Comparing medieval Japan, Rorea, and Vieta Imagine that you are a graduate student working with the diary of a twelfth-century merchant from Song China. In this diary, the merchant recorded his impressions of his first visits to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. After carefully translating the diary, you hand it to your professor, who slips and throws all the papers into the air. It is now your job to organize the diary correctly. Read the following descriptions and select whether they apply to Korea, Japan, or Vietnam.
Description 1
The people here were among the first to adopt an innovation called woodblock printing. Artisans carve characters onto woodblocks, which can be rearranged to print papers, pamphlets, and even books quickly and easily. Their cartographers have created regional and world maps based on our models.
Description 2
The people from this southern kingdom have created an adaptation of Chinese characters. This is a written system to represent the spoken language, but also used to compose essays and poetry.
Description 3 The people seem to have copied our building techniques and architecture, but they do so artfully. Centuries ago, Buddhists from all across Asia traveled to this land to visit the Todaiji temple.