Japan (before 17th century)

Question 1

Nara period 710-794 CE

Answer 1

Bogaku con’t

Question 2

Heian period 794-1185

Answer 2

Lot’s of culteral developments
samurai increase power and become dominant social class
- shogan

shift cultural taste (broadly from elegant to brash)

DENGAKO (closly related to Shinto)
animism
argriculture / harvesting

SARUGAKO- pantomime acrobatics magic

Question 3

Dengaku performance

Answer 3

• political turmoiil (considered dangerous and shocking) mass hysteria

DENGAKO performance (closly related to Shinto)
animism
argriculture / harvesting/ fertility

dengaku madness
in between forms of being wearing wrong clothing, behavig illegally, inapproprate, dance naked in the street

shinto religion

unbridled fermale power from fertility