There are many Japanese words in the world. Judo may be the first because the 1964 Tokyo Olympics made it the official sport of the Olympics. Other examples are karate, shogun generals, Keiretsu, Bushido and Samurai. When a person enters these words, the word processing software does not give the typist a warning of spelling or spelling errors. How do non-Japanese people in the world portray "warriors"? They may think they are warriors who use the skills of the world's deadliest swords.
This vision is right. For those who are not familiar with the warrior, Samurai is a Japanese, referring to Japanese soldiers. Even the Japanese, when they mentioned the samurai, would think of the Warriors of the Shogun era in the Edo period. The samurai began to appear in Japanese history in the early 8th century. At that time, the government was fighting with local Japanese tribes to unify all Japan and the generals became official positions. According to their defense responsibilities, there are 4 generals. They are the generals of the East, the West, the North and the South. In the presence of the general, the distinction between the emperor's nobility and the general was not clear. The nobility is a politician, but they are also orders of the emperor, they are warriors.
The generals were professional fighters who formed their own professional army. In 796, Tamuramaro Sakanoue became the general of the generals and became the leader of the warriors. People call him the position of the shogun general. He is the first shogun general in Japanese history. Then the difference between the legislator and the warrior became clear. The nobility no longer participated in the war. Fighting became a soldier's profession.
Even if the general is the position of the emperor's government, these soldiers are also the army of the emperor. The emperor and the people are called samurai warriors. The samurai in Japanese means the people who serve the emperor, the government, and the people. The word samurai became a word commonly used to refer to warriors in Japanese.
As the aristocratic government was eroded in the 10th century, the great general's son, Yoritomo Minaamoto, became Shogun in 1192. He opened an independent government in eastern Japan. He was the first shogun general of the samurai government. After the dark ages of war and battle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the power of the emperor weakened, the samurai had become the center of Japan's political and military system for nearly 700 years.
The samurai government period ended in 1868, when the Shogun General, Tokugawa Yoshishin announced the return of political power to the emperor. The samurai is no longer the governing body of Japan. In the late 18th century, after the Sino-Japanese War and the Russian-Japanese War, the samurai theory said that Bushido became the focus of attention. Bushi and Samurai have the same meaning, soldiers in Japanese. Bushido is the basic principle of Bushi or Samurai. This is because the Japanese education system needs to rebuild the Japanese spirit and patriotism and foreign competition.
An interesting historical fact is that the first modern textbook "Bushishi" was written in English and published in the United States in 1900. The title of this book is "Bushishi: The Soul of Japan." The author is a young diplomat, Inazo Niitobe. What is fascinating is that the author is a Christian, because the last general government, the Tokugawa regime worked so hard to persecute Christianity. In 1938, the first Japanese version of this English book was published in Japan. The military government before the Second World War abused the Bushido in order to drive the Japanese into the war. Bushido does not recommend death when defeated.
However, the spirit of Bushido survived this abuse. Based on the spirit of never giving up the struggle, under the influence of Confucius, Sun Zu and Zen, Bushido still exists today and is believed by the most determined principles of the Japanese people.
Orignal From: The origin of the samurai
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