shogunate japan

Question 1

What was the name of the military leader of Japan?

Answer 1

The Shogun

Question 2

What was the name of the figurehead hereditary monarch of Japan?

Answer 2

The Emperor

Question 3

Which shogunate made a proper environmental policy?

Answer 3

The Tokugawa Shogunate

Question 4

What was the Japanese equivalent of a Baron during the Shogunate Period?

Answer 4

The Daimyo

Question 5

What is the warrior class in Shogunate Japan?

Answer 5

The Samurai

Question 6

How many times did the Mongol Empire attempt to invade Japan?

Answer 6

Two Times

Question 7

Which European country was the first to gain access to Japan for trading?

Answer 7

The Netherlands

Question 8

Japan sits on a series of volcanoes called what?

Answer 8

The Ring of Fire

Question 9

The Japanese art of bonsai originated where?

Answer 9

China

Question 10

What was the art of Bonsai?

Answer 10

A technique wherein a gardener would trim a tree so it matures while staying small their whole life.

Question 11

Who was the first shogun?

Answer 11

Minamoto no Yoritomo

Question 12

What is the name of the period when the Minamoto clan ruled Japan?

Answer 12

The Kamakura period

Question 13

In the Muromachi period what clan controlled the shogunate?

Answer 13

The Ashikaga

Question 14

When did the Warring States period begin?

Answer 14

1467

Question 15

When did the Shogunate era end?

Answer 15

1868

Question 16

What is the end of the Shogunate era called?

Answer 16

The Meiji Restoration

Question 17

How did contact between Japan and Europe begin in 1543?

Answer 17

A shipwrecked Portuguese trader.

Question 18

Which shogun implemented isolationism in Japan?

Answer 18

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Question 19

Which shogun made Japan centralised?

Answer 19

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Question 20

What does sakoku mean?

Answer 20

“Locked Country”

Question 21

When did Japan finally open up to the USA?

Answer 21

1853

Question 22

Who opened up Japan to the USA?

Answer 22

Matthew Perry

Question 23

What is a ronin?

Answer 23

An unemployed samurai

Question 24

What was the main Japanese religion before Buddhism?

Answer 24

Shinto

Question 25

What is seppuku?

Answer 25

Ritual Suicide

Question 26

Why was life expectancy in Japan higher than other countries?

Answer 26

Because of their healthy diets.

Question 27

Why did the samurai revolt in 1333?

Answer 27

Because they were poor and got nothing from the Mongol invasions.

Question 28

When did the Muromachi period begin?

Answer 28

1336

Question 29

Who were the three great unifiers of Japan?

Answer 29

Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu

Question 30

What is the name of the Assasination of Oda Nobunaga?

Answer 30

The Honno-Ji Incident

Question 31

What did the Warring States period start with?

Answer 31

The Onin War

Question 32

A major temple in Osaka was besieged by who during the Warring States period?

Answer 32

Oda Nobunaga

Question 33

What does Naiyu Gakan mean?

Answer 33

“troubles from within and without”

Question 34

When was the Naiyu Gakan?

Answer 34

From the beginning of the 19th Century to the end of the shogunate.

Question 35

How many ships were brought by the US to Japan to open it up?

Answer 35

Eight

Question 36

What was the name of the treaty between the Tokugawa and the Americans?

Answer 36

The Kanagawa Treaty

Question 37

What was the standard currency in Shogunate Japan?

Answer 37

Rice

Question 38

Where were Japanese castles usually built?

Answer 38

On a ridge

Question 39

What structure was seen as a way to bring Shinto spirits down to earth?

Answer 39

A Torii

Question 40

What was the name of the Shinto forest spirits?

Answer 40

The Kami