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The Fall of the Eleventh
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The Fall of the Eleventh
Today if at all possible, but please discuss that story in its thread. We don't want to detract from Tycho's storytelling.
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Despite the standard of the original, polytheistic religion of the Japanese with it's wide range and cast of gods, the rise of a few monotheistic sects led to the rise of the pockets of the Kuroyama no shimo be, or the Black Mountain worshipers. The Burakkumaunten no shimo be, as they were commonly known, worshiped Mount Fuji, the giant volcano that takes up a nice portion of the Japanese landscape. Around the times when the Burakkumaunten no shimo be, were most active, the mountain would erupt periodically, and great flows of lava and molten stone would pour down the hill, to solidify and turn into a fine, glossy, glassy material that gave the mountain a blackish appearance. The Kuroyama no shimo be worshiped at the base of the mountain, and when it was not erupting, would go to the open lip at the top of the mountain and hold funeral services for the dead members of their religion. After incantations and last rights, the bodies, wrapped in linen, would be tossed into the crater to be cremated by the raging molten fire.
While the Kuroyama no shimo be were mostly peaceful, they could often clash with the traditionalists of the standard Japanese religion. Sometimes, entire towns would feud, and only intervention by the Emperor and his troops would stop a body count from going into the triple or quadruple digits. That's not to mean it stopped though... over time, the Burakkumaunten no shimo be and the Japanese traditionalists would form the first of the shadow people, groups that would often clash in secret and battle each other. Not until the cult of the Burakkumaunten no shimo be died out, around the year 200 A.D., did the little, covert wars that were raged between the two groups stop.
Civil wars, which were really no more than small, local conflicts going on between the two groups were common, though some of the Emperor's family converted Burakkumaunten no shimo be. No Emperor though was ever put upon the throne who also practiced the Kuroyama no shimo be, belief. Why such hatred against the two groups? While the traditionalists, and most Japanese were concerned with honor and that which could be obtained in battle, the Burakkumaunten no shimo be practiced self immolation and would charge into battle while on fire, in order to scare enemies. Many of the earlier people that tried this rather died, so the advent of thick, padded clothing, brought the death rate of 95% down to a reasonable 50%.
A road was gradually opened up between the capital of Kyoto, and the second largest city in Japan, Tokyo. This advent allowed more people to easily travel between the two, instead of relying on sea travel or walking overland for far distances. The road was created out of stone and hard labor, with the stone patterned to slope to the sides, away from the center, in order to allow rain to runoff the road, and therefore allow it to remain longer. Underneath the main part of the road was a gravel layer, followed by a tightly compacted sand layer, followed by a dirt layer, and by a sand layer again, with the spaces between the stones sealed up by mortar and mud daub to keep them bound together.
Contact with the Indian Raj began sometime around the middle of the Japanese Bronze Age, and some minor peace agreements and trade promises were made between the two nations. In all honesty, the far flung Raj would not be able to do much of anything to help out the Japanese people, because of their distance from the Japanese homeland, and the lack of resources or trade that they could offer the Japanese.
More work is needed in the fields and forests to turn Japan into a prosperous nation.
Despite the standard of the original, polytheistic religion of the Japanese with it's wide range and cast of gods, the rise of a few monotheistic sects led to the rise of the pockets of the Kuroyama no shimo be, or the Black Mountain worshipers. The Burakkumaunten no shimo be, as they were commonly known, worshiped Mount Fuji, the giant volcano that takes up a nice portion of the Japanese landscape. Around the times when the Burakkumaunten no shimo be, were most active, the mountain would erupt periodically, and great flows of lava and molten stone would pour down the hill, to solidify and turn into a fine, glossy, glassy material that gave the mountain a blackish appearance. The Kuroyama no shimo be worshiped at the base of the mountain, and when it was not erupting, would go to the open lip at the top of the mountain and hold funeral services for the dead members of their religion. After incantations and last rights, the bodies, wrapped in linen, would be tossed into the crater to be cremated by the raging molten fire.
While the Kuroyama no shimo be were mostly peaceful, they could often clash with the traditionalists of the standard Japanese religion. Sometimes, entire towns would feud, and only intervention by the Emperor and his troops would stop a body count from going into the triple or quadruple digits. That's not to mean it stopped though... over time, the Burakkumaunten no shimo be and the Japanese traditionalists would form the first of the shadow people, groups that would often clash in secret and battle each other. Not until the cult of the Burakkumaunten no shimo be died out, around the year 200 A.D., did the little, covert wars that were raged between the two groups stop.
Civil wars, which were really no more than small, local conflicts going on between the two groups were common, though some of the Emperor's family converted Burakkumaunten no shimo be. No Emperor though was ever put upon the throne who also practiced the Kuroyama no shimo be, belief. Why such hatred against the two groups? While the traditionalists, and most Japanese were concerned with honor and that which could be obtained in battle, the Burakkumaunten no shimo be practiced self immolation and would charge into battle while on fire, in order to scare enemies. Many of the earlier people that tried this rather died, so the advent of thick, padded clothing, brought the death rate of 95% down to a reasonable 50%.
