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| | |  genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - WeaponsThe samurai used various weapons. Bushido taught that a samurai's soul is in the katana that they carried. Sometimes a samurai is pictured as entirely dependent on the katana for fighting. This is much different than the role of a crossbow in medieval Europe and the role of sword to a knight, here the weapon serves as a symbol of being samurai, which is of greater importance than the katana qua weapon. Upon reaching the age of thirteen, in a ceremony called Genpuku (元服), a male child was given a wakizashi and an adult name and bec ...
See also:Samurai, Samurai - Myth and reality, Samurai - History, Samurai - Origin of Samurai, Samurai - Kamakura Bakufu and the Rise of Samurai, Samurai - Ashikaga Shogunate and the Feudal Period, Samurai - Oda Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Samurai - Tokugawa Shogunate, Samurai - Samurai decline during the Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Post Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Culture, Samurai - Education, Samurai - Shūdō, Samurai - Lifestyles, Samurai - Samurai Names, Samurai - Marriage, Samurai - Succession, Samurai - Philosophy, Samurai - Weapons, Samurai - Etymology of samurai and related words, Samurai - Samurai in popular culture Read more here: » Samurai: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Weapons |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Adolescence - Social significance In commerce, this generation is seen as an important target. Cellular phones, contemporary popular music, movies, television programs, video games and clothes are heavily marketed and often popular amongst adolescents.
In the past (and still in some cultures) there were ceremonies that celebrate adulthood, typically occurring during adolescence. Genpuku (translated as coming of age) in Japan is an instance. Upanayanam is a coming of age ceremony for males in the Hindu world. The bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzv ...
See also:Adolescence, Adolescence - Puberty, Adolescence - Preteens, Adolescence - Teenagers, Adolescence - Emerging Adulthood, Adolescence - Discrimination against adolescents, Adolescence - Psychology of adolescents, Adolescence - Social significance, Adolescence - Legal issues, Adolescence - Fiction about teenagers, Adolescence - Nonfiction about teenagers, Adolescence - List of people who achieved fame in their teens, Adolescence - Historical significance, Adolescence - Literature, Adolescence - Entertainment, Adolescence - Sports, Adolescence - List of famous teenagers, Adolescence - Compare with Read more here: » Adolescence: Encyclopedia II - Adolescence - Social significance |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Date family - Retainers and Vassals These samurai were vassals of Date clan and listed by their date of birth.
Date family - Oniniwa.
Oniniwa Motozane (14??-15??)
Oniniwa Yoshinao (1513-1585)
Masuda Kita (1539-16??)
Moniwa Tadamoto (1549-1640) - Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave him "Moniwa" as the new clan name for Oniniwa clan.
Moniwa Yoshimoto (1575-1663)
Harad ...
See also:Date family, Date family - Members, Date family - 14th Century, Date family - 15th Century, Date family - 16th Century, Date family - 17th Century, Date family - 18th Century, Date family - 19th Century and After Meiji restoration, Date family - 20th Century, Date family - Adopted Members, Date family - Retainers and Vassals, Date family - Oniniwa, Date family - Reference Read more here: » Date family: Encyclopedia II - Date family - Retainers and Vassals |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Japanese name - Historical names The current structure (family name + given name) did not materialize until the 1870s when the government made the new family registration system.
In feudal Japan, names reflected a person's social status. They also reflect a person's affiliation to Buddhist, Shintō, feudatory-military, Confucian-scholarly, mercantile, peasant, slave and imperial orders.
Before feudal times, Japanese clan names figured prominently in history: names with no fall into this category. (No means of, although the as ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Date family - Members Members of the clan are listed by their date of birth.
Date family - 14th Century.
Date Muneto (1324-1385)
Date Masamune (1353-1405)
Date Ujimune (1371-1412)
Date Mochimune (1393-1469)
Date family - 15th Century.
Date Narimune] (1435-1487?)
Date Hisamune (1453-1514)
Date Uemune (1488-1565)
Date family - 16th Century.
Date Harumune (1519-1577)
Date Ter ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Coming of age - Professional initiatory rituals
Coming of age - Academic Initiations.
In many universities of Europe, first year students are made to undergo tests or humiliation before being accepted as students. Perhaps the oldest of these is "Raisin Monday" at St Andrews University. It is still practiced. A senior student would take a new student, a "bejant" or "bejantine" under his wing and show them round the university. In gratitude, the bejant would give the senior student a pound of raisins. In turn this led to bejants being given recei ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Coming of age - Cultural rituals exclusive to Nations
Coming of age - Australia NZ etc..
In Australia, New Zealand and numerous other countries, a party known as the Twenty First has long celebrated the coming of age. On their 21st birthdays, young people and their families and friends traditionally gather together for social parties where gifts are presented to the birthday boy or girl. The practice is gradually waning, primarily because the legal age of maturity has been reduced to 18, so by 21 they have already had the privileges of adulthood (the right to ...
