Samurai And Knights

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Document A Social Heirarchy

Diamyos and samurai had the same realaationship as a lord and a knight. A daimyo is a fuedal lord who often fought each other.Est.250 to 1600. A samurai was a warrior who oweed loyalty and military service to daimyos for land or regular payment.With families, made up about 10% of Japan's population.

A lord was a person who resived land from a king and owed military service.A knight was a warrior who owed loyality and military service to his lord for land; estimated 12000 knights in England and Normandy Fance in the 12th century.

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Document A Social Heirarchy

A knight and lord had the same realationship as a samurai and a daimyo. both warriors owed loyalty and military service for land or payment.

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Document B Social Hierarchy

Samurai: loyalty towards the feudal lord in Japan was hereiditry, it went from father to son, so that the relations of lord and samurai exsicted between family generations.There was no legal binding towards this agreement.But in Europe it was a legal document spelling out the obligaions of lord and vassal respectivly,never exsisted in Japan.It was common to speak of a samurai last the deteriation of three lives: his past, his present and his future self.The life of a samurai belonged entirly to his lord.Not only the life of a samurai was at the disposal of his feudal lord,but also those of his wife and children.

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Document B Social Hierarchy

In Japan loyalty towards a feudal lord was hereiditry while in Europe it was not.Also there was no legal binding of the document but in Europe there was.Lastly it was common to speak of a samurai in the deteration of three lives:past,present and future. ANd both Samurai and Knight had to nshow asence of loyalty towards a lord.

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Document C Military Traing and Armor

A samurais training began in childhood.School was a unique combonation of physical training, poetry, and spiritual disipline.At age 14 the trainee offically became a samurai.The samurai also had a strict ethical code influenced by Confucianism that stressed loyalty to ones master,respect for one's superior,ethical behavior in all respect in all aspects of life, and complete self disipline.A knightbegan traing in childhood too( four or five years of age) learning to ride a pony. Then at the age of 7 or 8 he would be sent to serve as a page to his father's overlord or to a powerful realitive.Practiceed with blunt woodern swords.Then at the age of 14, pages were able to become a squire. A squire would still train with weapons, and already be considered to be fighting men.If a squire gained approval from an examing knight, he would usualyy become a knight at around the age of 21.

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Document C Military Training and Armor

Both the knight and samurai started training in childhood. Bothwent through some form of physical and spiritual/religous training.Lastly both the samurai and knight had some code of loyalty to a lord,self disipline etc.And both went up astage in becoming a warrior at the age of 14. Lastly both practiced with blunt weapons. both stuied poetry, and both took many years to become a warrior.

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Document D Military Training and Armor

In samurai armor small iron scales were tied together,laquered and then bound into armor plates with silk or leather cords.The helmet bowl was made of 8 to 12 iron plates and belowit was a 5 piece neck guard.The body of the armor had four parts.Samurai did not wear armor covering on thier right arm so they could easily draw their bows.One disadvantage of samurai armor is when the silk cords got wet, the silk would absorb the water and the armor would be very heavy.
Knights wore aarmor made of chain mai which were tiny metal rings hooked together. As more powerful weapons came along chain mail was no longer sufficient.So knights wore suits of complete suits of armor made from metal.The entire body was covered and there were metal gloves and shoes also.A knights armor could weigh from 40 to 60 pounds.

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Document D Military Training and Armor

Both the samurai and knight had armor to protect themselves in battle and both warriors armor were head to toe or full body armor.

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Document E Feelings AboutHonor and Death

In discharging loyal service to his master if the samurai has one, in deeping his feidlity in associations with friends, and in devoting himself to duty above all.However, in one's own life one becomes unaviodably involved in obligations between father and son, older and younger brother, and husband and wife.The samurai confines himself to practicing the Way: should there be someone who transgreeses aganist these moral princibles, the samurai summarily punishes him and thus upholds proper moral princibles in the land. He strives to full fill the Way.... Within his heart he keeps to the ways of peace, but without he keeps his weapons ready for use.

Knight: With great ceremony each knight took the vows of true knighthood, solemly promising to do no wicked deed, to be loyal to the king, to give mercy to those asking it,always to be courteous and helpful to ladies, and to fight in no wrongful quarrel for wordly gain, upon king arthur's favor.To dishonor Knight hood was the greatest disgrace.

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Document E Feelings AboutHonor and Death

Both the samurai and knight had a code of loyalty and honor.Botrh codes promised to be loyal tothe samurai or knight's master.

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Document F Felling about Honor and Death

For the first samurai poem the main idea was that life is short and you never know when you will die or where.
For the second samurai poem the main idea was thta death is like anyother day. It really is no big deal.
For the Knight's veiw of life: Ronald is a bit afraid of death and asking for forgiveness for all his sins.

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Document F Felling about Honor and Death

Death was a common and natural veiw of both the knight and samurai,