Geography
Important People
Shoguns, Daimyo, Samurai
Government
Japanese Culture
100
How the Japanese islands formed.
What is 'volcanoes and earthquakes?'
100
It's what a clan is.
What is an extended family?
100
Warriors, 'Those who serve'
Who were the samurai?
100
Japan's capital and largest city
What is Tokyo?
100
Japanese three-line poetry
What is Haiku?
200
Japan's highest mountain
What is Mount Fuji?
200
Started the dynasty of Japanese emperors
Who is Jimmu?
200
Land-owners, the nobles
Who were the daimyo?
200
The capital for 1000 years, before Tokyo
What is Kyoto?
200
Religion that looked to Amida for paradise
What are Pure Land Buddha?
300
Japan culture came from these two countries.
What is Korea and China
300
This prince reformed Japan, created a constitution, too!
Who was Prince Shotoku?
300
'great generals,' who ruled medieval Japan
Who were the shoguns?
300
The capital during the Nara period
What is Nara?
300
Oldest Japanese five-line poetry
What is Tanka?
400
Japan's northernmost island
What is Hokkaido?
400
Wrote the first Japanese novel
Who is Lady Murasaki Shikibu?
400
The samurai 'code of conduct'
What is "bushido?"
400
Fight between the Taira and Minamoto clan for power
What is Gempei War?
400
Japan's traditional ('homemade') religion
What is Shinto?
500
Japan's southernmost (main) island. Nagasaki is here.
What is Kyushu?
500
Written by a woman; tale of a prince
What is the "Tale of Genji?"
500
"Divine winds" saved Japan from Mongol invasions
What were the 'Kamikaze?"
500
Fight between the daimyos for power
What is Onin War?
500
The name for nature spirits
What is kami?
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