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4 unusual facts about Samurai


Chic Charnley

Despite suffering a stab wound to his hand when one of the boys brandished a Samurai sword, Charnley was able to disable his attacker with a punch.

Great Divergence

Another example is the firearms of Japan being almost completely prohibited by the Tokugawa Shogunate, in part because this new technology threatened the Samurai class and way of life.

Iwamuro, Niigata

Samurai were tasked with guarding the shore and questioning all who landed from boats.

Scout Law

According to the original U.S. handbook (Seton and Baden-Powell 1911, p. 31), which elaborated on the British version, the founders drew inspiration for the Scout Law from the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai (Baden-Powell and Seton), laws of honor of the American Indians (Seton), the code of chivalry of European knights (Baden-Powell), and the Zulu fighters Baden-Powell had fought against (Baden-Powell).


Afro Samurai: Resurrection

Afro Samurai: Resurrection is a 2009 film sequel to the 2007 Afro Samurai anime; the movie was shown on Spike TV, on January 25, 2009.

Alan Booth

Among the plays he directed at Birmingham University were Hamlet (First Quarto), done in Noh style, and his own translation of Racine's Phèdre, set in a Samurai milieu.

Beast Man

Redesigned by European comic artist Moebius, Beast Man has the same concepts as his familiar version, yet at the same time has a noticeably different appearance, with longer, browner fur rather than his usual orange, no tribal facepaint and a possibly Samurai-influenced new design for his chest armor.

Bukichi Miki

Others called them "The Eight Samurai," in reference to the new movie The Seven Samurai.

Dan Danknick

Danknick appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel show Monster Garage, where he and the other builders were tasked with transforming a Suzuki Samurai into a hot air balloon.

Don't Lose My Number

Their suggestions allow Collins to parody several other music videos of the time, including videos by Michael Jackson, David Lee Roth ("California Girls"), Elton John, The Police ("Every Breath You Take"), and The Cars ("You Might Think"), as well as movies such as Mad Max 2 and various samurai movies and Westerns.

Edward and Henry Schnell

While travelling in an open coach through Edō in September 1867 the brothers were attacked by anti-foreign samurai from Numata, who, by drawing his sword, in a private vendetta was trying to enforce the Sonnō jōi policy.

Emperor Go-Murakami

When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kemmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan.

First Samurai

First Samurai stands at stud at the Hancock Family's Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

France–Japan relations

A fight erupts in Akashi between 450 samurai of Okayama Domain and French sailors, leading to the occupation of central Kobe by foreign troops.

Hayashi Gonsuke

Hayashi Yasusada, (1806-1868) also known as "Hayashi Gonsuke", samurai general with Aizu Domain in the Boshin War

Helen DeWitt

Recently, rights to make a film of The Last Samurai have been optioned by Tom Dey.

Imperial Way Faction

Araki was a noted political philosopher within the Army, who linked the ancient bushido code of the samurai with ideas similar to European fascism to form the ideological basis of his philosophy, which linked the Emperor, the people, land and morality as one and indivisible.

Itsuki Lullaby

Itsuki was next to Gokanosho, where the Heike people came to settle after their defeat in the Genji-Heike War in the Heian period and later the Kamakura shogunate sent their Genji samurai families to watch over them, thus creating the rich Genji families and poorer Heike families.

Japanese armour

The Shredder, villain of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, wears a full suit of samurai armor with razor-sharp spikes.

Japanese people in Spain

Instead of returning to Japan in 1617, six samurai remained in Coria del Río, near Seville.

Jeremy Birchall

Power Rangers Samurai - Antonio Garcia/Gold Samurai Ranger (episode: Clash of the Red Rangers)

Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa

Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) (born 1069) was a samurai descended from the Taira clan, who fought for the Minamoto clan in the Gosannen War of Japan's Heian period.

Katai Tayama

He was born in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, into a shizoku (i.e. former samurai) family, at the time of the abolition of the privileges of that rank.

Kendo Nagasaki

Kendo Nagasaki is a professional wrestling stage name, used as a gimmick of that of a Japanese Samurai warrior with a mysterious past and even supernatural powers of hypnosis.

Kiai

The art of kiai is a main focal point of the novel "The Samurai's Wife" by Laura Joh Rowland.

Kikuchi Yōsai

The son of a samurai named Kawahara of Edo, he was adopted by the Kikuchi family, who were old hereditary retainers of the Tokugawa clan.

