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1. 01Which sword is the classic weapon of the samurai?
2. 02What title was held by Japan's military ruler during the samurai era?
3. 03What is the name of the samurai code of honor, often called the way of the warrior?
4. 04What was a samurai without a master called?
5. 05Edo, the capital city of the Tokugawa shoguns, is known today by what name?
6. 06Ninja, also called shinobi, were mainly hired to do what?
7. 07Whose Black Ships arrived in 1853 and pushed Japan to reopen to the world?
8. 08The word kamikaze, the name given to the storms said to have saved Japan from invasion, means what?
9. 09In the famous tale of the 47 Ronin, what did the masterless samurai set out to do?
10. 10Samurai traditionally served powerful feudal lords known as what?
11. 11Which shogunate, established in the 1190s, was Japan's first?
12. 12The chaotic Sengoku period is usually translated as the age of what?
13. 13In what year was the Battle of Sekigahara, the clash that decided who would rule Japan?
14. 14Who won the Battle of Sekigahara and went on to found Japan's last shogunate?
15. 15Under the closed country policy of sakoku, Dutch traders were confined to which small island at Nagasaki?
16. 16Undefeated duelist Miyamoto Musashi wrote which classic text on strategy?
17. 17Himeji Castle's elegant white walls earned it a nickname honoring which bird?
18. 18In the daisho pair of swords, the katana was worn together with which shorter blade?

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