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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

Typhoons

  • 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
  • Divided into 5 sections
  • 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
  • Hot
  • Humid conditions

Typhoon = a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.

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