Samurai today enjoy widespread popularity due to their depiction in western media as katana wielding warriors with a strict code of honor‚ comparable to the knights of arthurian legends. In reality‚ these two were not so different‚ as each upheld a similar code of conduct and chivalry. The Japanese variant‚ the samurai‚ followed a code of honor named Bushido‚ literally “The Way of the Warrior”. When the Chinese visited Japan in the early 5th century BCE‚ they brought not only their writing
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『 Difference And Similarity In Culture ~Edo and Meiji‚ in terms of cultural history~ 』 Do you like your own culture? People often say “culture is a symbol of our country.” I agree with this opinion‚ for I think culture helps the people learning about foreign country to understand what the country is. Then‚ how has our own culture been formed? Needless to say‚ culture has the long-term history‚ which gives the office to us to understand how it was formed. Today‚ I plan to talk about Japanese
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In the other hand‚ Japan does not have any ideas like Confucianism and legalism‚ but they believe that their emperor is divine but they are not active in the government. There are officials that carry out orders for the emperor and later in the history of Japan Samurai have their own military base and when there is a problem that happen to Japan they are the ones that could make the decision. “There are both people who have quick intelligence‚ and those who must withdraw and take time to think things
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Samurai Vs Ninja You might think ninjas and samurais are the exact same thing. Well you’re of kind wrong and kind of right. I can’t say that samurais and ninjas are the exact same‚ but i also can’t say there are completely different. Ninjas are very silent killers and have many weapons built into their attire that you can’t see. Just for an example they have a knife built into their sleeve for very close range killing. Samurais on the other hand did not care about stealth they showed their swords
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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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Patrick Long 6/4/13 HST 391 History within Japanese Literature Japanese literature spans over a large period of time for writing. Earlier literature work was greatly influenced by Chinese literature‚ but after opening its ports to Western trading‚ Japan eventually developed its own style and quality of literature. Like most literature around the world and through history‚ we can learn a lot about Japans history through its literature. The Heian‚ Kamakura‚ Muromachi‚ and Tokugawa periods are
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Samurai and Shogun Me: Hey‚ buddy I have some Critical Thinking questions. Do you mind going over them with me‚ Donkey Kong. DK: Yeah‚ sure why not! Me: Why do you think the Fujiwaras and the central government were declining? DK: Daimyos had a lot of power because of the vast amount of land they had. The government was losing money because they didn’t pay taxes. Me: Following that why did you think daimyos didn’t pay taxes? DK: Well‚ they had a lot more power than the government. Having
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Almost one million people die in Japan every year. In other words‚ people die every 31 seconds. Some people die because of illness. Some people die because of car accident. Some people commit suicide. There are many kinds of death in this world. I believe most of those deaths are disconsolate and absurd. However‚ the honorable but unbelievable death existed in Japan in the middle ages. We call that hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is basically an act of killing your self by cutting open your stomach with a sword
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The long period of peace under the Tokugawa shogunate made a dramatic rise in commerce and manufacturing‚ especially‚ especially in the growing cities. By the mid-eighteenth-century‚ edo was one of the largest cities in the world. The growth of trade and industry was stimulated by a rising standard of living and the voracious appetites of the aristocrats for new products. The daimyos need for income also contributed as many of them began to promote the sale of local goods from their domains. Most
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How did Amaterasu come into being? What role‚ according to legend‚ did she play in Japanese history? Per the earliest Japanese “mythohistories” (Kitagawa)‚ Kojiki (records of ancient matters‚ compiled in 712) and Nihongi (chronicles of Japan‚ complied in 720)‚ the origins of the empire date back to 660 BCE‚ a date calculated from a cyclical formula introduced from China during the fifth or sixth century CE (Kirkland 111); none of the persons or events mentioned can be firmly established in historical
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