Vocab word
- Shintoism- an ancient Japanese religion involving worshiping of ancestors and ancestors
- Kami- is another word for spirits
- toril- a gate to a scared place, dividing the human world to the spirit world.
- amaterau- Shinto sun goddess and legendary founder of the Japanese imperial family
- tenno- emperor of japan
- dynasty- a succession of rulers from the same family.
- Daimyo- powerful warlord who controlled a region of japan, serving the shogun.
- Emperor- The first Japanese emperor was the leader of the Yamato family , which dominated over rival clans. He and other emperors who followed claimed they were descended were Gods.
- Samurai- warrior sworn to server and fight for his lord (daimyo) and who followed a strict code of conduct called Bushido.
- Shogun- Powerful military commander of all Japan; after the shogun seized power in medieval japan , the emperor became largely figurehead.