Bushido Code Essay

In the medieval times, when the shoguns ruled Japan. There were samurai or japanese warriors. These samurai were people who worked for the damio, or japanese warlords. The daimyo were powerful landowners who would hire samurai to protect their land and belongings. The samurai lived under a strict set of rules, this was called the bushido code. The bushido code was used by samurai warriors and was the ultimate guide on how you should live your life, from fighting skills to self honour and also to be polite, even to the people you didn’t like or even at war with. The Bushido code didn’t stay exactly the same, but always had the same idea and morals. The Bushido code was made and develope between 1192–1333 although lived by nearly all samurai and was known all over Japan it was not an official or written down until
A lot of the bushido was self honour, which meant living and dying with respect. The bushido code was so strict that the samurai that broke the code it would kill themselves to save their honour (even if nobody knew they broke the rules), this was called harakiri. It involved slitting their stomach open and disenbowing their stomach and organs. It was supposed to be extremely painful as punishment for breaking the bushido code (I’ve never tried it though). The word bushido means way of the warrior, bushi meaning way and do meaning warrior. The biggest need for a samurai back then was to have absolute and total respect to the daimyo. The samurai trusted and respected the daimyo so much that after a samurai’s master had been disrespected of killed it was a samurai’s job to hunt down and kill that person. If the samurai's master had been killed, then the samurai was referred to as a ronin, or masterless samurai. The bushido code was lived by samurai until the about the seventeenth