Japan Vocabulary

Emperor

• a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.

• Powerful military lord in feudal japan

• Military ruler of feudal japan

Shogun:

• Political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals

• a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

• a Japanese system of unarmed combat and physical.

• Military ruler of feudal japan

Daimyo:

• Powerful military lord in feudal japan

• Class of warriors in feudal japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land

• Japan’s oldest form of poetry; an unrhymed poem of 5 lines

Samurai

• Class of warriors in feudal japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land

• Political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals

• Belief that all natural things are alive and have their own spirits

• a Japanese system of unarmed combat and physical.

Feudalism:

• Political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals

• Class of warriors in feudal japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land

• Belief that all natural things are alive and have their own spirits

Peasant:

• ritual where samurai disembowelment with a sword, formerly practiced in Japan by samurai as an honorable alternative to disgrace or execution.

• a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

• Japan’s oldest form of poetry; an unrhymed poem of 5 lines

Calligraphy:

• Belief that all natural things are alive and have their own spirits

• a Japanese system of unarmed combat and physical.

• fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes:

Tanka:

• Japan’s oldest form of poetry; an unrhymed poem of 5 lines

• Military ruler of feudal japan

• Powerful military lord in feudal japan

bushido:

• a Japanese system of unarmed combat and physical.

• the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.

• Group of families related by blood or marnage

Animism:

• Belief that all natural things are alive and have their own spirits

• Group of families related by blood or marnage

• Fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: