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Samurai ( 侍 、さむらい) were the hereditary military nobility [1] [2] [3] [4] and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era. They were the well-paid retainers of the daimyo, the great feudal landholders.
- List of Samurai
They are listed alphabetically by their family names. Some...
- Samurai (Disambiguation)
Film and television. The Last Samurai, a 2003 epic period...
- Bushido
A samurai in his armor in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph...
- Fujiwara
The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏, Fujiwara-shi or Fujiwara-uji) was a...
- Kusunoki Masashige
Equestrian statue of Kusunoki Masashige outside the Imperial...
- List of Japanese Battles
Ancient/Classical Japan Jōmon Period. Jimmu's Eastern...
- Daishō
The daishō (大小, daishō) —"large and small" —is a Japanese...
- Battle of Aizu
The Battle of Aizu (Japanese: 会津戦争, "War of Aizu") was...
- William Adams
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uwiriamu...
- Japanese Armour
Japanese armour. Ō-yoroi, Kamakura period, 13th-14th...
- List of Samurai
Samurai ( 侍 、さむらい) were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era. They were the well-paid retainers of the daimyo, the great feudal landholders. They had high prestige and special privileges.
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May 23, 2018 · Samurai (SAM-er-eye) were Japanese warriors who were revered for their skills as warriors, but also for their distinct influence on Japanese fashion. Samurai first appeared in Japan as early as the eighth century c.e., but they truly rose to power in the eleventh century as elite warriors in service to their feudal lords, or daimyos.
- Early Samurai
- Rise of The Samurai & Kamakura Period
- Japan in Chaos: The Ashikaga Shogunate
- Samurai Under The Tokugawa Shogunate
- Meiji Restoration & The End of Feudalism
- Bushido in Modern Japan
During the Heian Period (794-1185), the samurai were the armed supporters of wealthy landowners–many of whom left the imperial court to seek their own fortunes after being shut out of power by the powerful Fujiwara clan. The word “samurai” roughly translates to “those who serve.” (Another, more general word for a warrior is “bushi,” from which bush...
The triumphant leader Minamoto Yoritomo–half-brother of Yoshitsune, whom he drove into exile–established the center of government at Kamakura. The establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate, a hereditary military dictatorship, shifted all real political power in Japan to the samurai. As Yoritomo’s authority depended on their strength, he went to great...
The strain of defeating two Mongol invasions at the end of the 13th century weakened the Kamakura Shogunate, which fell to a rebellion led by Ashikaga Takauji. The Ashikaga Shogunate, centered in Kyoto, began around 1336. For the next two centuries, Japan was in a near-constant state of conflict between its feuding territorial clans. After the part...
The Sengoku-Jidai, or Period of the Country at War finally ended in 1615 with the unification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu. This period ushered in a 250-year-long stretch of peace and prosperity in Japan, and for the first time the samurai took on the responsibility of governing through civil means rather than through military force. Ieyasu issue...
In the mid-19th century, the stability of the Tokugawa regime was undermined by a combination of factors, including peasant unrest due to famine and poverty. The incursion of Western powers into Japan–and especially the arrival in 1853 of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U.S. Navy, on a mission to get Japan to open its doors to international trade...
In the wake of the Meiji Restoration, Shinto was made the state religion of Japan (unlike Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity, it was wholly Japanese) and bushido was adopted as its ruling moral code. By 1912, Japan had succeeded in building up its military strength–it signed an alliance with Britain in 1902 and defeated the Russians in Manchur...
Japanese armour. Ō-yoroi, Kamakura period, 13th-14th century, National Treasure, Kasuga Grand Shrine. A man wearing Samurai armor and jinbaori (sleeveless jacket) turns around, 2019. Scholars agree that Japanese armour first appeared in the 4th century, with the discovery of the cuirass and basic helmets in graves. [1]
NOVA. For more than 800 years, the samurai helped to lay the foundations of Japan's culture. Their reverence for honor, duty, and service remains ingrained in Japanese society even today....
Samurai (侍 or, more rarely, 士) was a term for the military nobility in pre- industrial Japan who were active primarily between the tenth and nineteenth century. The word samurai is derived from the Japanese verb saburau, meaning “to serve”; a samurai is the retainer of a lord. Contents. 1Overview. 2History. 2.1Origin.
