Japan Vocabulary

first religion of Japan with the belief that all of nature has kami or spirit

• Shinto

• Bushido

• Zen Buddhism

• Samurai

extended familiies that live together

• court

• clans

• archipelago

• shogun

a group of nobles who live near and advise a ruler

• shogun

• Tokyo

• court

• clan

a type of Buddhism that promotes self-discipline and meditation

• Zen Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Taoism

• Bushido

large landowners who hired samurai to protect their land

• bushido

• shogun

• daimyo

• samurai

trained professional warriors who practiced Zen Buddhism

• samurai

• shogun

• kamikaze

• court

a general who ruled japan surpassing the power of the emperor

• daimyo

• king

• Shinto

• shogun

the way of the warrior, or warrior code of behavior

• bushido

• kamikaze

• feudalism

• Shinto

the Shinto spirit wind that the Japanese believed destroyed invading Mongol fleets

• archipelago

• kamikaze

• shogun

• kharma

a system of protection in which land and people are protected by skilled warriors in exchange for a small portion of land

• capitalism

• socialism

• communism

• feudalism