Shogunate japan

2. A rich silk fabric with a raised pattern.
5. A wandering samurai who had no lord or master.
6. A sacred multi-story tower used by the buddhist religion to store relics or sacred texts.
9. A sort of couch for transporting passengers, with long poles on each side so that servants could carry it on their shoulders.
12. A serious and infectious disease that effects the lungs.
15. A form on ritual suicide, carried out by disembowelling oneself (cutting open the abdomen with a sword).
17. A person who claims to communicate with evil spirits through mystic rituals.
18. A four stringed Japanese musical instrument.

1. A writing system that represents Japanese syllables.
2. A disease caused by the lack of vitamin B.
3. The territory ruled by a Daimyo, including the farming and fishing villages within it.
4. A high gate with two side pillars and two flat top rails.
7. An old fashioned type of gun fired by a spark of flint.
8. The art of beautiful handwriting.
10. In buddhism, the perfect state; free of suffering or desire.
11. A skilled worker who produces handmade items.
13. The way of the warrior; the rules that prescribed correct behaviour for all samurai.
14. A traditional system of physical training and unarmed combat.
15. Sudden enlightenment.
16. Spirit beings in the Shinto religion; a Japanese word applied to anything beautiful or extraordinary, such as a tree, moutain, stone or person.