Samurai Sword

Early Mounted
Samurai Warriors
 Underpinnings: Basic Steps
in Self Defense

A COTTON BREECH CLOUT A SHORT SLEEVED KIMONO,

that extended up over the or “armor robe,” was tied
chest was the basic snugly at the waist with a
undergarment of a samurai’s special knot (lower right)
costume
BILLOWING
PANTALOONS,
worn over the
armor robe,
fitted loosely in
the legs to
allow freedom
of movement

AN EXQUISITE
BROCADE, richly
STURDY worked with a
SHINGUARDS design of peonies,
of cloth or was one of the
leather were extravagant
reinforced with materials used in
strips of iron an armor robe
to give that may have
protection been made for a
from the front 14th Century
imperial prince
Samurai Charging
Modern-Day “Samurai
Warriors”
 Feudalism
A political, economic, and social
system based on loyalty, the
holding of land, and military
service.
Europe:
King
Land - Fief Loyalty

Land - Fief Lord Lord Loyalty

Knight Knight Knight Food

Protection

Peasant Peasant Peasant Peasant

Code of Chivalry
*  Justice
*  Loyalty
*  Defense
*  Courage
*  Faith
*  Humility
*  Nobility
 Medieval Warriors

vs.

European knight Samurai Warrior

 Medieval Warriors

vs.

Knight’s Armor Samurai Armor

 Zen Buddhism
a  A Japanese
variation of the
Mahayana form
of Buddhism,
which came from
India through
China.
a  It reinforced the
Bushido values of
mental and
self-discipline.
 Mongol
“Invasions
”
of Japan

4,400 ships and 140,000 men, but kamikaze

winds stopped them.
 Ashikaga Age:
1338-1573
►  Shoguns fought for power.

a  Laws are unclear.

a  Less efficient than the

Kamakura.

a  Armies of samurai protected

the country. E
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Osaka Castle
 Main Gate of
Hiroshima Castle
Caernorfon Castle,
Wales
Warwick Castle, England
R
O
E
N
S
The Age of the Warring States:
(1467 - 1568)
a  Castles built on hills in different
provinces.

a  Power shifts from above to

below.

a  Europeans arrive in Japan E

bringing firearms & Christianity.

a  Christianity & foreign trade

flourish.
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)

a  Banishes the last Ashikaga shogun.

a  Unifies a large part of Japan.