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Geography
Clans, Princes, and Isolation
Shoguns, Daimyo, Samurai
Cities
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
It means 'separate from the rest of the world'
What is "Isolation?"
200
Land-owners, the nobles
Who were the daimyo?
200
The capital for 1000 years, before Tokyo
What is Kyoto?
200
hiragana and katakana
What are Japanese alphabets?
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
It used to be called Heian.
What is Kyoto?
300
Japanese five-line poetry
What is Tanka?
400
Japan's northernmost island
What is Hokkaido?
400
Written by a woman, it was a tale of a fictional prince.
What is the "Tale of Genji?"
400
The samurai 'code of conduct'
What is "bushido?"
400
The first atomic bomb was dropped on this city in 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
400
Japan's traditional ('homemade') religion
What is Shinto?
500
Japan's southernmost (main) island. Nagasaki is here.
What is Kyushu?
500
This powerful clan provided regents ('substitute rulers')
What is Fujiwara?
500
"Divine winds" saved Japan from Mongol invasions
What were the 'Kamikaze?"
500
Japan's second largest city. It is on a bay south of Tokyo.
What is Osaka?
500
The religion that came to Japan from China (through Korea).
What is Buddhism?