- The Samurai’s origin came from the Emishi people during the Heian Period( 794 A.D.-1185)
- Samurai were a powerful military system in Feudal Japan
- began as a small group of warriors
- rose to power in the 12th century
- began as Japan’s first military dictatorship known as the Shogunate.
- Samurai were the bodyguards for the high ranked officials (Shogun) and gave power over the emperor(Mikado)
-Samurai took over Japanese Government and Society
- Samurai went extinct after the Meiji Restoration in 1868 which destroyed the feudal
system
- Samurai had jobs outside of being a samurai
in the industrial and modern Japanese World
- lived by the “way of the warrior” or Bushido
- honor, discipline, and morality
- later in it was rewritten as basic code of Japanese Society.
- Wealthy Landowners would hire an increasingly amount of warriors that were hired to protect their wealthy Landowning masters from the central Government
- an ideal philosophy background in Samurai’s own code of behavior
- they believed that a man’s honor rest aside in his sword
- They would raft their swords with the finest metals and would carefully use to hammer the metal into perfection.