Unit #9 Japan Vocab

a large group of islands

• peninsula

• strait

• archipelago

• isthmus

religious temples with several tiered-shaped towers

• monasteries

• ziggurats

• pyramids

• pagodas

Japan's first emperor from the Yamato

• Jimmu

• Prince Shotoku

• Horyuji

• Asoka

leader of Japan who began the Golden Age and spread Buddhism

• Jimmu

• Prince Shotoku

• Horyuji

• Asoka

name that means "land of the rising sun"

• Nippon

• Japan

• Horyuji

• origami

The art of paper folding

• samurai

• tamagotchi

• kon'nichiwa

• origami

oldest religion of Japan, meaning “"the way of the gods"

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Shintoism

high military leaders of ancient Japan

• shoguns

• samurai

• pagodas

• origami

Japanese warriors

• shoguns

• samurai

• pagodas

• origami

traditional Japanese sport and is a form of Japanese martial arts

• sumo wrestling

• chess

• baton twirling

• origami