Samurai

Three admirable leaders in samurai's tale are Yoichi, Togan, and the charcoal burner family. Although Yoichi was the servant of Murakami and Murakami of Akiyama, Togan a cook for Akiyama’s lower class servants, and the Charcoal Burner Family a poor family contempt with helping Murakami. They were better leaders than the people in charge, who were supposed to be leaders/ lead. The charcoal burner family was very kind, helpful, and were content with helping Murakami. They gave him one of the best

The Meiji Restoration was a timeline of events all leading up to the change of Japan. It had military, social, cultural and economical changes that evolved Japan to become a world power. This Meiji Restoration timeline of events occurred from 1868 until 1912 and was a very influential and important time for medieval Japan. The ruler during this period, Emperor Meiji, changed the entire way that Japan was run and how the people were led and influenced. Japan gradually became an overall world power

In “The Samurai’s Tale” there are many characters the can be viewed as “great” leaders. In my essay I will be comparing Wada Kansuke, Yoshitoki, Lord Katsuyori and the traits that they ecnompass which makes them great leaders, despite the fact that they all can be considered good leaders, I believe that Wada Kansuke prevails over the rest due to his kinda and influence upon Murakami Harutomo. Overall, I believe that Wada Kansuke is a better leader than Yoshitoki or Takeda Katsuyori because of Kansuke's

Kenji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale is a gruesomely horrifying Japanese film that critiques the modern state of Japan. Kenji’s critique also focuses on the notion of a generational divide among the young and old. The horrific violent nature of the dystopian setting and displays of governmental control used to suppress the children into submission display a parallelism between the fictional world of Battle Royale and real world issues. Battle Royale reveals Japan’s struggle during the “lost decade”; a

57-58). And someone from this paradigm analyzing a social documentary would ask the question, is this story being told through the lens of the oppressed or the lens of the powerful/researcher? When examining The Last Samurai, Captain Algren would be considered the researcher and the Samurai community would be considered the oppressed. The majority of this film was told through the lens of the powerful, or Captain Algren. From the beginning of the film through nearly the end, the story is partly told

Seven Samurai Director: Akira Kurosawa ● Historical/Contextual Details: When was the film released? What events influence this film? The film was released in 1954, and it was Kurosawa’s first samurai film. This film is one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. The story of this film is based on historical samurai who once existed. It is about seven samurai warriors try to defend poor farmers in a village from bandits. The respect from other people or the farmers that the seven samurai get because

percent of the whole population, which reaches 1,381,537,308 people. China’s Christian population is also developing much more rapidly that Japan’s Christian population. Why is this the case exactly? Well, as can be clearly seen in the book The Samurai by a famous Japanese Catholic author named Shusaku Endo (しゅさく・えんど), one is

There are many similarities between the samurai of medieval Japan and the knights of medieval Europe, especially considering their training, armor, and codes. For example, Documents A and B discuss the training endured by the samurai and the knights during the medieval period. There are many similarities in their training that include they both started training at early ages, both trained with wooden weapons (Bamboo sticks/wooden swords), both received religious instruction, both evolved their role

The Last Samurai Ordinary World The main character is the U.S. Army captain Civil War veteran Nathan Algren. Call to Adventure Nathan Algren are sent on behalf of Japanese businessman Omura, who wishes to hire distinguished U.S. soldiers to train the Imperial Japanese Army to suppress a samurai rebellion, lead by Katsumoto Moritsugu. Refusal of the call Algren at first refuses the offer after having traumatic event of ambushing Native Americans during the Indian War which results in him relying

knight who trains you fight a samurai because of invasion.You look at a distance and question yourself,”Are they more similar than they are different?”You look at all of their attributes to compare them both.You see more similarities than differences.They are most similar than different. The first similarity is in the social class.In document a you see that both triangles do look similar to each other.The samurai were in a high social class but not the best.The samurai is in between the peasants and