Japanese History Exam Preparation

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This paper discusses the responses to three thematic posed questions on the origins of Japanese bureaucracy, the arrival of the warrior as symbol of legitimate political authority, and the significance of the Onin War. Together, these responses show important gaps between an imperial center and life in the provinces, Buddhist elite culture and Shinto popular culture; a formal shogunate versus local warlords/armies, and what must have seem a forever week imperial civil/divine power, and an effective martial power, in the same society.

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"Question I. The production of an imperial Japanese bureaucracy owed to changes from kofun Japan's clans in the provinces, and the Nara period's establishment of an imperial capital removed from rural areas. The rise of bureaucracy is often associated with the Nara period but one sees that its development was a longer process that continued past the Nara period. In 710 AD, Nara was the capital but the imperial residence moved to Kyoto in 794, where it remained until 1868. In the 10th century, the emperors disappeared from the public, leaving administration to others. "

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