Klingon culture

With the advent of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series the Klingons became allies, and the portrayal of their culture changed to resemble a warrior code similar to the Samurai (or, rather, Western imaginations of them) and Vikings.

Laura Joh Rowland

Rowland takes some literary licence with known figures, creating fictionalised versions of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Emperor Higashiyama in "The Samurai's Wife", and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

Legend of the Millennium Dragon

It does not go well for the samurai's and as the Oni prepares to make their final push to destroy a local temple, but Monk Gen'un wipes them all out in one blow with his magic powers.

Maehata Gaho

Mugenan is a modern Shoin-zukuri style house which inherits the traditional elements of a samurai residence.

Nago Ryōhō

Kian Nikki (喜安日記, "Kian diary", a diary written by Kian, a Japanese monk served in Ryukyuan court) wrote Nago came to Nakijin to surrender, but was caputured; but an official diplomatic document included in Rekidai Hōan, said Nago leaded 1,000 samurai to fight against Japanese, but was defeated and captured.

Naoshi Ohara

Ohara was born in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata as the third son of Tanaka Keijiro, a former samurai, the son of an impoverished former samurai, but was later adopted by Ohara Tomotada, a former samurai from Aizu Domain, and took the Ohara surname.

Nobumasa Suetsugu

Suetsugu was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture as the younger son of a former samurai in the service of Tokuyama Domain.

Ōmura Masujirō

After studying in Nagasaki, Ōmura returned to his village at the age of twenty-six to practice medicine, but accepted an offer from daimyō Date Munenari of nearby Uwajima Domain in 1853 to serve as an expert in Western studies and a military school instructor in exchange for the samurai rank that he was not born into.

Pavel Lebedev-Lastochkin

The samurai informed Latoschkin's party that they did not have the authority to make such agreements on behalf of the Shogun, but that they should return the following year.

Rounin

Rōnin, a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period of Japan (1185–1868)

Samurai bond

A samurai bond is a yen-denominated bond issued in Tokyo by non-Japanese companies, and is subject to Japanese regulations.

Sasō Sachū

Sasō was born in Kanazawa Domain (present day Kanazawa, Ishikawa as the 4th son of Horio Jirobei, a samurai in the service of the Maeda clan, and was adopted at an early age by the Sasō family.

SD Gundam Force Emaki Musharetsuden

The series will reuse molds from this line with additional parts to make the Gundams resemble actual historical samurai such as Takeda Shingen.

Seison Maeda

One of his most important works, Yoritomo in a cave, depicts medieval samurai leader Minamoto no Yoritomo hiding in a cave in Izu with seven of his trusted retainers after his defeat by the Heike clan at the Battle of Ishibashiyama.

Sword of the Samurai

Sword of the Samurai, the 20th book in the Fighting Fantasy series, by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, published in 1986

The Mountain Witch

The player characters are samurai ronin that have banded together to destroy the Mountain Witch at the top of Mount Fuji.

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

Almost immediately after he became shogun, he ordered a vassal of the Takata to commit suicide because of misgovernment, showing his strict approach to the samurai code.

Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line

The line is named after the west gate of the Imperial Palace (Hanzōmon), which in turn is named after 16th century samurai Hattori Hanzō, who was important to the founding of the shogunate which built the palace.

Tomonaga

Minamoto no Tomonaga (1144-1160), a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period

Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai

It is set during the events leading up to and including the Meiji Restoration, when the threat of Western powers forced Japan's government to modernize and eventually abolish its traditional samurai-based feudal system.

Uesugi Norizane

Uesugi Norizane (上杉 憲実; 1410 – March 22, 1466) was a Japanese samurai of the Uesugi clan who held a number of high government posts during the Muromachi period.

Yakusugi

In addition, after conquering Kyushu, Ishida Mitsunari, a samurai who later led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara, had Shimazu Yoshihisa, a territorial lord of Satsuma province, examine the amount of wood in Yakushima and around 1590.

Yoshi Amao

In 2004, Amao was invited as a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC where he discussed samurai philosophy and blew away the audience with his unique sword technique.

In 1999, he started to assist a samurai sword fighting workshop for Rome Kanda, who is host of the Majide game show within a show on the American version of Big in Japan, I Survived a Japanese Game Show.

Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior

Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior is a children's historical novel by Chris Bradford, published in 2008.

Zanbatō

In Samurai Sentai Shinkenger/Power Rangers Samurai, a Zanbato-esque is wielded by ShinkenRed/Red Samurai Ranger.


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