Earthquakes
Disasters
- Many earthquakes
- they built their buildings with wood and paper so they flexed with the quakes and didn't get destroyed
Floods
- Rivers flood a lot because they flow rapidly and overflow
- A lot of flood damage
- There was a typhoon season
- When the mongols tried to attack, they were scattered by typhoons so the japanese believed that they were divine winds
Volcanoes
- Many of the mountain ranges were volcanic
- Mt. Fuji
- highest volcano and highest point in japan
- beautiful and symmetrical
- considered a holy mountain
Cherry Trees
Four Main Islands
Honshu
Hokkaido
- Largest of the four islands
- 2nd largest of the four islands
- Many mountain ranges-some volcanic
- In the northernmost part of japan
- Has a cooler climate than the rest of japan
- In the sub-frigid zone
- Vegetation differs from the rest of japan
- Also called hanami
- hana = flower
- mi = see
- cherry blossoms were a symbol of the samurai code
- cherry blossoms were used to forecast how the crops would do in the upcoming year
- there were hanami parties and cherry blossom festivals
Kyushu
Shikoku
- 3rd largest island
- Has many hot springs
- Many mountains and mountain ranges
- 4th largest of the four islands
- divided into four section
- shi = four
- koku = region
- considered remote from the rest of japan
- least visited part of japan
Geography of Feudal Japan
Miriam Orlansky and Esti Frank
Tokyo
Climate
- Capital of japan
- largest city in japan
Seasons
Temperate Zone
- Four distinct seasons
- 3 of them have heavy precipitation
- 1st = heavy snow
- 2nd = heavy rains
- 3rd = typhoons
Typhoon = a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.