The samurai could equate the disregard for his own life in the heat of battle, which was considered necessary for victory in individual combat, to the Buddhist concept of the illusory nature of the distinction between life and death.

The Ming government first labeled the Japanese raiders as " dwarf pirates ", and soon discovered many to be renegade Chinese who joined ronin samurai to battle the Ming regime.

Shuriken were mainly a supplemental weapon to the more commonly used sword or other various weapons in a samurai warrior's arsenal, though they often played a pivotal tactical role in battle.

The tanegashima however did not require the same amount of training as a yumi, allowing Oda Nobunaga's army consisting mainly of farmers armed with tanegashima to annihilate a traditional samurai archer cavalry in a single battle in 1575.

The equipment, tactics, and military attitudes of the samurai and their Mongol opponents differed greatly, and while both invasions failed miserably, their impact on developments and changes in samurai battle were quite significant.

The samurai remained attached to ideas of single combat, that of honorable battle between individual warriors, and to certain ritual elements of battle, such as a series of archery exchanges conducted before entering into hand-to-hand fighting.

The authority of both the shogunate and the Imperial Court all but collapsed, and provincial Governors ( shugo ) and other local samurai leaders emerged as the daimyo, who would battle each other, religious factions ( e. g. the Ikkō-ikki ) and others for land and power for the next 150 years or so.

During the 14th century Shogunate, a samurai warrior might perfume his helmet and armor with incense to achieve an aura of invincibility ( as well as to make a noble gesture to whomever might take his head in battle ).

When Mariko tries to fulfill Toranaga's orders and leave the castle, a battle ensues between Ishido's samurai and her escort until she is forced to return.

Sutoku's samurai fought hard, and a fierce battle continued.

Samurai in Iwami and Aki who were on the frontline of the battle between Amago and Ōuchi were forced to walk the tight rope and Mōri Motonari who would eventually emerge victorious against both Amago and Ōuchi was one of such samurai.

The most important of the samurai lords who joined Oda after this battle was Tokugawa Ieyasu from Mikawa Province.

After the battle, the ashigarus ' role in the armies were cemented as a very powerful complement to the samurai.

Saigō and his remaining samurai were pushed back to Kagoshima where, in a final battle, the Battle of Shiroyama, Imperial Army troops under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo and marines under the command of Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi outnumbered Saigō 60-to-1.

The rebellion was also effectively the end of the samurai class, as the new Imperial Japanese Army built of conscripts without regard to social class had proven itself in battle.

Umeboshi were esteemed by the samurai to combat battle fatigue.

Many of the battle scenes in the series are reminiscent of samurai films, and since Jack's robotic enemies " bleed " oil or electricity and monsters and aliens bleed slime or goo, the series is able to exhibit the action of these films while avoiding censorship for violence.

Tartakovsky has also acknowledged taking some of his thematic inspiration from Frank Miller's comic book series Ronin, including the premise of a master-less samurai warrior thrown into a dystopic future ahead of our present in order to battle a shape-shifting Demon.

This is in homage to traditional samurai battle cries.

To be able to calmly draw one's bow, aim, and shoot in the heat of battle, and then repeat, was the mark of a true samurai who had mastered his training and his fear.

He appeared just after the angel attack on earth and raised Lars, the knights and samurai who were killed in the battle back to life.

Just before the battle with the bandits, Manzo attempts to sell out the samurai to a bandit scout, after which Katsushiro is forced to kill the scout.

The end of the samurai era in the 1860s, along with the 1876 ban on wearing swords in public, marked the end of any practical use for mail and other armour in Japan.

Some replica nihontō have been used in modern-day armed robberies, which helped contribute to the enactment of a ban on sale, import and hire of samurai swords in the UK.

, meaning " Way of The Sword ", is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional swordsmanship ( kenjutsu ) which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan.

" Stu Maschwitz coined the term " Robert Rodriguez list ", i. e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.

This was possibly the riskiest move Ieyasu ever made — to leave his home province and rely on the uncertain loyalty of the formerly Hōjō samurai in Kantō.

A shocked Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | mandarin in Manchu people | Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria ( British Empire ), Wilhelm II of Germany | Wilhelm II ( German Empire ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicholas II ( Russian Empire | Imperial Russia ), Marianne ( French Third Republic ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan ) stabbing into a king cake with Chine (" China " in French ) written on it.

Instead, war epics such as the Tale of Hōgen ( Hōgen Monogatari ) and the Tale of the Heike ( Heike Monogatari ) focus mainly on the aristocratic samurai, whose deeds were apparently more appealing to the audience.

The first specialized training began in the mid-15th century, when certain samurai families started to focus on covert warfare, including espionage and assassination.

An edict in 1629 defining the duties of a samurai required the wearing of a daishō when on official duty.

A French political cartoon depicting Qing dynasty | China as a king cake is about to be carved up by Queen Victoria ( British Empire | Britain ), Wilhelm II ( German Empire | Germany ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicolas II ( Russian Empire | Russia ), Marianne ( Third French Republic | France ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan | Japan ) while a Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | Mandarin official helplessly looks on.

*, also sometimes referred to as the Kanagawa Incident, a samurai attack on foreign nationals in Japan in 1862 which resulted in the bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863

The popular Japanese centric understanding of the word ’ s origin predicated on the samurai moral code stressing frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor unto death.

Recent scholarship in both Japan and abroad has focused on differences between the samurai class and the bushidō theories that developed in modern Japan.

The rebellion ended on September 24, 1877 following the final engagement with Imperial forces which resulted in the deaths of the remaining forty samurai including Saigō, who, having suffered a fatal bullet wound in the abdomen, was honourably beheaded by his retainer.

The first is the capture and restraint of a prisoner that was effected with strong, thin cord ( usually 3 – 4 millimeters ) called a hayanawa or “ fast rope ”, and sometimes the sageo carried by samurai on the sword-sheaths.

Takamatsu died in Nara, Japan in 1972 after advancing Hatsumi from student and bestowing on him " all the art of the nine schools ", three of which he indicated were ancient ninja schools and six samurai schools of martial arts.

During the Edo Period, as the naginata became less useful for men on the battlefield, it became a symbol of the social status of women of the samurai class.

Tōgō was born on 27 January 1848 ( by the Western calendar ) in the Kajiya-chō ( 加治屋町 ） district of the city of Kagoshima in Satsuma domain ( modern-day Kagoshima prefecture ), in feudal Japan, the third of four sons of Tōgō Sanetomo ( 1805-1867 ), a samurai serving the Shimazu daimyo, and Hori Masuko ( 1812-1901 ).

' The young samurai did not like that, and on more than one occasion he put an end to it by blows.

Gradually, the provincial upper class was transformed into a new military elite based on the ideals of the bushi ( warrior ) or samurai ( literally, one who serves ).

Kyudo is based on kyūjutsu ( art of archery ), which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan.

Next, the Battle of Sekigahara ( AD 1600 ) resulted in the confiscation or reduction of the fiefs of large numbers of daimyo on the losing side ; in consequence, many samurai became rōnin.