People
The top of the Japanese social chain.
Who is the emperor?
The land of Japan's structure.
What are islands?
Traditional religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
The rule code of the Japanese samurai.
What is Bushido?
The way most of the first Japanese people lived.
What is Clan living?
Ruled Japan when they were only 20 years old.
Who is Prince Shotoku
Main geological feature.
What are mountains?
A person who appears to rule while another has real control.
What is a figurehead?
Someone who rules a country when no one else can.
What is a Regent?
What the first full-length novel was named.
What is The Tale Of Genji?
The family of the first emperor.
Who are the Yamato?
Most common possible natural disaster in Japan.
What are volcanoes?
An extended family.
What are Clans?
The traditional religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
The Japanese goddess of the sun.
Who is Kami?
Wrote the first full-length novel.
Who is Lady Murasaki Shikibu?
Was the largest source of isolation from the rest of Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The "divine wind" that the Japanese believed was sent by the gods to destroy the Mongol fleets in 1274 and 1281.
What is Kamikaze?
A hired fighter in Japan.
What is a Samurai?
The 4 Japanese islands.
Where are Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and Hokkaido?
The first shogun was from this clan.
Who are the Minomoto?
The way Japan was formed.
What are volcanic eruptions?
The new form of Buddhism from China.
What is Zen?
A general who rules Japan in the emperor's place.
What is a Shogun?
This phrase, translated as "If you don't belong to the ___ clan, you are not a human being," was used to describe the immense power of a family in the 12th century.
Who are the Heishi?