Japan Under The Shoguns

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  1. 3. According to, resembling, or denoting the system of feudalism
  2. 8. The longest and largest of the four islands of japan
  3. 11. In the year 710 the first official permanent capital city of japan was established at a place in which the imperial family was situated
  4. 12. A type of gun that were issued to foot soldiers, with a lock in which a piece of wick or cord was placed for igniting the powder.
  5. 15. A commander of an army, or an army officer of very high rank.
  6. 18. The Emperor of Japan.
  7. 20. Warriors from Japanese noble families, who served in private armies recruited by daimyo (local lords). They fought in civil wars that raged in Japan from around 1159.
  8. 21. What was the name of the Japanese parliament
  9. 22. ‘The way of the warrior’. It is a code of conduct governing the way the samurai act.
  10. 23. The family of an emperor or empress,
  11. 25. A Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power (kami) in both animate and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945.
  12. 26. --------- clan became politically powerful for the last 200 years of the Heian era. They achieved this through strategic intermarriages with the imperial family and by managing the major offices in Kyoto and provincial areas.
  13. 27. An official appointed to direct and manage a town or region.
  14. 29. The period when Japan was ruled by the emperor Meiji Tenno, marked by the modernization and westernization of the country.
  15. 30. A widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in NE India in the 5th century bc.
  16. 33. An significant period and era of Japanese history that occurred through the years (794-1185)
  17. 35. Were a group of Japanese mendicant monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism who flourished during the Edo period of 1600-1868.
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  1. 1. Soldiers who fought on horseback are called
  2. 2. City in Japan, founded in 794 as Heionkyo "Capital of Calm and Peace," it also has been known as Miyako and Saikyo.
  3. 4. He was at the top of the Japanese society but had little real power
  4. 5. Marriage between people of different races, castes, or religions.
  5. 6. After years of civil war, Japan was united by a -------- governor by the name of Nobunga.
  6. 7. Japan was ruled by a series of powerful army commanders with the title of ------
  7. 8. The topmost out of the four main islands of japan
  8. 9. The basket worn on the Komuso’s head symbolized the ‘absence of ego’ was made of reed or sedge, with small openings on the side, to allow the wearer to see.
  9. 10. A principal administrative division of a country or empire.
  10. 13. The most southerly of the four main islands of Japan
  11. 14. The smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous.
  12. 16. The oldest surviving form of Japanese theatre. It combines music, dance, and acting to communicate Buddhist themes.
  13. 17. An extensive group of islands that form the country japan
  14. 19. A script, usually cursive, although sometimes angular, produced chiefly by brush and has of high aesthetic value.
  15. 24. (In feudal Japan) a wandering samurai who had no lord or master.
  16. 28. A system or ordered way of doing things, especially of government
  17. 31. territorial lords who owned vast amounts of land
  18. 32. A close-knit group of interrelated families. For example Fujiwara
  19. 34. Music developed along with a plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front, rather like a halved egg in shape.