The themes and plot twists will surprise no one well versed in the samurai genre. |
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Wearing inro and netsuke became a part of the past for the upper classes and samurai. |
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The reports indicate that at least 27 samurai died, and only 3 ninja were killed, and the ones that were still alive committed seppuku. |
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Bushido, the code of the samurai warrior, was the creed of the Japanese soldiers. |
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Unlike most samurai, he did not wear a topknot, but instead kept his hair long and flowing, tied back in a horse's tail at the nape of his neck. |
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On this show, a square-jawed, stoic samurai warrior has been fired through a time portal by his mortal enemy, Aku, a shape-shifting wizard. |
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They span from the days of the samurai and shogun, to 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. |
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A man blinded in one eye by a samurai sword attack in Kidbrooke was the victim of mistaken identity, a court has heard. |
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Unlike his comrades-in-arms from Choshu, Satsuma and other samurai clans, he was not bound to the service of feudal lord and clan. |
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The door slid open slowly revealing a man dressed in a dark green hakama with a long samurai sword in his hands. |
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His colleagues snicker at the twilight samurai as he leaves, at his shabby dress and general unkemptness as well as his reason for leaving. |
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There's a crazy neighbour that runs around dressed more as a sumo than a samurai. |
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The samurai choked as a spurt of blood spewed out, splashing Ayumi in the face. |
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His massive torso was encased in a white wraparound tunic, the black skirt hinting at the samurai hakama without leg division. |
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Hara kiri developed as an integral part of the code of bushido and the discipline of the samurai warrior class. |
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It's set in 1865, the year regarded as the last hurrah for bushido, the samurai code. |
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The military version of bushido was seen as a distortion of samurai ethics by some of the upper class who resented the commoner military. |
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The glory of the samurai sword, vulgarised to the point of farce in Tarantino's Kill Bill, is treated with respect, even awe. |
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Centuries of peace later, the samurai had lost their swordsmanship and were restricted by the new laws of the land. |
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He would tell them epic tales of noble knights, paladins, warriors, and samurai. |
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Land was held in customary tenure, the largest holdings by 250 daimyos, each with his retinue of dependent samurai. |
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As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants. |
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I wonder this as nature utterly ignores me, going about her business while paying no attention to the disheveled samurai under the cherry tree. |
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This champion of samurai who would overthrow the Shogunate and expel the barbarians became the devoted follower of the elite shogunal official. |
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Other writers stressed the need for a samurai to set an example to the lower orders of society by his conduct. |
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Many former samurai, displaced by history from their traditional military role, had moved into administrative positions. |
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The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants. |
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These techniques taught the samurai how to grapple when wearing armor and struggling with an opponent wearing armor. |
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He discovers a terrible secret that drives him back home, but with samurai and bandits roaming all over the country, will his return be too late? |
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The ronin's distant past explores the conflict between an honorable samurai heritage and the financial worries of masterless ronin. |
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There is enough echt samurai swordplay to satisfy the most exacting martial arts fan, and yet somehow I can't see Tarantino lifting any of this. |
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That is dishonorable and punishable by death, if you follow the old samurai credo! |
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The second, Jin, is a laconic and enigmatic ronin, a disgraced and masterless samurai who travels the land for reasons unknown. |
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The Imperial ships in the beach deployed a battalion of samurai to counter the rebel soldiers. |
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She takes on a roomful of dark-suited gangsters single-handed with only a samurai sword. |
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His retainers, now ronin, lordless samurai, pretend to scatter, some of them appearing to live dissolute lives. |
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His love of samurai martial traditions came with his study of the Yanagi ryu of the Yoshida-ha. |
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The samurai no longer believed that being a good warrior was all that was necessary. |
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There were also some Social-climbing merchants who had money and paid to become adopted by a samurai family. |
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I worried that the wait staff might pull out their samurai swords at any moment. |
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From there it goes into the long samurai history, each chapter preceded with a page of settings and players to fully set the scene. |
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When he was a little kid, Bill went to Japan and started studying with the greatest samurai warrior alive today. |
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The Chinese mandarinate did differ substantially from the Japanese samurai class. |
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Those employed by a daimyo not only received a generous stipend but were accorded samurai status as well. |
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These laborers included samurai, cooks, sake brewers, potters, printers, tailors, wood workers, and one hairdresser. |
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The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves. |
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When she was on camera and I was off camera, they gave my samurai sword to a stuntman. |
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It is basically his homage to all the old school spaghetti westerns, samurai flicks and even Japanese animation films of the past, to which Tarantino is a huge fan. |
