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Cards in this deck (15)
- 1ShogunA military dictator of Japan
Eg. Minamoto Yoritomo
Kamikura - 2SamuraiJapanese Warriors and members of the shoen. They would follow the code of Kendo. The samurai had to incorporate the stance of a warrior into their everyday stance and their everyday stance into the stance as a warrior. They had 1 large and 1 small sword. The large sword was for fighting and the small was for suicide (seppaku- cutting open abdomen). The samurai took up only less than 10% of the population.
- 3HonshuLargest Island of Japan
- 4BakafuBakafu:
A government ruled by a shogun (shogunate)
Eg. 1st- Kamakura Bakafu
2nd- Ashikaga Bakafu - 5ShoenShoen:
Large rural estates where the people living there were free of imperial taxation, and administration. Governors ruled these towns.
Eg. Governors - 6JomomJomom:
A group of native Japanese people who lived in the North-East around 3000 BC. They did pottery and stone mason. - 7AinuAinu: Another group of indigenous Japanese who lived at the same time as the Jomon. They lived in Hokkaido. They were pale with bushy beards and spent most of their time hunting and fishing. There are 20,000 ainu people still living in Hokkaido today.
Eg. They are white and grow long bushy beards. - 8KamakazieKamakazie:
The typhoon that took out the mongols at Hakata Bay.
Eg. The mongols invasion and world war 2 - 9CatholismCatholism: The Portuguese had come across to Japan to convert them to Catholism.
Eg. They converted ¼ million - 10DaiymoDaiymo: The name of the governors given by everyone.
Eg. Means a territorial lord - 11PortuguesePortuguese:
Another race of people who travelled to Japan to convert as many Japanese as possible to Christianity.
Eg. The Portuguese converted ¼ million of Japanese people and built 200 churches all over Japan in 50 years. - 12KyushuKyushu: Most Southern Island.
- 13ShugoShugo:
Police (constables) - 14ShikokuShikoku:
Smallest Island - 15HokkaidoHokkaido:
Northern Island- Indigenous live
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