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Feudal Powers in Japan
Feudal Powers in Japan
As You Read
Use a time line to record the main periods and events in Japanese history
from 300 to 1300.
Japanese artists imitated Chinese They set up their own armies. These
paintings. For a while, Japan even used soldiers began to terrorize farmers.
Chinas government as a model. Yet Japan In exchange for protection, farmers
still held on to its own traditions. gave up some of their land to the lords.
The years from 794 to 1185 are called This is how the feudal system began in
the Heian Period. Heian was the new Japan. It was similar to the feudal system
capital of the royal court. Japanese culture in Europe during the Middle Ages.
thrived there. Each lord used a group of trained
The gentleman and ladies of the court soldiers. They were called samurai. They
lived in splendor. Art and good manners protected their lord from attacks by other
formed the center of their lives. The best lords. Samurai followed a strict code of
accounts of Heian society come from the behavior. It was called Bushido. This
writings of women of the court. word means way of the warrior.
2. Name two parts of Chinese culture After a period of war, one of these lords
that Japan adopted. arose as the most powerful. The emperor
named him the shogun. This means
______________________________ supreme general of the emperors army.
The emperor remained in power in name.
______________________________ But the new shogun ran the country. This
pattern continued in Japan from 1192 to
FEUDALISM ERODES IMPERIAL 1868.
AUTHORITY (Pages 341343) 3. Who were the samurai?
How did feudalism arise in Japan?
Over time, the power of Japans central _______________________________
government decreased. Wealthy
landowners lived away from the capital. _______________________________
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2. Yamato clan
3. Korean travelers
4. Chinese culture
5. Heian period
7. Shoguns
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