Religion
The oldest, traditional religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
The figurehead of Feudal Japanese society
What is the Emperor?
The moral code followed by all Samurai
What is the Bushido Code?
The continent that Japan is located within
What is Asia?
The country that contributed many ideas including written language to Japan.
What is China?
The name given to the nature spirits of the Shinto religion
What is Kami?
The lowest social class in Feudal Japan
What is merchants?
if disgraced, or in some untenable situation, a samurai may resort to this form of ritual suicide
What is Seppuku?
The number of major islands that make up Japan
What are four?
Japan and this continent had a feudal society during the middle ages.
What is Europe?
Popular religion in Japan that originated in India but spread from China.
What is Buddhism
The largest class in Feudal Japanese society
What is peasants?
This virtue built trust among the samurai
What is loyalty?
The term used to describe a chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
A Japanese hostess trained to entertain men with conversation, dance and song.
What is a geshia?
A set of rules based on the ideas of Chinese scholar, Gong Qui.
What is Confucianism?
The nobility class the samurai served
What is Daimyo?
The English translation of Bushido
The ocean that borders Japan's east coast.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The feudal dynasty established in the 1600s by Tokugawa Ieyasau?
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate/Dynasty?
A type of Buddhism developed in Japan that emphasizes meditation and thoughtful tasks as the way to peace.
What is Zen Buddhism
This class consisted of the mercenaries or paid soldiers
What is the ronin?
Above all, this virtue was held the most important under the Bushido code. To lose it was considered the ultimate disgrace.
What is honour?
A path along the Pacific Ocean characterised by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes
What is the Ring of Fire
This policy kept western society out of Japan and kept Japanese people in Japan.
What is isolationism?