Age of Samurai

What do you know about samurai warriors from feudal Japan?

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

Harakiri ✓

Chonmage ✓

Bushido ✓

2. What is a daimyo?

A samurai lord ✓

A samurai apprentice ✓

A samurai without a master ✓

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

Seppuku ✓

Mononofu ✓

Buke ✓

4. What is traditional Japanese clothing is hakama?

Trousers ✓

Armored vest ✓

Helmet ✓

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

Yumi (longbow) ✓

Naginata (spear) ✓

Tanegashima (rifle) ✓

6. What is wakashudo?

A kind of lightweight samurai armor ✓

A samurai sword ✓

The samurai practice of taking a young, male lover ✓

7. What was likely the last samurai battle?

Battle of Toba-Fushimi ✓

Battle of Senbon ✓

Battle of Shiroyama ✓

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

The Meiji Restoration ✓

The Daimyo Rising ✓

The Shogun’s Revenge ✓

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

John Henry Schnell ✓

Nathan Algren ✓

William Adams ✓

10. What is a samurai without a lord called?

Ninja ✓

Shinobi ✓

Ronin ✓

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

Empress Jingu ✓

Nakano Takeko ✓

Tomoe Gozen ✓

12. What were the 47 Ronin famous for?

Overthrowing a shogunate ✓

Betraying their master ✓

Their ultimate loyalty to their master ✓

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

A servant to the nobility ✓

Wise man ✓

Warrior ✓

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

Yumi (longbow) ✓

Yami (spear) ✓

Katana (sword) ✓

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

Date Masamune ✓

Takeda Shingen ✓

Tomoe Gozen ✓

16. Which samurai defeated Oda Nobunaga?

Akechi Mitsuhide ✓

Takeda Shingen ✓

Oda Nobukatsu ✓

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

Oda Nobunaga ✓

Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓

Toyotomi Hideyoshi ✓

Date Masamune ✓

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?

Kunoichi ✓

Ikko-ikki ✓

Iga ✓

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

Genpei War ✓

Battle of Okehazama ✓

Siege of Osaka ✓

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

Azuchi ✓

Yasuke ✓

Echigo ✓

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

Takeda Shingen ✓

Miyamoto Musashi ✓

Oda Nobunaga ✓

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?

Akechi Mitsuhide ✓

Tomoe Gozen ✓

Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓

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

Fujibayashi Nagato ✓

Prince Yamato ✓

Hattori Hanzo ✓

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

Date Masamune ✓

Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓

Toyotomi Hideyoshi ✓

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