Study Guide for 371 final exam

revised 12/7/2007

THE EXAM IS CUMULATIVE, BUT I WILL EMPHASIZE THE LATER HALF OF THE CLASS

I WILL NOT HAVE A PICTURE ID SECTION

 

Terms

Amaterasu

Amida (Amitäbha)

Ashikaga Takauji

Asuka period

Aizawa Seishisai

be

Bodhisattva

Buddha

buke shohatto

daimyö

Dainichi (Vairochana)

Dögen

Eisai

fudai

Fujiwara

Gempei War

Genshin

Go-Shirakawa

Hayashi Razan

Hayashi Nobuatsu

Heian

Himiko

Hirata Atsutane

Holland

Hönen

honke

Höjö

hyakushö

ie

ikki

Ishiyama Honganji

jiriki

jito

Jökyü War (1221)

Jömon

kabuki

Kamakura

Kammu Heiji

Kamo Mabuchi

kögi

kokka

Kojiki

kubunden

Kükai

kuramoto

Kyöto

Kyüshü

mandala

mappö

Matsudaira Sadanobu

Minamoto no Yoritomo

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Mitogaku

Mongol

Manchu

Motoori Norinaga

Murasaki Shikibu

Muromachi

musume yado

Nakatomi

Nara

nembutsu

Nichiren

nirvana

Oda Nobunaga

ritsu-ryö system

ryöke

sankin kötai

Seiwa Genji

Sekigahara

sesshö

Shaka (Shäkyamuni)

Shimabara

Shingon

Shinran

shöen

Shötoku taishi (Prince Shötoku)

shugo

Susa-no-o

Sutoku

T'ang

Taihö code (702)

Taika reforms (646)

Taira no Kiyomori

Tale of Genji

Tanuma Okitsugu

Tokugawa Hidetada

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Tomb period

uji

wakamonogumi

Yamatai

Yamato

Yayoi

Zen

 

Please reread the following texts carefully. Know the author (where relevant), date of composition, and historical context for each example. Be prepared to write briefly about the importance of each text. I will ask specific questions on each text, for example, to what was the author responding, or what were the results of the edict?

DeBary, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition

Wei chih, pp. 4-8

Kojiki, pp. 15-16, 21-23, 25-27

Nihongi (or Nihon shoki), pp. 13-15, 20-21, 24-25, 28-29

Izumo no kuni fudoki, pp. 29-20

especially Shötoku constitution, pp. 50-55

Taika reform edict, 77-84

Sütra of Golden Light, 107-108

Proclamation of Emperor Shömu, 114-115

"Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness," 169-170

"Essentials of Salvation," 218-222

Shinran, 227-228

Zen precepts 325-327

Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature

Yugao chapter of Genji monogatari

Atsumori selection from Heike monogatari, 179-84

Lu, Japan: A Documentary History

Shötoku constitution, 1: 23-26

Taika reform edict 1: 26-29

Taihö code 1: 29-36

land edicts 1: 92-101

vassal edicts, 1: 101- 106

Goseibai shikimoku, 1: 106-116

Documents on shugo 1: 156-160

Daimyö house laws 1: 175-185

Village sö documents

Hideyoshi's edicts in Lu 1: 191-197

Buke shohatto in Lu 1: 206-208

Regulations for Villagers in Lu 1: 213-215

Chüshingura

Writings of Hayashi Razan

"Women and Wisdom of Japan" or Onna daigaku

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