Samurai?

[jubaji]

Yakuza, are kinda like samurai aren't they?

.........................no

[danfaggella]

Wow I'm agreeing with him. They really aren't samuria, look at my last post on this thread. Just because they are "badass" and go around killing people while serving a greater "boss", they aren't fighting with swords, they usually don't fight for land, and it certainly isn't a fuedal system in Japan any longer.

[kuk sool won]

im a samurai, i have a sword and everything.

[thesnake]

*eye twitch* having a sword does not make you samurai. and becoming a samurai is attainable in modern times just not as sought after or apreciated

[jubaji]

becoming a samurai is attainable in modern times just not as sought after or apreciated

Ah....NO.


Look, you seem determined to make yourself the latest hyperactive nimrod to get run off of here, but it would be great if you calmed down, read a bunch of stuff first and then posted in a calm and careful manner so you could join the conversation. Better for everyone, right?

[jubaji]

becoming a samurai is attainable in modern times

Just to reiterate: NO!

[Tai Chi Fighter]

If you are inducted into a Samurai Family, that makes you a Samurai. Darrell Craig and his son were inducted into the Chiba Family, a prominent family for which the prefecture of Chiba is named after. They became Samurai on that day.

[jubaji]

If you are inducted into a Samurai Family, that makes you a Samurai. Darrell Craig and his son were inducted into the Chiba Family, a prominent family for which the prefecture of Chiba is named after. They became Samurai on that day.

Oh, brother...

And when did this supposedly take place?

[Tai Chi Fighter]

1979. He had gone to Osaka to see his Sensei's Dojo. It was on this trip that he and his son were inducted into the Chiba Family.

[jubaji]

come on now people...

1979.

Nobody was a Samurai in 1979.

[thesnake]

and besides just getting "adopted" into a samurai family doesn't make u a samurai. does getting adopted by jet li make u an amazing martial artist i think not.

[Broadsword2004]

Being born into a Samurai family might give you the title of Samurai honorary maybe, I don't know, sort of like how you can still be knighted by the queen in England, but being knighted in modern England doesn't mean you are a real knight in the old-fashioned sense.

And there are plenty of warriors these days that do embody great values. Observe the U.S. Army Special Forces for instance (SF is one of the U.S. Spec Ops, others are Navy SEALs, Air Force Pararescue, etc...), their motto is, "De Oppresso Liber" which is Latin for "To Free the Oppressed."

They are like a modern version of the ninja, but they use rifles and rucksacks and make friends with the local peoples usually.

[thesnake]

true it may give u the honorary title but i was talking bought a true samurai not just some random lucky bastard who got born into a samurai family

[jubaji]

Being born into a Samurai family might give you the title of Samurai honorary maybe, I don't know.

No. There are no "Samurai families". That is a social class/job description that no longer exists. Lots of folks can trace their family trees back to people who were samurai, but that does not mean they are samurai. It's a cool, romantic notion, but since The Meiji Restoration it simply hasn't existed.

[thesnake]

exactly beautifuly said