Samurai

“Tomorrow two boys, will be born who will both be set on a quest to be the best samurai to ever walk the earth but only one of the boys can succeed.” She looks at him with much interest, “And what does this have to do with our little 'game'? ” “We both choose one of the two boys and place a bet that our chosen boy will be the most successful samurai, if mine wins the lands will be overrun with demons and the era of chaos will…

For the Ming and Qing empire they had many advances in technology, weaponry, and warfare. But we will be talking about how gunpowder weapon affected their growth but also caused them to collapse as well. The Ming and Qing empire was the very first people to have gunpowder weapons. Them being the first people also made them very powerful. Their empire grew rather quickly because of their warfare advances. But whenever you rise you will always fall twice as hard. The Ming and Qing made the great…

Rashomon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and Seven Samurai was remade as the Western, The Magnificent Seven! During the 1950s, the American film industry decreased in Western movie productions for the big screen. Most Westerns were produced for television. However, there still was an increased demand for…

popular filmmaker and author. He is a legendary author of numerous books and film scripts. Jesus and the Samurai is one of his most popular books based on the impact of Christianity in the Japanese culture. Mr. Zomber along with his wife also have a filmmaking company called Renascent Films that was launched in 1998. The Soul of the Samurai a documentary film based on the history of the Samurai Culture was a highly praised film. His message that he sends out to his audience with the abundant…

With no doubts, The Tale of the Heike is one of the most influential, well-known and renowned classics in Japanese literature. Initially, the authorship of this work is unknown but it is known that The Tale of the Heike was compiled by blind monks in the mid 13th century. While reading, one may face numerous instances of dharma, the Buddhist law that claims that evil doings in the present will ultimately ruin the future of one's generations. Also, The Tale of the Heike incorporates the Buddhist…

the landowners with the use of their Samurai, which had pledged their undying loyalty to them. As Mulvihill (2007) states, some Western countries were familiar with such periods, but deem them unfair. However, the Japanese offer a different explanation. It is their belief that their ancestors, were not being subject to repression, rather they were recognized and agreed to their fate. (Mulvihill, 2007) Even after the ending of the feudal system, many Samurai entered the world of politics, and…

This means that one would have been safer and more protected in the Japanese society, rather than Medieval Europe which did not have a secure or solid framework. In Japan, both men and women had the opportunity to become samurai warriors - meaning that Japan had the advantage of another gender potentially doubling their warrior count. Defence systems in Japan were strong, as armies were larger and more diverse than the smaller, more disadvantaged armies of Europe. The infrastructure…

He proudly admits to killing the samurai and raping his wife while even B7 giving the impression that the wife enjoyed the experience. Then, afterwards according to Tajomaru, the wife puts her rapist on equal standing with her husband. Both of them were with her intimately, but only one…

Besides their training and protecting others with their lives the samurai were interesting because of their ritual suicide. A ritual suicide was mandatory for samurai because if they had failed in such a way as losing to an enemy, they would have to commit suicide to keep their honor for their family.There are different ways to commit Seppuku, a ritual suicide, and different steps to what was done before and during the suicide. There are many different ways to commit a ritual suicide, but the…

In the best of times, the Japanese have always had a variety of foodstuffs from which to choose, both from the land and sea. Of course, one's diet depended to a great extent on social class. As those considered samurai could range in means from very poor to very rich-and thus experienced diets that crossed classes-we'll examine some generalities. Rice Unsurprisingly, rice was a staple food, and was so important as to be considered a measure of wealth. Farming in Japan has never been an…