SAMURAI-HISTORY OF JAPAN

[denvise]

There is still Samurai today?
What do you have to do, to be a Samurai?



And this picture show a symbol in the background(behind the bow) what does it mean/represent?
Thanks for any answers.

[ukiyo]

Of course there's not samurai today! They've been outlawed for over a hundred years.

The symbol in the back is an emblem or "Mon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

[denvise]

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

Of course there's not samurai today! They've been outlawed for over a hundred years.

Ohh no, don't laugh at me like that=.

When you wrote:

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

Even today in Japan many japanese call samurai "bushi".

It sounded like the "bushi" was part of everyday vernacular
so I was wondering if there where any order
that works to keep the spirit of the samurai alive, like with the European knights.

The order of Santiago is still active after more then 800 years.

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

They've been outlawed for over a hundred years.

So samurai's is illegal today...

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

The symbol in the back is an emblem or "Mon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

Cool, I have seen it in Lo:Zelda since childhood, it came as a surprise to see it in old pictures.

/thanks for answers.

[ukiyo]

You read it wrongly

"Even today in Japan many japanese call samurai "bushi"."

Meaning instead of using the word Samurai many use "Bushi".

My family is from the Hosokawa Samurai Clan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_clan

[denvise]

Originally Posted by NihonKitty

You read it wrongly

"Even today in Japan many japanese call samurai "bushi"."

Meaning instead of using the word Samurai many use "Bushi".

My family is from the Hosokawa Samurai Clan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_clan

Ohh, Okay I get it.
But is there still samurai spirit, only no warriors, like in Europe?

About the clan link, it has to be a big clan or else you have a former Prime Minister of Japan in your family.

[ukiyo]

How did you read that from my post?? Well anyway Japan is probably the most traditional country in the developed world so I would say yes.

[heziyulin]

Originally Posted by JEANS-JEANS

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Today,Japanese clothes is different form the Chinese traditional clothes,because Japanese changed them and ad some Japanese thing.

I think Japanese is successful

That's ture. The Japanese costume (和服）originally comes from China (mainly TANG & SONG dynasty), but they rerange it so its a bit different from the traditional Chinese costume (汉服）, actually most of Japanese tradition including convenance and architecture comes from China (during TANG &SONG dynasty) but they rerange it sucessfully as waht we can see today.