Japan

__**Definitions**__ Metropolis: a large, important city of a country or region, japan had 3 metropolises: 1. Edo: Japan's city of government 2. Kyoto: Japan's city for production 3. Osaka: Japan's city for trading __**Japan Popular Culture**__
 * Japan is really cool and is located in a fire ring.**
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 * Japan is a small island that has a huge mountainous region and was isolated for over 250 years. Japan is also part of the ring of fire.it has four main cities, its most populated and its capital is Tokyo. cities: Tokyo, Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu. The popular culture in Japan drastically changed during isolation. As more artisans and merchants moved to the bigger towns, the merchant class grew and became more wealthy. They then began to desire more luxuries and more expensive items. This is how the different types of theatres came about.**

Japan has a lagre diverse population. Many japanese people don't know English and have to attend special classes to learn it. Japanese language is written from top to bottom in a vertical line and has MANY alphabets. __**Kabuki Theatre**__

A type of play performed by nonhumans Females couldn't perform. People belived that females corrupted the theatre.



__**Banraku Theatre**__ -Traditional puppet theatre -No females could perform. -the famous performers were treated like how movie stars are treated today.



__**Geishas**__ Guys and girls i've been trying to upload an awesome video about geishas but its length is exeeding the limits. So i put in the link instead. the video is from a movie called //Memoires Of A Geisha//. So enjoy!! []

Geishas were women who worked in entertainment business. They were concidered non-human

__**Woodblock Prints**__ -copies of paintings using carved blocks of wood.

__**Ihara Saikaku**__

Famouse japanese writer who wrote fictional stories. Mostly for the commoners.



__**Japanese Gardens**__ Japanese gardens are very protected as they have statues and structures that make them very sacred to the japanese culture.



A castel in japan: