In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.

* Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan and their stipends are replaced by one-time grants of income-bearing bonds.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

In an excerpt from his book Samurai: The World of the Warrior, historian Stephen Turnbull describes the role of seppuku in feudal Japan:

* The website of William Scott Wilson A 2005 recipient of the Japanese Government's Japan ’ s Foreign Minister ’ s Commendation, William Scott Wilson was honored for his research on Samurai and Bushidō.

In 1959, Hiroshi Inagaki wrote and directed a Japanese version, Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman or Samurai Saga ), setting the story in 17th century Shogunate Japan and starring Toshirō Mifune as the Cyrano character " Heihachiro Komaki " and Yoko Tsukasa as the Roxanne character " Lady Ochii ".

* Tokuno: The sixth expansion ( Ultima Online: Samurai Empire ) added Tokuno, a group of islands based on Feudal Japan.

The Samurai Suenaga facing Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan.

According to Bushido, the Code of the Warrior in feudal Japan, honour was always seen as a duty by Samurai.

The revenge of the, also known as the Forty-seven Samurai, the Akō vendetta, or the took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century.

* Chushingura and the Samurai Tradition — Comparisons of the accuracy of accounts by Mitford, Murdoch and others, as well as much other useful material, by a noted scholars of Japan

Samurai warriors of Japan were trained to block and parry with the sides of their swords, to protect the cutting edge.

Samurai members of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe ( 1862 ), around Shibata Sadataro, head of the mission staff ( seated ) and Fukuzawa Yukichi ( to his right ) sign of the opening of Japan and Meiji Restoration.

Samurai warriors face Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan.

Japan also used the Chinese imperial examination system as a model in the Heian period ; however, the influence affected only the minor nobility and was replaced by the hereditary system during the Samurai era.

In his later work, Samurai Champloo, Watanabe mixes the cultures of Okinawa, hip-hop, modern-day Japan, and chanbara.

His next directorial effort was the anime television series Samurai Champloo which began broadcasting on Fuji TV in Japan on May 19, 2004.

Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage & Sex in Contemporary Japan.

This quotation begins each episode of Samurai Jack, which tells the story of a young prince ( Jack ) from Feudal Japan whose father's empire was destroyed by the demon Aku.

The first, Samurai Romanesque set in feudal Japan, was released in 2001 on NTT DoCoMo's iMode network in Japan.

In 1938 Okuyama finished his studies with Takeda and published a martial art text called Daito-ryu Goshinjutsu ( The Daito System of Self-Protection ), later founded the Dai-Nippon Shidokai ( Greater Japan Way of the Samurai Association ) and began teaching what he called Daito Hiden Shido ( Secret Daito-Ryu Way of the Samurai ).

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

In Japan these later Middle Age centuries saw a return to the traditional Shinto faith and the continuing popularity of Zen Buddhism.

* Zen Buddhism comes to Japan.

* 1253 – September 22 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō and other important works ( b. 1200 )

* Dogen introduces Zen Buddhism into Japan.

In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan / U. S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka.

* November 28 – Yishan Yining, Zen monk and writer from China who taught in Japan ( b. 1247 )

* Emperor Kameyama of Japan establishes the Zen Buddhist temple of Nanzenji in Kyoto.

* Eisai founds the Rinzai Zen sect in Japan.

* Dogen Zenji establishes the Eiheiji temple in Japan, thus founding the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism.

In the Zen traditions of China, Korea and Japan, manual labor is an important part of religious discipline ; meanwhile, in the Theravada tradition, prohibitions against monks working as laborers and farmers continue to be generally observed.

Seitei Iaido ( 制定 ) (" basis of the Iaido ") or Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido is the standard set of iaido kata created in 1968 by a committee formed by the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF, Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei or ZNKR ).

The All Japan Iaido Federation ( ZNIR, Zen Nihon Iaido Renmei, founded 1948 ) has a set of five iaido forms, Tōhō Iaido.

Mugai ryu was once one of the more famous styles in Japan in the Edo period and was developed from a strong influence of Zen.

*" Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iai ", English Version Manual, 3rd edition, published December 2009, by All Japan Kendo Federation, Tokyo, Japan.

He founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under Rujing, a master of the Chinese Caodong lineage.

However, tension soon arose as the Tendai community began taking steps to suppress both Zen and Jōdo Shinshū, the new forms of Buddhism in Japan.

This temple remains one of the two head temples of Sōtō Zen in Japan today, the other being Sōji-ji.

From Chinese cultural influence, the Zen motif of the " gibbon grasping at the reflection of the moon in the water " became popular in Japanese art, as well, though gibbons have never occurred naturally in Japan.

This ceremony, more Chinese in style, was introduced to Japan in the 17th century by Ingen, the founder of the Ōbaku school of Zen Buddhism, which is in general more Chinese in style than earlier schools.