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26 ( List of episodes) Samurai Champloo ( Japanese: サムライチャンプルー, Hepburn: Samurai Chanpurū) is a 2004 Japanese historical adventure anime television series. The debut television production of studio Manglobe, the 26-episode series aired from May 2004 to March 2005. It was first partially broadcast on Fuji TV, then had a ...
A katana (刀, かたな) is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the tachi, it was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge facing upward.
Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour, but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa era [1] [2 ...
Tomoe Gozen ( 巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [tomo.e] [1]) was an onna-musha, female warrior, from the late Heian period of Japanese history. She served samurai lord Minamoto no Yoshinaka during the Genpei War and was a part of the conflict that led to the first shogunate. [2] [3]
Samurait ( jap. 侍) olivat japanilainen keskiajalla ja uudella ajalla palvellut sotilaallinen aatelistokasti. [1] Samurait toimivat Japanissa 900-luvulla 1800-luvun lopulle saakka, kun uudistuksen myötä sääty hajotettiin. Samurait olivat hyvin koulutettuja ammattisotilaita ja myöhemmin upseereja, jotka käyttivät taitavasti lukuisia ...
The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the Seinan War (Japanese: 西南戦争, Hepburn: Seinan Sensō, lit. "Southwestern War") , was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of Japan , nine years into the Meiji era .
Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the four main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, and Kyushu. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto .
