Across
- 3. The largest island of Japan
- 6. Japanese rulers got a lot of their ideas about government from _
- 8. Poem of three lines, with a syllable patternof 5,7,5
- 9. A samurai warrior's most prized possession
- 11. Where Buddhism originated
- 12. The original religion of Japan, focusing on love of nature
- 13. Type of building design used for Buddhist religious purposes in Japan
- 15. The only way to reach enlightenment in Buddhism and to break the cycle of reincarnation
- 17. The practice of clearing all thoughts
- 18. This did not surround the capital of Nara in Japan during medieval times
Down
- 1. Head of military government
- 2. The art of swordsmanship
- 4. Prince _ was a Japanese ruler who encouraged cultural diffusion from countries on the Asian mainland
- 5. The idea of birth and rebirth
- 7. The moral code of the samurai in medieval Japan; similar to chivalry in Europe
- 10. A local lord of medieval Japan
- 14. Occupation of the founder of Buddhism
- 16. A type of poem where there are five lines, with a syllable pattern of 5,7,5,7,7
- 17. arts The art of self defense