Samurai

they lived in the community to enforce laws and collect taxes and some lived on the border line of the town to protect the village.

their houses were made from wood with internal paper walls. the floors were polished wood that had mats and cushions for sleeping on. they had a garden that a gardener would take care of so that it would look so good that it makes any English garden look like garbage.

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The Samurai's leaders, that is, their employers and masters, were the landowners, mainly, who carried the title, "Daimyo". In the 1600's, roughly, the various daimyo (This is a Japanese term, so no "s" at the end) finally supported and mostly obeyed the Shogun, who had the all the power, but still reported to the Emperor, if commanded to. In that time, the Shoguns were in the Tokugawa family.

Some Samurai no longer had a job and were called "Ronin"; they had no master, but did what jobs they could find, hoping to find a new master eventually.

There are a number of Samurai traditions and values which influence contemporary Japanese society. Most of the cultural values and belief are founded on Samurai and this is commonly depicted in modern Japanese art.

Samurai is a class like caste and it's hereditary. Therefore, the sons of farmers were destined to be farmers and samurai's son were samurai.

However, there were rare cases for some to be in samurai class. One is to show great talents in swordsmanship and others include becoming great scholars. It's very rare, though.

Inside the samurai class, there was also hierarchy, and it does not always mean upgrading the status if one becomes samurai from the other classes as many samurais were poor. It was more like hereditary occupations.

It was hereditary, but sometimes someone who was in favour with the higher authority could become a Samurai such as the English sailor Williams Adams who sailed to Japan but later became a Samurai

actually being a samurai took many talents including heredity but that doesn't mean your destined to become a farmer. you see Japanese society was broken down in classes. durning the time off the samurai the shogun was like the "lord" or king. after him was the damiyo or someone who does the kings work(sometimes!) and the samurai. if you worked up in ranks you could have a chance to be a samurai. to be a samurai took many years of dedication and training. if caught in a dirty deed a samurai would commit ritual suicide to peserve his personal honor.

At mid 1500 the separation law came. Before it anyone who could afford training could become a samurai, after that you had to be the son of a samurai.

bushido it's kind of like the chivalry the knights of mid evil europe had. They had rules of honor like seppuku whee they killed themselves if they did something realy dishonerable also they had to remain loyal and stuff like that ninga didn't have this but there were obviously ways of controlling them

On Guadalcanal, the Americans were amazed that some of the Japanese soldiers fought them hand to hand with swords. This is in the strictest tradition of Samurai. But, moreover, the indoctrination of these men and the culture of the Samurai pervaded Japanese society. Bushido called for courtesy to your enemy only if they merited it. If the enemy demanded bushido before death and the Japanese executioner could not provide it, the condemned were supposed to be allowed to live. But to surrender was the lowest thing that any warrior could do and called for execution.

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Samurai Aerobics is a workout program based on Kenjutsu and Kendo warm-ups and kihon, combined into a program by Joseph J. Truncale. This program was designed to give a complete workout, while at the same time teach the basic sword cuts of Kenjutsu and Kendo. It is great for the mind too. It helps you do many things that you didn't even know that you could do! It's awesome!

Daimyo (lit. Great Name), were the successors of the Shogun from their Shoen system in Japan. These Daimyo would go on to control entire provinces and would often give land as rewards for service.

1. Gi: the right decision, taken with equanimity, the right attitude, the truth. When we must die, we must die. Rectitude.

2. Yu: bravery tinged with heroism.

3. Jin: universal love, benevolence toward mankind, compassion.

4. Rei: the right action- a most essential quality, courtesy.

5. Makoto: utter sincerity, truthfulness.

6. Melyo: honor and glory.

7. Chugo: devotion, loyalty.

Seppuku - a ritual for killing yourself. (an answer ten years in the making)

The Japanese knights. Taught never to surrender and never to retreat, they would commit suicide if they were defeated or ashamed and so, they became the worlds most deadly warriors. They had the strongest swords in the world, they lived by the code bushido.

Yes, the movie starring Tom Cruise called the Last Samurai holds many truths about the industrial revolution in Japan. After being intimidated by Commodore Perry the Japanese moved all their resources into capitalism and began building all kinds of factories and industries and to go along with all this modernization the emperor also mandated the end of the samurai class in Japanese society. Instead of having an elite class of warriors, the Japanese would turn towards a modernized military that drafts people from within he country instead of training a small group of elite warriors. When this first happened there were many groups like the one described in the movie who were against the modernization of Japan and who were ready to revolt against the emperor in order to save the nation. These rogue samurai, also known as ronin, were a notorious and large threat to the nation for the first few years after industrializing.

The Samurai did protect the master or the person at which he has been told to protect. They were for example bodygaurds.

they started to wear different clothes also, they became calmer

From About.com Bushido: The code of conduct followed by Japan's samurai warriors. The principles of bushido emphasized honor, courage, and loyalty to a warrior's master above all else. The ideal samurai warrior was supposed to be immune from the fear of death. Only the fear of dishonor, and loyalty to his daimyo, motivated the true samurai.

Becoming a samurai can take many years, as long as it takes to learn the martial arts, archery, fencing and many other skills.

The primary components of Japanese armor are as follows:

Fundoshi (loincloth)

Shitagi (shirt)

Kobakama (pants)

Kiahan (gaiters)

Waraji (sandals)

Suneate (shin guards)

Haidate (thigh guards)

Yugake (gloves)

Kote (sleeves)

Wakibiki (armpit protectors)

Do (body armor)

Uwa obi (belt)

Sode (shoulder guards)

Nodowa (throat protector)

Hoate (facemask)

Kabuto (helmet)

It's about a boy that his family dies in one day and he is left alone and has to make is way working for a lord.

The samuri sword would work better, as they have better mobility, and often a longer reach. The shape of the katana, works much better for both slashing (even through armour), and stabbing. They could easily penetrate the armour with a stab from almost anywehere. And if they where face to face, a diagonal slash to the shoulder, would make the Knight unable to fight.

Although I'm Japanese-American, I am a little sketchy on Japanese history. What I do know is that it started once Japan was unified under one shogun. Prior to this unification, all samurai had a daimyo, or lord. There were may daimyo in pre-unified Japan. Once unified, however, the role of the warrior was lessened and samurai were not as useful. Interestingly, this was about the time that bushido, or the way of the warrior, first emerged and was formalized. Bushido teaches, among other virtues, that the samurai must serve his lord to the death and death in service of one's lord is the greatest honor and samurai could experience. In pre-unified Japan, when all the fighting was occuring, this concept did not exist. Samurai frequently shifted their loyaties.

Some historians attribute the emergence of bushido in unified Japan as the samurai trying to justify their existence in a now peaceful Japan.

Much later, around the 19th century, a US naval officer, Commodore Perry, forced Japan to open it previous closed society to trade. It was at this time that the leaders of Japan realized that the "old" samurai ways would not be able to compete militarily with Western weaponry. There was a movement to adopt Western technology, which eventually lead to the illegalization of samurai. Of course, this policy wasn't very popular with some old school samurai, who fought the modernization movement. Eventually, however, techonology won. Samurai lost. In modern day Japan, remnants of the samurai culture still remain. Modern Japanese businessmen still find samurai technique applicable to forming corporate strategy and will study writings of past samurai for business enlightenment. Modern day Japanese athletes do the same. In a way, the samurai may be gone, but their influence on methods of handling competition and conflict are alive and well in Japan.

so it was the age of guns that ended the age of the samurai

fights for their lord,shogun,or emperer, or if there masters were killed either avenged them or became mercinaries.or in peace practice martial arts,calligraphy,painting,liteature,poetry,and many other hobbies,and studys

Well, depends on if you talk about right up close and personal, sneak attack, or at a distance. Because non of them matter, the Ninja would at all. The Ninja just has better weapons altogether. Ninjas Ninjato which beats the Samurai's Katana.

They must follow Bushido which is the samurai code of honor.

The Japanese warriors, the samurai came into existence during the years of the 12th century. This was when landlords hired private warriors for the protection of their farms and land. The private warriors were called Samurai. When two clans fought they usually fought for pieces of land.

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The shogun was the main "advisor" of the emperor. In truth the shogun had all of the control, as the emperor was just a figurehead. The daimyo were provincial rulers who had control over small amounts of territory and at different times had largely independent power.