Facts about Medieval Japan.
1. A samurai was the name of a powerful military caste in medieval Japan.
2.Samurais used to practice their new swords on live prisoners. They also used to name their swords because they believed that the help a spirit.
3.At the beginning of the middle ages, the samurais were often part-time soldiers who also owned farms and lived in villages.
4. In medieval Japan, you were not allowed a surname unless you had been give on by the Daimyo (a powerful territorial leader).
5. Whenever a large farm animal died (something like a horse or an ox), it became the property of the local outcasts. Once it was dead, only the eta had any rights to
it.
6. 80% of the japanese people were rice farmers.
7. Ronin: literally meaning 'wave-man' - it meant a person who was 'tossed about on the sea of life'. It was used to describe a samurai without a daimyo lord.
8. The word 'Nirvana' orignates from medieval Japan. In Buddhism, the words means the attainment of perfect peace and blessedness.
9. Footwear was usually sandals (waraji) and wooden clogs (geta).
10. One of the oldest forms of Japanese poetry is a 31-syllable poem called a tanka. It has five lines in the pattern: 5-7-5-7-7.
2.Samurais used to practice their new swords on live prisoners. They also used to name their swords because they believed that the help a spirit.
3.At the beginning of the middle ages, the samurais were often part-time soldiers who also owned farms and lived in villages.
4. In medieval Japan, you were not allowed a surname unless you had been give on by the Daimyo (a powerful territorial leader).
5. Whenever a large farm animal died (something like a horse or an ox), it became the property of the local outcasts. Once it was dead, only the eta had any rights to
it.
6. 80% of the japanese people were rice farmers.
7. Ronin: literally meaning 'wave-man' - it meant a person who was 'tossed about on the sea of life'. It was used to describe a samurai without a daimyo lord.
8. The word 'Nirvana' orignates from medieval Japan. In Buddhism, the words means the attainment of perfect peace and blessedness.
9. Footwear was usually sandals (waraji) and wooden clogs (geta).
10. One of the oldest forms of Japanese poetry is a 31-syllable poem called a tanka. It has five lines in the pattern: 5-7-5-7-7.