If the fight took place in the mountains, a ninja might win but if it was a large group fight, the samurai would usually win. Which of the two is more powerful, samurai or ninja? Samurais were stronger in terms of sheer brute force. They were professional fighters who usually had two ...
Samurais, who were essentially professional warriors, were the primary leaders in this period, but all of them were governed and ultimately controlled by shoguns from the Tokugawan clan. Shoguns don’t exist in modern Japan, but they were essentially military dictators who inherited their positions...
he starts on his travel with Takechiyo and seven accompanying samurais. A large army under the command of Iba Shoemon, a vassal of the Shogun, attacks their night camp in the vicinity of a copper mine. Hotta dies in this first battle, but Takechiyo and the samurai manage to escape. The...
I think they emerged when Japanese samurais were left without jobs and couldn't find anything else to do other than form gangs and it grew from there. The funny thing is that crime is almost nonexistent in Japan. How such a huge crime group like the yakuza manages to exist in such a...