The reforms of 646 represented the culmination of centuries of Japanese borrowing from China and attempted to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolute ruler.
was the Japanese capital later called Kyoto.
Written by Lady Murasaki, the was the first Japanese novel.
The were aristocratic Japanese of the ninth century who exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs.
Regional warriors in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses were called .
The mounted troops of the bushi, the were loyal to local lords rather than the emperor.
The ritual suicide practiced by defeated Japanese warriors was called or hara-kiri.
The Wars were waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu between the Taira and Minamoto families.
The military government established by the Minamoto following their defeat of the Taira was called the .
were military leaders of the military government established by the Minamoto.
A Japanese warrior family who dominated the Kamakura regime, the claimed to rule in the name of the emperor.
A member of the Minamoto family, overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336 to 1573.
A full-scale civil war was fought between rival heirs of the between 1467 and 1477.
The were warlord rulers of three hundred small states established following the disruption of the Ashikaga Shogunate.
The earliest kingdom in Korea, was conquered by the Han emperor Wudi in 109 B.C.E.
The tribe of northern Korea established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the Korean peninsula.
is the extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regionshorizontalparticularly in Japan and Korea.
A kingdom in southeastern Korea, allied with the Tang emperors of China to defeat their Korean rivals.
Ritual bows introduced from China and indicating submissiveness and deference were referred to as .
The first dynasty of the kingdom of Silla was the dynasty.
The Korean dynasty that succeeded the Koryo dynasty following the Mongol invasions was the dynasty.
The sisters led one of the frequent peasant rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule in 39 C.E.
The dynasty was the first independent Vietnamese dynasty following the disruption of the Chinese political control of southeast Asia, but continued to adopt Chinese cultural patterns.
The Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese who moved into the Mekong delta region at the time of the Vietnamese drive to the south were the .
The Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese who lived along the lowland areas along the coast and who were driven into the highlands were the .
The Hanoi-based dynasty of the north that ruled during the period of Vietnamese expansion were the .
The dynasty that emerged in the frontier areas of south Vietnam and who challenged the Hanoi-based dynasty was the .
The capital of the southern dynasty in Vietnam was located at .
