It is 1400 A.D. and a samurai has just dishonored his family’s name, Without hesitation, he Takes out his katana and commits seppuku, A Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. This was common for the samurai. This disregard for death was only one reason why the samurai were different than the knights. The samurai were different from the knight because of their religion, how they trained, and the ways that they followed their lords.
The samurai and knights have a vast religious difference. For one the samurai believed in reincarnation so death was nothing to worry about when it came to the samurai. The knights are a different story. They believed in heaven and they prolonged their death and made it much more dramatic and eccentric (document
The samurai and knights have a vast religious difference. For one the samurai believed in reincarnation so death was nothing to worry about when it came to the samurai. The knights are a different story. They believed in heaven and they prolonged their death and made it much more dramatic and eccentric (document