Across
- 3. An area's original inhabitants
- 5. Of the same or similar kind of
- 6. A pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea
- 8. Fine yellowish-brown top soil made up of particles of silt and clay
- 9. Divergence Separation of peoples or societies with regard to beliefs, values, and customs
- 11. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers, especially China
- 12. A violent storm that forms in the pacific, usually in late summer
Down
- 1. In medieval Japan, a class of professional soldiers who lived by a strict code of personal honor
- 2. Japanese term for huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
- 3. A group or chain of islands
- 4. Seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in summer and cold dry air from inland in winter
- 7. One who believes there's no God
- 9. Hearth A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
- 10. Current A warm-water ocean current that adds water and moisture to the winter monsoons
- 13. Form of Japanese poetry originally consisting of 17 syllables and three lines, often about nature