"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 ...
This is the practice of Japanese self-disembowelment, which was a way the samurai can achieve an honorable death when defeated or dishonored. Seppuku and hara-kiri have the same meaning although seppuku has a more formal expression. In Japan, the abdomen (hara) was considered the domain of t...
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 ...
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 ...
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. New class mobility allowed the uppity lower classes to challenge the samurai...
Myopic yet projecting in its meaning. Through nuance, familiarity and performance, McGennis taps into his hometown with acute specificity and keeps you hanging on until the end. His use of layering is absolutely brilliant and shows a degree of thought and level of depth missing in Hollywood ...
I’m currently working my way through his latest book,Skyward, which has this comfortable 80’s scifi vibe. It’s borrows a bit fromThe Last Starfighter,Flight of the Navigator, andIron Eagle. I’m loving it to death, but maybe that’s in large part because it’s about teenage starfig...
Myopic yet projecting in its meaning. Through nuance, familiarity and performance, McGennis taps into his hometown with acute specificity and keeps you hanging on until the end. His use of layering is absolutely brilliant and shows a degree of thought and level of depth missing in Hollywood ...