Tag: japan

Tag: japan

2 pages tagged japan.

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• Chapter 24: The Unity of Japan — World History 101

  How an island civilization with a unique cosmology absorbed Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese statecraft without losing its Shinto core — and produced the courtly culture of Nara and Heian Japan.

• Chapter 37: The Age of the Samurai — World History 101

  How a century of Japanese civil war produced the samurai warrior class, the unification of Japan under three successive warlords, and the Tokugawa shogunate’s two-and-a-half centuries of isolation.

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• world-history
• shinto
• buddhism
• ancient-civilizations
• religion
• culture
• feudalism
• early-modern-asia