About Japan
What leaders ruled Japan for centuries
Military leaders
Who was the first Shogun in 1192?
Minamoto Yoritomo
What has 17 syllables - 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.
Haiku
What religions did Japanese believed in?
Buddhism and Shotoku
Vocab: What word means supreme commander of the army
Shoguns
Japan was formed by what?
drops of water
False or True: Women in warrior Families learned to handle weapons to protect their families from bandits when the man were away fighting.
True
Who lived in the 1600s and was a great haiku poet.
Matsuo Basho
What word emphasis on self-dicipline, simplicity, and meditation?
Zen
True or false: Some woman became samurai
True
The emperor of Japan gre weaker, and what gained power
noble families
Vocab: Who was at the top of Japanese society but hat little real power?
Emperor
Why did Japan considered writing with brushes and ink on paper?
THey considered writing a way to express beauty.
Another tradition of what brouth the art of flower arranging to Japan.
Buddhism
Who's soldiers were the first Japanese to use guns in battle and defeated armies that were many times larger than his own?
Oda Nobunaga
Who was the first woman to be a ruler?
Empress Suiko
The rule of Ieyasu and his successors in the Tokugawa family was called what?
Tokugawa Shogunate
What does 永 mean?
永 means eternal.
Why did Buddhism spread in Japan
Buddhism spread in Japan because Buddhism had support of prince shotoku.
After Oda Nobunaga died, who took his place?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Japan's first empire came from what families?
Yamato
who was the first female Samurai?
Tomoe Gozen
Where did the writing system come from?
Japan used Chinese characters to stand for additional ideas and sounds in language.
The Japanese adopted the forms of what that best met their needs?
Who found a dynasty that held power in Japan until 1868 and established his capital at Edo which is known as Tokyo?
Tokugawa Ieyasu