The character Kenshin Himura is fictional, and was created by Nobuhiro Watsuki. However, Watsuki based the character of Kenshin on a real-life samurai named Kawakami Gensai, who was one of the four most notorious assassins of the Bakumatsu period of Japan. Kenshin's sword style was also based on a real samurai of the Tokugawa period, named Matsubayashi Henyasai.
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) :Ending Theme ~ "Quiet Life" by Taku Iwasaki
The Legendary Swordsman was created in 2000.
Kenshin died from lepresy. Also, Kenshin had passed this disease to Kaoru through sexual intercourse. ^^ That's not canon, that happened only in the second OVA (Reflection). In the manga, Kenshin does not die. His Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu becomes ineffective due to the strain it has exerted on his body so he can't use it anymore. He retires and lives happily ever after with Kaoru. Ohh and I don't think that was supposed leprosy. Different people have different theories on what the disease was but it may very well not be a real disease. It's something he got from using his swordsmanship too much.
The cast of A Samurai About to Lose His Life - 1993 includes: Tetsuo Kurata
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they were the cooks of the palaces
It means a great part of a Samurais life. The soul of a Samurai is insuperable till he dies.
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Samurai lived their life by the code of Bushido, a combination of Confucianism, Shinto and Zen Buddhism.
It was a honor to be a great samurai. It's also a better life than being a farmer except if you like farming as a job. But being a samurai is not easy either.
It is impossible to follow the old ways of the samurai. Samurai means to serve. You would serve the emperor or the shogun or daiymo, depending when in time you were living. Samurai followed bushido, or way of the warrior, devoting to life and death everything to follow a good path through service. The closet to this in a modern day way would be a Buddhist, serving in the army during the a time of war. Samurai were a class of person in Japan, when the samurai class was disbanded, so was its way of life.