Samurai

Mostly Samurais in training practiced calligraphy, practiced the rituals of tea ceremonies, wrote poetry (usually haikus), practiced swordsmanship and archery, and occassionally had lessons on seppuku and Bushido.

Yes. The Samurai were not forbidden to have families.

they are the positions in which a samurai serves his daimyo

Samurai were loyal to a diamyo in return for land. After a battle, the surviving samurai were given land as a reward for their loyalty.

Yes but the firearms were extremely poor against the very modern guns and ammo,

they were using old tech not even new during our civil war,,smooth bore

long arms didn't even have a shoulder stock on them..they also did not engage

well against the new tactics..untill it turned into close combat hand fighting they were just target practice...

There were many different beliefs in Feudal Japan. Most were Zen Buddhists, but other types of Buddhism existed, depending on which class of society one belonged to. Also all of Japan also have Shinto beliefs, especially the Imperial Household. There were also few Christians that existed in Feudal Japan, though it would be banned toward the end of Feudal Society.

* anyone that follows the samirai code wich iscalled Bushido which means the way of the warrior. It was their way of life. The Samurai's loyalty to the emperor were unsurpassed. They were trustworthy and honest. They lived simple lives with no interest in riches and material things, but rather in honor and pride. They were men of true strength. Samurai had no fear of death.

Samurai were soldiers, as a group they had no enemies of their own.

the question might be clearer that way: "who are the enemies of soldiers?"

the answer is, the current enemies of whom they happen to serve.

Other samurai. The Samurai were soldiers that worked for war lords and rulers throughout Japan.

The samurai were hired by Shoguns so their enemies were the enemies of their Shogun. Or anyone who attacked their homes.

To improve discipline, the samurai followed bushido (the way of the warrior) the seven virtues of bushido are Rectitude, Courage, Benevolence, Respect, Honesty, Honour and loyalty

Nature is the most important element of this religion

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.