Why did Date Masamune speak English? Why did Date Masamune have an eyepatch? Why was Fujiwara Michinaga important? Why was the Edo Period important? Why is Mehrgarh important? Why is Suetonius important? Why was Bushido important to the samurai?
15. Samurai– The samurai were the hereditary military/nobility caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. They rose to prominence in the 12th century (though their origins date to the 8th century) and essentially ruled the country until their abolition in the 1870s. The samurai lived their liv...
“By 1941 [the Japanese] were ready to take on the white world in war, and they truly did not care anymore what the white man thought of them,” wrote American author Gavan Dawes in his 1994 bookPrisoners of the Japanese. “They had torn the Geneva Convention to pieces. White men coul...
save for Omi-san and Blackthorne after he becomes known as “Anjin-san.” This is not the fault of the production team, but rather author James Clavell, who decided that the lower-ranking samurai “Omi” would be addressed