Japan

Question 1

Shintoism

Answer 1

Shintoism is an indigenous religious beliefs and practices of Japan. It means the way of the gods and it focuses on communicating with kami, the spiritual powers that exist in the natural world

Question 2

Kami

Answer 2

Object of worship in Shinto and other indigenous religions of Japan

Question 3

Prince Shotoku

Answer 3

Brought the major Asian religion Buddhism into Japan

Question 4

Confucianism

Answer 4

The way of life propagated by Confucius in the 6th–5th century BCE and followed by the Chinese people for more than two millennia

Question 5

Shogun

Answer 5

A military ruler

Question 6

Samurai

Answer 6

A warrior who served a Japanese lord of the Cristian faith.

Question 7

Bushido

Answer 7

Way of the Warrior

Question 8

Daimyo

Answer 8

any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates

Question 9

Heian Period

Answer 9

794 to 1185 CE and saw a great flourishing in Japanese culture from literature to paintings.

Question 10

Torii

Answer 10

Japanese gateway of light construction

Question 11

Animism

Answer 11

Belief in spirits that are outside the body.