Geography
What is 60%
What was a ronin?
A samurai without a master.
What is filiel piety?
What is deep respect, obedience, and care that children are expected to show toward their parents and elders.
Who is Amaterasu?
What is the sun goddess
These 2 figures stood on the bridge of heaven and created Japan.
Who is Izanagi and Izanami.
What is a typhoon?
What is strong winds, heavy rain, and low atmospheric pressure
Who held all the real power in Edo? And what was his name?
What is a Shogun. Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu
What is honour.
What does it mean when people say "The land of the rising sun"
What is the way the sun rises in the east and they see it first compared to the rest of the world.
What is another name for shogunate?
What is Bakufu.
What are the 3 main food sources in Japan
What is soy, seafood (fish) and rice
What did the samurai do in their off time?
What is patrolling the towns, collecting taxes, surveying the land and keeping order.
What does it mean to be stoic?
What is perseverance.
What is restraint.
What is discipline and honour
The writing system that was borrowed from China
What is Kanji.
What europmean group traded with Japan?
Who are the portugese.
How many main islands is Japan made up of?
Name them for a FIRE BONUS
What is 4
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. EXTRA 50 Points
What are artisans? What did they do?
What is craftspeople? They made valuable and beautiful things such as swords.
What are the 2 main religions in Edo?
What is Shinto and Buddism.
Cherry blossoms or Sakura is symbolic in Japanese society. What does it represent?
What is new beginnings.
What is the shortness and beauty of life.
What is a homogenous society?
What is a society where most people share the same culture, language, religion, values, and traditions.
How did the Japanese isolation contribute to their worldview?
Japanese isolation during the Tokugawa period shaped their worldview by creating a strong sense of self-reliance, cultural pride, and suspicion of outsiders. They saw Japan as unique and special
There are 8 levels to the feudal system in the Edo period. List them in order
Emporer
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
Ronin
Peasants
Artisans
Merchants
What does Shinto embrace in regards to nature?
Nature reverence: Shinto teaches that spirits exist in natural things (like mountains, rivers, trees), so there's a deep respect for nature woven into Japanese culture.
Who were the Ainu people? And who are they similar to in other societies? Why
What is the indigenous group in Japan. Similar to the Indigenous people in Canada because of the way they were treated with unfairness.
List and describe the 3 main policies of Tokugawas rule
Alternate Attendance: Daimyo (lords) were required to spend every other year in Edo (Tokyo), keeping their families there as hostages to ensure loyalty.
Sharing Power: The bakuhan system of two levels of government was established.
Strict Laws: Laws established by the shogunate controlled many aspects of the daimyo’s lives, such as dress and marriage.