L E C T U R E 11 - SINO CENTRISM AND ITS JAPANESE CHALLENGES

Question 1

Manchu-Han Imperial Feast 满汉全席 1720

Answer 1

Giant feast to bring together Han and Manchu

Camel hump, gorilla lips, bear paw, monkey brains

Inhumane

Question 2

Stewards

Answer 2

to ensure dishes for emperor were “balanced

Question 3

Harmony of the Five Flavours

Answer 3

create harmonious dish

Question 4

Butchers, Cooks, and Stewards

Answer 4

Rags to riches

Question 5

Sankin kotai

Answer 5

military service to the shogun

daiymo’s wife and kids would reside in edo (hostage)

moved daiymos so they can’t plot against shogun

Question 6

Development of Castle Towns

Answer 6

Separation of samurai and commoners

Question 7

Dejima

Answer 7

island where Dutch resided on

only Europeans in Japan

Question 8

National Learning Kokugaku 国学

Answer 8

studying the past

Question 9

Reasons for kokugaku’s emergence

Answer 9

1. Closed country policy
2. Growth of private schools
   - Competition for students
3. Urbanization and popular culture
   - Interest in culture that was once the preserve of the elite

Question 10

Man’yōshū

Answer 10

Poems

Question 11

Motoori Norinaga

Answer 11

one of the greatest Japanese scholars

Coined the term mono no aware 物の哀れ
“A sensitivity to things”

Question 12

Amaterasu

Answer 12

Sun God

Question 13

Sugita Genpaku

Answer 13

Japanese physician

Outcast does the dissections

Question 14

Rangaku 蘭学

Answer 14

Dutch Learning

Question 15

Dutch

Answer 15

brings telescope in Japan

resides on Dejima

only european to live in japan

Question 16

Copernicus and Amaterasu

Answer 16

Earth revolves around the sun, sun is at the centre of the universe