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3. Traditional Japanese religion, which revolves around supernatural entities called the kami. Obviously not as cool as Buddhism, otherwise it wouldn't have completely been dominated by it politically.
5. Japan's first psychological novel, revolving around a hot, mesmerizing fuckboy with zero diplomatic skills. The Tale of __
7. Breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet. Potentially the most boring dish you'll have in Japan.
8. Miyazaki famously said “___was a mistake”.
9. Compactly summarized in 5 letters, although it literally means Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians.
11. The largest of the four main Japanese islands. Tokyo can be found there.
12. Thirty one syllables spread across five lines in a 5-7-5-7-7 pattern. Omar writes one each time Rada gets out of the shower.
14. You dip them in a cold, beautiful sauce made out of mirin (yes, rada, mirin!), soy sauce and do-a-shi. Keyword: buckwheat.
15. Men conduct politics in Chinese, women conduct femininity in Japanese. This is the last period of imperial glory.

1. The Buddhism of samurais. And no, it's not the most popular form of Buddhism among Japanese laymen.
2. Not just a gate, but also symbol of the decay of Japanese society. A sporadic stroll in what at the time was the world’s broadest boulevard would reveal it.
4. Japan’s second imperial capital. Its old name.
6. Tokyo’s original name. This name was given to a period of isolation (not globalization!). The temporal origin of the Kabuki theatre and woodblock printing.
9. We find these first in the countryside. where they have to manage land given to aristocrats. The state can’t bother having a centralized way of controlling land anymore.
10. Japan's tallest, but hardly a blip on the global scale—not in the top 100, 200, or even 500.
13. Japan’s first imperial capital, founded in 710. Nowadays known for fucking deers.