What were the political effects of Japan's isolation during the ninth to twelfth centuries?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Political effects of Japan's isolation
1. Japan rulers had formerly tried to make a virtue of isolation
2. Japanese rulers were fearful of losing migrants to richer regions and apprehensive of Chinese power
a. suspended diplomacy and trade with China in 838 and with Korea nearly a century later
b. permission to trade abroad was hard to obtain
3. self-sufficiency remained the object of government policy
4. literature of the tenth and eleventh centuries focuses on a narrow, closed court society in a narrow, closed country
5. vices of a faction-ridden system
a. Fujiwara no Michinaga, who manipulated the political system by marrying his womenfolk into the imperial family and providing an effective bureaucracy from his own household
b. emperors were so preoccupied with ritual duties that the only way they could bid for power was by abdicating and attempting to control their heirs
6. overseas contacts were difficult, the surrounding seas daunting
a. Japan's isolation never shut out Chinese cultural influence
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