Everyone who is a part of the team put down what they can do to help in the comments, and if there's anything that will take time to get, update the blog when you have it. I'll be doing the research and script writing, (and maybe some other crap). So "GET TO IT!"
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Here is a site I found that should help out:
http://www.artelino.com/articles/samurai.asp
and here is a pic of Minamoto no Yoritomo for Chris:
http://horse.shrine.net/samurai/image/yoshitsune_samurai.jpg
I forgot one that is real important:
http://www.samurai-archives.com/index.html
This one is cram packed of stuff!
Hey these sites are part of te samurai-archive place.
http://www.samurai-archives.com/cultcat.html
http://www.samurai-archives.com/crest1.html
they're really cool. the first one has a lot of things that will be important to us and the other one i think, if we were to print it off, would be good to present in class because it had the samurai's family crests.
oh i dont know if any1 will be able to get this book, i'm gonna try to, but its called
Samurai, Shogun, and Soldiers
The Rise of the Japanese Military
it talks about the early fuedal years of japan and how its military developed over the years and how the samurai played a role in its development
Ok guys here ill post lol
Hey wassup, i found this site, it has a lot of information that would be cool if shown in the film http://victorian.fortunecity.com/duchamp/410/main.html
Also if you translate Bushido it looks like this:
Bu-Martial Arts
Shi-Warrior
Do-Way
so its literal interpretation is the way of the martial arts warrior, or the way of the samurai. And Bushi means martial arts warrior, or just plain samurai.
i knew yall kinda knew that but i thought it would be nice if we knew what it's literal translation
Samurai Terms
Batto-jutsu
A sword-drawing art that includes cutting rolled straw targets
Bo-jutsu
Staff fighting
Budo
Martial or Fighting Arts
Bushido
The Way of the Warrior
Chokuto
Straight sword used in Japan's early history
Daimyo
Feudal landowner
Daisho
Samurai's two swords (one long - katana, one short - wakizashi)
Edo Period
1600 - 1867 when Tokugawa government ruled Japan
Giri
Samurai's duty
Gunpai
War fan
Hakama
Divided skirt-pants Samurai wore
Heian Period
782 - 1184 when Japan's capital was located in Kyoto
Iai-jutsu
Art of Drawing the Sword
Kamakura Period
1185 - 1332 when the capital of Japan was in Kamakura. Known as the "golden age" of the Japanese sword.
Kampaku
Regent
Katana
Long sword
Ken
Sword - refers specifically to an ancient, two-edge sword made before the ninth century
Ken-jutsu
Art of the Sword
Koto
Swords made before the Edo Period
Kyo-jutsu
Bow and arror fighting
Kyuba no michi
The Way of the Horse and Bow
Kyu-jutsu
Japanese archery
Mei
Name of a sword
Momoyana Period
1573 - 1599 when Samurai began wearing daisho. Also beginning of the Shinto (new sword) period.
Mon
Family crest worn on montsuki
Montsuki
Kimono top Japanese wore at formal occasions
Muramasa
Sword maker
Muromachi Period
1392 - 1572 when constant civil wars greatly increased the production of swords.
Musha-shugyo
Warrior pilgrimage
Samurai Terms
Naginata
Long pole with curved blade on one end
Naginata-jutsu
Way of the Naginata
Nambokucho Period
1333 - 1391 when two emperors were vying for power in Japan
No-dachi
Long sword
Ronin
Master-less Samurai
Ryu
Particular school or style of martial arts
Samurai
Member of the warrior class
Sensei
Teacher
Seppuku
Ritual suicide
Shin Shinto
"New New Sword" - any sword made after Meiji Restoration (1870)
Shinto
"New Sword" - any sword made between 1596 and 1870
Shogun
Barbarian subduing General (war lord)
So-jutsu
Spear fighting
Sohei
Warrior monks
Tachi
Long, deeply curved sword that mounted Samurai used in ancient Japan
Uchigatana
"Inside sword" - a term for the longer of two swords Samurai wore
Wakizashi
Short sword
Zanshin
Samurai's sensing danger
Samurai Dates of Importance
•660 B.C. --- Legend says Jimmu Tenno became Japan's first emperor and set up the ruling Yamato State. Weapons and armour develop.
