People
What are samurais?
A professional trained warrior
Who were 2 countries that were near Japan and wanted to be influenced from?
China and Korea
What is a figurehead
A leader who appears to lead while the real power rests in someone else.
What is a daimyo?
A Japanese large landowner
Who attacked Japan in the 1270s and 1285s
The mongols
How did samurai live in Japan?
They lived simple lives and would do calm things like make flower arrangements.
Mountainous and full of islands.
What is the name of the code of rules that samurai follow?
Bushido
What is a group of people who live near and serve or advise a ruler?
A court
Why was Pure Land Buddhism a popular religion among common people?
Pure Land Buddhism didn't require any special rituals
What was so special about the book that Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote, The Tale of Genji?
Historians believed that it was the world's first full novel.
What food did Japanese people eat a lot of because of their geography and why?
The Japanese ate a lot of seafood because Japan's geography didn't allow them to farm
What is the word that matches the definition of "extended families"?
Clans
Fill in the blank.
______ is a person who rules a country for someone who is unable to rule alone.
Regent
What is the religion that Japan made?
Shinto
What people hired samurais and what did they pay them with?
Daimyo, rice and food
How much percent of Japan has flat land?
20 percent
What is another form of Buddhism?
Zen
What is structure?
The way something is set up
When was the golden age of Japanese art?
800s and 1100s
Which emperor sent their army to conquer Japan in the 1270s and early 1280s?
Kublai Khan
What is Japan's 4 main islands?
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu
What are ideas that people hold dearly?
Values
Who is the prince that introduced Chinese ideas to japan
Prince Shotoku
What is another name for Japan? Double points if you know what it means.
Nippon, Land of the rising sun