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Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto until the rise of the Shogunate in the 12th century |
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military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. Identify the end of Kuge era and rise of warrior class. |
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regent and a politician of the Asuka period/ succeeded in establishing a centralized government during his reign. In 603, he established the twelve official ranks at court. The Seventeen-article constitution was promulgated sent a mission led by Ono no Imoko to the Sui Dynasty |
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Japanese Imperial court ruled from yamoto province burial mounds arrival of buddhism |
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| 4th century the son of Emperor Ōjin established a palace in Uji |
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| descending from the Nakatomi clan, was a powerful family of regents in Japan that monopolized the regent positions, Sesshō and Kampaku. The clan originated when the founder, Nakatomi no Kamatari (614-669), was given the surname Fujiwara by Emperor Tenji. They dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period |
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| the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate |
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| medieval land stewards in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi Shogunates. Appointed by the Shogun, Jito managed manors |
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| district located in Nara Prefecture, Japan. |
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buke class general term referring to all aristocratic warriors |
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| Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan |
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| heartland of feudal power during the Kamakura period and again in the Edo period, the Kantō became the center of modern development. |
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| The temple of Enryaku-ji, the first Japanese outpost of Tendai sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mt. Hiei by Saichō in 788. The temple complex was razed by Oda Nobunaga in 1571 to quell the rising power of the Tendai's warrior monks |
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| conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans and in late-Heian period Japan. They resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto Yoritomo in 1192. |
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| the Age of Dharma Decline, is the "degenerate" Third Age of Buddhism. |
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specific form of government in Japan, in which the Emperor abdicated, but kept exerting power and influence. the end of the Heian period was marked with a succession of cloistered emperors |
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a military rank and historical title in Japan. from heian to tokugawa period shogun had important influence. powerful military ruler in japan. |
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marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate yoritomo was first Lords required the loyal services of vassals, who were rewarded with fiefs of their own. The fief holders exercised local military rule. |
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legal law of the Kamakura shogunate n increasing number of land disputes between its vassals, aristocrats and peasants made fair trials indispensable. |
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divine wind series of typhoons that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan that attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. |
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1246-1314) was a retainer of the Higo Province, Japan who fought during both Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1293. had scrolls made scrolls proving you killed mongols needed to receive award, |
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| three year period between the fall of the Kamakura shogunate and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate, when Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to re-establish Imperial control by overthrowing the bakufu. |
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3rd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate united the Northern and Southern Court |
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| shogun-daimyo dyarchy, was establishing dominance in central Japan and projecting its power westward into Kyushu |
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| a Japanese clan that ruled Tsushima Island from the Kamakura period until the end of the Edo period. |
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prostitute nuns Solicitors of Buddhism and kumano religion |
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| Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel |
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| epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Gempei War |
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| "mindfulness of the Buddha" is a term commonly seen in the Pure Land school of Mahayāna Buddhism |
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| a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation |
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Japanese mythology a sun goddess and perhaps the most important Shinto deity was also considered to be directly linked in lineage to the Imperial Household of Japan and the Emperor |
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was the third shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. He strengthened the political system of the Hōjō regency. |
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| governor given to certain officials. appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan. |
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| direct vassals (kenin) of the shogun in Japan during the Kamakura Shogunate. Their status however varied greatly across the ages. After the Kamakura Shogunate, during the Muromachi period, Gokenin was a social status for warriors rather than an official position designing direct vassals of the Shogun. Unlike the Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikaga shogunate did not have Gokenin. Most Jito came under the dominance of the shugo of each province. |
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was a civil war from 1467 to 1477 during the Muromachi period. dispute between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sōzen escalated into a nationwide war involving the Ashikaga shogunate and various daimyo |
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most powerful feudal rulers from the 10th century to the 19th century Warring States period Japan was on the verge of unification |
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set of doctrines established by Emperor Kōtoku in the year 646 written after the defeat of the Soga clan, which united Japan began with land reform, based on Confucian ideas and philosophies from China, but the true aim of the reforms was to bring about greater centralization and to enhance the power of the imperial court, which was also based on the governmental structure of China. Envoys and students were dispatched to China to learn seemingly everything |
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Nara Prefecture is part of the Kansai, or Kinki, region of Japan Ancient capitals of Japan were built on the land of Nara important site from heian sengoku and edo |
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was a field or manor y the end of the Heian period virtually all Japanese land had become shōen and continued to be through the Ōnin War until the Sengoku period marked the defeudalization of Japanese society. |
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