Eps 1: Fighting For Overlord: The Samurai Way
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Leon Knight
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In the film, the samurai teaches the city dwellers how to fight for themselves and end up in a fight against 40 bandits. Samurai Jack tells his story of his journey from the past to the present and back again.
The next fight involves a sword - Yokai, an angry, giant bone samurai with a huge sword. While he can knock you down hard and has the kingdom's greatest yokai within reach, you cannot knock him down without a fight.
The Samurai is a brave warrior who appreciates the beauty of the blooming roses of nature, but who will kill and die for his master in an instant. One of my favourite stories is that of a samurai warrior who kills himself to kill the murderer of his overlord.
The shogun has lost the magic sword that gives him the authority to rule, so he loses the sword itself, which in turn restores his legitimacy, a concept that is actually quite Chinese. This is basically the way the samurai serve the shogun, and although it is obvious that samurai should pay attention to the manner of their masters, it all seems negligent. Let me tell you a story here, about a samurai warrior who has a duty to avenge the murder of his overlord. As a samurai, he has the right to enter the Lord of Shadows "Fortress and get his sword back - a sword in itself that, as it turns out, can restore Shogun's legitimacy .
The shogun is served by knights called samurai, who are lower nobles who have a small personal army. These young men join forces and rise through the ranks to become the most powerful samurai in the world, capable of defeating rival feudal lords and uniting Japan. Their lives are marked by a series of battles against rival rulers and eventually against each other, until they finally become so powerful that they have defeated all their rivals and unified Japan in their own way.
The worst medieval Japanese warriors were little better than street thugs, but the best were part of an unwritten code of conduct known today as the Commandments of Chivalry and the Way of the Warrior, which is commonly translated as "The Commandments of Chivalry" or "The Way of a Warrior." A devious samurai could use a stolen helmet to pass the head of ordinary soldiers to a higher ranking samurai. The leader identified, if possible, the higher class of soldiers killed, whose rewards in terms of land and allowances were higher. A samurai announced his name and rank to his opponent, who was honored and respected as an equal.
The Bushido Code guided samurai through life and death, emphasizing loyalty to the leader and honor in all aspects of life. She called on the warriors to fight to preserve the honor of their family and their overlord. Revenge was also a central part of the life of the samurai: if someone killed his master or attacked his honor, he or she must take revenge. Given the threat of failure or shame, ritual suicide, Sepuku, was necessary.
The final rationalization of Bushido thought occurred in the Tokugawa period, when Yamaga Soko identified the samurai with Confucian superiors and taught that their essential function was to illustrate the virtues of the lower classes. As far as I know, noble gentlemen lived in a Japanese state under a shogun, a samurai who could even act as king. A similar situation for samurais occurred in Europe, when knights lived under the rule of a knight named El-Cid, the king of France or the emperor of Spain. When the knight lost his master, as he had been before, which could happen, he or she was called to the service of his or her master.
The loyalty of the feudal lords in Japan was heresy, passing from father to son, and the relationship between the Lord and the samurai continued across the generations of the family. Other things, such as the size of a samurai's house, were based on the wealth and rank of his samurai, but movement upwards was allowed, which meant that only young men born into samurai families could become samurai. The sons of the samurai followed their fathers into battle to test their newly learned fighting techniques. All classes received a meaning based on their production value, and each class received a certain respect and respect from its superiors and peers.
This gave the samurai the flexibility to move, to move in battle, and to use their weapons no matter how people used weapons against them all the time. Hideyoshi could still rely on an impressively large army, but it was equipped with muskets and cannons.