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Vocabulary
Weapons & Battle
The Life & Times of Samurai
Samurai Women
Samurai Culture Today
100
This is a style of hand-to-hand combat that the samurai utilized in battle.
What is martial arts?
100
This weapon was 8 feet long and required much strength to use.
What is a bow and arrows?
100
If a samurai failed his lord, committed a shameful deed or insulted a person of higher rank, he/she would pay the price of...
What is seppuku or ritual suicide?
100
In the 12th century samurai women enjoyed considerable status. List three things that support this claim.
1. She helped manage the household and promote the family's interests. 2. She inherited her husband's property if he died. 3. They were expected to be as loyal and brave as men were.
100
Provide one way that samurai culture or ideals still exist in our world today.
1. Film, comics and cartoons. 2. Japanese warriors in WWII performed seppuku rather than surrender in war. 3. The study of martial arts 4. Haiku poetry
200
This form of Buddhism is founded on the belief that all people can reach paradise by relying on the mercy of:
Who is Amida Buddah?
200
This weapon was utilized in hand to hand combat and used to knock riders off of their horses.
What are spears?
200
This form of samurai poetry was very short, consisting of only 7 lines.
What is haiku?
200
However, in the 17th century, the woman samurai's position weakened. List three facts to support this claim.
1. Women had to obey all men, including fathers, husbands and sons. 2. Women could not choose their own husbands. 3. Popular literature told women how to behave. 4. They were completely under men's control.
200
Referred to as beautiful writing.
What is calligraphy?
300
This was performed by samurai after he or she failed to live up to the code of Bashido.
What is seppuku?
300
This was the most prized weapon of the samurai, flexible not to break, but hard enough to be razor sharp.
What is a sword?
300
The samurai learned how to endure pain and suffering by (three examples)
What is 1. going days without eating 2. marching bearfoot in snow on long journeys 3.held stiff postures for hours without complaining.
300
This 12th century female samurai took part in battle alongside men and killed many enemies in battle.
Tomoe Gozen
300
During WWII, these suicide pilots crashed their planes into American ships.
Who are kamikaze pilots?
400
This is the return of a past state, situation or ruler.
What is restoration?
400
The samurai learned to fight without weapons by using this ancient technique that began mostly in Asia.
What is martial arts?
400
The samurai code took its final form in Bushido, which means:
What is "The way of the warrior?"
400
This female samurai saved her clan's banner by swimming to shore under a shower of arrows with the banner clenched between her teeth.
Who is Koman?
400
This type of garden which is simple and stark was believed to help a person meditate.
What is a Zen garden?
500
This form of Buddhism stresses self-reliance and enlightenment through meditation.
What is Zen Buddhism?
500
A samurai's supreme duty was to be loyal to his or her lord. They showed this by
What is dying for him or avenging his death?
500
Samurai were expected to guard their personal honor which would sometimes lead to:
What is a duel or fight with another samurai?
500
When a samurai husband died, a samurai woman could...
What is inherit his property, perform duties of a vassal
500
Sports such as judo and fighting with bamboo swords.
What are martial arts?