Social Systems
This person was the symbolic leader of Japan
What is the Emperor
The number of main islands that make up Japan
What is 4
A legal order; a command to the public by an authority
What is an Edict
What flower was used as a popular aesthetic decoration
What are Cherry Blossoms
175 litres of rice is equal to this measurement
What is Koku
Powerful landowners and nobles controlled by the shogun
what is the Daimyo
The name of the largest island
What is Honshu
Luxurious or Lavish
What is Opulent
The name for a fancy dress robe worn by Japanese
What is a Kimono
The 3 urban centers known as metropolises in Japan
What are Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka
This family held the Shogunate for the entire Edo period
What is the Tokogawa family
The three nearest countries to Japan
A group of attendants that accompany someone important
What is an Entourage
The three religions expressed in Japan
What are Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism
This country's ships were banned from Japanese ports and any ship that disobeyed this order would be destroyed and its passengers would be killed
What is Portugal
The least impotant people in the social structure of Edo Japan
what is the merchant class
These landforms help create natural barriers to protect villages
What are mountains
The centralized military government, headed by the shogun
What are the Bakufu
which type of people in the feudal system did not have surnames
what is commoners
The National Seclusion Policy was a series of these passed to control the influence of foreigners and tighten the control over the Daimyo
What are Edicts
What was the name of the code that the samurai followed
what is the Bushido or Way of the Warrior
Japan is located in a volcanic area known as
What is The Ring of Fire
To seclude; to follow a policy of having no relationships with any other country
What is isolation/to isolate
what is the most common entertainment in japan
what is kabuki
This was a system of beliefs was intoduced by China through Korea and focused on morals, education, and a strict oder of government and society
What is Confucianism