east asia vocab
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- usurp
- illegally take over the throne
- tributary state
- while these states remain independent, their rulers have to acknowledge another country's supremacy and send regular tributes to the emperor
- land reform
- braking up large agricultural holdings and redistributing them to peasants
- gentry
- wealthy landowning class
- pagoda
- a multi-storied temple with eaves that curve up at the corners
- celadon
- a porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze
- hangul
- an alphabet using symbols to represent the sounds of spoken korean
- literacy state
- percentage of people who can read and write
- archipelago
- chain of islands
- tsunami
- killer tidal waves
- selective borrowing
- keeping some traditions from other cultures but discarding or modifying others
- kana
- phonetic symbols representing syllables
- shogun
- supreme military commander
- daimyo
- vassal lords who agreed to support the shogun with their armies in time of need
- samurai
- lesser warriors "those who serve" fighting aristocracy of a war torn land
- bushido
- "Way of the warrior" code of values for samurai emphasized honor, bravery, and absolute loyalty to ones lord
- kabuki
- form of drama that was based on No plays but included comedy or melodrama
- bunraku
- puppet plays that catered to popular middle class tastes
- haiku
- mini poems with 17 syllables 5-7-5