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.

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