code‚ and in this scene depicted is the punishments for disobeying the code‚ which is Seppuku. Seppuku is a form of ritual suicide that was practised by samurai. A person who had lost his honour had to show that his and his family’s or clan’s honour was more important to him than his own life. So‚ the bushido‚ the code by which a warrior or samurai had to live and die‚ demanded such a man to pay the highest possible price‚ to commit a ritual suicide called seppuku in order to clean his and his family’s
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of women in Shogunate was not as bad as in other societies where women were considered lower than their fathers/husbands; however‚ they were ranked accordingly and had power over these ranked lower than they did. Men dominated Japan under the Samurai period. Before this‚ there were a small number of female rulers and some women were allowed to inherit property. From (794 – 1185)‚ it was thought that a man should be at the head of the family to protect the house and land. Additionally‚ women had
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1.The Samurai’s Tale By: Harutomo Murakami Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright @ 1984 215 Park Avenue New York‚ New York 234 Pages 2. Harutomo Murakami (Taro)- The hero of the story‚ the son of a poor samurai who died in battle Lord Akiyama Nobutomo- One of Lord Shingen’s generals‚ Taro’s master and friend. Lord Akiyama Nobutora- Father of Lord Akiyama Nobutomo Lord Oda Nobunaga- Lord Takeda Shingen’s rival and enemy. Lord Oda Nobutada- Son of Lord Oda Nobunaga Lord Takeda Katsuyori-
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Imagine a samurai‚ walking down a street in full body armor. With a katana by his side the man is prepared for war. This warrior can seemingly slice through any opponent with one stroke of his blade. A samurai is not only known for his picture perfect technique‚ but for also the codes he lives by. The way of the samurai is governed by the Bushido‚ which literally means‚ “way of the warrior.” As described by PBS‚ the Bushido Code‚ “refers to a complex set of Japanese values stressing honor and loyalty
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“Little boy” and “Fat man”. These were the names of the two devastating atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One‚ a gun-assembly fission bomb where “a mass of Uranium-235 is fired down a gun barrel toward another mass of Uranium-235”. The other‚ an Implosion fission bomb where “a sphere of Plutonium-239 is surrounded by high explosives that compress the plutonium”. Both bombs had a TNT equivalent of over 15‚000 tons‚ and the sheer force of both explosions was equal to the load of nearly
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Pride vs. Social Duty AP World History Comparative Cultures Research 0129539 *Artwork provided by deviantart.com In Japan‚ from the 1200s to the 1800s‚ Samurai served as loyal protectors to their lords with a stark emphasis on altruistic devotion (Levy). Similar to the conception of the knightly class in Europe‚ samurai warriors arose out of the ashes of political turmoil and in to the feudal realm‚ in which the upper tier of society acquired reputable protectors of their large land
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Tokugawa shogunate began to crumble due to multiple factors including unrest from the peasant class of society (Samurai and Bushido). What finally broke down feudal Japan was the entry of western civilizations and forces into Japan. The U.S. navy‚ led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry went to Japan as an attempt to get the Tokugawa to open their doors and have relations with the western world (Samurai and Bushido). In 1858‚ Japan opened itself up to the world by signing a commercial treaty with the United
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very pious and old fashioned‚ enjoys a nice laugh with good friends. Ahmed al Massaed is a very weird - in a good way – Kuwaiti teen‚ strongly devoted to God. Christina Eliopolis is a Colonel and a pilot from Tennessee. Kondo Tatsumi is a Japanese Samurai. C. We will survive “The Great Panic” for one month by getting supplies from Geant‚ use 360’s food court; Kondo Tatsumi with the help of Colonel Christina will put a strategy plan of survival. II. Overarching Strategy D. Just
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generation. Being regarded as one of the great founders of modern Japan from the nineteenth century‚ Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese author‚ teacher‚ a translator of Western thoughts and customs‚ and broke the restrictive bonds of the Tokugawa samurai system. He was the founder of Keio-Gijuku University. Fukuzawa was an early Japanese civil rights activist. His thoughts about government and social institutions made a
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vigorous leaders took control of the government of Japan forcing a dramatic reconstruction of the nations polices‚ administration‚ class structure‚ economy‚ technology and culture. These leaders tended to be young samurai warriors in the han (feudal estates) of Choshu and Satsuma. The samurai were able to employ some of the technological information introduced by the Dutch from their station in Nagasaki harbor (the shogunate had established an office for translating Dutch material in 1811) and by 1840
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