L E C T U R E 8 - S A M U R A I C U L T U R E P A R T 2

Question 1

Daimyō

Answer 1

Warrior leaders who could protect land rights

Question 2

Ōnin War 応仁の乱 (1467-1477)

Answer 2

War in Kyoto over Shogunal succession

Question 3

Sengoku Jidai 戰國時代- Warring States Period

Answer 3

Daimyo led coalition of lower ranked lords

Martial Law imposed

Question 4

Military Codes of Daimyō

Answer 4

Kenka ryōseibai 喧嘩両成敗

Loyalty Laws

Question 5

Kenka ryōseibai 喧嘩両成敗

Answer 5

“In a quarrel, both parties are equally responsible”

Question 6

Ashigaru 足軽 -

Answer 6

“Light foot” soldier

Question 7

Ninja 忍者

Answer 7

advance scouting, sabotage, poor rep, needle spitting

Question 8

Zen Buddhism

Answer 8

ideology of nothing

Buddhism stresses a return to original Buddhism as the Buddhism

tang dynasty

Question 9

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 907-960

Answer 9

aristocrat clans are about to disappear

“Second Warring States” period

Question 10

Song Dynasty, 960-1279

Answer 10

End of aristocracy

Question 11

Indian Buddhism

Answer 11

Achieve enlightenment by deep mediation and abandoning material wants, have good karma, have insight into one’s own nature

Question 12

Introduction of Zen Buddhism to Japan

Answer 12

Nara Period

Chinese monk fled to Japan due to mongol invasions

Question 13

Impermanence” Mujō 無常

Answer 13

Buddhist concept, nothing is for forever and death inevitable

Question 14

Kamakura’s Hōjō Shogunate and Ashikaga Shogunate adopted which religion?

Answer 14

adopted Zen Buddhism

Question 15

Seppuku

Answer 15

honourable form of death or execution for a samurai only

Question 16

. Hara-kiri

Answer 16

“Western” word for seppuku

Hara (abdomen) also means “spirit,” “courage,” and “resolution”

Question 17

Jūmonji

Answer 17

Slice the belly in a “十” figure (the number 10)

Question 18

kaishakunin

Answer 18

A loyal second would behead you

Question 19

Junshi

Answer 19

follow the lord in death

Question 20

Jigai

Answer 20

Wife stabs herself in the neck (jugular vein)

Question 21

Seppuku during Tokugawa Shogunate

Answer 21

honorable death to a punishable death,