AIM: What foreign ideas did Japan adopt & adapt?
Do Now: Define & create a sentence for both adapt & adopt.
HW: Create your own haiku.
Japanese Culture
I. Influence of China1. Belief Systems
A. Buddhism spread throughout Asia.B. Confucianism strong values.C. Taoism nature
2. The Arts painting, architecture & sculpture.3. Writing adapted Chinese writing system.4. Government civil service exams.
II. Japanese Tradition1. Shintoism – “the way of the gods.”
A. Early Japanese religion.B. Kami spirits/gods found throughout nature.
2. The ArtsA. Kabuki theatre – drama performed through singing & dancing.B. Haiku – three-line Japanese poem (syllables 5, 7, 5).
Poverty's child -he starts to grind the
rice,and gazes at the moon.
5
7
5