Across
- 1. land suitable for farming
- 4. Japanese warrior class
- 5. determined by birth
- 6. trade and sell
- 8. only the samurai were allowed to carry them
- 11. planted rice
- 14. Chinese scholar brought over to Japan
- 15. tidal wave
- 16. military people of Japan
- 17. powerful landlords, nobles
Down
- 2. special ceremonies
- 3. shunned and ignored
- 5. a group of people similar in nature and character
- 7. cut off from others
- 9. samurais without masters
- 10. a strong council of advisors, officials and administrators
- 12. ritual suicide
- 13. a form of Japanese poetry
- 18. indigenous people of Japan
- 19. enlightened rule