1898, in the meaning definedabove Time Traveler The first known use ofBushidowas in 1898 See more words from the same year Dictionary Entries NearBushido bush huckleberry Bushido bushies See More Nearby Entries Cite this Entry “Bushido.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://ww...
Again, in Japan as in Europe, when feudalism was formally inaugurated, the professional class of warriors naturally came into prominence. These were known as samurai, meaning literally, like the old English cniht (knecht, knight), guards or attendants—resembling in character the soldurii whom ...
"feudal samurai warrior code," 1898, from Japanese, said to mean literally… See origin and meaning of bushido.
Again, in Japan as in Europe, when feudalism was formally inaugurated, the professional class of warriors naturally came into prominence. These were known as samurai, meaning literally, like the old English cniht (knecht, knight), guards or attendants—resembling in character the soldurii whom ...
School teachers have the most difficult times these days as classrooms break down and children 20 Jūjutsu meaning "gentle/yielding/compliant art") is a Japanese martial art whose central ethos is to yield to the force provided by an opponent's attack in order to apply counter techniques from ...
their social status increasingly challenged by economically powerful commoners, some of whom were also purchasing or receiving samurai privileges such as the right to wear swords" (24). Rendered useless in an age of peace even the sword, "the soul" and symbol of the samurai had lost meaning....
I, too, automatically read it as meaning familial love, rather than amorous. The text helped! Turul Okay, aww. And also, well! Turns out Hirotomo wasn’t hit in the head, after all. (I guess we got too hung up on the hairtie coming off, but that was just from the impact, like...
meaning they probably weren’t alive to tell anyone about it. I don’t even think they actually called it bushido until like 1980. (Someone should Google that and look it up.) Before then people didn’t know what to call it so they just said “Damn, that ninja/samurai can kick ass”...