Knight vs Samurai Essay

are times that we follow our instincts (the gut feel) but there are times that we rationally discern and take precautionary measures to every action we make. This randomness of life is coupled with chances. The film Yojimbo started with a wandering Samurai who aimlessly wander and throws a stick in the air for direction. He took the chance to go beyond his wondering state and followed the path the stick will lead him. His fate led him to a troubled town of rival gangs where he saw war as an…

If knights and samurais engaged in battle, who would triumph? Many European and Japanese cultures are similar. They both have the same feudalism system. Feudalism is the promises of a lord and a vassel. Shoguns and knights are similar because they are the rulers and landowners. Knights and samurais are also very similar because both of them are warriors. Europe and Japan have very similar thing although they never met. Samurais are better than knights because they can move fast, have to swords,…

Question:Discuss the impact of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Japan Introduction: The Tokugawa Shogunate was the last feudal military government in Japan and ushered a new era of growth where Japan was not on the brink of civil war and was rapidly growing.There were many impacts on Japan,firstly there was great cultural growth and popularization of traditional and new cultures,from this there were also social and economic changes.These changes impacted Japan and still has effects on the modern day…

The question explored is “To what extent did Douglas MacArthur contribute in writing of the Japanese constitution?”. To answer the question, the investigation on MacArthur’s role in the occupation of Japan after the Second World War and the construction of the Japanese constitution were carefully examined, using both official documents and secondary sources such as works by historians and biographical articles by journalists. While the work of MacArthur as the lead role of the occupation will be…

I believe that Yojimbo is one of the most ideal examples of a film that successfully overcame the different cultural borders because of how the plot embodies universal themes that were very much relatable and applicable to audiences regardless of which cultural society they belonged to. These reoccurring themes may somewhat be a depiction of or a response to what a certain society was currently experiencing during that time. The theme of ‘old versus the new’ was an underlying theme that was…

by the samurai transformed from the end of the Heian Period to the Tokugawa Period, especially the for the shoen system in Japan. During the Heian Period, the control of land and agricultural production was an important concept to the samurai. However, during the Kamakura Period, the jito came into the picture and took over the shoen system. By the mid-fourteenth to the late sixteenth century, the shoen declined due to four different factors. However, during the Tokugawa Period, the samurai gain…

In 1336, the emperor lost his power, when a civil war broke out. He sent armies of samurais out to fight the war for him. When they returned he gave the title Shogun to the leader of the army, so that they would not over throw him as emperor. With this there began a new from of control, with multiple armies controlling smaller lands. During…

Constantly referred to as the Warring states period, the Sengoku era (1467- 1593) was a period of numerous civil wars and endless political-military battles. Since the Onin War in 1467, a war between two powerful clans (Hosokawa and Yamana), Japan had hence been divided into warring states. This period in history had marked the shoguns' decline in power, both militarily and politically, as well as the rise in "influential feudal lords" called Daimyos, who took advantage of the political…

Japans main classification of change in the 1930s was political, and in order to understand the sudden causation of these changes, one must first recognise the aspects that drove these changes at an earlier period. The Meiji restoration was a major contributor as it allowed the military to obtain political influence. The Great Depression arguably drove the Kwangtung Army to intervene and invade Manchuria, independent of the government. Nationalist sentiments intensified and a new group - the…

of Zen in Samurai tradition makes it difficult to imagine a time without the Buddhist injection. No matter the contrarian arguments against the adaptation of Zen Buddhism, its implementation into Japanese warring culture lead to a cultivation of an ancient military skill set, that puts the samurai in a place weighing amongst the most honored yet often misunderstood combatant forms in history. The word Samurai means to serve. An overlord or emperor could have several groups of samurai serving…