Japanese Vocabulary

2. This is Japanese dance that includes lots of dancing and drama. In this form of art, people wear masks to express the characters feelings.
5. A great and powerful ruler of an empire
6. This is a legal order. It is a command to the public by an authority.
7. A person that comes to an area with an idea of trading or doing business with someone. They give out goods. They are at the bottom of the hierarchy rank.
10. is an important city in Japan. It is also where superman lives.
14. These people do lots of begging, fortune telling, prostitution and acting. They are also known as hinin.
15. A system which puts people from most important to least important. At the bottom is the people that do not make anything
16. Someone or a group of people that will accompany someone usually of an important rank.
18. Adopting new technology and ideas that are of the present time or not long before.
19. A group of people from one country who builds a new settlement in another place or territory.
21. people who have been rejected from a certain community or society
22. This is a local government that is run by the Daimyos.
25. Having to contain someone to one area. A reason that the people in Japan may have to do this because of missionaries.
26. The centralized military government that is run by the Shogun.

1. A military member that the Daimyos had control over.
3. The Cultural activities that may draw the taste of the public.
4. Someone who is trained to be in the entertainment business. They specialize in dancing, acting and more!
8. A sense that someone has of what is beautiful.
9. The leaders of the military government
11. Supreme power or authority. Shoguns had this power and authority.
12. A measurement that is equal to about 175 litres of rice.
13. A person that lives on a farm. The most important thing that they grow in Japan is rice.
17. Give a new character to be suitable for the present time. Japan needed this for when they fought the war.
20. Luxurious or lavish.
23. Powerful rulers in the nineteenth century. The Shogun had power over all of these.
24. A person that is very skilled in making things by hand. They make clothes, cooking utensils, woodblock prints and much much more.