control. The Tokugawas had already been ruling for about 200 years and had things pretty much the way they wanted them. Katsu Kokich was a Samurai who was born in 1802. Kokichi did not share the same structured childhood and life as many people in nineteenth century Japan‚ but his abilities to think outside the box and take risks made him a better-rounded person. The class Katsu was born into had the largest impact on his identity. The social hierarchy went from Samurai‚ to farmers‚ to artisans‚
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Katsu Kokichi in Musui’s Story and Sasahara Isaburo in the Samurai Rebellion both reflect on what it means to be a samurai in the nineteenth century Japan. The samurais were a faction of the military nobility that constituted a large part of the culture of Japan. The origins of the term in the early parts of the tenth century signified those who were serving closely to the nobility of the land. Samurais offered assistance to the early leaders of both Japan and China‚ with their knowledge and fighting
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Newsletter for October 6-10 Musui ’s Story is a samurai ’s autobiography that portrays the Tokugawa society as it was lived during Katsu Kokichi ’s life (1802 - 1850). Katsu Kokichi (or Musui) was a man born into a family with hereditary privilege of audience with the shogun‚ yet he lived a life unworthy of a samurai ’s way‚ running protection racket‚ cheating‚ stealing‚ and lying. Before we discuss how Musui ’s lifestyle was against the codes that regulated the behavior of the samurai‚ it is
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Imperialist ideals‚ focused on expanding a country’s values and systems in order to reinforce and increase power‚ have often served to define and sculpt the historical narratives of many nation states across the world. This outsider definition reduces a country’s ability to define itself and often works to present a biased‚ ignorant perspective in order to further its own agenda. Because of its long-standing separation from Western‚ primarily white countries‚ Japan was able to formulate its own values
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Musui’s Story: A Transition From Isolation to Interaction The varying social interactions between status groups in Katsu Kokichi’s autobiography‚ Musui’s Story‚ convey a shift from the hierarchically strict Heian/Kamakura epochs to the more socially open late Tokugawa period. Throughout the work‚ Katsu illustrates his various dealings and communications with peasants‚ merchants‚ artisans and fellow samurai. While in theory a social hierarchy still presided‚ Musui’s Story dismisses the notion that
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The late Tokugawa period marked the start of Japan’s evolution with western ideologies. The internal crisis during the Tokugawa period‚ however‚ showed that Japan as a nation still had many issues they needed to discuss such as equality from all social classes (including those from Eta)‚ economic instability‚ and the deficiency of the samurai class‚ especially with the high-rank samurai. The Twilight Samurai and Musui’s Story both depict the deficiency of samurai class during the Tokugawa period
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Musui’s Story The time after the fifteen hundreds marked a time of great change in Asian countries. Places like China saw a new dynasty take control of the country. And almost every Asian civilization from India to Indonesia came in contact with people from western nations which changed the way people did business and the way Asians viewed the world. Japan‚ however‚ seemed to keep separate from the rest of Asia in the way that they were hesitant to deal with westerners. Despite their separateness
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samurai’s autobiography that describes the Tokugawa society. Katsu was born as the third son of Otani family‚ and was given away to a family with hereditary privilege. Unlike Hagakure: The book of the Samurai‚ and other Samurai books written functionally. Musui’Story taught all Samurai after him a lesson by telling his unworthy and complicated life of a samurai’s way‚ running‚ cheating‚ lying‚ challenges and triumphs. This essay would analyze Katsu an a subject to demonstrate the real samurai’s life reflecting
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Mathematics and the Arts Kokichi Sugihara 1. Fractal Voronoi Diagrams The Voronoi diagram represents the partition of the plane into territories‚ where each territory consists of points nearest to the associated generators. Starting with a small number of generators‚ we add generators at random‚ simulate territory competing‚ and assign colors to the resulting diagram. Then‚ we get something like artistic patterns. Search for the point with the maximum F (θ ‚ ϕ ) in the (θ ‚ ϕ ) space. 3. Generation
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Asian food is very unique as opposed to other food preparations‚ most especially when pitted against those from Europe and from the West. However‚ certain cooking styles and food preparations share similar traits between Asian countries; a common example of which is the interrelatedness between Japanese and Chinese food. However‚ no matter how you look at it‚ there is a plethora of differences between the two. Japanese food is usually light to the stomach. They are generally considered to be healthier
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