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Vocab Part 2: The Rebirth
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100

The top of the Japanese social chain.

Who is the emperor?

100

The land of Japan's structure.

What are islands?

100

Traditional religion of Japan.

What is Shinto?

100

The rule code of the Japanese samurai.

What is Bushido?

100

The way most of the first Japanese people lived.

What is Clan living?

200

Ruled Japan when they were only 20 years old.

Who is Prince Shotoku

200

Main geological feature.

What are mountains?

200

A person who appears to rule while another has real control.

What is a figurehead?

200

Someone who rules a country when no one else can.

What is a Regent?

200

What the first full-length novel was named.

What is The Tale Of Genji?

300

The family of the first emperor.

Who are the Yamato?

300

Most common possible natural disaster in Japan.

What are volcanoes?

300

An extended family.

What are Clans?


300

The traditional religion of Japan.

What is Shinto?

300

The Japanese goddess of the sun.

Who is Kami?

400

Wrote the first full-length novel.

Who is Lady Murasaki Shikibu?

400

Was the largest source of isolation from the rest of Asia.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

400

The "divine wind" that the Japanese believed was sent by the gods to destroy the Mongol fleets in 1274 and 1281.

What is Kamikaze?

400

A hired fighter in Japan.

What is a Samurai?

400

The 4 Japanese islands.

Where are Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and Hokkaido?

500

The first shogun was from this clan.

Who are the Minomoto?

500

The way Japan was formed.

What are volcanic eruptions?

500

The new form of Buddhism from China.

What is Zen?

500

A general who rules Japan in the emperor's place.

What is a Shogun?

500

This phrase, translated as "If you don't belong to the ___ clan, you are not a human being," was used to describe the immense power of a family in the 12th century.

Who are the Heishi?