Geography
Japan is made up of this many main islands.
What is 4?
This is considered the golden age of Japan.
This is the first clan that ruled Japan.
What is the Yamato clan?
This is the Japanese military general, who also ran the government.
Who is the Shogun?
This is the number of syllables in the last line of a haiku.
What is 5?
This is the highest peak in Japan.
What is Mt. Fuju?
Who was Prince Shotoku?
The first clan that ruled Japan said they were descendants of this goddess.
This is the person the samurai served within the Japanese feudal system.
Who is the daimyo?
This is the Japanese art of writing.
What is calligraphy?
Heian-kyo is this modern-day city.
What is Kyoto?
Japan adopted this religion from China.
What is Buddhism?
These are the 3 sacred objects of the Japanese imperial line.
What are the mirror, the bead, and the sword?
This is the samurai code.
What is the Bushido Code?
This woman wrote the Tale of Genji.
Who was Lady Murasaki?
Edo is this modern-day city.
What is Tokyo?
This is the name of the samurai's long sword.
What is the katana?
This is the traditional religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
Oda Nobunaga purchased guns from these people.
Who are the Portuguese?
This style of Japanese painting was inspired by the Chinese Tang Dynasty paintings and fully developed by the late Heian period.
What is Yamato-e?
The Horyu-ji temple was built by the regent prince in this city.
What is Nara?
This is the meaning of "kamikaze."
What is divine wind?
The samurai practiced this type of Buddhism.
What is Zen Buddhism?
This is the first Japanese shogunate.
What is the Kamakura Shogunate?
This tiered tower with multiple eaves is common in Japan and usually built for a religious function.
What is a pagoda?