Japanese Way Of Life

Question 1

Who owned all the land in Japan?

Answer 1

The emperor

Question 2

What did the emperor use to get cooperation and loyalty?

Answer 2

Shoen

Question 3

Which types of families were given shoen by the emperor?

Answer 3

Very important families

Question 4

What did the shoen do?

Answer 4

It exempted you from taxes

Question 5

Where did the emperor rule from?

Answer 5

Kyoto

Question 6

What did the daimyo compete with eachother for?

Answer 6

Power and recognition

Question 7

Who had very sensitive status and strict customs that influenced their lives?

Answer 7

Daimyo

Question 8

What was the highest rank for a daimyo?

Answer 8

A 25 fold fan

Question 9

Who did the diamyo use to gain more land?

Answer 9

Samurai

Question 10

Who made a living through agriculture?

Answer 10

People living on the shoen

Question 11

What were the two types of fields?

Answer 11

We and dry

Question 12

What fields did wealthy villages farm on and why?

Answer 12

Wet fields because it required more investment and was regularly flooded.

Question 13

What produce was made in the wet fields?

Answer 13

Rice and it was the most valued crop

Question 14

What was the basis of the economy in Ancient Japan?

Answer 14

Rice because even the daimyo collected taxes in the form of rice

Question 15

What percentage did the diamyo collet in taxes?

Answer 15

Taxes increase and eventually it was 40% of their harvest

Question 16

What was produced on dry field?

Answer 16

Barley, millet, soybeans, vegetables, and hemp

Question 17

After spring what happened for the people in dry farms in ancient Japan?

Answer 17

There wasn’t enough food so they had to go hunting for small animals, ferns and plants

Question 18

In a successful village, what did the women do?

Answer 18

Women made ceramics, embroidery and jewellery making