Samurais

 Samurai  s by: Connor Samurai literally means "one who serves'. A samurai is a warrior in fuedal Japan and a member of the                 elite classin feudal Japan's four-caste social order.     Bushido is the way of the warrior. It was a term attached to a samurai "code of conduct" or way of life enforced during the Edo period by the Tokugawa Shogunate,so that they could control the samurai easier .        Its deceptive simplicity led to countless arguments over its interpretation.

A samurai was expected to read and write, as well as to know some mathematics. Toyotomi Hideyoshi , a great samurai yet originally a peasant, could only read and write in Hiragana   and this was a significant drawback for him. Samurai were expected, though not required, to have interests in other arts such as dancing , Go   , literature   , poetry   , and tea. Ota Dokan  who first ruled during the Edo period   wrote how he was shamed to realize that even a commoner had more knowledge of poetry than he. To learn more about samurais go to one of these sites: [|samurai - Japan Reference] [|samurai - wikipedia] [|samurai weapons] - samurai sword 4 u [|samurai history] [|samurai pictures]

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