A road was gradually opened up between the capital of Kyoto, and the second largest city in Japan, Tokyo. This advent allowed more people to easily travel between the two, instead of relying on sea travel or walking overland for far distances. The road was created out of stone and hard labor, with the stone patterned to slope to the sides, away from the center, in order to allow rain to runoff the road, and therefore allow it to remain longer. Underneath the main part of the road was a gravel layer, followed by a tightly compacted sand layer, followed by a dirt layer, and by a sand layer again, with the spaces between the stones sealed up by mortar and mud daub to keep them bound together.
Contact with the Indian Raj began sometime around the middle of the Japanese Bronze Age, and some minor peace agreements and trade promises were made between the two nations. In all honesty, the far flung Raj would not be able to do much of anything to help out the Japanese people, because of their distance from the Japanese homeland, and the lack of resources or trade that they could offer the Japanese.
More work is needed in the fields and forests to turn Japan into a prosperous nation.
Bair_the_Normal
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Burakkumaunten is katakana, meaning that it came from a foreign language, in this case, English. I don't really want to get into too much detail about it, but Burakkumaunten would literally pronounced Black Mountain.
For the native Japanese word for "black mountain", you would be better off with "kuroyama", which, on this mac I can't get the kanji for right now... Other than that, I like the update.
For the native Japanese word for "black mountain", you would be better off with "kuroyama", which, on this mac I can't get the kanji for right now... Other than that, I like the update.
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Burakkumaunten is katakana, meaning that it came from a foreign language, in this case, English. I don't really want to get into too much detail about it, but Burakkumaunten would literally pronounced Black Mountain.
For the native Japanese word for "black mountain", you would be better off with "kuroyama", which, on this mac I can't get the kanji for right now... Other than that, I like the update.
Kuroi yama (black mountain) would be written as 黒い山 in mixed kanji and hiragana. Removing い would turn it into "large crowd".
Source: Google Translate
Bair_the_Normal
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Yes, but I am going along with the conjugation of "kuroi" as in "kurobuta", or black pig. I believe kuroi is changed to Kuro when attached to other words, but I may be wrong. Thus, kuroyama would be correct.
Moral of the story? Don't trust google translate.
Source: I am half Japanese
EDIT: I forgot to mention, the kanji that you mentioned come from their corresponding Chinese characters, so their meaning is implied with the writing. 黒 literally means black, and by itself is pronounced kuroi. In tandem with another word, however, it becomes kuro. 山 is pronounced yama as its kun'yomi and san as its on'yomi.
Source: half Chinese too
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Tlönitte;11293183 said:Its gonna be interesting to see a Japanese RFC game played through, I always fail with this Civ. Are you going for a UHV or something else? The story telling really builds up the identity of your Civ and the quality of your story
I was going for a UHV originally, but some... issues stopped that from occurring. Just wait and see till the very end.
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A critical existence failure in a certain album on Photobucket this past Sunday, and the follow up being a laborious trek to upload 1100 images to Imgur when I did not have a pro account caused the remaining pictures in the place to be bumped down, forcing me to put it all back on Photobucket in a haphazard fashion. 
Thankfully the pictures for the first several updates where in a different album, so I will have two updates this weekend to make up for the failure that happened recently.
Sorry about that.
Thankfully the pictures for the first several updates where in a different album, so I will have two updates this weekend to make up for the failure that happened recently.
Sorry about that.
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Research and Expansion
Archery, a technology and art that was long lost it seemed, has been discovered by a group of Japanese scholars. This new invention of the bow and arrow is heralded as the single most important invention of it's time (which is about thirty years before the next break through in scientific achievement), the archer's bow is one of the best prizes put forth by the people of Japan.
Through countless years of study and experimentation, the best scholars and farmers of the Japanese nation managed to figure out the secrets to animal husbandry, which were surprisingly simpler than what was first thought to be. This new technology, and the knowledge with what to do with it, allowed the Japanese people to begin the creation of stables and farms for the pigs and boars that inhabited part of Honshu, and essentially used them for a food source. These were quite delicious, and the people of Honshu and the Japanese Kingdom rejoiced that such a grand delicacy could be served to them all across the island. This new form of sustenance, which could be smoked, salted, and preserved and eaten sometimes years after it's time, was a radical improvement over some of the other forms of meat that the Japanese had had, and it supplemented their ocean borne diet of fish and large sea mammals, as well as more land based crops like grain.
