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| Attempt to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. | ||
| Japanese city later called Kyoto built to escape influence of Buddhist monks. | ||
| Written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language evidence for mannered style of Japanese society. | ||
| Mid-9th-century Japanese aristocratic family; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | ||
| Mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to local lords, not the emperor. | ||
| Ritual suicide in Japan; also known as hari-jiri; demonstrated courage and was a means to restore fmaily honor. | ||
| Military government established by the Minamoto after the Gumpei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai. | ||
| Military leaders of the bakufu. | ||
| A warrior family closely allied with the Minamoto; dominated the Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers; ruled in name of emperor. | ||
| Member of Minamoto family; overthrew Kamakura regime and established Ashikaga Shogunate; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino. | ||
| Warlord rulers of small states following Onin War and disruption of Ashikaga Shohunate; holding consolidated into unified and bounded ministates. | ||
| Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by the Han in 109BCE. | ||
| Extensive adaption of Chinese culture in other regions. | ||
| Korean kingdom in the Southeast; became a vassal of the Tang and paid tribute; ruled Korea from 668. | ||
| Korean dynasty; succeeded Koryo dynasty after Mongol invasions; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence. | ||
| Leaders of a rebellion in Vietnam against Chinese rule in 39CE demonstrates importance of women in Vietnamese society. | ||
| Indianized Vietnamese peoples defeated by Northern government at Hanoi. | ||
| Southern Vietnamese dynasty with Capital at Hue that challenged northern Trinh dynasty with center at Hanoi. | ||
| Nature spirits of Japan | ||
| Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | ||
| Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government in 12th century Japan. | ||
| System in which people surrounding China sent emissaries who offered tribute to the Chinese emperor and acknowledge the superiority of the emperor and China. | ||
| Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi; rivals of Nguyen family in South. |
