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The name may have also come, more simply, from the idea of merchants within a guild or association sharing a seat or platform in the marketplace. Merchants would travel and transport goods in groups, for protection from bandits but also from the vacillating whims of samurai and the daimyō (feudal military lords). They would also enter into ...
Eric Vale (born Christopher Eric Johnson) [4] is an American voice actor featured in numerous English versions of Japanese anime series. Some of these include Yuki Soma from Fruits Basket, Sanji from One Piece, Tomura Shigaraki from My Hero Academia, and Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z.
Similarly, the Chinese placed a high value of Japanese silver, creating a commerce market that the Portuguese were able to navigate with financial success. The civil war in Japan during the late 16th century also benefited Portuguese merchants, as daimyos competed with each other to offer more attractive trading conditions in their farms.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all ...
A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...
William Scott Wilson, author of Ideals of the Samurai describes the Chikubasho as "A short list of precepts written in a classical Japanese style, the Chikubasho displays both the ethical morality of the warrior and the tasteful lifestyle of the aristocracy. Its tone is a combination of a manly Confucian approach reflecting honesty and fairness ...
Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. [1]
The first book of the juvenile Samurai Mystery series by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (2005), weaves the kabuki play The Forty-Seven Ronin into the plot. The incident is the subject of Jorge Luis Borges ' short story "The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké", included in the 1935 collection A ...