See also:Coming of age, Coming of age - Religious coming of age, Coming of age - Buddhism, Coming of age - Christianity, Coming of age - Greek polytheism, Coming of age - Hinduism, Coming of age - Judaism, Coming of age - Islam, Coming of age - Cultural rituals exclusive to Nations, Coming of age - Australia NZ etc., Coming of age - Hispanic, Coming of age - Japan, Coming of age - Papua New Guinea, Coming of age - Samoa, Coming of age - United Kingdom, Coming of age - Pygmies, Coming of age - Korea, Coming of age - Professional initiatory rituals, Coming of age - Academic Initiations, Coming of age - Printing industry, Coming of age - Films, Coming of age - Webcomics Read more here: » Coming of age: Encyclopedia II - Coming of age - Cultural rituals exclusive to Nations |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Myth and reality Most samurai were bound by a strict code of honor, the famous Bushido (武士道, bushidō?) and were expected to set an example for those below them. Notably, a disgraced samur ...
See also:Samurai, Samurai - Myth and reality, Samurai - History, Samurai - Origin of Samurai, Samurai - Kamakura Bakufu and the Rise of Samurai, Samurai - Ashikaga Shogunate and the Feudal Period, Samurai - Oda Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Samurai - Tokugawa Shogunate, Samurai - Samurai decline during the Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Post Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Culture, Samurai - Education, Samurai - Shūdō, Samurai - Lifestyles, Samurai - Samurai Names, Samurai - Marriage, Samurai - Succession, Samurai - Philosophy, Samurai - Weapons, Samurai - Etymology of samurai and related words, Samurai - Samurai in popular culture Read more here: » Samurai: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Myth and reality |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Japanese name - Imperial names The Japanese emperor and Crown Prince have no surname for historical reasons, only a given name such as Hirohito (裕仁), which is rarely used in Japan: Japanese prefer to say "the Emperor" or "the Crown Prince", out of respect and as a measure of politeness.
When children are born into the Imperial family, they are given a standard given name, as well as a special Imperial surname. Akihito, for instance, was born as Tsugo-no-miya Akihito, and was referred to as "Prince Tsugo" during his childhood. The Imperial surname is generally u ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Philosophy Philosophies of Buddhism and Zen, to the lesser extent Confucianism influenced the samurai culture as well as Shinto. Zen meditation became an important teaching by offering a process to calm one's mind. Buddhism concept of reincarnation and rebirth led samurai to abandon torture and needless killing. Some samurai even gave up violence altogether and became Buddhist monks after realizing how fruitless their killings were. Some were killed as they came to terms wit ...
See also:Samurai, Samurai - Myth and reality, Samurai - History, Samurai - Origin of Samurai, Samurai - Kamakura Bakufu and the Rise of Samurai, Samurai - Ashikaga Shogunate and the Feudal Period, Samurai - Oda Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Samurai - Tokugawa Shogunate, Samurai - Samurai decline during the Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Post Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Culture, Samurai - Education, Samurai - Shūdō, Samurai - Lifestyles, Samurai - Samurai Names, Samurai - Marriage, Samurai - Succession, Samurai - Philosophy, Samurai - Weapons, Samurai - Etymology of samurai and related words, Samurai - Samurai in popular culture Read more here: » Samurai: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Philosophy |
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Japanese name - Structure Structurally, Japanese names are simple compared with names in many other cultures. All Japanese people have one surname and one given name with no middle name, except for the royal family whose members bear no surname. The given name in Japanese is called the "name" (名前 namae) or "lower name" (下の名前 shita no namae). The surname is called myōji (苗字 or 名字). When written in Japanes ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - Etymology of samurai and related words The term Samurai originally meant "those who serve in close attendance to nobility", and was written in the Chinese character (or kanji) that had the same meaning. In Japanese, it was originally pronounced in the pre-Heian period as saburapi and later to saburai, then samurai in the Edo period. In Japanese literature, there is an early reference to samurai in the Kokinshu (古今集, early 10th century):
Attendant to your nobility
Ask for your master's umbrella
The dews 'neath the trees of M ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Japanese name - Names from other ethnic groups in Japan Many ethnic minorities, mostly Korean and Chinese, living in Japan adopt Japanese names to ease communication and, more importantly, to avoid discrimination. But a few of them still keep their native name. Among them are Chang Woo Han, a founder and chairman of Maruhan Corp., a large chain of pachinko parlors in Japan.
Japanese citizenship, however, requires adopting a Japanese name. In recent decades, the government has allowed individuals to simply adopt katakana versions of their native names when applying for citizenship: Martti T ...
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| | | | genpuku: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - History
Samurai - Origin of Samurai.
Before the Heian period, the army in Japan was modeled after the Chinese army and under the direct command of the emperor. Except for slaves, every able-bodied man had the duty of enlisting for the army. These men had to supply themselves, and many gave up returning and settled down on their way home. This was treated as a part of taxation and it could be substituted with other forms of tax such as bolts of cloth. These men were called Sakimori (防人, lit. "defenders"), b ...
See also:Samurai, Samurai - Myth and reality, Samurai - History, Samurai - Origin of Samurai, Samurai - Kamakura Bakufu and the Rise of Samurai, Samurai - Ashikaga Shogunate and the Feudal Period, Samurai - Oda Toyotomi and Tokugawa, Samurai - Tokugawa Shogunate, Samurai - Samurai decline during the Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Post Meiji Restoration, Samurai - Culture, Samurai - Education, Samurai - Shūdō, Samurai - Lifestyles, Samurai - Samurai Names, Samurai - Marriage, Samurai - Succession, Samurai - Philosophy, Samurai - Weapons, Samurai - Etymology of samurai and related words, Samurai - Samurai in popular culture Read more here: » Samurai: Encyclopedia II - Samurai - History |
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