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The concept of a samurai code or codes was developed and refined centuries before the Edo period in the Kamakura period. [9] Such ideas formalized earlier moral values and ethics, most commonly stressing a combination of sincerity, frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, honour until death, [9] "bravery", and "loyalty to the samurai's lord."
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719), a study of the way of the samurai.A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts.
The word came to mean a samurai who was no longer in the service of a lord for some reason or another. It was considered undesirable to be a rōnin, because it meant being without a stipend from a lord, measured in koku of rice, a koku being equal to a roughly 180 liters/150 kg, enough rice to feed a man for one year.)
Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi (Japanese: 花は桜木人は武士, literally "the [best] blossom is the cherry blossom; the [best] man is the warrior") is a Japanese proverb that originated in the medieval period. [1] It is also rendered as "among blossoms the cherry blossom, among men, the warrior" or likewise.
Unlike the merchant Rikyu, Oribe was a member of the samurai class and he led the development of a style of tea suited to cultural values of the samurai class known as buke-cha (warrior tea). Oribe held daimyō status and was originally a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi before serving the Tokugawa clan.
The Angels' Shohei Ohtani celebrates from the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning Tuesday. Ohtani hit two home runs while striking out 10 as the starting pitcher.
Sword, crucifix, samurai robes, martyr's palm Justo Takayama Ukon ( ジュスト高山右近 ) , born Takayama Hikogorō ( 高山彦五郎 ) and also known as Dom Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic daimyō and samurai during the Sengoku period that saw rampant anti-Catholic sentiment.
30. "I’ve lived the literal meaning of the 'land of the free' and 'home of the brave.' It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest."