ESPIRIT+JAPAN

== (image above contains a Japenese sammurai) =ECONOMY= Borrowed things from china and collected taxes from the peasents Aristocrats and monks slowly began to rise in power but failed to reckon on power on local lords. Peasents were living in a sad era, because of the killing and looting and pretty much almost slavry in getting killed robbed and working for almost to serve for only others
 * Bushis** and **Sammurais** depended on peasents to give them their daily supplies and necessaties
 * Gampie Wars** brought great suffering to peasent and farrmlands.Later on created a fuedal system, led by sammuragis to the shogun as their leaders

=SOCIAL LIFE= After centuries of reforms, Buddhist monks were feared and became so powerful in courts and aristocracy Gave up ambition of peasent army and instead bbuilt a militia army World of luxusy and delights Social status and lvoe affairs were very important Women typically the prettiest ones, played flutes wrote poams The **Fujuwanna** with extreme wealth and power and created a financial base for their growing family and also worked along with Buddhmist monks, both expanded their lands and ruled of peasents the **Bushi** or warrioir leaders adminstutred laws, supervised local villages and collected revunue, but could also build their own armies due to a failure in law by the government **Samurais-** were only loyal to local lords not arisitocrats or armyes or high officials Peasents were relied to make goods such as crops silk soybeans and paper =POLITICAL= Central objectives if they've succeeded is to turn Chinas monarch into a complete absolutestly emperor A a genuine professional bureaucratic with a peasant and peasant conscript army in Japan. But the attempts wer as a fail because of the strong resistance of the arisitocracy and Buhhdist orders which dominated both Emperors and capital Made intentiosn for women never to be in cointrol of Japan The emperor banned all pretense of Taika reforms and restored arisitocratic order in family Wrote poeams on fans, wooden unpainted hoses and fish with waterfalls and ponds. the **Bushi** or warrioir leaders adminstutred laws, supervised local villages and collected revunue, but could also build their own armies due to a failure in law by the government **Samurais-** were only loyal to local lords not arisitocrats or armyes or high officials The royal family the **Fujiwama** excercised the influence over imperial affairs shaped family members and imperial policy but kept a smart indea of marrying Emperors or others in the same family, by the 10th century the emperors daughter all 4 of them married emperors Peasents turn to monks for help Praticed strict behavior polices obediance, well manner and behaved.proper way of living.
 * Empreror Kammu** established a new capital at Heian which later was called Kyoto. Buddhist were forbidden to build monasttaires in teh new capital, but buddhist didnt fall for this, they started bulindg their monastries around the new capital
 * Taika reforms**-Were aimed at completely revamping the imperial adminstation amongst imperial lines.
 * Bakufu** was the military government established by the minamoto.

"The four most powerful clans were the [|Minamoto clan], the [|Taira clan], the Fujiwara clan, and the [|Tachibana clan]." =INTERACTIONS= 645-710 Taika Nara 710-784 Heian 794-857 These dates concluded Japan borrowing from China peaked the power and development in Japan amonst the elites and the courttowns

=RELIGION= Japanese arisitocrats struggled to master confuscian ways.worshiped in Chinese temples and admireded Buddhism art in subject matter and technique Buddhist peopel had at one point the highest power and controlled pretty much all of Japan and became so powerful they buuild monastries over all land to expand their religon.
 * //__Kami__//** or nature spirits, peasents looked to Buddhism monks for help or a sickness.

=INTELLECTUAL= Used the poetic works from both Japan and China and created a much simplier language for capitabple people of Japan The tale of Gengi shoguns were military leaders as as Hojo dominated the regime Fuedal system began to devlop because of the Bakufu Devloped advancemnts in techonology

=TECHNOLOGY=

Japan during the Tang & song dynasty played an important role durig both eras. **Monks** began to take a huge role in Japan becoming one of the most powerful groups in Japan, as everyone turned to them for needs as they became the highest power as the Emperors as, highclass families began to fight for their power back in gaining more higher in their social class. With strong burcratic start in bagan to slowly fade as Japan started to divide and the **__peasent__** class nearly shrunk into hundreds of peasents and rulers called teh **daimyos**.as their economy went down. With **Sammurais** keeping order all was lost and the governemtn slowly was declinging. Even with Monks devloping more temples and building over other cities to gain more conversion such as **Taiki reforms**, both monks and aristocrats also gained more power in political but failed in gaining power from the local lords. Peasents were also lviing a sad life, with lots of troubles of killings serving and robbing from their own gorvernmnt or military, with hopeless revolts and suffering of the people was also brought the gorvenment down since they relied on peasents for service and.even with the **Gampei wars** taking place.

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Chinas influence of Japan during the 7th and 8th century was effected japan greatly by Japan mimmicking how chinas govrnemnt was run such as the Takia reforms and turning Japan into a mini China