Ap World History Dbq Samurai

Each source gives us a little insight of the samurai. Some give us a better understanding of the samurai. In medieval Japan, there were basic regulations on lords and samurais. These legal documents was made in 1543-1616, it was made a year before Tokugawa Ieyasu’s death. These documents told the families how to act and behave if a war started or during a war. “Enacted a series of social economic, and political reforms in order to pacify a population long accustomed to war and instability and create the institutions necessary for lasting central rule” this is a quote from source 1. Each samurai had their own armour that they wore in battle, this armour had blue lace to join bits of the armour together, golden horns on the helmet, a leather covered visor and a scary helmet to intimidate their enemies “Such dramatic and …show more content…
To be a samurai you had to believe/follow a code, the bushido was made between 1709 and 1716. Bushido is the way of the warrior, things that are involved in bushido are, fighting until death “Bushido is nothing but charging forward, without hesitation, unto death”, charge into battle even if you know that you will die and loyalty is also involved. This is proven by source 3. To link back to battle and war, a death poem is made by a samurai as a self-punishment, if a samurai lost in battle, they would make a death poem then commit suicide. They committed suicide to prevent bring his family name and or to avoid capture. This painting in source 4 can prove to us that the death poem was a custom to a samurai. That samurais went and fought as hard as they could until death “Two fellow warriors battling through a storm of arrows.” Parts of history can have a big effect of people, this might inspire them to write a book. Source 5 tells us that Stephen Turnball was interested in Japan history .This inspired him to write many books on Japans history, on of which was about the