Tokugawa Shogunate
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- 2. Bodyguard of loyal warriors meaning one who serves.
- 5. Warrior chieftains
- 9. The ritual suicide of a samurai
- 11. This era in Japanese history, from 794 to 1185
- 12. 5-7-5-syllable, 3-line verse poetry.
- 13. Lady Murasaki’s 11th-century masterpiece
- 14. His army armed with muskets crushed an enemy force of samurai cavalry.
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- 1. a Jesuit, led the first mission to Japan.
- 3. He founded the Tokugawa Shogunate
- 4. Name comes from the Chinese word ri-ben, which means “origin of the sun” or “land of the rising sun.”
- 6. Japan’s earliest religion, meaning “way of the gods.”
- 7. Actors in elaborate costumes, using music, dance, and mime, performed skits about modern life.
- 8. Supreme general of the emperor’s army
- 10. Buddhists sought spiritual enlightenment through meditation.