| A | B |
|---|
| the major land area of a continent | mainland |
| a chain of islands | achipelago |
| closeness in space | promixity |
| gods and spirits | kami |
| a plan of government | constitution |
| someone who governs a country in the name of a ruler who is too young or otherwise unable to rule | regent |
| he ruled Japan as regent for his Aunt Suiko and wrote the Constitution of Seventeen Articles | Prince Shotoku |
| he became shogun and planned to rule permanently in the name of the emperor | Minamoto Yoritomo |
| supreme military commander | shogun |
| a highly trained warrior | samurai |
| a local land-owning lord | daimyo |
| a social system in which a lord grants people land or other rewards in exchange for loyalty and military service | feudalism |
| the heart of a daimyo's castle where his family lives | main tower |
| a violent tropical storm | typhoon |
| a large fleet of ships | armada |
| a strict code of conduct that guided the behavior of samurai | bushido |
| he reduced the power of the warlords and tried to bring Japan "under a single sword" | Oda Nabunaga |
| this shogun united the country in 1600 and moved the capital to Edo | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| united Japan by personal loyalty to himself which ended when he died | Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
| this means "land of the rising sun" | Nippon |
| Japan borrowed this from China | Chinese writing system |
| this religion came to Japan from Korea | Buddhism |
| under this reform, all Japanese people and land were under the control of the emperor | Taika Reform |
| under this code, crimes and punishments applied equally to every Japanese | Taiho Code |
| present-day school of martial arts that has its roots in the samurai warrior code of Bushido | Kendo |
| the first clan to claim an emperor from its family line | Yamato |