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This man, a superior samurai named Yogo Zenemon, has been ordered by the lord, for his own reasons, to commit hara-kiri, or ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. |
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Ditching the bleach, he seeped manly confidence with what appears to be a samurai ponytail. |
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From frosted tips to the samurai pony, Sujay Kumar on what Federer's hair says about his game. |
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Perched atop a mountain of wavy, pulled-back hair is a mangled ball of manliness, a holdover from the days of the samurai. |
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He dressed in silk kimonos, had a large retinue of servants and carried the signature daisho, or twin swords, of the Japanese ruling samurai class. |
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Shirai did teach swordsmanship in Okayama, but he was never officially registered as an Okayama samurai and he remained a ronin throughout his life. |
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The forty-seven samurai of Asano's bodyguard, now reduced to the status of ronin, or masterless samurai, decided that their code of honour demanded revenge. |
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In 1614 Hideyori fortified himself inside Osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were ronin, dispossessed samurai whose masters had perished in battle. |
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The world of the samurai in ancient Japan has long been intriguing. |
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His peers sat bruised and beaten by this masterless samurai. |
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The samurai wants to seduce the cute girl but she rejects his advances. |
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The soul of the samurai was judged for forty-nine days, and punished with a beating if his answers were not satisfactory to the ears of the fierce judge. |
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The revolution he envisioned would be accomplished through the cooperation of lower ranking samurai and men from the peasant and merchant classes. |
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The transference of that vision, as Algren helps the defeated Katsumoto perform an impromptu seppuku on the field of battle, defines the real last samurai. |
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Before, Great-Grandfather was only a low-ranking samurai, but after he saved the shogun, he bestowed upon him his name, and that is how we are today. |
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Though largely confined to NHK's Sunday night samurai drama and to reruns on late night television, the samurai film still haunts Japan's ultramodern everyday culture. |
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It is basically his homage to all the old school spaghetti westerns, samurai flicks and even Japanese animation films of the past, of which Tarantino is a huge fan. |
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Yet, what impresses throughout is the highly imaginative state-of-the-art stagecraft depicting everything from cannonades against sailing ships to samurai massacres. |
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With this sense of national pride in place, the oligarchs were ready to administer sweeping reforms, the first of which ended the status of the samurai. |
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Belonging to the Japanese samurai class was a hereditary membership. |
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Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order. |
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The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai. |
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Japan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence and dominance of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai. |
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The samurai warriors, following their custom, rode out against the Mongol forces for individual combat but the Mongols held their formation. |
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And with the samurai sword, we just wanted it to be awesome. |
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Taking control of wandering samurai Shiren, you and your pet weasel Koppa are on a quest to find the mythical Lair Of The Golden Condor. |
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A WREXHAM man has appeared in court charged with possessing a shotgun, a samurai sword and a knuckleduster. |
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Owners Bob and Chris Zamora will get a Katana samurai sword, a longstanding tradition with the automotive company at the opening celebration. |
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A set of bagpipes was sold on but ammo, replica guns and samurai swords went straight to the police. |
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Here he's a hired gun in a Texas bordertown in Walter Hill's terse reworking of Kurosawa's sleek samurai classic Yojimbo. |
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A YOUNG partygoer who was repeatedly stabbed with a samurai sword before being run over has been named by police. |
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Stefan Appleton was cycling through the park when the pillion passenger stabbed him with either a machete or a samurai sword. |
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The Mongols fought as a united force, not as individuals, and bombarded the samurai with exploding missiles and showered them with arrows. |
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As a result, the tax revenues collected by the samurai landowners were worth less and less over time. |
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The national army's victory validated the current course of the modernization of the Japanese army as well as ended the era of the samurai. |
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This monumental law, signifying the beginning of the end for the samurai class, initially met resistance from both the peasant and warrior alike. |
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The samurai class suffered great disappointment the following years, when in January the Conscription Law of 1873 was passed. |
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Pack horses also carried the equipment and food for samurai warriors during military campaigns. |
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Troops of Japanese samurai were later employed in the Maluku Islands in Southeast Asia by the Dutch to fight off the English. |
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The samurai class suffered great disappointment the following years. |
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Confirmed in their hereditary positions, the daimyo became governors, and the central government assumed their administrative expenses and paid samurai stipends. |
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His making the greatest samurai legend in Japanese history a white guy in the middle of the closed country era pretty much sealed it that he's a Wapanese with a pen. |
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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. |
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