1. If you had to guess, what kind of animal do you think this is?

2. What type of person is this drawing supposed to represent?

3. How many swords does Usagi Yojimbo have? What are they called and what’s the difference

between them

4. What kind of footwear is Usagi Yojimbo wearing? What is it’s Japanese name?

5. What’s odd about the kimono that Usagi Yojimbo is wearing? Why is it this way?

Ears Katana (long sword)

Guard

Fist

Handle Grip

Arm

SleeveTied and Gathered(A popular style in

Feudal Japan)

Elbow

Scabbard for KatanaBelt

TieScabbard for Wakizashi

HakamaTied and Gathered

(Another popular style)

Rabbit’s toes

Geta(raised wooden Sandal)

WarajiJapanese flip flops

Foot(For Good Luck)

Hakama(17th Century Japanese

Baggy Levis)

Wakizashi(short sword)

Sleeve Mon

Sleeve(Normal)

MonClan crest

Kimonochin

MouthTurf of fur

Mr. Kellner18-2 Reading Guide

Read Chapter 18-2 on pages 393-397 and answer the following questions. Then answer the Questionson the back of this page

1. Put the Japanese social classes on the right in order, starting with the highest. These social classes represent Japanese society from 1600-1868

Daimyo (great samurai)

Commoners

Emperor

Shogun

Lesser Samurai

2. Draw a star next to the most powerful person or group in this society

3. Which country had the greatest influence on Japan?

4. A system of government in which local lords rule the land but are bound by ties of loyalty

to higher lords or the emperor is called what?

5. What city was the capital of Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate? What is that city called today?

6. Even though Japan was isolated from the rest of the world, European traders from what country were

able to keep a trading post in Nagasaki

7. The Japanese emperor is thought to be a direct descendant of what Japanese goddess?

8. The Japanese originally used Chinese writing. Later, this was replaced by a writing system called?

Peasants