Japanese Art

            Origami is a famous Japanese cultural art. It is both beautiful and unique every time it is made because it is hand-crafted, and different than every other.

Commercial Time

             I made this video with insterted sound that me and my partner used for sword clashes and sheathing. We also used the gutting of a watermelon to simulate death.

Roles in Ancient Japanese Families

            All roles in ancient Japanese families were important. The Mom stayed at home and did the house work and ordered the servants around (if you were rich enough to have a servant). The Dad went shopping and went to work for money. The first born was to grow up to be a scribe or anything else important. The second born would play all day and go to school he would grow up and choose what job he would have then.

Relations to Canada from Japan

            Canada can relate to ancient Japan in many ways. Some include: Trade and Economy, we also celebrate New Years. Some other relative facts about Canada and Japan are: we are close enough to each other to put Europe to shame at how far it is from us here in Canada.

 Japan shut itself out from the world for a long time but with Canada we weren't discovered until Christopher Coloumbus arrived in America in 1492.

Dwellings and Structures

            We are moving to dwellings and structures as in my second post I said I would look into this so here we go. The first and most basic thing you should know about  ancient Japanese structures are that most of the ancient Japanese structures have slanted roofs because of their religion and the souls of the falling dead will slide off the roof. Temples where mostly the same. Most temples were close to the sun. Temples where mostly the same most temples were tall to speak to the gods and some that weren't where quiet because public would go there for mass and Japanese religious events (like prayer and new year). Gazeebos were used to relax in ones backyard or celebrate a friends death or party.

Japanese Transportation

            There where many forms of Japanese transportation in ancient times. An example is a boat or a

Horse-drawn cart as another. Many men in the Japanese armies rode Horses, as shown above.

Japanese Yamato Dynasty

            The Yamato dynasty was the biggest and longest dynasty ever. It still is in process today. It does not have ninja and samurai, but they have guns and the modern weapons and some of the same ancient cultures and farming. Many people still use Katanas for cultural reasons. It started many years ago when the son of Susanoo had a kingdom with lots of wars and Amateratsu's oldest son took over. Amateratsu's son was the first Yamato king.

Japanese Symbols Language

            One big thing in Japan is the symbols, because the symbols are their writing. That was modern day, but the old symbols can be very different, "hiragana" is what some old writing style was called. It is interesting that two, but only two were removed from hiragana, though the rest remain. Another anceint way of writing is "katakana," used for buddhist scripture.in this style there are two no longer used either. Japanese is 日本語 in Japanese and ニホン語 is "Nihon language".

Japanese Farming and food.

            Farming was pretty hard being on the sea since they got flooded every few months or so and they would have to do it all over again so they would plant rice and wheat to make dumplings and they would kill animals to feed. The royalty had many of the more expensive foods like noodles and dumplings and fish and rice and rice cakes. But the money was totally different from Euros or Paysos or Dollars they had there own unique type of money they where called yen they had 10 yen 100 yen and maybe a 1000 yen. Some farmers relyed on gardens to live to sell rope and string and plants of all sorts like oregano. Many people relied on farmers to provide food just like farmers rely on them selves to provide food for their families. Some went wrong and poisoned somepeople and where either exiled or killed. The farmers where under a lot of pressure because they had to provide the next used source of food to fish. Now to talk about fish. There was a very special Japanese dish it was a poison pufferfish that people would eat to prove their bravery. But many died because of it. If the chefs cut the liver wrong the eater would die and the chef would have no honour for killing the person so he might commit harry carry.

Samurai the warrior and artist of old

            Samurai where the knights of Japan. They where controled by the Shogunates who where under the Emperor of all of Japan. The Emperor counted on his Shogunates to control the land like the generals we use today. the Samurai where used to keep the peace against rebels who did not like the way the country was run. the early Samuri armour was like a big cardboard box with arm holes and metal plates with a helmet on top. the next type of armour was suitable for horseback combat but still protected from harmful things. then the best armour of all was designed. the Samurai armour with a mask and plates of metal had a sword because the earlier models of armour had boe staffs as weapons instead only high classes had swords at the time. allthough Samurai where soldiers they where also artists. With their spare time, some would paint, some would dance, some would sing, and some would make hiaku poems. This is an example of a hiaku:

As the wind does blow

 Across the trees, I see the

 Buds blooming in May.

a hiaku is a poem that does not have to rhyme but it must have 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

Some Samurai would also make zen gardens which where used for serenity and peace. A zen garden consists of sand and stone made into nice desgins they where carefully raked to look like the sea.

Japanese folklore

            Myths also swayed the Japanese people to religions, myths, stories and legends. one legened tells how the emperors came to earth: many years ago the godess Amateratsu got given the sun to rule over. Her brother Susanoo the god of the sea was jealous that his sister had gotten that much land to rule over that he went into a rage. He stormed the sky and the war lasted many days. Finnaly he was forced to reatreat. He went down to earth and was wandering around when he met a family. The family was made up of three people, one was a mother, another was a father, and the last was a beautiful girl. He noticed they were crying so he asked them what was wrong. The girl answered "A demonic serpent ate my sisters and is coming back for me!" so he told them that he would help on one condition. He had the girls hand in marrige. The family agreed and he turned the girl into a comb and put the comb in his hair. then he set off for the serpents lair and the serpent popped out but Susanoo was powerful and he took it down in a single blow. But he found a magical sword in the serpent's stomach which he sent to his sister. He turned the girl back into a girl and they got married and had many kids one of which was to rule over the flatlands. But there were many wars and Amateratsu thought that Susanoo's kid wasn't fit to rule. so her grandson was given two gifts the sword Susanoo found and Amateratu's hankerchief. So he got the rule called Yamato. Susanoo was given the night and the two never meet because of their old quarrel.

Tools from Japan

            Ok, time to get further into Japan. Ancient japanese tools include: Kunia (throwing knifes), many stone carving tools, Shuriken (moon star, ninja star etc.), Yari Kanna, Dolabra (most deadly weapon in japan), Kotobukiya (authentic chopsticks), Khukri house,  and Kirkidashi. Other tools include: Honzukuri, Katana, and Kama.

Facts about Japan

            The first and most basic thing you should know is that Japan is in Asia. We are from Canada which is on the other side of the world from Japan. Here are a few things we will look into about Japanese art, such as: pottery, statues, Zen gardens, and Hiaku. Here are things I will also look into about dwellings and structures: roofs, temples, palaces, Gazeebos, and Pagodas.

My first day

            Hi, I'm Rarereaper, this is my first blog hope so I hope you enjoy it, I put a lot of effort in it.