Shinto
Shogunate
Heian
Asuka
Variety
100
This country is the birth place of Shinto.
What is Japan?
100
The title of Japan's military ruler.
What is shogun.
100
In 794, the Japanese emperor moved government to this newly built city.
What is Heian-kyo?
100
During the Asuka period, Japanese nobles copied ideas and trends from this Chinese Dynasty considered to be its golden age.
What is the Tang Dynasty
100
Japan is made up of many islands, which together form this word for a group or chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
200
These sacred places are where Shintoist worship, offer prayers and leave offerings.
What are shrines?
200
The warrior class of Japan that served as local leaders.
what are samurai?
200
This color was the desired color of teeth for women in the Heian court.
What is black?
200
An influential regent, this man is considered the father of Buddhism in Japan.
Who is prince Shotoku?
200
What is Mt. Fuji
300
In Shinto belief, these spirits or gods inhabit natural elements like rivers, mountains, and trees, and are honored in shrines across Japan.
What are Kami?
300
This strict ethical code guided the behavior of Japanese samurai, emphasizing loyalty and honor.
What is the Bushido Code?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Heian nobles practiced this precise art of writing with brush and ink, carefully forming each character to show skill and discipline.
What is calligraphy?
300
Prince Shōtoku wrote these in 604 CE to guide government officials, promoting harmony, obedience, and moral behavior in Japan’s early government.
What are the 17 articles?
300
These characters used in Japanese writing came from China and represent whole words or ideas rather than just sounds.
What are Kanji?
400
This sun goddess is considered the ancestor of the Japanese imperial family and one of the most important deities in Shinto.
Who is Amaterasu?
400
In Japan, these powerful landholding lords were granted territories by the shogun and commanded armies of samurai in return for loyalty.
what are daimyo?
400
Written by Murasaki Shikibu, a Heian noblewoman, this work is often called the world’s first novel and tells the story of a prince’s life and loves.
What is The Tale of Genji?
400
In 645 CE, these reforms centralized the Japanese government, strengthened the emperor’s power, and reorganized land and tax systems based on Chinese models.
What are the Taika reforms?
400
These red gates mark the entrance to Shinto shrines.
what are torii gates?
500
The founder of Shinto.
Who is no one?
500
In medieval Japan, this system had the shogun granting land to lords in exchange for loyalty, while samurai served those lords as warriors.
What is feudalism?
500
Developed by the Heian court, this type of Japanese poetry has 5 lines with a specific number of syllables and was typically about love or nature.
What is tanka?
500
During the Asuka period, this Chinese philosophy, created by Confucius, made its way to Japan and influenced government and society.
What is confucianism?
500
This is the Japanese name for Japan, meaning “origin of the sun,” which is why Japan is often called the “Land of the Rising Sun.”
What is Nihon or Nippon?