For those that do not know, animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of raising and breeding livestock for food, and for the Japanese to have such a technology and the knowledge of doing the breeding and the raising of these animals would eventually cause an explosion in the boar and pig population, as well as a large amount of smoked hams and meats to come onto the market at the same time. Eventually, some nobles would raise the animals as part of their collective want for cash and money to keep their lands up and going, and eventually tens of thousands of the animals would populate Honshu, and become a powerful trading resource within the next two hundred years.
Ah, but on to other matters.
As displayed here, you can see Japanese workers and work forces moving in to build farms and villages in these areas and settle the Japanese island, and make it one of the most populous places in existence. This particular area, north of Tokyo, was extremely hard to settle due to wild animal attacks and instigations, and the belief that evil spirits were in the location and that they were interfering with the work. Shamans were called in and rituals were performed, but it would still take many years before the work force had been able to properly build and settle the area like they had been ordered to do. It was an extremely difficult and time consuming process, and not just because of the whole situation previously explained in this very paragraph.
Due to the unique nature of the river circling around Tokyo, the path of it had to be diverted in several areas due to it's habit of flooding during the summer and the autumn months. This was an extreme problem, as sometimes the farms and the outlying villages and structures along the rivers would be consumed by the raging waters that rose forth from the river, and be destroyed. Hundreds would die, but the workers and their commanders would not back down merely because mother nature told them that they could not have this place. Instead they took matters into their own hands.
A series of dams and dikes were constructed, as well as earth made levees, that were able to hold the water in the river back from overflowing it's banks and rushing into the villages and the areas that the workers were desperately trying to construct. The extra workload was difficult, and due to the lack of roads due to the flood waters washing them away, it was extremely difficult to get materials on site for such things. The dams would eventually be taken down, but the levees and other such areas would remain for hundreds of years, finally decaying after about one and a half thousand years or so.
In the end, the workers triumphed against nature, after only seven thousand three hundred and forty nine deaths and casualties.
In retrospect, that was probably a bit much.
Who knows what the future will hold for the Japanese people?
Archery, a technology and art that was long lost it seemed, has been discovered by a group of Japanese scholars. This new invention of the bow and arrow is heralded as the single most important invention of it's time (which is about thirty years before the next break through in scientific achievement), the archer's bow is one of the best prizes put forth by the people of Japan.
Through countless years of study and experimentation, the best scholars and farmers of the Japanese nation managed to figure out the secrets to animal husbandry, which were surprisingly simpler than what was first thought to be. This new technology, and the knowledge with what to do with it, allowed the Japanese people to begin the creation of stables and farms for the pigs and boars that inhabited part of Honshu, and essentially used them for a food source. These were quite delicious, and the people of Honshu and the Japanese Kingdom rejoiced that such a grand delicacy could be served to them all across the island. This new form of sustenance, which could be smoked, salted, and preserved and eaten sometimes years after it's time, was a radical improvement over some of the other forms of meat that the Japanese had had, and it supplemented their ocean borne diet of fish and large sea mammals, as well as more land based crops like grain.
For those that do not know, animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of raising and breeding livestock for food, and for the Japanese to have such a technology and the knowledge of doing the breeding and the raising of these animals would eventually cause an explosion in the boar and pig population, as well as a large amount of smoked hams and meats to come onto the market at the same time. Eventually, some nobles would raise the animals as part of their collective want for cash and money to keep their lands up and going, and eventually tens of thousands of the animals would populate Honshu, and become a powerful trading resource within the next two hundred years.
Ah, but on to other matters.
As displayed here, you can see Japanese workers and work forces moving in to build farms and villages in these areas and settle the Japanese island, and make it one of the most populous places in existence. This particular area, north of Tokyo, was extremely hard to settle due to wild animal attacks and instigations, and the belief that evil spirits were in the location and that they were interfering with the work. Shamans were called in and rituals were performed, but it would still take many years before the work force had been able to properly build and settle the area like they had been ordered to do. It was an extremely difficult and time consuming process, and not just because of the whole situation previously explained in this very paragraph.
Due to the unique nature of the river circling around Tokyo, the path of it had to be diverted in several areas due to it's habit of flooding during the summer and the autumn months. This was an extreme problem, as sometimes the farms and the outlying villages and structures along the rivers would be consumed by the raging waters that rose forth from the river, and be destroyed. Hundreds would die, but the workers and their commanders would not back down merely because mother nature told them that they could not have this place. Instead they took matters into their own hands.
A series of dams and dikes were constructed, as well as earth made levees, that were able to hold the water in the river back from overflowing it's banks and rushing into the villages and the areas that the workers were desperately trying to construct. The extra workload was difficult, and due to the lack of roads due to the flood waters washing them away, it was extremely difficult to get materials on site for such things. The dams would eventually be taken down, but the levees and other such areas would remain for hundreds of years, finally decaying after about one and a half thousand years or so.
In the end, the workers triumphed against nature, after only seven thousand three hundred and forty nine deaths and casualties.
In retrospect, that was probably a bit much.
Who knows what the future will hold for the Japanese people?
