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Chinese Buddhist Priest spreads Buddhism
A priest from China comes and spreads the word of Buddhism, Prince Shotoku likes -
May 11, 625
Second Chinese Buddhist Branch
Before the Chinese Monk came to Japan, a new form of Buddhism spread in China; a group of gods to help you reach Nirvana -
May 11, 625
Mahayana
The new form spread from the middle of China to Korea and then to apan. -
May 10, 675
Japanese Schools about China
Made schools for sons of Samurai to learn about China's arts -
May 11, 1281
Chinese Mongolia
There were lots of Chinese soldiers in Kublai Khan's army -
May 10, 1429
Buddhist Temple Schools that teach about China
Very similar to the first public school, but this is the first temple school -
Hideyoshi and China
Japan tried to take over China, twice. Hideyoshi was the ruler -
Chinese Philosophy
When Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun, he set about the way of Confucius, taking the Chinese style of respecting your parents (and masters for that matter) -
Period: to
Nagasaki, Dutch, Chinese, 250 years
For the 250 year of being closed off, only Dutch and Chinese foreigners could trade, and at the port Nagasaki only -
Perry arrival brings memories of China
The Japanese were as interested in the West as they had been in the Chinese during the time of Prince Shotoku. This happened when Commodore Perry arrived -
Japan focuses more on West and less on China
This happened whent he Shogun lost power, beginning of Meiji Restoration -
Japan starts to want to fight against China
"By the late 1930s, Japan, which had so recently admired the cultures of China and the West, was racing towards war against both" - Learning to Bow -
WWII begins
Japan continues fighting with China and Russia (they had been for a little bit before 1940 -
Chinese Chopsticks
Japan started using their chopsticks (adapted from the Chinese) again to eat. -
Textbooks can't cut it
The Chinese and Koreans also complain because the textbooks don't talk about any of the invastions -
Korea and China complain
Korea and China complain because in Japan's textbooks they don't talk about how bad the Japanese treated them in WWII
(chose 1985 because the book was made in 1991 and says recently) -
Devil's Tongue
The Japanese, at least in 1991, ate a substance made from the roots of a Chinese tree (and nicknamed it Devil's tongue" -
Chinese Characters
approximately 3000 chinese characters in the kanji alphabet (which is Japanese) -
Chinese Tea
They have chinese tea in Japan -
Chinese Calendar
The Japanese still use the Chinese calendar with the twelve animals: dragon, monkey, etc. -
Chinese and Korean Teacher
Prince Shotoku brought teachers from these two countries to educate the Japanese -
Buddhism in China
more then 1000 yaers before, Buddhism was created in India and over time spead into China -
Chinese Royalty, part I
"Japanese emperors and empresses became more impressed with the grand scale that Chinese royalty enjoyed. It was said that when the Chinese emperor built a capital, 2,000,000 men were set to work, and that his fleet of pleasure boats on the Yellow River was towed by 80,000 men." - Warlords Simulation, background essay 2 -
Chinese Royalty Part II
"When he traveled on land, his caravan was 300 miles long. The Japanese royalty sought to live in a similar way. Rich art in the form of paintings, bronzes, silk, stones. And woods were commissioned from artists taught in the Chinese influence." - Warlords Simulation, background essay 2 -
Chinese Influence
China in Japan - "For the next century, the Japanese continued to be fascinated with the much older Chinese culture. A type of university for Japanese royalty and friends was created. Chinese speech and writing was taught, and soon Chinese character writing was the preferred form of communication, often written in the form of poetry." - Warlords Simulation, background essay 2
