Similarities and Differences About Japan and Europe Have you ever wondered whether Japan and Europe were similar? We will be talking about the similarities and differences between Japan and Europe. There were many similarities between Japan and Europe. First off‚ both Europe and Japan‚ had people who fought in their armies. Next‚ the Europeans and Japanese both had warriors that are armed with weapons and armour. In Japan‚ those warriors were called samurai‚ and in Europe‚ they were called knights
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Samurai vs Knights:Were the Similarities Greater than the Differences. The knights and the Samurai were very similar but also had some major differences to‚ but if you were going to compare them on fighting and tactics that would be a lot harder because they are from two very different times and have very different geological advantages and disadvantages. So it is easier to compare their loyalty and way of living along with respect to others and enemies. Japan and Europe both switched to feudalism
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Experiencing life as a knight is better than experiencing life as a samurai for the reason that the rules that knights had to follow were less strict than the rules that samurai had to follow. The samurai bushido code stated that a samurai had to live by honour. If a samurai was to lose his honour he would have to commit suicide. Samurai could lose their honour by failing to protect their daimyo‚ losing one of their swords‚ or losing in battle. This meant that samurai had to be on guard at all times
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of Japan but it would not be like any normal invasion. The American forces knew that they planned to confront provoked and zealous Japanese‚ which would cause skyrocketing casualties. The majority of the forces believed in a concept referred to as bushido‚ which demands bravery and extreme self-sacrifice. Honor comes from death and disgrace from surrender‚ so those who willingly gave their lives were esteemed and respected. This belief stems from feudal Japanese samurai warriors but is still widely
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Samurai and Knights were warriors in the Middle Ages. Samurai were from Japan and Knights were from Europe. Although they didn’t have any contact with each other‚ they were very similar. To become one of these warriors‚ each person had to go through intense training. After becoming a warrior‚ they had to pledge loyalty to a lord. After pledging loyalty to a lord‚ the Knight or Samurai received money or land for their services. The Samurai of Japan and the Knights of Europe were very similar. This
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ensure the long era of peace was sustained. With no war to fight and without power or financial stability‚ many of the underemployed Samurai flocked to the cities in search of idle pleasures‚ which provoked the deterioration of the moral code of Bushido. (the way of the warrior) A prime example of the declining of the Samurai is the reports that Oishi receives of the men in Kyoto. "He had even heard rumors that samurai had been seen in the Kabuki theaters of Kyoto‚ the city of pleasure as well as
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Honor can be defined by being regarded with great respect because of actions one is making or has made. People can have honor in many different things such as family‚ their religion or the country in which they live. Honor differs from culture to culture‚ the people in those cultures have different definitions of honor opposed to 21st century Americans. The definition has also changed over time‚ people acting in the name of honor have changed this world’s path‚ either for the better or the worse
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samurai‚ but he was on the losing side in a regional battle. He lost his lands and his samurai title. C. In 1162‚ Daisuke was wandering the mountains of southwest Honshu when he met Kain Doshi‚ a Chinese warrior-monk. D. Daisuke renounced his bushido code‚ and together the two developed a new theory of guerrilla warfare called ninjitsu. E. Daisuke’s descendants created the first ninja ryu‚ or school‚ the Togakurerya. III. Who Were the Ninja? A. Some of the ninja‚ or jonin‚ were
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Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis. World History: Connections to Today. Newark‚ New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ 1997. Print). The centralization of strong lordships evidently brought the localization of government down. Japan’s warriors had to follow the code of Bushido and in Europe knights had to follow the Code of Chivalry. The Japanese saw their Emperor as a God where in the Europe the people saw their kings and queens as if God gave them the right to rule but the rulers were not gods. Another difference is
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(Society of Jesus). In 1614 the persecution of Christians in Japan began. Yamaga (1622-1885)‚ a man with vast intellect and a believer of independence of thought‚ initiated the bushido (the way of the warrior) creed. Yamaga was worried about the immobilization of the Samurai under the peaceful rule of Tokugawa. The bushido creed derives from the ethics of Confucianism and the Japanese feudal tradition. During the Tokugawa rule Christianity was proscribed‚ Japan had no contact with the outside world
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