Feudal Japan

What is Buddhism?

• a special food in Japan

• a religion that began in India and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Guatama

• a religion founded in America for the Japanese that lived in the country

• Japanese music

What does "bushido" mean?

• the way of the warrior

• made of many bushes

• the way of Buddha

• go through the bushes quickly

A group of families claiming a common ancestor is called a

• bushido

• ancestry

• dynasty

• clan

The dharma wheel is a symbol of Buddhism. The eight spokes of the wheel symbolize the eightfold path. True or false?

• true

• false

A person who leads or rules in name only but actually has no power is called a

• headless leader

• shinto

• figurehead

• vassal

Haiku is a form of poetry that has ...

• seventeen syllables in three lines

• seventeen syllables in four lines

• sixteen syllables in three lines

• however many syllables and lines the author decides to write

kabuki is

• a Japanese dance

• a Japanese poem

• a Japanese desert

• a Japanese drama

Karate and judo are forms of self-defense and they are also widely practiced as a sport. These are called the

• Japanese arts

• martial arts

• self-defense sports

• defense arts

In feudal Japan, a samurai was a

• cook

• warrior

• ruler

• animal

Shinto is a Japanese religion in which people worship gods and spirits associated with

• war

• nature

• water

• holidays