both codes of honor which consisted of fighting for their earthly lord‚ but when it came down to committing ritual suicide for their god only Samurais were up for the challenge; setting them aside from the Knights. These two different types of people clash swords when it comes to how they view women and what they wear going into battle. The Japanese Samurai lived by bushido‚ which was a code of honor that demanded bravery and faithfulness to the lord. They would put their life on the line for the
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Written by Pamela Turner and illustrated by Gareth Hinds‚ Samurai Rising is a biography on the fascinating life of Minamoto Yoshitsune‚ one of the most well known samurais in Japan. Yoshitsune was a member of the Minamoto family‚ who were defeated by their main rival‚ the Taira family‚ when he was still just an infant. Most of the adult Minamoto were killed‚ while their children were sent to live in exile in various parts of Japan. Little is known about Yoshitsune’s early childhood‚ but there are
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Called "knights" in Europe and "samurai" in Japan‚ the warriors served nearby masters. In both cases‚ the warriors were bound by a code of morals. Knights should slash to the idea of gallantry‚ while samurai were bound by the statutes of bushido‚ or "the Way of the Warrior." Both knights and samurai rode steeds into fight‚
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Bushido- way of the warrior‚" code of behavior of Japanese samurai; emphasized bravery‚ loyalty and honor Daimyo-powerful warlords who held large estates and commanded private armies of samurai Fealty-the loyalty owed by a vassal to his feudal lord feudal system-political and social system based on the granting of land in exchange for loyalty‚ military assistance‚ and other services fief-grant of land from a lord to a vassal haiku-Japanese poem of 17 syllables written in three lines kabuki-type
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Genji and Heian-Kyo “When Emperor Kanmu (737-806) founded Heian-ky6 in 794‚ the new capital was meant to be the permanent bureaucratic and ritual seat of a strong‚ centralized‚ Chinese-style state” (Stavros‚ 1). Heian-Kyo was the capital of the Japanese empire from 694 to 1184. It had many strong Chinese-inspired architecture and styles‚ but deviated from the ideal in many ways. The character Genji from The Tales of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is the son of the Emperor whoose “looks had an indescribably
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experienced and renowned Yoji Yamada‚ Twilight Samurai is a film set in the 19th century‚ towards the end of the Tokugawa or Edo era. It was a time when the samurai system was beginning to wane as Japan started to advocate itself towards modernization. The Meiji reforms had started to begin‚ and the samurai class was gradually being disregarded as of a higher social status. The lifestyle and demand for the samurai was thus in a process of change‚ as the samurai began to take on other trades such as merchants
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Masculinity/ Femininity Dimension in the Last Samurai According to Hofstede‚ Masculinity/ Femininity dimension explains Masculinity: The way the samurais in the movie were portrait are in fact extremely accurate to those that existed in the 18th century. From as young as seven or eight years of age‚ boys we turned from kids into killing samurais. In one of the scene’s of the movie‚ we see two young boys learning to fight with wooden sticks. Although so young‚ their skills were already better
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Samurai Warriors did not back down it was called an honor to die in the name of the emperor‚ want to know why? Because of a code called Bushido. The most important thing to a samurai warrior was to follow the bushido code. Bushido was important to Samurai because it was a code taught to them by their master. The Bushido code stated that all Samurai Warriors were required by their master to be loyal to the Shogun no matter what happened to them. The Bushido code stated that even though they were
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Introdution Twilight Samurai is a movie that revolves around the live of a samurai‚ years before the Meiji Restoration. The main issues that the movie looked at include stereotype of samurais‚ genders and social class differences. Unlike many typical samurai-themed movies which involve fighting‚ woman and pride‚ the director of Twilight Samurai focused on the everyday life and difficulties faced by the main protagonist‚ Iguchi Seibei. His story was told by her daughter‚ Ito who narrated the whole
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Do you ever wonder what would happen if knights and samurais lived together? Even though they lived in completely different places around the world they developed a similar culture. So were the similarities between knights and samurais greater than the the differences they had back then? My thesis is that even though both knights and samurais never met they were more similar than they were different. One reason why samurais and knights were more similar than different is because of the way they were
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