Geography
The number of islands Japan consists of.
What is four?
The nobles gave land to these warriors who agreed to fight for them.
Who are the Samuri?
The way of the spirits.
What is Shinto?
A form of poetry that consists of 17 syllables.
What is Haiku?
Group that organized themselves into clans that were headed by warrior chiefs by 300 C.E..
Who were the Yayoi?
The largest island in Japan.
What is Honshu?
Code of conduct the warriors lived by. "The way of the warrior."
What is Bushido?
The nature spirits.
What is Kami?
The oldest type of play.
What is Noh?
The culture that influenced Japan's art, literature, science, and religion.
What is Chinese (culture)?
The capital of Japan.
What is Kyoto?
The families that broke out into a civil war in 1180.
What are Taira and Minamoto?
A sacred or holy place where you can go to worship God.
What are shrines?
Oldest form of poetry.
Who was Jimmu?
This affects the amount of land in Japan that can be farmed as they rise from the ocean floor.
What are mountains?
The bond of loyalty between the Lord and a vassal.
What is feudalism?
Small groups that were formed by the time Buddhism reached Japan.
What are sects?
The name of the author who wrote the world's first novel.
Who was Lady Murasaki Shikibu?
Estates that most farmers lived and worked on.
What is Daimyo?
Body that you would have to cross to get from Hokkaido to China.
What is Sea of Japan (East Sea)?
The year the emperor gave Yoritomo the title "shogun."
When was 1192?
This teaches that Buddha is God, which began in India and spread to Korea and China.
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
Pottery that was used in the Japanese tea ceremonies until the late 1500's.
What is animism?