Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.
