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Vocabulary
Weapons
The Life & Times of Samurai Jack
Ladies & Gentlemen
Samurai,Shaolin, Ninja Today
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This is a style of unarmed lethal hand-to-hand combat that the samurai utilized in battle.
What is jujitsu?
100
Besides used as martial arts weapons, the sai, bo staff, tonfa, and kama have this in common.
What are farm tools?
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? or What is hari-kiri?
100
Women who entertain through music, dance, and poetry.
What are geisha?
100
Samuel L. Jackson
Who is Afro-Samurai?
200
This is the place of the way (for learning martial arts)
What is the dojo?
200
These long-poled weapons were utilized in combat to knock riders off of their horses and even disable horses.
What is a naginata or yari?
200
This form of samurai poetry was very short, consisting of only 7 lines.
What is haiku?
200
A popular form of Japanese theater in which all female roles are played by men.
What is kabuki?
200
Popular ninja anime tv series first seen in Japanese manga Shōnen Jump.
What is Naruto?
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This is the way of the warrior.
What is Budo or Bushido?
300
Japanese archery that uses an 8 foot long bow and requires much discipline and focus.
What is kyudo?
300
The meaning of samurai.
What is one who serves?
300
The period in Japan between 1868-1912.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
300
The Japanese sport of the sword.
What is kendo?
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This actually means "great skill" but also commonly used to refer to this Chinese martial art.
What is kung fu?
400
An Asian farming implement used to separate wheat and rice stalks.
What are nunchaku or nunchucks?
400
The "greatest of generals"
What is "shogun?"
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This Shaolin nun created the martial arts style of Wing Chun.
Who is Wu Mei?
400
The non-lethal martial art sport that emphasizes throws, locks, and grappling founded by Jigaro Kano.
What is judo?
500
In English, it means "Little Pine Forest"
What is Shaolin?
500
A samurai's set of big and smaller swords
What is daisho? or What are katana, wakizashi, and tanto?
500
These "hidden people" sometimes fought on behalf of or sometimes against the samurai.
Who are ninja?
500
A form of Buddhism that focuses on self-reliance, kindness, charity, and the moment of here and now.
What is Zen Buddhism?
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In the film, The Last Samurai, Ken Watanabe plays the warrior-poet who was once Emperor Meiji's most-trusted teacher. Displeased with treacherous and greedy bureaucratic reform policies, he leads a revolt against the Imperial Army.
Who is Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto?