Samurai

The training of a Japanese Samurai, began at the age of 5, at which point a man would give his son, to the care of his brother, the boy's uncle. The Japanese frowned on fathers training their own sons because, as all fathers love their boys, the fear was that dad was going to be too soft, be too easy on them, and Samurai training was very much life or death, they were training to be a soldier. Upon arriving at his uncle's house, the boy would work as a servant for about 3 years, before any formal sword instruction began.

In addition to sword instruction, they were taught various forms of Buddhist meditation, given a classical Chinese education which was common of upper class feudal era Japanese, and upon hitting puberty, more rigorous training would begin. The core of the physical side of Samurai training, lay in Sumo; in fact the reason Sumo is so revered in Japan, is because Sumo is the FOUNDATION, for the training of a Samurai. Before you do your family's style of Jiu Jitsu, as all Samurai families had their own style, or your clan's, before learning the other Samurai weapons, the various staves and spears, the bow and arrow, and learning the art of Yabusame or "horse archery," you learned Sumo.

If a boy could not survive Sumo training, he could face being disowned by his own father. Why the harshness? Feudal era Japanese Samurai believed, if you can not survive a Sumo stable, you will not survive in battle. All Samurai, regardless of build, had to learn Sumo. Now the whole issue with being fat, is a relatively recent phenomenon; as it became more and more a sport, it began favoring men whose bodies were more heavy set. Thus you began seeing less "fat but muscular" men, and more "fat and strong" types as the years passed. The general build of a Samurai was "fat but muscular." That is, that type of men with arms like bodybuilders, but bellies like a sack of potatoes. Of course Japanese swordsmen ran the gamut of body types; what mattered most was whether or not a boy was strong enough to survive the training, not how he looked, and, what can I say, some dudes are tougher and stronger than they look. Never judge a book by its cover and all that.

Upon completing Sumo, a Samurai boy would learn his clan's style of Jiu Jitsu. Modern Judo, is in fact an amalgam of several styles, that is, Judo is composed of techniques which Dr. Jigoro Kano, the sport's creator, felt were the most scientifically relevant. Dr. Kano hand picked Jiu Jitsu techniques which he felt were the simplest and easiest to learn, and most applicable to how the laws of physics affected the human body, as well as their efficiency. In other words hundreds of Jiu Jitsu styles contributed a move or two to Judo, that is why the art is so comprehensive in terms of grappling.

Obviously through all this, sword practice would continue. Upon completing the training, and surviving the often harsh strength building methods, by now having reached manhood, the boy was no longer a boy but a Samurai. If you were asking regarding conditioning, and strength building, it was mostly the stuff they now do at Sumo stables. In order to get strong, what Samurai used to do, was lift logs over their shoulders, and then run uphill with them, the distance I think roughly 5 miles. According to legend, one particular Samurai did an uphill jog with a 900 lb log over his shoulders.

Miyamoto Musashi, generally reccomended, simply, just living in the wilderness, and practicing your art. Nothing fancy, nothing secret; just live in the wild, and practice. The wilderness itself, according to the Yamabushi, or Japanese hermits, will make you strong. Simply living and surviving there is enough for overall "conditioning." The idea that the Samurai did not do strength building exercises is a myth; truth is they did, their favorite method was playing around with large logs. Bear hugging them, lifting them over their shoulders and running with them, basically a lot of the stuff, very often, you see some MMA guys do today.

Now where there is a peculiar difference however, is that in the Sumo stable, they felt your strength training was not complete until you were strong enough to uproot a tree with a bear hug. If you trained to become that strong, THEN you truly earned the title of "Yokozuna." A fully trained Sumo master, had to be able to do two things; uproot a tree with a shoulder charge, that is keep hitting with your shoulder, American Football style, an NFL type charge, until you knock it down. The other thing is bear hug and uproot it. Incredible? Unbelievable? Hey you asked man; I swear, I am not making this up.

For what its worth, I think in some Japanese museums, they have large tree trunks on display with grooves, roughly the same size as a human shoulder. That is trees with marks, dents on the trunk, put there by shoulders. Common sense of course demands that hopefully they were wearing some sort of armor..... I mean, hitting a tree trunk bare chested, you're gonna skin yourself. Its not entirely impossible though, because in eras past, people used to wear clothing with much heavier and thicker fabric. If your clothes tore, you couldn't just go to the store and get new threads; you were gonna get a bit breezy if your clothes were made from easily torn fabrics, or not thick enough. Provided they had the sense to wear protective padding hey, those men were pretty stocky, so, its possible.

Yes the samurai were wiped out .japan ask America to help rid of the samurai.Because the samurai were stuck in the old days

The Samurai's job was to protect the Daimyo and in return they got food and other things

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The Samurai were more than just mere warriors. They lived their lives by accepting the simple fact that they could die at any moment.

Samurai lived by the Bushido code.

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The undergarment was woven from cloth made from the rice plant, on top of that garment, there was a layer of silk especially woven for combat, very similar to kevlar actually, on top of that, came bamboo plates, tied together with silk chords, which are in fact stronger than nylon, making them very hard to cut. The helmet, was made of a steel core (the rounded "bowl" part that fits on the skull), and it was covered with layers of highly compressed bamboo, the "wings" of the Samurai helmet, that is the part that covers the back of the neck, that was largely compressed bamboo. The technology for bamboo compression is not new; it was known in China in ancient times, and both Chinese and Japanese used compressed bamboo plating for armor.

On its own, obviously its not as strong as steel BUT, layered on top of silk, and having tightly compressed layers of bamboo, they offered plenty of protection against cuts and spear thrusts, not to mention arrow fire. Like European midieval armor, again it came in layers. First there was the traditional "thong" undergarments worn by all Japanese of the feudal era, on top of the undergarments, came the gi-like standard clothing, on top of that, there was a "gi" made from tightly woven silk, on top of that, oh sorry I forgot this one, there was a leather shirt, lather shin protectors, basically leather everything, beneath the compressed bamboo plating. The armor itself, again, consisted of two layers, leather made from deer skin because its flexible but really tough, and on top of that leather, compressed bamboo, which together would form gauntlets or breastplates or whatever you needed.

Beneath the plating again, they wore what was a sort of tightly woven silk gi, a material very similar to kevlar. Samurai armor was effective protection against cutting or stabbing, but, its Achilles heel, as with midieval armor, was that it offered no protection against blunt weapons such as war hammers or morning stars, or, in Japan's case, no protection against the Tetsubo, arguably the most sadistic war weapon ever conceived.

The Tetsubo, is a heavy Japanese oak (very strong) wooden club, with steel studs throughout except the handle area. An average Tetsubo weighs around 20 to 30 lbs, and only the strongest Samurai could wield them effectively. If you were struck cleanly with that thing, even while wearing bodyarmor, you did not get up; like I said, its easily the most evil primitive weapon ever conceived.

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The shogun is a lord who hires the Samurai to protect and fight for him. He pays them :)

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All land owners who could be shogun at any time could make a private army and become a Daimyo

Samurai cherished every thing and love came to every man they lived as they would die.

Samurai were the elite warriors of medieval Japan, who lived by a code of honour called 'Bushido', wielded a 'katana' and wore leather armour.

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.

samurai writing and literature was expressed through haiku poems: 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables forming 17 syllables all together. Writing and literature was very important in there culture back in the Fujiwara days

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When a card refers to a 'Six Samurai' monster, it means any monster with the words "Six Samurai" in the name. Therefore those cards will affect monsters such as Hand of the Six Samurai, and the 'Legendary Six Samurai' monsters.

The fans that they carried were actually made out of steel, but disguised as a paper one. They were called a tassen and could be used to fend off projectiles, or even clubbing somebody. This was one of the first concealed weapons, and was a weapon that the samurai could carry into a place were weapons were not allowed.

Actually the answer is both. Most individuals were are considered ninjas in the modern sense were born-and-raised samurai who specialized in missions that were considered unorthodox or non-conventional. This would include espionage, covert diplomacy, sabotage, assassination, misinformation, and general guerrilla warfare. However, they were not the stereotypical men in black body suits and, like Oni-Hanzo, were not much different from the other vassals of a lord except for their unique skill set. Hanzo himself was a master of the spear and was a skilled tactician and Onmyoji. His favorite spear and ceremonial helmet can be seen at Sainen-ji in Tokyo