Culture of Japan

Answer the following five questions using information from the textbook, lecture videos, and Weekly Discussions (if you use your classmates’ answers, make sure to read the teacher’s comment on the answer).  Do not use outside resources (such as Wikipedia and Google).   If Turnitin says that your plagiarism rate is high, your score will be 0pts. When you write the paper, do not copy the questions, because it raises your plagiarism number higher. Just write question numbers, 1-5. (Turnitin also checks your grammar. Please fix grammatical errors before you submit the paper.   Each question’s full point is 3 points. 3 pts x 5 questions= 15 pts total. Each question will be graded as follows.  Quantity: Minimum 7 sentences (can be longer) and no grammar mistakes: 1pt (0-1pt depending on the quality) Contents: Answered all the questions correctly and information comes from the textbooks or the lecture videos or Weekly Discussion: 1pt (0-1pt depending on the quality) Keyword Use: Use all the keywords correctly. Please mark the keywords (underline, bold or different color).: 1pt (0-1pt depending on the quality) The deadline is Dec. 14th. As stated in the syllabus, the final grade (total score for the whole semester) will not be round up. If your total score is 89.9%, it is still B. Not negotiable. Please check your final paper very carefully before you submit.) Why did so many female writers write great literature at this time of history (=Heian Period or 794-1185) (History 2) Keywords: Kana, emperor’s marriage style, Tale of Genji, Pillow Book Before the Heian Period, the Japanese only had a spoken language. Official documents were written in Chinese and male aristocrats could read and write the Chinese language and some could even understand and speak it, too. But the written language was a privilege reserved for men, and women were not supposed to use this foreign language. Even if a woman knew Chinese, was not supposed to demonstrate knowledge of it in public. Around this time, however, the original Japanese phonetic symbols, or kana, were invented. Women could write down what they said and thought freely. Most female writers were courtiers and served the emperor’s wives in the palace. Back then, the emperor had many wives, and each wife had her own salon with many female aristocratic companions. Their job was to make the salon lively and intellectual so as to attract the emperor’s visits as often as possible. The author of the Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, and the author of the Pillow Book, Sei Sh?nagon, was the most famous examples of these types of “companion” writers.     1. Why do so many Japanese people go to Shint? shrines regularly but don’t consider themselves to be adherents to Shinto? (History 1) Keywords: Yamato court, mythology, emperor, purification, kami   2. How Japan communicates with the outside world during the Edo era. Which Edo culture do modern Japanese enjoy today? (History 4) Keywords: Christianity, Dutch(Netherland), Spain, Portugal, Bash?, Hokusai   3. What is the Japanese ie-system and how does it influence today’s Japanese culture?  (Culture 1) Keywords: butsudan, family registry system, uchi/soto, yome, ageru/kureru   4. Describe what happens in uchi or Japanese inner circle? (Culture 2) Keywords: ama’e, KY, wa, namaiki, kangaete okimasu, en’ryo   5. What is the difference between the particles wa and ga? (Culture 3) Keywords: speaker, listener, falkloretales, stage, implication