The blood of the "hatamoto" samurai could be traced to Mitsunaka Tada, who in turn could claim still a nobler ancestor.
The couple here, being formerly of samurai class, unlike the Ikagin couple, were both refined.
Mark ye,--I am descendant of a samurai of the "hatamato" class.
This used to be former samurai quarters where one had the least chance of finding any boarding house, and I was going to retreat to a more lively part of the town when a good idea occurred to me.
However, Matt and his companions chose to think that the Young Samurai were too discreet to make them any trouble in a peaceable port.
Tolo, I take it, is a member of the Young Samurai Society.
The Young Samurai are going it on their own hook; they're going to help their beloved country whether the country wants them to or not.
Tolo didn't have time to see the others of the Young Samurai between the time he left La Guayra and the time he presented himself to me, in the rôle of Ah Sin, on board the Grampus.
The samurai always carried two swords by his side, one long and one short, to arbitrate right and wrong in altercations.
On the contrary, the Prussian Samurai gave the Czar the opportunity of playing the role of defender of the Serbs, the Belgians and the French.
The Mikado and his Samurai were not in the least interested in freeing Russia, yet the Russo-Japanese War gave a powerful impetus to the revolutionary events that followed.
He was a samurai and associated with samurai of the superior class.
He was a samuraiof high rank, and a pupil of Kano Eisen.
When the samurai were disbanded, there were very few occupations to which they could turn.
In the feudal days of Japan, so recently past, the position of the samurai was exactly the same as the clansmen of a Highland chief, say at the time of the "Forty-Five.
The samuraiclansmen were the exact counterparts of Highlanders.
It was the voice, not of the Samurai riding the storm, but of the Samuraicalm and cold.
And we saw the Samurai emerge in the lee of the chart-house, swaying with casual surety on the mad deck, as he spoke what must have been instructions to Mr. Pike.
What superior weather-sense Captain West possesses I know not, save that it is his by Samurai right.
Your theology is mixed, my man," Captain West smiled quietly, though I could not help seeing how tired was his face and how tired were his wonderful Samurai eyes.
It was not theSamurai but the henchman who was weak and wrong.
The Samurai blundered, and his heart destroyed him when he became aware of the blunder.
The samurai were given an annual allowance for their subsistence, and felt that toil was far beneath their dignity.
The samurai were the warriors and had no other occupation than to defend their lords in the struggles between the clans.
The samurai represented the intellectual as well as the military strength of the nation.
Mr. Yamashita was of the samurai class and since the abolition of feudalism has been engaged in farming.
The daimios have furnished few of the men of prominence in modern Japan, nearly all of the leaders in government, education, literature and the professions having come from the samurai class.
To the samurai women belongs the task--and they have already begun to perform it--of establishing upon a broader and surer foundation the position of women in their own country.
As the government of the land to-day lies in the hands of the samurai men under the Emperor, so the progress of the women, the new ideas of work for women, are in the hands of the samurai women, led by the Empress.
What, it may be asked, are the traits of the samurai which distinguish them, and make them such honored types of the perfect Japanese gentleman, so that to live and die worthy the name of samurai was the highest ambition of the soldier?
Then, with a short dirk, such as is owned by every samurai woman, she stabbed herself.
The implicit obedience which samurai gave their lords, when conflicting with feelings of loyalty to their country, often produced two opposing forces which had to be overcome.
Divided between the two duties, the samurai would usually do as he thought right for his country or his lord, disobeying his master's orders; write a confession of his real motives; and save his name from disgrace by committing suicide.
In the old days, the women of the samurai class fulfilled most nobly the duties that fell to their lot.
A samurai took pride in keeping his swords as sharp and shining as was possible.
In the reading of them, we are often reminded of the Spartan spirit of warfare, and samurai women are in some ways very like those Spartan mothers who would rather die than see their sons branded as cowards.
The true samuraiis always brave, never fearing death or suffering in any form.
As usual shall the hundred sleepysamurai Guard my couch.
Aye, and he slept not Though the samurai were heavy with sleep-fumes.
The term for a rude man is, "other than expected fellow"; and a Samurai is not to be interfered with in cutting down a fellow who has behaved to him in a manner other than is expected.
Ieyasu says theSamurai are the masters of the four classes.
A story is told of two Samurai meeting on a bridge which was too narrow to allow of their passing each other.
The Samurai are grouped into direct retainers, secondary retainers and nobles, and retainers of high and low grade; but the same line of conduct is equally allowable to them all towards an "other than expected fellow.
Priding themselves as they did in their brute strength and privileges to turn it into account, the samurai gave full consent to what Mencius taught concerning the power of Love.
As among flowers the cherry is queen, so among men the samurai is lord," so sang the populace.
A renowned priest of the seventeenth century satirically observed--"Talk as he may, a samurai who ne'er has died is apt in decisive moments to flee or hide.
Don Quixote takes more pride in his rusty spear and skin-and-bone horse than in gold and lands, and a samurai is in hearty sympathy with his exaggerated confrère of La Mancha.
In many feudatories, public finance was administered by a lower kind ofsamurai or by priests.
For causes entirely incompatible with reason, or for reasons entirely undeserving of death, hot headed youths rushed into it as insects fly into fire; mixed and dubious motives drove more samurai to this deed than nuns into convent gates.
Indispensable as they were to a man of culture, they were accessories rather than essentials of samurai training.
A typical samuraicalls a literary savant a book-smelling sot.
In cases of this kind, it was quite a usual course for the samurai to make the last appeal to the intelligence and conscience of his lord by demonstrating the sincerity of his words with the shedding of his own blood.
Disturb it not with speech; but let it work alone in quietness and secrecy,"--writes a young samurai in his diary.
