Samurai in a sentence

Most samurai married women from a samurai family, but for lower-ranked samurai, marriages with commoners were permitted.

Samurai were many of the early exchange students, not directly because they were samurai, but because many samurai were literate and well-educated scholars.

It's the gold standard when it comes to action epics, and given it's set during samurai times and features plenty of swordplay, it rightly stands as the greatest samurai movie of all time.

The wife would rather everyone think she had fainted, and the Tajomaru doesn't want everyone to know he won a cowardly duel demanded by the samurai's wife simply because the samurai slipped.

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Although these "samurai" were civilian public servants, the name is believed to have derived from this term. Military men, however, would not be referred to as "samurai" for many more centuries.

A samurai could take concubines but their backgrounds were checked by higher-ranked samurai.

Director John Sturges took Seven Samurai and adapted it to the Old West, with the samurai replaced by gunslingers.

During the Edo period samurai went about on foot unarmored, and with much less combat being fought on horseback in open battlefields the need for an effective close quarter weapon resulted in samurai being armed with daishō.

For example, for Seven Samurai, he created six notebooks with (among many other things) detailed biographies of the samurai, including what they wore and ate, how they walked, talked and behaved when greeted, and even how each tied his shoes.

However, the six samurai are angered when Kikuchiyo brings them armor and weapons, which the villagers most likely acquired by killing injured or dying samurai.

It was this extensive samurai class which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population.

I was almost a samurai myself!" citation Federico Fellini in an interview declared the director "the greatest living example of all that an author of the cinema should be"—despite admitting to having seen only one of his films, Seven Samurai.

Japan Ukiyo-e print of a samurai general holding a yari in his right hand Medieval Japan employed spears for infantrymen to use, but it was not until the 11th century in that samurai began to prefer spears over bows.

Samurai-like characters are not just restricted to historical settings and a number of works set in the modern age, and even the future, include characters who live, train and fight like samurai.

Sengoku period The Sengoku jidai (literally "warring-states period") was marked by the loosening of samurai culture with people born into other social strata sometimes making names for themselves as warriors and thus becoming de facto samurai.

The Buddhist concept of reincarnation and rebirth led samurai to abandon torture and needless killing, while some samurai even gave up violence altogether and became Buddhist monks after coming to believe that their killings were fruitless.

The most defining role that Confucianism played in samurai philosophy was to stress the importance of the lord-retainer relationship—the loyalty that a samurai was required to show his lord.

The Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu presented him with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the sailor was dead and that Anjin Miura ( 三浦按針 main), a samurai, was born.

The son of a wealthy landowner samurai, he left home to become a wandering samurai against his family's wishes. citation After witnessing Kambei rescue a child who was taken hostage, Katsushirō desires to be Kambei's disciple.