A Samrai Must Know These Words
Across
- 2. Styles of fighting or self-defense, such as modern-day judo and karate, that began mostly in Asia
- 5. Method of clearing the mind
- 6. To go back to the way it was
- 8. The head of the military government of Japan in the era of the samurai
- 9. Golden Age between 8th-12th centuries
- 10. A Japanese novel and Heian masterpiece written by Murasaki Shikibu; considered one of the great works of world literature
- 12. Code followed by the samurai
- 13. Gets to hang out with the emperor
- 14. A Japanese ruler who encouraged cultural diffusion from countries on the Asian mainland
Down
- 1. A tower-shaped structure with several stories and upturned, tiled roofs
- 3. Lord who supported the shogun
- 4. A form of Buddhism that stresses self-reliance and achieving enlightenment through meditation
- 7. Form of Buddhism focused on paradise
- 8. Religion focused on nature
- 11. A member of a powerful warrior class in Japan