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BMMS 7history Medieval Japan

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daimyo   a Japanese lord with large landholdings  
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samurai   a trained warrior  
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vassal   a person who receives land and protection from a lord in return for loyality  
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shogun   supreme commander of the army who ruled Japan for the emperor  
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Tokugawa Shogunate   rule of Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successors  
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Shinto   the traditional religion of Japan based on respect for nature and ancestors  
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regent   a person who rules in place of an absent or underage monarch  
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Prince Shotoku   a powerful regent who ruled Japan from A.D. 593 to 622  
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embassy   an office of our country's government in another country  
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Zen   a form of Buddhism focusing on self-discipline, simplicity, and meditation  
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noh   a form of drama that retells folktales  
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kabuki   form of drama with melodramatic singing and dancing by men in costumes  
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu   early novelist and one of Japan's finest writers  
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haiku   a poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each  
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archipelago   a group of islands  
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aristocracy   an upper class that is richer and more powerful than the rest of society  
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meditation   the act of achieving inner peace and an enlightened realization of the divine aspect in each person  
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feudalism   a strict social system in which landowners grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor  
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