Age of Samurai

1. What is the name for the samurai’s code?

2. What is a daimyo?

3. If a samurai failed to follow the code, what was the name for their suicide ritual?

4. What is traditional Japanese clothing is hakama?

5. What was the preferred weapon of the onna-bugeisha, Japan’s female warriors?

6. What is wakashudo?

7. What was likely the last samurai battle?

8. What political period eliminated the samurai as a class in 1868?

9. Who was the great English samurai who started off as a sailor and then served the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 1600s?

10. What is a samurai without a lord called?

11. According to some sources, who was one of the earliest onna-bugeisha, or female samurai warriors?

12. What were the 47 Ronin famous for?

13. According to etymologists, what does the term “samurai” mean?

14. The samurai used many different weapons, but which one particular weapon was placed above all the others?

15. Which samurai lost sight in his right eye due to smallpox as a child and was known as the One-Eyed Dragon?

16. Which samurai defeated Oda Nobunaga?

17. There were Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Which one is not among them?

18. What are the names of the rebellious or autonomous groups of people that were formed in several regions of Japan in 15th and 16th centuries?

19. What was the name of the conflict that was fought between the powerful Minamoto and Taira clans from 1180 to 1185?

20. What was the name of an African slave and later samurai who was brought to Japan in 1579?

21. Which samurai wrote "The Book of Five Rings", that is still read today for insight into his tactics and philosophy?

22. Which samurai, at the age of 60, was granted the title of shogun by Emperor Go-Yozei and he built up his capital at Edo (now Tokyo) in 1603?

23. Which ninja was known as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's vassals?

24. Which samurai launched the invasions to conquer the Korean Peninsula and China in 1592?