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List of quotes & sayings from famous samurai about strategies, tactics, and character!

Regarded as one of the most exceptional and renowned samurai in history, Miyamoto Musashi has attained a mythical status over the years, even as much of his life remains enigmatic. Samurai warriors, Samurai swords, Samurai armor, Samurai history, Samurai culture, Samurai code, Samurai battles, Samurai clans, Samurai training, Samurai honor, Samurai discipline, Samurai philosophy, Samurai weapons, Samurai art, Samurai traditions, Samurai legends, #samurai #katana #japan #japanese

Japan’s powerful Takeda clan is defeated and its hitherto invincible cavalry shattered by the innovative tactical genius of Oda Nobanaga; one of warring Japan’s three great unifiers! 16…

The samurai were a fascinating and very mythicized cast of warriors in Japan. We cover the most interesting facts about the samurai.

Portrait of a Samurai Commander, c 1870. The horns and crescent moon on his helmet suggest a senior ranking samurai

This image of a former samurai would have been taken a few years after the samurai were abolished in Japan. About 1870's, Japan

auauk: “ Samurais at a pageant in Japan, between the two World Wars, 1930. ”

A ninja or shinobi was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included: espionage, sabotage, infiltration, assassination and guerrilla warfare. Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed "dishonorable" and "beneath" the samurai-caste, who observed strict rules about honor and combat. The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or "warring states" period, in the 15th century.