Abstract: The sources of Japanese cultural resources were complex, but on the basis of selective absorption, mutual integration and grafting development, it had been turned into the culture with Japanese characteristics. Ritualization, ritual spiritualization and aestheticism focused on direct results are three common characteristics of Japanese culture and the main reasons why Japanese culture can be easily accepted by common people and continuously passed down. Only after the implementation of the internal cultural heritage, accumulation of the abundant cultural resources, it will have the possibility of external cultural communication. In the process of Japanese culture resources’ overseas communication, its path is “spread-feedback-rethink-improve-spread” which represents a “spiral” mode of overseas dissemination.

Key words: cultural resources, inherit, spread overseas, spiral, spread path