Buddhism Influence On Japanese Culture

About the 1st century AD, there are more than 100 small countries around Japan. Later, these small countries have been gradually unified. Korean’s rice cultivation and use of metal utensil technology into northern Kyushu in the 3rd century BC, rice technology has brought epoch-making changes to the Japanese society. It expanded production and resulting in a gap between rich and poor people, so it makes farmers tend political group. Farming brings faith, rituals, customs has gradually spread out and forming a prototype of Japanese culture. Yamato people unified the small country in the mid-4th century BC. In this period China's a lot of knowledge and technology into Japan. To the 5th century, Korea outsiders brought iron, ceramics, textiles, …show more content…
To the 6th century, the Japanese formally accepted Confucianism, Buddhism pass into Japan. In the seventh century, Japan established a centralized state based on the emperor as the center. In Nara period, national fiercely protect Buddhism. Therefore, Buddhist culture and Buddhist art began to flourish. Because local politics is very confusing, then warrior Group becomes more powerful. In the early 11th century, Yoritomo established the first shogunate in Kamakura in the history of Japan. In culture part, Japan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence of the samurai, who superseded the ancient aristocracy as the ruling class. After the Song Dynasty, the Zen culture was introduced into Japan, which cultivate a vivid, realistic, simple, unique warrior culture. In religion, the Honen, Shinran, Nichiren Buddhism, who created the Kamakura Buddhism. The Kamakura shogunate was eventually overthrown by Emperor Go-Daigo. Ashikaga shoguns eliminated his rivals and resolved a long-standing division in the imperial line, creating an era of stability that lasted several decades. However, the succeeding Ashikaga shogunate failed to control the feudal warlords and happened civil