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Renga Poem
Sliding down a hill
Faster and Faster i go
To the bottom i go – C.N.
Remembering the nice warmth
the cold snow brushes my face – J.W.
Though as the winter closes
i begin to wonder when
i will see snow again A.F.
Edo-Jo
I looked through many places in Edo (now Tokyo) and I found Edo Jo the most helpful to understand Edo. Edo-Jo shows the way that Japan was in the 1800. In Edo Jo was the Edo Castle. It was first built in 1457, and then it was a small foutress on top of a hill. It was built by Ota Dokan, a small local ruler who served the daimyo of the Hojo family. During the 1800 and so on the shogun lived there. In 1603, Ieyasu defeated all other rival daimyo in the country in a great battle, at Sekigahara, and he was named Shogun . The first thing he did was to order all other daymio in the country to prove their loyalty by helping with the construction work on his castle. Each of the daimyo was assigned a portion of the construction work. Sadly the project was so huge that Ieyasu himself did not see it finished. Part of the castle burned down in the Great Meireki Fire, and although most of the buildings were restored, the main tower was never rebuilt. Very few people get to see the inside of the Shoguns residence today. When people went to Edo many of them went to Edo-jo to see the Edo capital.
The Mayan Ballgame
By Cici Nesbeth
10/26/15
Period 6
World cultures
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
The Mayans played the first organised sport in the history of sports.The ballgame had some dangerous and exiting components. The game was about shooting a ball into a hoop. s. In the Mayan language the ballgame is called Ah Pitzlaw. The ball was used as a bouncy ball. They used heads as the center. The range was from the size of a softball to the size of a beach ball. The ball weighed about 8 pounds! The Mesoamericans wore 3 different style of clothes. Each outfit consist of a headdress, a jade necklace, a yoke, lion cloth, some knee and shin protection, and rubber shoes. The court was shaped like a capital I. It was built out of stone and had many different colors. The ball court symbolized a city’s wealth and power. They had a god called Xochipilli that was the patron of the game.
The Mayans were very religious in everything they did, even sports The game was a ritual because if the Mayan team lost then the captain would be sacrificed or if the other team lost then there team captain would be beheaded. The game was a big part of the Mayan creation story called the Popul Vuh. The ball was religious because they used human heads for the ball. The human heads represent the maze god and how his head was cut off. The uniform had hats and other things that represented the gods. The teams had mascots that were god. The court had many religious glyph’s that represented many things. The court was for battle and also sacrifice.