Medieval Japan Power Words

the code of the samurai; stresses loyalty and obedience above their own life

• Bushido

• Clans

• Daimyo

• Sakoku

a group of close-knit and interrelated families

• Bushido

• Clans

• Daimyo

• Sakoku

the establishment, retinue, and courtiers of a sovereign

• regent

• vassal

• court

• shogun

one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun

• Noh

• kabuki

• daimyo

• clans

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five

• haiku

• kami

• kabuki

• sakoku

a form of traditional Japanese drama with highly stylized song, mime, and dance, now performed only by male actors

• kami

• kabuki

• bushido

• samurai

a divine being or spiritual force in Shinto

• kabuki

• Noh

• sakoku

• kami

traditional Japanese masked drama with dance and song

• bushido

• regent

• kabuki

• Noh

a person who rules during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign

• regent

• samurai

• shogun

• vassal

“locked up country;” the foreign policy of Japan under which no foreigner could enter and no Japanese could leave the country

• sakoku

• Zen Buddhism

• Shinto

• haiku