Samurai
by Pablo Lopez
Title
Samurai
Artist
Pablo Lopez
Medium
Photograph - Digital Image
Description
Samurai as depicted on an ancient drawing.
Samurai were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan.
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi or buke. The term was nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. An early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashu (905–914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.
By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai followed a set of rules that came to be known as bushido. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
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