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.
A Samurai's job was to serve and if the time came die for his lord. A Kamikaze pilot's job was to die for his country.
At first the Samurai were elite bowmen on horses, they later became much more important and became some sort of nobles, whilst the Ashigaru was normal foot-soldiers the Samurai were like the Knights in europe, but they were in turn ruled over by a Daimyo, who was ruled over by the Shogun. So, answer: The Samurai were elite soldiers, their purpose was to serve their Daimyo even if he is wrong, Samurai means "To serve"
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to serve the shoguns that hired them and protect and expand their employers land or property
I presume you mean Samurai? Or Ashigaru, commoners trained to be soldiers, after the separation law, they were made into samurai. Samurai were to serve their lord, be it Shogun or Daimyo, Samurai means "to serve".
"Samurai" (侍) comes from "侍う" (Saburau) to serve.
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to protect his Daimyo
The word samurai means; to serve.
The Samurai were ready for battle/war whenever the shoguns told them to. Hope this helps!
The Samurai were ready for battle/war whenever the shoguns told them to. Hope this helps!
Samurai were expected to serve their master as a form of loyalty and duty known as "bushido." This code of honor and ethics was deeply ingrained in samurai culture and emphasized the importance of serving one's lord with unwavering loyalty and obedience. Failing to do so would bring dishonor and shame to both the samurai and their family.
Answer 1: SAmurais served their Shogun. A shogun was the military leader and as the years went on shogans became more incharge then the emperors. Answer 2: Samurai didn't serve the shogun, they served the daimyo, the Japanese lords. Then the daimyo would give the shogun loyalty and the service of some of the daimyo's samurai, in return for land which they gave some to the samurai. The shogun has (for example) 3 lots of land - A, B, C. Two lots of samurai -A,B - serve the daimyo. The shogun gives land lot B and C to the daimyo in return for samurai lot B. The daimyo gives land lot C to the samurai in return for their service. So even though samurai lot B 'serves' the shogun, they actually do that only because they serve the daimyo.
Serve their Lord, thats what their name means. They were mostly used in battle.
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.
The meaning of the word samurai is "To Serve". They were supposed to do as their Lord says, even if it is stupid or wrong.