Long sword or Broadsword‚ which were designed to penetrate chainmail and slice your opponent’s limbs off‚ the Katana has a curved one sided blade and is used specifically to inflict injury on your opponent and to deflect blows. According to legend‚ Samurai swords began when Amakuni‚ a master swordsmith‚ (during the Koto period‚ before 1596) wanted to stop swords from snapping easily. He prayed until he had a thought of pure genius. The trick is all in the way you cool it‚ so once he hammered the sword
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The novel‚ White Crane by Sandy Fussel teaches us that the samurai kids achieve because they obey the code of Bushido. Sandy Fussel’s novel White Crane demonstrates that despite disabilities the Samurai kids achieve success because they follow the code of Bushido. In the novel‚ Yoshi learns to become a great leader and shows great courage. Niya shows great kindness to others‚ and Taji demonstrates great wisdom and perceptiveness. By honouring the code of Bushido‚ they and the rest of the Cockroach
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he controlled the area around the city of Nagoya‚ and accumulated a huge amount of wealth and a respectable force of samurais serving the daimyo. Nobuhide passed away in 1551‚ after which Nobunaga took over his father’s residence and overpowered his relatives and other respectable people of the province. A daimyo is a feudal lord. From a foot soldier‚ he went up to becoming a samurai through his perceptive manners and agility. Hideyoshi fought in numerous important wars for Nobunaga when he began his
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Passage from http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1750_meiji.htmIn 1868 the Tokugawa shôgun ("great general")‚ who ruled Japan in the feudal period‚ lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position. The emperor took the name Meiji ("enlightened rule") as his reign name; this event was known as the Meiji Restoration. The Reign of the Meiji Emperor When the Meiji emperor was restored as head of Japan in 1868‚ the nation was a militarily weak country‚ was primarily agricultural
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Meiji Restoration Toilet seat warmers for winter‚ graphic anime designs and a self-cooking kitchen are some of the contemporary innovations in modern-day Japan. Quite a contrast to the famous slogan‚ of the nineteenth century‚ “Eastern ethics and Western science”; “ancient patriotism and modern scientific application” which indicates the secret ingredients of feudal Japan’s rapid rise to power. In just forty years the hitherto‚ homogenous country radically modernised –a remarkable feat‚ breaking
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In 1853‚ Western imperialism was at its height. It was spreading to several countries. British colonized India‚ the dutch colonized Indonesia‚ the United States colonized the philippines‚ and the french colonized vietnam. In 1929‚ the crash of the stock market brought a worldwide depression‚ known as the Great Depression. The depression caused instability in many countries. International commerce declined and tax revenues‚ profits‚ and personal income decreased. The great depression especially impacted
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and the first shogun of the Tokunawa shogunate. He was able to seize power in Japan in 1600 after the battle of Sekigahara between Tokugawa and the other daimyos that were against him. Although Tokunawa was essentially the ruler at that time with his headquarters in Edo (present-day Tokyo)‚ it wasn’t until 1603 that the imperial court named him shogun. Tokugawa established a national hegemony in which the daimyos were required to pay allegiance in order to continue
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modern future. The constitution also directly speaks to its nation by calling the Japanese citizens “our beloved subjects.” This language is implemented specifically to unify groups of people‚ like the domain leaders‚ Bakufu supporters‚ and loyalist samurai who spent years in political conflict among one another. The writers of the constitution knew that in order to move forward in modernity they needed to convince the torn nation to “assume the duty of allegiance.” They needed to band together the political
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Kamakura bakufu was a Japanese feudal military government that was led by the shoguns. Before the Kamakura Period‚ which is the late Hein Period‚ the rise of samurai and their control of political power played an important role in shaping the Japanese history. The two most powerful samurai clans were the Taira Clan and Minamoto clan. However‚ they both favored a different political leader. The Minatomo clan favored Nijo Tenno whom was the current emperor at the time‚ and the Taira clan favored
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period of war between the samurai‚ lasted about two hundred and fifty years‚ from 1600 to 1868 (Huffman). This period is sometimes called the “pax Tokugawa‚” or the “Tokugawa peace (Huffman).” One of the main areas of opposition to the Tokugawa government approaching the mid-seventeenth century was the lower-ranked samurai or “shishi‚” “men of spirit (Huffman).” When Shogun Tokugawa Keiki admitted the westerners into the country in 1854‚ led by Matthew Perry‚ all of these samurai gained enough support
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