Medieval Japan (LT 3&4)

Samurai are expected to learn and practice calligraphy

• So samurais could write down the events they see.

• Samurais need to be

  students of culture as

  well as fierce warriors.

• So samurais know how to read and write.

• So samurais could write letters home.

A short form of poetry that has three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, making 17 syllables in all.

• Ode

• Epics

• Sonnet

• Haiku

Bushido is...

• Samurai code.

• A city

• An outfit samurais wear

• A religion

Match the following

• The head of the military government of Japan in the era of the samurai

• Samurai

• A member of a powerful warrior class in Japan

• Shogun

• A local lord in Japan in the era of the samurai

• Daimyo

_______ introduced the Japanese to Chinese writing.

• Japan

• China

• Korea

How did Buddhism came to Japan?

• It came straight from India

• It

  came from China by way of Korea.

• It came straight from China.

• It was created in Japan

Temple architecture evolved from

• China

• Japan

• Korea

Japanese borrowed the idea of a strong central

government from

• Japan

• China

• Korea