WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -samurai, member of the Japanese warrior caste. The term samurai was originally used to denote the aristocratic warriors (bushi), but it came to apply to all the members of the warrior class that rose to power in the 12th century and dominated the Japanese government until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taira no Masakado whose childhood name was Sōma no Kojirō, was the son of Taira no Yoshimasa, the “commander-in-chief of the defense of the north”. Taira no Masakado was a powerful landowner in the Kantō region. He is regarded as the first samurai of Japan because he was the first to lead a self-governing party.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. The Samurai (also bushi) were a class of warriors that arose in the 10th century in Japan and which performed military service until the 19th century. Elite and highly-trained soldiers adept at using both the bow and sword, the samurai were an essential component of Japanese armies in the medieval period.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first samurai appeared in the 9th century and were originally the people who guarded the high-ranking members of the imperial court. The name “samurai” comes from the verb saburau, meaning “to serve someone”.

Detailed explanation-5: -The majority of the Japanese people know Musashi Miyamoto as Japan’s most famous and most skilled swordsman.