Knight vs Samurai Essay

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    In 1603, the Tokugawa shoguns seized control in Japan and shut it to outsiders. For over 200 years, Japan was detached from different countries. After some time, distress developed among numerous Japanese as they suffered money related hardship and absence of political influence. The legislature reacted by attempting to resuscitate old ways, stressing cultivating over business. These attempts had little achievement, and the shoguns' power became weak. At that point, in 1853, an armada of very…

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    Oku no hosomichi, is the story of a Buddhist man’s travels throughout Japan during the Kamakura Period. The book has many names in English, but here it will be referred to by the name contained with the reading: The Narrow Road to a Far Provence. The tale is but one example of many Buddhist themed stories during the Japan’s Kamakura period. Japan was one of the only countries to incorporate Buddhism into the already standing religion: Shintoism. This offers a unique look into Japan and the…

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    Double Suicide In Amijima

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    The bunraku and kabuki play Double Suicide in Amijima was adapted into a film titled Double Suicide in 1969. The film is a very interesting and artistic mix of modern film technique and illusions to the bunraku genre of traditional Japanese theater. Throughout the film, darkly-clothed stagehands and puppeteers, or kuroko, can be seen with their faces covered. In bunraku, kuroko cover their faces to not distract the audience while maneuvering the puppets; however, the lead puppeteer with decades…

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    Japanese Edo Period Essay

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    Japanese Edo Period Art The Edo period had a lot of importance & impact on Japan as it helped flourish its culture by cutting off the west and isolating itself, with the help of many Schools of Japan learning new techniques in art which would become the norm for today. A lot of the impact was on the social classes, as artists started to become noticed, and recognised for the art they created. The points to discuss will be on ‘who’ to talk about. First, I’ll look at Hoitsu & Buncho from Edo as…

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    Villa Vs Toshihito Essay

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    Development and construction of both sites The designer of the Shugakuin Imperial Villa is retired Emperor Gomizuno-o (1596- 1680), he did the landscape design of the Upper Villa and Lower Villa. The designer of the Katsura Imperial Villa - Prince Toshihito, was his uncle. In 1629, Tokugawa Shogunate – actual governor of Edo, intensified the opposition and interference of the imperial household, the emperor became a puppet. Feeling deep resentment and Emperor Gomizuno-o suddenly abdicated. In…

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    Meiji Transformation (1868-1900) in Japan was a turning point in the history of the state. Due to the Western approach of modernization in internal political, economic and social spheres; in other words, the transition from a traditional society to modern, Japan became one of the leading world countries. However, in big cities such as Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, such modernization was more tangible than in the provincial small towns or villages, where the strong connection with traditions was still…

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    Shinobi: The Art Of War

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    shinobi is the traditional way that the term ninja would have been spoken, it is only a rough chinese translation of the word ninja that has popularised the term. Also the term ninja has been helped along by the fact that most modern forms of media involving shinobi refer to them has ninja. For the purpose of this presentation I shall refer to them as shinobi. Now during the actual wars in japan ninjas were relatively undocumented with the exception being “Sun Tzu's: The Art Of War” where…

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    of the ways of the samurai. However, the Hagakure and The Unfettered Mind mention different Buddhist connections that are important to the samurai. For example, Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure discusses the meaning of death of the samurai and the importance of samurai masters, while Takuan Soho’s The Unfettered Mind discusses the importance of the samurai’s thought process and about the samurai’s true self. However, both of the documents mention how samurai use the Taia samurai sword and their…

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    code of the Samurai and the code of the Authorian Knight as expressed in the Round Table Oath of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur you will notice that there are things that are both similar and things that are both different. Throughout this essay response, you will learn the similarities and differences between these two codes. Before I dig into the similarities and differences of the two codes, I am going to give short summaries of each code. Too start, the warrior code of the Samurai is under…

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    heat of battle. Two types of warriors that made a huge impact on the world are Europe's Knights and Japan’s Samurai. The samurai and Knights although on opposite parts of the globe are very similar in many ways. A couple ways they the two types of soldiers are similar is in the way they train, the armor they wore, and their codes of honor that they followed. As previously stated above Knights and Samurai were very similar in the way they trained. This is true because in the PBS series…

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