Japan Bonus Wayground #1

Match each vocab word with its definition.

• beautiful handwriting

• clan

• someone who rules on behalf of a monarch who is unable to rule themselves

• archipelago

• a group of families who share a common ancestor

• embassy

• chain of islands

• calligraphy

• a group of official representatives from a country

• regent

What is the largest island in Japan?

• Hokkaido

• Shikoku

• Honshu

• Kyushu

Label the four main islands of Japan

a

b

c

d

Nagasaki

Kyushu

Hokkaido

Shikoku

Edo

Honshu

Kyoto

One of the most important kami is the ____goddess, Amaterasu. 

• stars

• moon

• sun

• rain

What is a kami?

• a letter in the Japanese writing system

• one of the gifts the gods gave Jimmu

• a Shinto spirit or god

• a kind of gate at a Shinto shrine

Who was Jimmu?

• the most powerful kami

• the legendary first emperor of Japan

• a prince who instituted many reforms in Japan

• the first Shinto priest

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Jomon

,

(b) Yayoi

,

(c) Yamato

• became powerful in 400s

• arrived around 300 BCE

• weavers

• emperors descended from Amaterasu

• a clan

• arrived 30,000 years ago

• lives in caves and pit houses

• rice farmers

• metalworkers

• hunter/gatherers

• won battles with horses

• from Siberia and Korea

Many great works of early Japanese literature were written by

• Buddhist scholars
• Samurai warriors
• Shinto priests
• Noblewomen

True or false: Only men could be the chiefs of Yayoi clans

• True

• False

Match

• first emperor

• Murasaki Shikibu

• sun goddess

• Shotoku

• novelist, wrote the Tale of Genji

• Matsuo Basho

• regent who reformed government

• Jimmu

• haiku poet

• Amaterasu