Soldiers
Warriors in Japan who are loyal to their landlord; they are paid with land and rice.
What are samurai?
This leader sometimes had power in Japan, but at other times was more of a figure head with the real power elsewhere.
What is a Japanese emperor?
Ancient capital of Japan that was called Edo.
What is Tokyo?
This is the largest island of Japan.
This is the only country to conquer Japan ever.
What is the United States of America?
This Code of Conduct was important in medieval Japan for warriors.
What is Bushido?
For hundreds of years, whoever was this military leader held real power in most of Japan.
What is a shogun?
Ancient capital of Japan that is famous for thousands of temples and thousands of golden Buddhas in one large ancient building.
What is Kyoto?
This is the most northern large island of Japan, famous for hot springs, amazing monkeys and being one of the snowiest places on Earth.
What is Hokkaido?
This empire tried to conquer Japan twice, but both times the ships (of the enemy of Japan) were wrecked by storms.
This form of Buddhism focuses on experience and meditation over studying and books.
What is Zen?
This person was loyal to the shogun, owned land, and hired soldiers.
What is a daimyo?
Ancient capital of Japan that is now famous for the largest amount of holy (sacred) deer that can not be hunted and that Japanese and tourists feed by hand
One of the largest 4 islands of Japan, this island is famous for spirituality, bridges made of vines, citrus farms, and a 745 mile path of a Buddhist monk.
What is Shikoku?
This phrase means divine wind and represents not only storms that wrecked enemy ships, but later also planes that attacked enemy ships.
What is a kamikaze?
This religion is completely Japanese and believes that everything has spirits.
What is Shinto?
This was the job of most Japanese in Medieval Japan and it was a low status job at the time.
What is a peasant?
The world's first psychological novel
What was the Tale of Genji?
This is one of the largest four islands of Japan and is famous for being the most Christian part of Japan, the city Nagasaki, active volcanoes and a history of foreign settlements, including the Portuguese and the Dutch.
What is Kyushu?
This country was taken over by Japan and used as a spring board to attack China.
What was Korea?
This lethal traditional weapon had a soul according to the warriors and was their favorite to use in combat.
What is a katana?
A traditional hereditary dictatorship that lasted in Japan for centuries.
What is a shogunate?
The author of the world's first psychological novel
Who was Murasaki Shikibu?
This small, far southern island of Japan is famous as one of the top ten places on Earth where people live the longest in a very healthy way.
This religion started in China but no one (or almost no one practices it there); this religion is very popular among the Samurai in the past and Japan (and California) today.
What is ZEN Buddhism? (If the answer is Buddhism, more information must be given for a full amount of credit.)