World History Ch. 13
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- shogun
- supreme military commander
- bunraku
- puppet plays
- kabuki
- form of japenese drama developed in the 1600s
- archipelago
- chain of islands
- land reform
- breakup of large agrilcultural holdings for redistribution amoung peasants
- literacy rate
- percentage of people who can read and write
- usurped
- illegally taken over (the throne)
- daimyo
- warrior lord directly below the shogun in feudal Japan
- tsunami
- killer tidal waves
- gentry
- wealthy landowning class
- samurai
- lesser lords
- celadon
- a porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze
- selective borrowing
- adopting or adding some cultural traits but discarding others
- pagoda
- a multistoried temple with eaves that curve up at the corners
- bushido
- a code that emphasized honor, bravery, and absolute loyalty to ones lord
- hangul
- an alphabet using symbols to represent the sounds of spoken korean
- tributary states
- independent state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state and pay tribute to its ruler
- haiku
- form of Japanese poetry that expresses a feeling, thought, or an idea in three lines, or 17 syllables