Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, 550–1500 CE
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Having thin lines or bands.

A social system in which the mother is head of the family.

A very small blade made of flaked stone and used as a tool, especially in the Mesolithic era.

Amount negotiated between the family of the groom and the family of the bride to be paid by the former to the latter in some marriage traditions, as compensation for the loss of her labor.

The government, rule, or office of a shogun.

Traditional alcoholic drink brewed from rice.

Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line.

A system of written symbols representing the sounds of syllables, rather than individual consonants and vowels.

Korean phonetic script, introduced in the middle of the fifteenth century.

Japan's indigenous religion, which emphasizes reverence for nature and the importance of "vitality".

The chief military official of Japan. The office was hereditary under the Tokugawa family from 1603 until 1867.

School of Buddhism in which adherents follow an experienced master and seek to achieve satori, a flash of enlightenment signaling the recovery of one's Buddha nature.

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