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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 ✓
Bushido ✓
Chonmage ✓
2. What is a daimyo?
A samurai without a master ✓
A samurai apprentice ✓
A samurai lord ✓
3. If a samurai failed to follow the code, what was the name for their suicide ritual?
Mononofu ✓
Seppuku ✓
Buke ✓
4. What is traditional Japanese clothing is hakama?
Helmet ✓
Trousers ✓
Armored vest ✓
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 Senbon ✓
Battle of Toba-Fushimi ✓
Battle of Shiroyama ✓
8. What political period eliminated the samurai as a class in 1868?
The Meiji Restoration ✓
The Shogun’s Revenge ✓
The Daimyo Rising ✓
9. Who was the great English samurai who started off as a sailor and then served the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 1600s?
William Adams ✓
John Henry Schnell ✓
Nathan Algren ✓
10. What is a samurai without a lord called?
Shinobi ✓
Ronin ✓
Ninja ✓
11. According to some sources, who was one of the earliest onna-bugeisha, or female samurai warriors?
Nakano Takeko ✓
Empress Jingu ✓
Tomoe Gozen ✓
12. What were the 47 Ronin famous for?
Betraying their master ✓
Their ultimate loyalty to their master ✓
Overthrowing a shogunate ✓
13. According to etymologists, what does the term “samurai” mean?
Warrior ✓
Wise man ✓
A servant to the nobility ✓
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?
Tomoe Gozen ✓
Date Masamune ✓
Takeda Shingen ✓
16. Which samurai defeated Oda Nobunaga?
Oda Nobukatsu ✓
Takeda Shingen ✓
Akechi Mitsuhide ✓
17. There were Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Which one is not among them?
Oda Nobunaga ✓
Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓
Date Masamune ✓
Toyotomi Hideyoshi ✓
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 ✓
Iga ✓
Ikko-ikki ✓
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?
Echigo ✓
Azuchi ✓
Yasuke ✓
21. Which samurai wrote "The Book of Five Rings", that is still read today for insight into his tactics and philosophy?
Miyamoto Musashi ✓
Oda Nobunaga ✓
Takeda Shingen ✓
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?
Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓
Akechi Mitsuhide ✓
Tomoe Gozen ✓
23. Which ninja was known as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's vassals?
Hattori Hanzo ✓
Prince Yamato ✓
Fujibayashi Nagato ✓
24. Which samurai launched the invasions to conquer the Korean Peninsula and China in 1592?
Tokugawa Ieyasu ✓
Date Masamune ✓
Toyotomi Hideyoshi ✓
1 Comments
MaxStickies
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Level 79
Jul 12, 2021
Great quiz, has been nominated.
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