<span>Banishment is a worse punishment than death.</span>
It basically empasizes the "eleven stars" and the "hot sky". It depicts the tree in the painting as if made of hair.
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Answer:
D) Establish an independent cultural identity
Explanation: Not wanting to follow in China’s footsteps, Japan needed to distance itself from the political and cultural practices that they had inherited from China in order to survive as a country.
