#Blog7: SAMURAI

Hi, this is Ramu. Today, I'm going to talk about SAMURAI which is  Japanese pop culture as you know.  SAMURAI were the military nobility of preindustrial Japan. They have a topknot and  strange costume with samurai swords that is the status symbol, and such an appearance is the proof of SAMURAI. They also have been known as Bushi who followed a set of rules called Bushido. Their fighting styles are mainly individual, and they call their name each other before fights, because there was a notion that they don't struggle with strange men. Then Samurai swords were the best arm in Japan, so they valued their own swords equally own life as Ieyasu Tokugawa said "One's sword is one". Therefore, surprisingly, they have a spirit of Harakiri that is to kill oneself and are willing to do that, if they violate their spirits. It is unbelievable, but it had been actually practiced then. These spiritual minds are prouds Japanese culture to other countries, and it had been supporting the morals in Japan where religions were hardly prevailed.