Quiz 3 Flashcards
Zen
- Emphasizes the samurai spirit for discipline
- disregard for pain
- accepts disasters in life
Basho
- famous poet during Tokugawa period
* haiku master
Atsumori
- play by Zeami Motokiyo
* focuses on young samurai named Taira who died (part of Heike epic)
Chido
•Zen master who believed being truly awake (enlightened) was different than not sleeping
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
•Japanese dramatist of puppet theater/storytelling famous for double sui use stories between lovers
Dogen
- Zen master who founded Soto school of Zen
* emphasized sitting meditation (zazen)
Genshin
- Scholar of Tendai Buddhism
* Wrote about deathbed rituals for Amida Buddha
Hojoki
- An Account of My Hut
* story by Kamo no Chomei telling of earthquake disasters
Honen
- Founder of first Pure Land branch
* seventh patriarch
Ise Shrine
- Composed of 2 shrines
* inner: Amaterasu & outer: Toyouke
Jodo
- The way of the Jo (wooden staff)
* defense against Japanese sword; martial art
Jodo Shinshu
- School of Pure Land (Shin) Buddhism
* Founded by Shinran; most practiced in Japan
Junichiro Tanizaki
- Japanese writer of sexuality and family dynamics
* Taisho Period
Kaibara Ekken
•Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher who focused on harmonizing with nature; filial piety
Kamo-mo-Chomei
•Japanese author/poet who became a hermit; wrote about natural and social disasters
Kukai
- Monk and scholar, founder of Shingon school of Buddhism
* invented Kana writing system
Motoori Noringa
- Japanese scholar of kokugaku (philosophy of early Japanese classics
- Tokugawa Period
Nembutsu
•Pure Land repitition of Amita Buddha’s name
Nichiren
- Buddhist monk who taught devotion to Lotus Sutra
* Kamakura Period
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Japanese writer; father of short stories
* Taisho Period
Saicho
- Japanese Buddhist monk
- Founder of Tendai school
- believed to be 1st in brining tea to Japan
Shingon
•Buddhist school of thought spread in Japan by Kukai
Shinnyon Kan
- “Contemplation of Suchness”
* new sight to view pigs as enlightened beings; by Genshin
Shinran
- Buddhist monk (Pure Land) student of Honen
* founder of Jodo Shinshu
Shinto
•Japan native tradition revolving around spirits in nature
Tale of Heike
- Epic story of battle between clans (Taira & Minamoto) for control of japan in Genpei War
- passed down orally
Amaterasu
- Sun goddess
* Shinto religion
Tendai
- Mahayana Buddhism school of thought
* buddhahood in all things
Yasukuni Shrine
- In Tokyo, founded by Emperor Meiji
* remembers those who died in service of Empire of Japan
Yasunari Kawabata
•Japanese novelist and short story writer who won Nobel prize in literature (1st Japanese in doing so)
Yukio Mishima
- Actor/ Playwright who lost Nobel prize to Yasunari
* ritual suicide
Zeami Motokiyo
- Actor and playwright
* exiled
