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Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series. In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel. [43] [44] Several other channels reprised the documentary.
Pages in category "Samurai clothing" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. ... Code of Conduct;
Used for formal occasions that require traditional dress, such as a traditional Shinto wedding or a child's Shichi-Go-San ceremony. Originally used for practical uses, such as carrying around a woman's beni ita , omamori (an amulet/talisman), kagami (mirror), tenugui (handkerchief), coins, and the like, it now has a more of a decorative role.
Keikogi (稽古着) (keiko, 'practice', gi, 'dress' or 'clothes'), also known as dōgi (道着) or keikoi (稽古衣), [a] is a traditional uniform worn for training in Japanese martial arts and their derivatives. Emerging in the late 19th century, the keikogi was developed by judo founder Kanō Jigorō. [1]
Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the Engetsu ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom the "fallen" priest had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after ...
In feudal Japan, old master Jiji and a survivor of the Tokugawa shogunate converse after surviving a brutal battle, with Jiji asked by the Tokugawa Shogunate to raise a band of assassins. Their task is to finish off Toyotomi Hideyoshi 's three allies: Nagamasa Asano , Kiyomasa Kato and Masayuki Sanada , to prevent an outbreak of a new civil war.
During a parade of samurai and their families and concubines, Seinosuke Koide, a samurai and artist affiliated to a Kanō school master, visits a print shop where he sees a woodcut print by Utamaro that boasts the superiority of his ukiyo-e style over the prevailing Chinese style. Enraged, he goes searching for Utamaro, announcing to teach him ...
The movie doesn't so much challenge the practice of seppuku; rather, it highlights an instance when it occurred in a punitive and hypocritical environment. The notions of honor and bravery associated with it can be a false front, as the protagonist puts it, serving more as a means of preserving reputations than of actually atoning for a crime ...