By Antony Cummins
The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are full of romantic myth and fallacy.
Samurai and Ninja professional Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the real nature of those very real—and very lethal—medieval jap warriors. The Samurai and Ninja have been in truth brutal killing machines educated in torture and soaked in machismo. Many have been expert horsemen and sword-fighting experts, whereas others have been masters of deception and sabotage. a few fought for loyalty, others for private achieve. What those warriors
all shared in universal used to be their unflinching own bravery, ability and brutality.
In Samurai and Ninja, Cummins separates delusion from truth and indicates why the japanese have been the best warriors of all time:
He describes the Samurai and the Ninja as they honestly have been in past occasions whilst battles raged throughout Japan—not in later occasions whilst warfare turned out of date and eastern warriors grew to become philosophers, students and courtiers.
He describes the social context of the day and the feudal global into which the soldiers have been informed to struggle and die for his or her lords.
He exposes the basically brutal nature of war in medieval Japan.
This publication is illuminated by means of many infrequent jap manuscripts and texts that are translated into English.
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It was in the late 1500s that people like Lord Hideyoshi put an end to slavery. The Samurai and His Servants A samurai will undoubtedly have servants to aid him; sandal holders, grooms, helm and spear bearers. The number depended on their social ranking. The following is the main structure of command: 1. Samurai—He acts as the master of the house. 2. Ashigaru—Foot soldiers, ashigaru can either be temporary or permanent and may be retained in large groups by wealthy lords. 3. Chugen—Direct servants to the samurai, these will place the shoes of the samurai ready for him to step into, help him with tasks and serve him in his daily activity.
He forced all samurai to leave their ancestral fortified manor houses and move into castle towns—most of which were flatland castles. He removed any natural advantage of position, leaving us with the image of the grand castle with whitewashed walls in the center of major cities. This was not the norm in the warring periods. In the Warring States Period, castles would have been smaller than we know them now, and fortified houses and monasteries would have been bigger than the ones visited by tourists today.
The families of Iga and Koka (lands famous for shinobi) were considered jizamurai—landed gentry—before the invasions, and takeover, of Lord Nobunaga in the 1580s. These jizamurai families of Iga and Koka actually had no overlord and were independent. After the fall of Iga in the 1580s, with the surrender of Koka, these landed samurai fell from true jizamurai. They then came under the new definition of jizamurai—“half peasant half samurai;” or even straight peasants. However, this idea of the peasant in the field is simply not accurate.