Samurai
By Blago Kirof and Raia Iotova
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Synthesized in the images, the book shows us the essentials of daily life of the samurai warriors and includes over 80 illustrations with explanatory texts to each of them. Arranged thematically, these illustrations reveal the essential nature and the world of the samurai.
A true visual encyclopedia of samurai, designed for readers between the ages of 8 and 80.
Watch, read and imagine!
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Samurai - Blago Kirof
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Foreword
Samurai usually referred to in Japanese as bushi or buke, were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany persons in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean those who serve in close attendance to the nobility,
the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai.
By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai followed a set of rules that came to be known as Bushido. Their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
The philosophies of Buddhism and Zen, and to a lesser extent Confucianism and Shinto, influenced the samurai culture. Zen meditation became an important teaching due to it offering a process to calm one's mind. The Buddhist concept of reincarnation and rebirth led samurai