Pre-modern Japan
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Over ten thousand years ago, when immigrants from Micronesia and the Asian continent first settled the chain of islands off the east coast of Asia, now known as Japan, they were left to develop with little interference for thousands of years, developing, for example, a spoken language unlike any other that "has no close relatives," although it has been linked to Polynesian, Turkish, and Mongolian languages (Wolken sage.tamu.edu; Early Japan www.japan-guide.com). Around 300 BCE, however, the rice plant was introduced from the Asian continent, which totally revolutionized Japanese agriculture (National Museum of Japanese History www.rekihaku.ac.jp). Since that time Japan has gone through intense periods of seeking knowledge from other cultures to assimilate into their own (Morris 6-7). This paper will examine one of these phases, when Japan developed from a relatively primitive society to a high degree of cultural sophistication by assimilating Chinese civilization, including the Chinese government institution, the concept of emperorship, the ideology of philosophy and religion, the system of landholding and taxation, literature, the writing system, and architectural techniques. First contact between China and Japan happened as early as 57 CE, during the peak of the Han dynasty in China, when King Na of Wa (Japan) first sent tribute to the Han dynasty and received a gold seal in return (National Museum . . .www.rekihaku.ac.jp; Fairbank and
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Shinto as its exclusive religion, and basically had a loose form of government based on clan leadership that constantly changed capital cities (Wolken sage.tamu.edu; Early Japan japan-guide.com; Japan. . . lcweb2.loc.gov). Linguistically, the Japanese soon developed a system of pictograph writing based on the system of Chinese characters (known as Kanji) as their own system of writing and used it to complement the Kanji. This was known as Kana (Early Japan. . . www.japan-guide.com).
As stated before, Japan's original religion was Shinto. Initially, Buddhism had been introduced to China from India during the Han Dynasty in the first century BCE and had traveled from there to Korea by the fourth century CE (Buddhism . . . www.buddhanet.net). Although Buddhism was adopted by most of the aristocracy in the larger urban areas, chiefly Emperor Kimmei and the Soga family, most Japanese peasants and many aristocrats in outlying areas remained faithful to Shinto (Japan. . . lcwebc.loc.gov;Wolken sage.tamu.edu). However, the adoption of Buddhism and the writing system by Japan's elite revolutionized Japan once again as it enabled those in power to centralize, strengthen, and unify the government. One example of this is Prince Shotoku
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