Question: When did Shiba Yoshimasa die?
Answer: 1410

Question: What does a samurai has his heart in the wrong place dislike?
Answer: battle

Question: What debt should samurai not forget?
Answer: the great debt of kindness one owes to his master and ancestors

Question: What virtues should samurai not be dismissive of?
Answer: loyalty and filial piety

Question: When was Kato Kiyomasa in power?
Answer: the Sengoku Era

Question: When did Japan begin invading Korea?
Answer: 1592

Question: When did Japan finish invading Korea?
Answer: 1598

Question: What did Kato Kiyomasa think samurais' duty was?
Answer: to "...grasp the long and the short swords and to die"

Question: What concept did Kato Kiyomasa think should be studied every day?
Answer: Bushido

Question: Who did Torii Mototada serve?
Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu

Question: When was Torii Mototada born?
Answer: 1539

Question: When did Torii Mototada die?
Answer: 1600

Question: How many people were in Ishida Mitsunari's army?
Answer: 40,000

Question: How many soldiers defended Torii's last stand?
Answer: 2,000

Question: Who was Takeda's rival?
Answer: Uesugi Kenshin

Question: What did Uesugi encourage?
Answer: the "way of the warrior as death"

Question: What was Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's occupation?
Answer: Japanese historian

Question: When was Takeda born?
Answer: 1521

Question: When was Uesugi born?
Answer: 1530

Question: What religious order was St. Francis Xavier in?
Answer: Jesuit

Question: When was St. Francis Xavier born?
Answer: 1506

Question: When did St. Francis Xavier die?
Answer: 1552

Question: When did Xavier try to convert Japan to Christianity?
Answer: 1549–1551

Question: Who were the Japanese regarded as braver than?
Answer: the people of China, Korea, Ternate and all of the other nations around the Philippines

Question: Where was Malacca?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: Where was Goa?
Answer: India

Question: Who impressed Xavier by taking notes in church?
Answer: Anjiro

Question: In what language did Anjiro speak to Xavier?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: How did Anjiro think the Japanese would accept Christianity?
Answer: en masse

Question: Who wrote 'Ideals of the Samurai'?
Answer: William Scott Wilson

Question: Who were the models for future generations of samurai?
Answer: The warriors in the Heike Monogatari

Question: Where did Japanese warriors come to literary maturity?
Answer: the Heike Monogatari

Question: Whose culture included tea ceremonies?
Answer: samurai

Question: What kind of painting did samurai do?
Answer: monochrome ink

Question: What was Japanese culture influenced by?
Answer: Chinese arts

Question: Who brought Chinese arts to Japan?
Answer: Zen monks

Question: When was Muso Soseki born?
Answer: 1275

Question: What did Nobunaga mean?
Answer: an adult name (nanori) given at genpuku, the coming of age ceremony

Question: What did Kazusanosuke mean?
Answer: a title of vice-governor of Kazusa province

Question: What did Saburo mean?
Answer: a formal nickname (yobina)

Question: What did Oda mean?
Answer: a clan or family name

Question: What was Oda Nobunaga's full name?
Answer: Oda Kazusanosuke Saburo Nobunaga

Question: How did the samurai treat concubines?
Answer: akin to a marriage

Question: How did the samurai view kidnapping concubines?
Answer: shameful, if not criminal

Question: Who thought being a concubine was better than being a wife?
Answer: many wealthy merchants

Question: Why did merchants prefer that their daughters not marry samurai?
Answer: her family's money erased the samurai's debts

Question: What happened if a commoner concubine had a son?
Answer: the son could inherit his father's social status

Question: How common was divorce for samurai?
Answer: rare

Question: What could samurai do instead of divorce if their wife couldn't produce a son?
Answer: adoption of a male heir

Question: Why did samurai avoid divorcing for reasons of dislike?
Answer: it would embarrass the person who had arranged the marriage

Question: What financial concern prevented divorce?
Answer: After a divorce samurai had to return the betrothal money

Question: What did samurai wives spend most of their time on?
Answer: Maintaining the household

Question: What did okugatasama mean?
Answer: one who remains in the home

Question: What did samurai wives' duties include when their husbands were away?
Answer: manage all household affairs, care for the children, and perhaps even defend the home forcibly

Question: What was a naginata?
Answer: a polearm

Question: What was tantojutsu?
Answer: the skill of the knife

Question: What characteristics did samurais want their wives to have?
Answer: humility, obedience, self-control, strength, and loyalty

Question: Who did samurai wives have to teach?
Answer: the children (and perhaps servants, too)

Question: Who did samurai wives have to take care of?
Answer: elderly parents or in-laws that may be living under her roof

Question: Who was a woman supposed to be subservient to?
Answer: her husband

Question: What defined the samurais' code?
Answer: Confucian law

Question: Who was Ashikaga Yoshimasa?
Answer: 8th shogun of the Muromachi shogunate

Question: Who was Ashikaga Yoshimasa's wife?
Answer: Hino Tomiko

Question: Why did Ashikaga let his wife take over?
Answer: lost interest in politics

Question: Who was Nene?
Answer: wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Question: Who was Yodo-dono the concubine of?
Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Question: In what period did Japanese women begin being more educated?
Answer: Tokugawa

Question: What were added to marriage criteria in the Tokugawa period?
Answer: intelligence and education as desirable attributes

Question: What types of advanced books did some Japanese women read?
Answer: philosophical and literary classics

Question: When had most samurai wives learned to read?
Answer: the end of the Tokugawa period

Question: Who was the first Western samurai?
Answer: William Adams

Question: Who made William Adams a samurai?
Answer: Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Question: What was William Adams's Japanese name?
Answer: Anjin Miura

Question: What did hatamoto mean?
Answer: bannerman

Question: How many servants did William Adams have?
Answer: eighty or ninety

Question: What nationality was Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Around when was Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn born?
Answer: 1556

Question: What was Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn's Japanese name?
Answer: Yayousu

Question: What permission allowed trade between Japan and Indo-China?
Answer: a Red Seal Ship

Question: How did Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn die?
Answer: drowned after his ship ran aground

Question: What nationality was Edward Schnell?
Answer: Prussian

Question: What duties did Edward Schnell have?
Answer: military instructor and procurer of weapons

Question: Who did Edward Schnell work for?
Answer: the Aizu domain

Question: What was Edward Schnell's Japanese name?
Answer: Hiramatsu Buhei

Question: Where did Edward Schnell live?
Answer: Wakamatsu

Question: What type of armor did Japanese wear in the 7th century?
Answer: a form of lamellar armor

Question: What was the first samurai armor called?
Answer: yoroi

Question: What were the small scales in yoroi called?
Answer: kozane

Question: What were kozane made of?
Answer: iron or leather

Question: What was a full chest armor called?
Answer: dou

Question: Why were there armor changes in the 1500s?
Answer: the advent of firearms, new fighting tactics and the need for additional protection

Question: What type of armor was replaced?
Answer: kozane dou

Question: What new type of armor replaced the old?
Answer: plate armor

Question: What was the new armor called?
Answer: Tosei-gusoku

Question: When was samurai armor last used?
Answer: 1877

Question: What did 'samurai' mean at first?
Answer: those who serve in close attendance to nobility