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A 5 page research paper that examines the area of commonality between Japan and China. Due to the influx of Chinese culture into Japan in the fifth and sixth centuries, these two ancient cultures share quite a few characteristics in common. However, even though the Japanese borrowed quite a bit culturally from the Chinese, it is characteristic of this people that whatever they appropriate, they transmute into something new and truly Japanese in its conception. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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few characteristics in common. However, even though the Japanese borrowed quite a bit culturally from the Chinese, it is characteristic of this people that whatever they appropriate, they transmute into
something new and truly Japanese in its conception. Nevertheless, it is true that the Japanese had no written history or literature until the method of writing devised by the
Chinese infiltrated into Japan via Korea sometime around the fourth or fifth centuries (Hane15). The first existing Japanese written works, the "Kojiki" and the "Nihongi" were compiled in the
670s and completed sometime around the eighth century (Hane 15). These "histories," which include stories of the imperial ancestors descent from heaven, have been treated in the past in
Japan as authentic accounts by national historians although they are based primarily on oral traditions (Hane 15). It is believed by scholars that the compilers were intentionally trying to glorify
the imperial ruling house (Hane 16). An important literary work of the eighth century is the "Manyoshu," a collection of over four thousand poems that have been critically regarded as
"expressions of pure Japanese sentiment in the time before Confucian moralism influenced Japanese literature" (Hane 16). Nevertheless, as time went on, the Chinese cultural influence continued to
increase. Efforts to compose poetry became quite popular and Tang poets such as Li Po, Tu Fu and Po Chu-li were emulated (Hane 16). A Japanese phonetic writing system
(kana) developed, at least partially as a response to assert the indigenous traditions of Japan against an excessive dependence on Chinese culture (Hane 16). One of the most extraordinary literary
creations of the Heian period was written by a lady-in-waiting to Empress Akiko named Murasaki Shikibu (978-1016?) (Hane 16). Her creation was entitled "The Tale of Genji,"
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