Jonathan D. 1974. Emperor of China; Self Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. London: Pimlico. To ...

297 8 JAPAN ...

CHRONOLOGY OF JAPANESE HISTORY 2000 B.C.E. 250 B.C.E. 250 C.E. 552 647 794 1185 1333 1392 1573 1615 1868 Jomon period Ya y o i p ...

299 first glance at a map of Japan shows 3,000 islands (but four main ones) strung along the 135th and 140th lines of east longi ...

300 Part IV: East Asian Civilization The Yamato State At the time of the Qin Unification, 221 B.C.E., Japan’s southern regions h ...

Chapter 8 Japan 301 Chinese and Early Japanese Sources During these centuries the Chinese were diligently writing about all matt ...

302 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Archaeologists studying the Japan of the Yayoi and Kofun periods find the largest polities ...

Chapter 8 Japan 303 ing rice cultivation with them, and then moved south into the Philippines (at least on linguistic evidence; ...

304 Part IV: East Asian Civilization have had its own territory. As clans acquired territory, the kami residing there and associ ...

Chapter 8 Japan 305 kami. A cultivator named Matachi went to work clearing new land for rice fields. But this land was the home ...

Box 8.2 The Bug Festival Anthropologist Edmund Gilday describes a cycle of rituals in Hiroshima Prefecture in which the ancient ...

Chapter 8 Japan 307 brother and sister gods Izanagi and Izanami were instructed to create a “drifting land.” Izanagi thrust his ...

308 Part IV: East Asian Civilization This part of the myth is filled with identifiable elements of folk Shinto. There is the hor ...

Chapter 8 Japan 309 “cut-and-paste” method with complete abandon. Rather, certain narrative structures and paradigms were cultur ...

Ise Shrine and Horyuji Temple. The simplicity of the Grand Shrine of Ise [top] masks its imperial significance as the central st ...

Chapter 8 Japan 311 junctures the dynasty itself was threatened with destruction, including most recently after the defeat of Ja ...