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Historical Background 10000 BCE Earliest known pottery vessels made in Honshu 660 BCE Jimmutenno Divine Warrior Emperor is the legendary first human emperor of Japan 500 BCE Rice cultivation spreads to Japan from China ID: 809253

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Slide1

Japanese Mythology

Textbook pg. 110

Slide2

Historical Background

10,000 BCE – Earliest known pottery vessels made in Honshu

660 BCE –

Jimmu-tenno

(“Divine Warrior Emperor”) is the legendary first human emperor of Japan

500 BCE – Rice cultivation spreads to Japan from China

57 CE – Ambassador from king of Nu is recognized by China’s Han emperor.

247 CE – Civil war between rival kingdoms tears Japan into regional powers.

260 CE – Temple of

Amaterasu

founded in

Ise

, the most sacred and revered shrine of the Shinto religion.

Slide3

History Cont.

478 CE – First Shinto shrine appears

538 CE – Buddhism reaches Japan via China and Korea

592 CE – Conflict between clans over Buddhism and local deities leads to execution of the emperor.

685 CE – Buddhism becomes state religion of Japan

741 CE – Buddhist temples are established throughout the land by government decree.

January 1, 1946 CE – Emperor Hirohito denied in own divinity thus ending the official state Shinto.

Slide4

Shinto

Shinto means “way of the gods.”

No written record of Shinto’s origin exists.

Shinto is the acknowledgement of the force of the gods, known as

Kami

.

Applied to such processes as creativity, disease, growth, and healing.

Emphasized rituals over philosophy.

Pays little mind to life after death.

State religion from 1872-1945

Slide5

Shinto Cont.

Shinto emphasized rigorous moral standards of honesty, kindness, and respect for one’s elders and superiors.

According to Shinto mythology, the sun goddess

Amaterasu

was the ancestor to Japan’s imperial family.

In the late 1800s, the Japanese government invented state Shinto, which stressed patriotism and the divine origins of the Japanese Emperor.

After World War II, the emperor denied that he was divine thus abolishing the state Shinto.

Slide6

Creation Myth

Before there was heaven and earth, there was darkness.

In the midst of this darkness was a swirling mass in the shape of an enormous egg (or jellyfish depending on the translation) that contained all things.

Over the centuries the lighter and purer part drew itself away from the heavier, denser part.

The heavy material (IN or Yin) settled to form the earth.

The lighter rose to form the Heavens (YO or Yang)

Slide7

Primal Couple

IN (feminine) and YO (masculine) were opposites, but one could not exist without the other, because all things in the world have the properties of one of these two forces.

From the separation of IN and YO the first beings appeared,

Izanagi

(“The August Male”) and his sister

Izanami

(“The August Female”).

Slide8

Creation of the World

Izanagi

and

Izanami

found themselves on the floating bridge of heaven and peered down into the darkness below.

Below them was only water, so

Izanagi

thrust his jewel-tipped spear into the waters and when he drew it up again the drips of water formed the island of

Onogoro

(“Created Land”).

The two gods descended to this island to live as husband and wife and to build the lands together.

Slide9

Ancient Sex Ed.

Izanami

, the IN force, believe that there was a part of her body that was empty.

Izanagi

, the YO force, believe that there was a part of his body that was too much.

Therefore they completed each other and became one as husband and wife.

Their first children were seven islands, which together with the island already created formed the “Great Eight Island Country” (Japan).

Slide10

Offspring

Izanami

gave birth to the sun goddess,

Amaterasu

, who was so radiant that they sent her to rule in heaven.

The next child,

Tsuki-Yomi

, (The Moon god) was made to be

Amaterasu’s

consort and to rule by her side in heaven,

Izanagi

and

Izanami

had several other children who became gods or the elements but not much is documented about them.

Izanami’s

last child,

Homusubi

, was the god of fired and burned

Izanami’s

genitals so badly that she fell sick and died.

Izanami

was taken to the underworld (

Yomi

), while

Izanagi

left all of their children and grew old on a lonely far away island.

Slide11

Yomi: Land of Darkness

Yomi

was the Japanese equivalent to the underworld.

Dead bodies were placed in stone-lined tombs with boulders or rocks sealing the entrance.

The idea was once the soul of the departed ate the food of the underworld, they became part of the underworld in the form of a demon and the tomb sealed them up away from the living.

Slide12

Amaterasu

Most significant deity.

Goddess of the sun.

Drove away evil force with her heavenly light.

Believed to be the ancestor of

Jimmu

, the legendary first emperor of Japan.

This perpetuated the belief that the Japanese emperors were themselves divine.

Slide13

Benten

Goddess of luck and wealth

Also associated with music and elegance.

Painfully shy

Married a dragon prince from the dragon people that surrounded Japan.

Dragon is revolting but she married him out of a sense of duty.

Slide14

Hachiman

God of War

Protector of the nation of Japan, and the guardian of children.

Over a third of the shrines in Japan were dedicated to

Hachiman

.

Slide15

Inari

God of rice and farmers

Often depicted on a sack of rice and flanked by two foxes who are his messengers.

Generous god.

Oversees wealth and merchants

Slide16

O-Kuni

-

Nushi

God of Medicine and Sorcery

Invented medicine and healing and passed it on to humanity.

Knows everything that is happening in the world.

Slide17

O-Wata

-

Tsumi

God of the Sea

Often depicted as a dragon

Considered to also be an ancestor of Japan’s first legendary emperor,

Jimmu

.

Slide18

Susano

God of Storms

Divine embodiment of Disorder

Sometimes took the form of a dragon to create disorder and chaos.

Thought to be inspiration for the classic movie monster, Godzilla.

Slide19

Tsuki-Yomi

God of the moon

Entrusted with the realms of the night.

Guardian of the dead.

Yomi

,

Japanese underworld, is in his name.

Slide20

Uke-Mochi

Goddess of Food

Food spewed from his mouth constantly.

Associated with the harvest and the hunt.

Slide21

Demons

Those who sin in Japanese mythology are sent to

Jigoku

, the Japanese hell.

Souls trapped in

Jigoku

are transformed into

Oni

.

Oni

are demons that are responsible for all sorts of misery, including disease and famine.

Oni

are also capable of stealing souls of the living and possessing innocent people.