Meiji period

death, and impure thoughts, and common purifying agents include water and salt. Shintoism plays an influential role throughout history, especially in the period leading up to WWII and directly after. In ancient Japan, Shintoism was extremely popular with the common people and middle to lower classes. Shintoism grew in prominence during the Meiji Restoration, where revolutionary leaders reformed Shintoism into a state religion. During this time, Shintoism developed into different sects and…

Brandon Wiggins English III Mrs. Briscoe 12 April 2017 Samurai Samurai were fierce warriors who were known to the Japanese history from shogun to ronin. shogun meaning master, ronin meaning samurai without a master. loosely translated it means "masterless samurai". samurai were the cops of their time after they were told to live in castles of the village. They were the cops of their time because they were the only ones who could carry swords in…

ideology – in fact, it can even be argued that most Japanese women living in the Meiji era would not have been able to. Moreover, traditional Confucian teachings still had a strong hold over the populace, and there remained a “strong preference for women equipped with purely domestic skills, the representative one being sewing, as well as feminine virtues…

Spirited Away uses the motif of food, which plays a crucial role in every transformation. The first transformation occurs when Chihiro’s parents devour the food they find in an empty park. Because the spirits perceived them as greedy consumers without appreciation, they transform the two consumers into pigs – a possible source of food themselves. The intemperate consumption of food resulted in a negative transformation, which began the plot for Chihiro to rescue her parents. The negative…

Japans main classification of change in the 1930s was political, and in order to understand the sudden causation of these changes, one must first recognise the aspects that drove these changes at an earlier period. The Meiji restoration was a major contributor as it allowed the military to obtain political influence. The Great Depression arguably drove the Kwangtung Army to intervene and invade Manchuria, independent of the government. Nationalist sentiments intensified and a new group - the…

culturally and socially to the life of Japanese people. It is also influenced by Confucianism and Taoism. Shinto is Japans state religion, created in the late 6th century. In 1868, the government forced Shinto and Buddhism to separate in the Meiji period. Meiji government ordered a separation of Shintoism and Buddhism in 1868 and proposed a state endorsement of Shintoism to complete a thorough elimination of imperialism (Nakao and Ohara, 2014). The religion and state split after World War 2.…

The question explored is “To what extent did Douglas MacArthur contribute in writing of the Japanese constitution?”. To answer the question, the investigation on MacArthur’s role in the occupation of Japan after the Second World War and the construction of the Japanese constitution were carefully examined, using both official documents and secondary sources such as works by historians and biographical articles by journalists. While the work of MacArthur as the lead role of the occupation will be…

imprints on almost everything Japanese. However, modern Japanese perceptions of their beloved samurai were not always what the samurai were, nor were their core values always the defining vocal point of all Japanese culture. During the early medieval period, samurai were a unique…

Shortly after the Meiji restoration both the number of Noh performers and Noh stages greatly diminished. The support from the imperial government was eventually regained partly due to Noh's appeal to foreign diplomats. The companies that remained active throughout the Meiji era also significantly broadened Noh's reach by catering to the general public, performing at theatres in major cities such…

In the Edo period, rice was used as the base of the economy and used as currency, as the daimyo collected the taxes from the workers in the form of rice. this was the first implementation of currency. Then the rice collect by the daimyo was sold at the fudasashi market in Edo to raise money. Throughout the period, Japanese managed to smuggle studies of Western sciences and techniques (called rangaku) through the…