Geography of Japan
What does archipelago mean?
What is a chain of islands?
Who were the first people to go to Japan?
What is Ainu?
How many islands are there in Japan?
What is over 6,800?
The tallest mountain in Japan.
What is Mount Fuji?
The supreme military commander during the Feudal period in Japan.
What is Shogun?
This body of water separated Japan from mainland Asia.
What is the Sea of Japan?
The first dynasty of Japan.
What is the Yamato clan?
Who did Japanese people believe were chosen by the gods?
What is an emperor?
What cities were the atomic bombs dropped on?
Name 1
What is Hiroshima?
What is Nagasaki?
A person who makes goods, they are at the bottom of the societal hierarchy.
What is an artisan?
This is Japan's largest island.
What is the Honshu?
The gods or spirits in the Shinto religion
-Early Japanese clans honored powers they considered supernatural or divine.
What is kami?
Name one country that Japan is close to?
China, Korea, Russia
Many Japanese people go to these places despite saying "they aren't religious."
What are temples or shrines?
These military lords who ruled over areas of land
(3rd on the pyramid)
What are the daimyo?
This is a large wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What are tsunamis?
The traditional religion of Japan. It was the worship of the beauty of the natural world and ancestors.
What is Shinto?
The ocean to the east of Japan
What is the pacific ocean?
The two major cities located on the island of Honshu
What is Tokyo and Kyoto?
This was the warrior class in Feudal Japan.
What are Samurai?
How many main islands make up Japan's "Mainland"?
What is 4 islands?
The religion was introduced to Japan by the Chinese.
What is Buddhism?
This was the original name for the capital city, Tokyo
What is Edo?
The northernmost island of Japan.
What is Hokkaido?
This was the name of the warrior code by which Samuari lived
What is Bushido?