Jōmon period

The ancient Japanese culture can be traced back to 8000 BC during the Jomon Period in Japan, although most archaeologists agree that it could go as far back as 100,000 years (“Early Japanese History”). The ancient Japanese culture is one of the most studied and historic cultures in the world. The Jomon period is known for is their advanced pottery techniques for that time period -- hence the name Jomon, which means "patterns of plaited cord” (“Ancient Japan”). The ancient Japanese culture was well known for their hobbies, day to day life, how they influenced mythology, and more. The ancient Japanese were very unfavorable to “peasants” in their culture. A peasant was anyone that was poor. These peasants were expected to bow to everyone that…

Since obesity is on the continual rise, there has been a lot of research done to determine the best way to decrease weight. For many years, studies of body weight regulation have focused almost completely on caloric intake and energy expenditure.23 Since the obesity epidemic continues to skyrocket, one diet that has received a lot of attention is Intermittent fasting (IF), or periods of voluntary abstinence from food and drink.24 In some places, IF has been practiced since the earliest of…

many years but in 1940’s WWII started which he decided to enter this war after leaving Europe, he returned home to find that many of his paintings and other works were buried in a raid. Okamoto during his later years was a writer and critic this leading to him help create The Night Society which was to explore literature along with avant-garde art styles. Hisashi really like Okamoto’s vision of two versions of Japanese art he said that there are 2 forms, Yayoi-like in which it’s a delicate and…

The age when ninjas flourished in Japanese history was the Warring States period between the 15th and 16th centuries. In the first place, when were the groups of ninjas born? I am going to expand on the history of ninjas, but I forewarn you that the the stories I will talk about are not necessarily believed by everybody, many of them are hypotheses. As the history of ninjas is so long, it is hard to find conclusive evidence throughout the historical documents available today. Firstly, it is said…

biographies are not fixed. Object biographies go through a never-ending process and change as the relationship between the object and the external world changes.2 The objectives of writing an object biography are multiple. Biographies help us assess the social and cultural relevance of some objects, and in this essay I will focus on how biographies place objects in the narrative of the civilisation that created them. The object which biography I will write is a Jomon pot (Fig. 1). It was made…

Imagining a country that is totally closed off from all exterior surroundings is very difficult do, as there are very few countries that even have the resources for such an endeavor. This is the perceived vision of what Japan was like during the Tokugawa period, where the Shoguns employed an idea of Sakoku in Japan. But what does Sakoku mean? There is a literal translation of closing down the country, but the foreign relations policy did not follow this word for word translation . Along with…

INFO498 Final Case Studies Name:_Chris Harlan____ Instructions: Your essays will be graded on content to include grammar and spelling. Each case should take 1-2 pages including diagrams. The essay answers for both #2 and #3 should be 500 to 700 words each, in order to completely answer the questions. Please submit as one document. Assignment: #1. Forest Point Construction (System Planning) a. What is the correct total time? The correct total time for this project is 31 days. b.…

Rossini’s music had a formulaic quality with many of his operas being similar in structure. He utilised a general framework called “la solita forma” in which operas followed a standardized pattern based in building drama and increasing complexity (Beghelli, 2011, p.97). This formula enabled Rossini and other composers to maintain a high volume of output over a short period of time without sacrificing quality or audience reception. A result of method was work that often lacked thematic recurrence…

economy was mainly aided through agriculture. Before the restoration, Japan was controlled by hundreds of semi-independent feudal lords. The Meiji period…

the social structure, as seen in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, where she argues for woman’s education, not to free women of the suppressive culture, but to make them better in their subjectivity. In these two pieces, readers can understand that autonomy is restricted. The same can be said for the Meiji Era in Japan. In light of Japan’s industrialization and the changes it brought, individual agency in Meiji Japan, as represented in Natsume Soseki’s Sanshiro, is…