Samurai

Understanding Japan’s Culture Culture is the collection of all the physical and intangible manifestations of human knowledge and achievement of a society or societal subgroup (Chapter 9, n.d.). Culture can include art and artistic knowledge, for example. All cultures share several fundamental characteristics in common. Culture is shared – passed from person to person and group to group in a variety of ways. Culture is learned – children and adults are taught culture by others, through both…

masculinity have been constructed on a cinematic level. Action heroes and noir films can be traced back to Europe either through the Sherlock Holmes books or mythic tales of heroism. The Western would also goon to instruct other genre’s such as Kurosawa’s samurai films. Through the years the…

Many teenagers have been sentenced to imprisonment for crimes lately, and it has left us with a decision of whether we shouldn’t incarcerate them and only should be taken under probation or detention. There are people who will say “They are only minors, and they don’t deserve to be treated harshly,” that is so inhumane to punish young individuals for their actions. As said by UNICEF, “If they wane, breeding their teenage years in a prison, they most probably will be damaged for life.” Firstly,…

People, as a whole, obliviously distinguish themselves and others at a collective and individual level, and express, feel and embody a sense of national identity. Individual identity mostly depends on contemplating with social tools and acting in social ways, whether instinctively or not. One must understand that identity is a process, not an essence. It is continually being remade in consistent ways, through an internal-external logic involving a combination of internal self-definition and…

degradation. Socio-economic realities were moving away from the feudal conditions and the hierarchy imposed from above could not remain stable for long. All the different that constituted the Japanese society of this period including the daimyo, the samurai, the merchants and the peasants underwent changes. Paradoxically, the roots of revolutionary economic and social change lay in the very control measures, which though effectively maintained the political status quo, but at the same time…

Ever heard of a Japanese samurai who lost their lord or master and wondered around without a home, called a Ronin? John Frankenheimer assembled an international team of freelancing former Cold War intelligence warriors for a final mission in his movie thriller Ronin. The mission: to recover a briefcase with mysterious contents for an unknown customer. The movie takes place in Paris and southern France where alliances are made and transform along with the team members loyalties. The fierce…

Japan brought them many new ideas and inventions to help their nation over time. It also brought them a new government plan to sell and receive goods from other nations. Japan also created a new nationalist society. This new society replaces the samurai power with a state government who would make the new laws of the nation. Education was also an idea that was used in creating a new nationalist society. Education was used to have new people ready to run the…

lot of literature that sheds some light into how women lived in different time periods. Using these sources it is clear that there was a transformation of women's roles and rights throughout Japanese history. During the Tokugawa period, women of samurai, also known as bushi, households enjoyed far more rights and privileges than at other points of Japanese history. Yamakawa’s books, Women of the Mito Domain describes many aspects of these women’s lives using the account of her own mother, who…

Especially sencha and other delicate green tea. Instead, bring water to a boil then let it sit for 2-3 minutes. Water temp should be around 60-80 C. The optimum brewing temperature for Gyokuro is 50 -60 C and Sencha is 70-90 C. For Bancha, Genmaicha and Houjicha is 100 C. The second step is put roughly 2 teaspoonfuls of tea leaves into a teapot. The best quality for Gyokuro is about 10g, Sencha is 8g. For Bancha, Genmaicha and Houjicha is 9g. After that, pour the hot water from the…

Understanding Japan Did Japan make the right or wrong decision when they attacked the United States? This was definitely the turning point in Japan’s history of its long political and military control. What most do not know are the events, which led to Japan’s attack to the world 's most leading country in mass destructive weapons. Due to Japan’s history, the local community continues to show tension between Americans presence. Japan’s history began in the year 13,000 B.C., known as…