Adzuma, the ideal wife in the minds of samurai girls, finds herself loved by a man who, in order to win her affection, conspires against her husband.
Like an English poet thesamurai believed "'tis not the creed that saves the man; but it is the man that justifies the creed.
Under the Tokugawa regime the Samurai was the flower and the rest were nothing.
Then a class of plebeians appeared who called themselves "men of men," and who made it their profession to defy the bullying Samurai and to defend the oppressed people.
The Samurai often abused their privilege and oppressed the common people not a little, disregarding their rights and personality.
The cold-blooded hara kiri was an institution by which the Samurai could sustain his honor or save his face when involved in disgrace.
Hot blood of a samurai stings these veins no less than those bronze arteries you clutch.
From the high land near the samurai Onda's home, a big bell boomed and quivered out over the city.
That was a terrible, bold thing for a girl of the samurai class to say.
Her eyes gleamed, and her thin nostrils shook,--"Such thoughts as these are not to be spoken between a samurai and his child.
A moment later they had drawn apart, both with wet eyes and quivering lips, and small, bashful side-looks of love; for such public demonstration is practically unknown among samurai women.
To bargain thus with a mere girl--" the samurai muttered.
The Japanese youth of the samurai class is bred to a distaste of bodily luxury.
A characteristic story, showing the devotion with which the old samurai carried out this principle of loyalty, is the tale of the forty-seven ronins.
Thus developed, it became a sort of religious system, the only one believed by the oldsamurai or warrior classes.
The lordly samurai walked about with two sharp swords stuck into his belt, and his very look was {172} threatening.
Under the old regime a member of the samurai or warrior classes could not be executed like a common man, but after condemnation was left to take his own life.
The warlike samurai classes, disgusted with this weak petticoat government, arose in arms and overthrew it.
The present slipshod methods are due to faulty business customs, the outgrowth of the old Samurai contempt for trade in any form.
For years the nation had been ruled by men of the Samurai or military class, with a rigid code of honor, but with a great contempt for trade and tradesmen.
Aren't some of the descendants of the old warrior samurairather fanatical?
The old samurai defended his country against the foreigner and no descendant of a samurai, either now or ever, would endure for a foreigner to learn the secrets of his country.
There are now neither samurai nor eta, but only sons of the emperor.
You, sir, the son of a samurai who died at Jokoji, even if he died on the wrong side, ought not to need to be told that.
No samurai in all the thousands of years of our empire has ever married an eta!
All this was quite heinous to his samurai uncles and they did what they could to correct it and instil into the little mind of the boy that love for the glory of combat which they had.
Though he was a samurai of the samurai, his ancestors kuge, it seemed impossible to admit him until Colonel Zanzi spoke.
Most of all, Bob was struck by the glimpses he obtained of the samurai ideals.
The grandson of the Samurai of antiquity still boasts many of the proclivities of his ancestors, and above all, the moral law of Bushido is still in his blood.
In spite of his valour, his passion for war, his thirst for revenge, the Samurai always preserved in his demeanour the utmost calm.
The first petition in the prayers of the Samurai was always for his emperor, and the second for his country.
The descendant of the old Samurai becomes a soldier, moulded after the German pattern.
But even the valour of the most heroic Samurai is as nothing compared to his pride and vanity, and to a certain extent these two qualities are still striking characteristics of the nation.
At the age of five the soldier's boy would receive as a toy a small real sword, and at fifteen the Samurai was of age, and from that time he wore a sharp-bladed weapon.
The hot-blooded Samurai was offended on every possible occasion, and many an innocent life has been sacrificed to this intensely developed military pride.
As a mark of the highest reverence, the Samurai raised his sword to his brow, and this act, too, was made almost into a solemn rite.
She's a beauty--a real beauty--and belongs to one of the old Samurai families up north somewhere.
In Japan the police force had its genesis after the abolition of feudalism, and, as a matter of fact, a large proportion of the first members thereof belonged to the Samurai class.
The ordinary Samurai was, in fact, as regards reading and writing an educated man at a time when British Generals and even British Sovereigns were somewhat hazy in regard to their orthography and caligraphy.
This meant an almost intolerable state of affairs for the samurai who received his salary in grain and for the petty farmer.
The part called the agari-zashiki was reserved forsamurai who had the privilege of admission to the shogun's presence; and in the part called the agariya common, samurai and Buddhist priests were incarcerated.
THE LAST SCENE The last act of the Hojo tragedy, which took place in the cemetery of the temple Tosho-ji, showed the fidelity of the samurai character at its best.
As a rule only samurai of the fifth official rank and upwards were permitted thus to expiate a crime, and the procedure was spoken of as "granting death" (shi wo tamau).
These two centres of religion had long been in possession of large bodies of trained soldiers whose ranks were from time to time swelled by the accession of wandering samurai (ronin).
In the face of this instruction the conservative samurai had no choice but to disperse or commit suicide.
The ordinary censors had to exercise surveillance over the samurai of the hatamoto and were under the jurisdiction of the waka-doshiyori.
This incident was characteristic of samurai canons.
Gambling, also, prevailed widely during the Muromachi epoch and was carried sometimes to great excesses, so that samurai actually staked their arms and armour on a cast of the dice.
A number of samuraivisited Yokohama, and promised death to any Japanese merchant entering into transactions with the aliens.
But they foolishly imagined that some retaliation might be effected by calling upon the Tokugawa to supplement that part of the peace provisions which related to allowances for the samurai who had fought on the side of the garrison.
The poorer classes of samuraibeing increasingly distressed, they, too, borrowed money at high rates of interest from merchants and wealthy farmers, which loans they were generally unable to repay.
Such interdicts could not possibly be strictly enforced, but they undoubtedly exercised much influence, so that the samurai limited themselves to two meals a day and partook only of the coarsest fare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "samurai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
