during this period of buddhism was introduced to Japan to create statesman
who brought along with them
Chinese practices this was encouraged by devout leaders and led to major reforms
and government and education
the new religion spurred the creation of a number of very important Buddhist
temples among the missing today D temple let's take a closer look
picking up from the last video after the clarence spot amongst themselves the
Young Turk lana kane done it and imperial court was that up with the
royal family at the center has legitimized by the belief that their
descendants of these things goddess who is a supreme tidy and the Shinto
religion the warrior clans who did it the young talking and during the wars
were given hereditary positions a court land outside of the Yamato were divided
into provinces and they were already thinking about his aristocratic clan
they ruled moralist autonomously and kept a large portion of their revenues
for themselves although the house was technically the focus of government they
were relatively poor and powerless the imperial court needed some restructuring
this period as defined by an accelerated adoption of Chinese culture and they
looked Chinese imperial government as a model for the new government structure
and 618 the tone in his deal was established in China beginning and
almost three hundred year reign that is often considered to be the grace period
of a capital with the whole of Asia often compared to Rome's role in the
Mediterranean with access to the Silk Road and influence over neighboring
countries people many different cultures gathered at the Capitol making it a
cultural hub not found anywhere else in the late first millennium BCE you can
certainly not the only ones who highly regarded Tom Tanner and they were
interested in Chinese administration of Medicine function Confucianism and
writing active exchanges with China prompted major political educational and
ethical reform
this credit to parents first constitution based on completion with
new techniques and technologies and building and casting battles there was a
greater knowledge for more sophisticated architecture and sculpture new
techniques and ideas and media and writing led to more developed painting
decorative art music literature calligraphy and poetry but Chinese
imperial system was a bureaucracy officials with the Emperor the center
poses were administered by governors and officials appointed from this
bureaucracy but they could be made and recalled according to their decision so
the power remained at the Capitol and the revenue gathered in the provinces we
go back into the coffers it took almost a century for Japan's first major step
towards this massive restructuring to key reformers were so good and oh my god
oh no she more commonly known as children took a prince of the Imperial
House the smoker klimer said have descended from a noble of clean picture
in the fifth century they were ambitious gaining favor a family but were unable
to hold any of the hereditary condition
therefore they had a lot to gain with abolishment of the old government
structure replacing it with their point accuracy in 587 and the silver clan
engage in open battle against those who oppose the restructuring however it
wasn't until 6:45 with a tight or great reforms that form of restructuring of
both the Imperial and provincial government with laid out in the Japanese
adoption of the Chinese temple it the credit crunch required to live in close
proximity to the imperial power to serve the Emperor court rather than staying
and their provincial strongholds the reform furthered essentially they should
have imperial power lines were nationalized the new taxes began to flow
through the central government officials who served during this bureaucracy were
drawn from aristocratic lands and trained at a university near the
imperial court could I fuck you go there they were taught Chinese Confucian
classics in the Chinese language however the transformation of the way
would be governed will not be complete till 794 during the Heian period
speaking of keeping them near the imperial court let's talk about where
exactly in that way they want it and you
permanent imperial capital there would be modeled on the yep you guessed it
Chinese child on capitol a first attempt to maintain 694 with Mikey always in the
ASCA Ali neatly laid out in a grid plan the palace grounds at the heart of the
city was surrounded by the southern gate opens to a great courtyard with a great
audience hot the other and know that was the imperial residence the city also
encompassed several buddhist temples that had been founded before the city
was constructed including US Canada their first group but its foundation
completed in 588 the capital is not used for various and with abandon and only
sixteen years that the move was encouraged by an increased population
and an almost identical plan was built 13 miles to the north
cause haze your this period is known by hijos present man now that divided up
the city where larger and more spaced apart than they were in Fujiwara and the
palestine closure was at the center of the northern perimeter as the Imperial
Palace woman and child shouldn't Buddhist temples were re-established and
the new capital and in our capital was built in the footholds to the east to
accommodate the rebuilt asked and they capitalized it longer than four you had
a cool serving as the capital for 84 years one of the reasons often cited for
the next move is that the government wanted to play some distance between
them . lead and the principles samples that had gained quite a lot of influence
originated in India and sprinted through this road as early as the first or
second countries de according to Chinese historical records introduced to Japan
and 467 during the period however the official introduction of Buddhism to
japan is dated 25 52 and the new home country buddhism have long been
established in China and was officially adopted by some Korean Kingdom while
