Quiz 3

Question 1

Zen

Answer 1

• Emphasizes the samurai spirit for discipline
• disregard for pain
• accepts disasters in life

Question 2

Basho

Answer 2

• famous poet during Tokugawa period

* haiku master

Question 3

Atsumori

Answer 3

• play by Zeami Motokiyo

* focuses on young samurai named Taira who died (part of Heike epic)

Question 4

Chido

Answer 4

•Zen master who believed being truly awake (enlightened) was different than not sleeping

Question 5

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Answer 5

•Japanese dramatist of puppet theater/storytelling famous for double sui use stories between lovers

Question 6

Dogen

Answer 6

• Zen master who founded Soto school of Zen

* emphasized sitting meditation (zazen)

Question 7

Genshin

Answer 7

• Scholar of Tendai Buddhism

* Wrote about deathbed rituals for Amida Buddha

Question 8

Hojoki

Answer 8

• An Account of My Hut

* story by Kamo no Chomei telling of earthquake disasters

Question 9

Honen

Answer 9

• Founder of first Pure Land branch

* seventh patriarch

Question 10

Ise Shrine

Answer 10

• Composed of 2 shrines

* inner: Amaterasu & outer: Toyouke

Question 11

Jodo

Answer 11

• The way of the Jo (wooden staff)

* defense against Japanese sword; martial art

Question 12

Jodo Shinshu

Answer 12

• School of Pure Land (Shin) Buddhism

* Founded by Shinran; most practiced in Japan

Question 13

Junichiro Tanizaki

Answer 13

• Japanese writer of sexuality and family dynamics

* Taisho Period

Question 14

Kaibara Ekken

Answer 14

•Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher who focused on harmonizing with nature; filial piety

Question 15

Kamo-mo-Chomei

Answer 15

•Japanese author/poet who became a hermit; wrote about natural and social disasters

Question 16

Kukai

Answer 16

• Monk and scholar, founder of Shingon school of Buddhism

* invented Kana writing system

Question 17

Motoori Noringa

Answer 17

• Japanese scholar of kokugaku (philosophy of early Japanese classics
• Tokugawa Period

Question 18

Nembutsu

Answer 18

•Pure Land repitition of Amita Buddha’s name

Question 19

Nichiren

Answer 19

• Buddhist monk who taught devotion to Lotus Sutra

* Kamakura Period

Question 20

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Answer 20

• Japanese writer; father of short stories

* Taisho Period

Question 21

Saicho

Answer 21

• Japanese Buddhist monk
• Founder of Tendai school
• believed to be 1st in brining tea to Japan

Question 22

Shingon

Answer 22

•Buddhist school of thought spread in Japan by Kukai

Question 23

Shinnyon Kan

Answer 23

• “Contemplation of Suchness”

* new sight to view pigs as enlightened beings; by Genshin

Question 24

Shinran

Answer 24

• Buddhist monk (Pure Land) student of Honen

* founder of Jodo Shinshu

Question 25

Shinto

Answer 25

•Japan native tradition revolving around spirits in nature

Question 26

Tale of Heike

Answer 26

• Epic story of battle between clans (Taira & Minamoto) for control of japan in Genpei War
• passed down orally

Question 27

Amaterasu

Answer 27

• Sun goddess

* Shinto religion

Question 28

Tendai

Answer 28

• Mahayana Buddhism school of thought

* buddhahood in all things

Question 29

Yasukuni Shrine

Answer 29

• In Tokyo, founded by Emperor Meiji

* remembers those who died in service of Empire of Japan

Question 30

Yasunari Kawabata

Answer 30

•Japanese novelist and short story writer who won Nobel prize in literature (1st Japanese in doing so)

Question 31

Yukio Mishima

Answer 31

• Actor/ Playwright who lost Nobel prize to Yasunari

* ritual suicide

Question 32

Zeami Motokiyo

Answer 32

• Actor and playwright

* exiled