Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History

The achievements of the Heian period were primarily

• economic

• agricultural

• artistic

• militaristic

What was the title of Japan's first great novel and who was the author?

• • Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

• The Silent Cry  by Kenzaburo Oe

• The Tale of the Genji by Muraski Shikibu

• Kokoro  by Natsume Soseki

The Japanese were had a craze for all things Chinese, but it was for the time period during the ____________ era which had occurred a couple of hundred years earlier.

• Song

• Yuan

• Tang

• Han

What was the capital of Japan during this period?

• Nanjing

• Heian-kyo

• Edo

• Tokyo

How did the standing of elite women in Heian Japan compare to the standing of elite women in medieval Europe?

• • Women did not have any kind of power in Europe nor Heian Japan.

• • Women did not have any kind of power in Europe nor Heian Japan.

• • Heian women had economic and artistic power that women in Europe did not.

• • Women in both Europe and Heian Japan had enormous economic and artistic power.

Heian culture is related to us more through _________________  than most any other period.

• women

• children

• peasants

• men

What legal right did women have during the Heian Period (click the ones that apply)?

• • They were protected from physical violence (ex. husband prohibited from beating his wife)

• • They were able to leave anytime they pleased.

• • They were the only ones who could be elected to political positions.

• • They could have income from property.

Even thought women had more rights, the society was still a

• Matriarchy

• Patriarchy

The Heian Period in Japan was successfully politically, economically and artistically. (True or False)

• False

• True

Literature during the Heian focused on

• generals and kings

• the political maneuvering of the ruling class

• the loves and lives of the aristocracy

• the work and daily toil of the peasants