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  2. Ie (Japanese family system) - Wikipedia

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    The physical ie: a Japanese House. Ie (家) is a Japanese term which translates directly to household. It can mean either a physical home or refer to a family's lineage. It is popularly used as the "traditional" family structure. The physical definition of an ie consists of an estate that includes a house, rice paddies and vegetable gardens ...

  3. Chinese kinship - Wikipedia

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    Family members expect to be addressed by the correct term that indicated their relationship to the person communicating with them. [6] Whenever wills clashed, it was expected, and even legally enforced, [4] that the will of the superior family member would prevail over the will of a junior family member. [3] In the Chinese kinship system:

  4. Honke - Wikipedia

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    Ninigi-no-Mikoto is the honke of the first Japanese imperial household.. The Honke (本家) is the main household of Japanese family.It is part of the system of family branching that establishes a multiplied structure to create familial relationships.

  5. Japanese family - Wikipedia

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    A great number of family forms have existed historically in Japan, from the matrilocal customs of the Heian.. As official surveys conducted during the early years of the Meiji dynasty demonstrated, the most common family form during the Edo period was characterized by patrilocal residence, stem structure, and patrilineal primogeniture, [2] so a set of laws were promulgated institutionalizing ...

  6. Japanese clans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Japanese clans.The old clans mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged in their place.

  7. Traditional Chinese marriage - Wikipedia

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    When a father perceived the emergence of individuality and independence in his son, he harbored concerns about potential disruption to the family. Strong bonds of intimacy between the son and either mother or wife posed a potential threat to the vertical lines of loyalty and respect that upheld the family structure and the father's authority.

  8. Traditional Chinese house architecture - Wikipedia

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    As Han Chinese culture spread from out from the Yellow River Valley, dwellings in the outlying regions retained influence from the dwellings of the native cultures. [3] For instance, Yue homes in southern China were traditionally built on wooden piles due to the humid climate. When Han migrants moved to the region, they initially adapted this ...

  9. Culture of Asia - Wikipedia

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    Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...