Across
- 6. the lowest social class in Shogun Japan
- 7. Japan was ruled by a series of emperors during the Nara & ......... period
- 10. ritual suicide carried out by samurai
- 11. sudden enlightenment or ‘flash of truth’
- 13. a state of ‘no-mind-ness’. Samurai who attained mushin acted spontaneously without thinking
- 15. the powerful shoen governor stripped the emperor of his power and forced the imperial court to declare him shogun for life
- 17. the samurai's sword
- 19. the territory ruled by a daimyo, including the farming and fishing villages within it.
Down
- 1. the warrior class in Japan during the Classical and Shogunate periods
- 2. the religious and ceremonial leader of Japan
- 3. skilled workers who produces handmade items
- 4. worked the land and paid taxes to their Daimyo
- 5. a system of government ruled by a shogun.
- 7. the four main islands of Japan are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and ........
- 8. the way of the warrior - the moral code the samurai's had to follow
- 9. a wandering samurai who had no lord or master.
- 12. the name for the city that became Tokyo
- 14. the military leader of Japan who took control and authority of Japan away from the emperor. Title was passed down through family.
- 16. were the feudal lords who controlled the provinces of Japan on behalf of the Shogun.
- 18. the four main islands of Japan are Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu and ......
- 19. an ancient Japanese religion that believes in nature spirits and ancestor worship