korean embassies were unsuccessful a contributing buddhism to the japanese
imperial court they did attract the interest of both Michael and Prince sure
talk to the guys who fought to change the government structure yeah those guys
when they gained control of the government
buddhism gained a crucial hold even with a slow start but isn't became more
prominent as it became officially endorsed as an instrument of the state
by rulers accordingly more money I spent to construct a large and elaborate
Buddhist temples over the next century
so tocqueville himself sponsored the building of many temples in the oxide
area including over Z with the support of imperial court there is a great deal
of money invested into building bridges complexes leading to a rich tradition in
Buddhist architecture sculpture and painting killed artists and craftsmen
from China and Korea came to Japan to build temples and sculptures as well as
teach their techniques and aesthetics to local craft known as one of the earliest
examples from the 13th century that still exists today but complex arranged
in the prescribed manner
includes the main worship Hall or the condo meaning blonde and heart and a
five-story pagoda in the condo there is a number of important and art treasures
that are preserved in these walls built territory bushy who followed the
Northway style establish the Tories school's culture to thriving word
attributed to Tori bushy
ask their meeting
early 7th century and the Shocker triad which are the main ones of the golden
Hall of home where she works have been restored over time they retain many of
the original features that I asked direct with his legs crossed and his
right hand in hand gesture which symbolizes but as a parent to grant
tranquility and freedom from fear the left-hander's lowered with the palm
facing upwards a gesture which granting and the promise that Buddhist teachings
either true path to release from suffering the drapery of his closing
sharply defined in regular high school terribly police restored with a long
cylindrical fix his face is strongly geometric and linear with a sharply
defined nose and eyes
depicted as a mass email she'll kill one of the physical symbols that
distinguishes Buddha as the perfected being used in both are called here are
they raised circle but his nose and the cranial pro-children you have that's not
your average man but that's approaching brings both are symbols of his greater
wisdom and understanding that works in the story style includes a cannonball he
thought you meant oh no haha enough all I can hope you get some of them and
Buddhist sculptures
prominent tonk China influence is preserved from the Indian and Central
Asian influences from the stock such as three dimensionality and realism
achieved forms the sculptures and Oscar during this time have a more soft supple
pose and full body that contrasts with the more rigid Tory style and skirts and
scars cling to his body like wet cloth which shows this body underneath the
long road flows over the rectangular throne following an irregular pulled his
left arm is extended to holding a medicine giant has now lost and his
right hand is raised in that tiny and gesture indicating explication
teaching during the knowledge of your YouTube but it becomes increasingly
realistic a massive project that took place during this period was the
construction of the total IgE temple most important commission was the
colossal image of the diet than 180 today as a reconstruction from 1192
canon is an impressive depiction from the Nara period I'll akers' covered in
gold leaf constructed under direction of container tomorrow the sculptures name
meaning canon of dinner and elastin refers to the ability and the strength
of the speaker to lasso being ensnared in delusion and bring them to the safety
of enlightenment a very popular belief that the tenant often depicted as a
female figure and later period but as depicted as a male in earlier works did
I D has an extra eye at the center of the forehead and 82 in front of the
chest in prayer and the other six radiating outwards holding symbols of
this manifestation the lotus blossom of Buddhist wisdom a program staff and arms
are related to an esoteric teaching Japanese Buddhism which will become more
prominent over the next century when the cannon is a halo of metal openwork the
lines represent the golden from the cannons body on his head as a silver
crown with a standing army Buddha from here the manifestation the shoe is a
great example of a more naturalistic style of the second quarter of the 8th
century standing at six feet tall affairs figure and made of painted clay
as a guardian warding off evil spirits with his exaggerated face he is clad in
a colorful Chinese style armor and clutches at Diamond Thunderbolt despite
having both feet planted to the ground there is a great sense of movement and
his posture and floating scars even his army seems silly
popping and large chains and his neck and arms leaves no mystery about his
reign in the late 90 viewed we see a shift in the ER and realism to a more
sober stylized aesthetic the bearish on an actual date he has a large ten-foot
tall sculpture made the hollow Dr lacquer technique and its covered in
gold leaf other fully modeled the figure is more stylized with a full body the
faith is almost
curving upwards and outwards and has been a long reading eyes and eyebrows
almost reached the hairline neck short and thick in contrast the drapery of his
room and delicately follows an irregular full across the torso and lack they
wouldn't have covered with hundreds of tiny seated Buddha and their attended
with you thought emphasizing his position as the universal Buddha the
Nara period due to an end when the imperial capital moved to hand although
the new capital was built along this thing Chinese imperial plan as we do and
he was like them and that is as imperial capital for more than a thousand years
until the embers removal to Tokyo in 1968 video rendering a whole series on
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