•400's A.D. --- Horses introduced into Japanese fighting.
•500's A.D. --- Buddhism arrived in Japan; becomes a powerful philosophy for rulers and warriors.
•500's A.D. --- Soga clan dominated the Yamato court.
•645 A.D. --- Taika Reforms began.
•702 A.D. --- Taiho law codes established the Great Council of State.
•710 A.D. --- Nara rule began with first permanent capital.
•781 A.D. --- Emperor Kammu came to power and moved capital to Kyoto a few years later.
•794 A.D. --- Heian period began.
•858 A.D. --- Fujiwara family gained control of imperial court.
•935 A.D. --- Taira Masakado revolted and proclaimed himself "The New Emperor." Other Samurai leaders exerted their influence across the land and changed the history of Japan.
•1180-85 A.D. --- Minamoto Yoritomo takes up arms against the Taira clan in The Gempei War.
•1192 A.D. --- Yoritomo became first permanent shogun of Japan and set up his Samurai government in Kamakura.
•Late 1200's A.D. --- Mongols invade Japan. The Samurai defeat the Mongols after many years of fierce fighting. The Samurai developed a style of formation combat and depended more on the sword as a primary weapon in battle.
•1318 A.D. --- Go-Daigo became the 96th Emperor of Japan. He attempted to overthrow the Hojo regents, but gave rise instead to a new dynasty of Shoguns, the Ashikaga family, who set up their government in the capital city of Kyoto.
•1400'a A.D. --- Master swordsmen established schools to teach their style of ken-jutsu.
•1467-77 A.D. --- The Onin War saw the decline of the Shogun's power and began the Sengoku Jidai ("The Age of the Country at War") which lasted 150 years.
•1542 A.D. --- Portuguese guns were introduced into Japan.
•1560 A.D. --- Oda Nobunaga began the process of unifying Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued the quest after Nobunaga's death.
•1592 A.D. --- Hideyoshi invaded Korea on his way to invading China, but died in 1598 before succeeding.
•1603 A.D. --- The Tokugawa family began ruling Japan. The regime lasted more than 200 years.
•1605 A.D. --- Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's most famous Samurai, began his musha-shugyo (warrior pilgrimage). Musashi fought and won more than 60 sword fights before the age of 30. He founded the Individual School of Two Skies and taught for many years. At the age of 60, Musashi wrote Gorin No Sho ("The Book of Five Spheres"), the most famous writing about the Japanese Sword Arts. He also wrote "The 35 Articles on the Art of Swordsmanship."
•1615 A.D. --- Tokugawa Ieyasu drew up the "Buke Sho Hatto" (Rules for Martial Families) before his death. It gave Samurai 13 guides to living as a warrior during peace time.
•1630 A.D. --- Japan cut its ties with the outside world.
•1854 A.D. --- Commodore Matthew Perry opened trade between the United States and Japan.
•1867 A.D. --- Emperor Mutsuhito regained his traditional powers and took the name Meiji. It was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. Meiji (Mutsuhito) set up his new capital city in Edo (Tokyo).
•1868 A.D. --- Emperor Meiji introduced the "Five Articles Oath" which began the dismantling of the Samurai class.
•1873 A.D. --- Emperor Meiji established an army based on conscription; an army open to anyone.
•1876 A.D. --- Emperor Meiji declared a new law that ended the wearing of swords. The Samurai had lost their profession and their right to wear swords. Their position as a special class ended after almost 1,000 years.
iv got some more notes but ill just copy them down and giv them 2 yall
okay Jonathan, that's WAY TOO MUCH CRAP! Were only doing times between(1180-1185, The Gempei War. Of course we need to know basic samurai principles, but we don't need to know about the Muromachi Period and other stuff like that. Just lighten ur load a bit.
i know, i just coppied and pasted all that stuff from the sites i got it from. i knew we arent going to use it all, i just didnt hav the time to trim it down
ok
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