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Samurai means those who serve. they could fight on horse back. wore crest to show what clan they beloged to, these crest were called mon. Samuari were trained to always be alert this was called [|zanshin]. Men were mostly samuari, but their were a few women who had mastered the skills just as fast as men, feamle samuari had equal inheritance as their brothers. Wives of samuari were called to protect their house when war was going on. Samuari followed a code bushido. it was like chivrly in Europe. Saurari lost their military power graduilly and became more political. They were less then 10% of the population. The samuari sword has been passed down gerneration to generation. Samuari had many battles againtst other samuari clans. we founds many and chose one we thought was interesting.

This was the last engagement in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Kyushu Campaign and was highlighted by a suicidal Shimazu charge and a one-on-one duel between Niiro Tadamoto and Kato Kiyomasa. Kato won but spared Niiro’s life (samuariarchives.com). Hoping to capitalize on the recent death of Amako Tsunehisa and Haruhisa's defeat at Koriyama in 1540, Ouchi Yoshitaka launched an attack into Izumo. The allied progress into Izumo proved exceedingly slow, and at the gates of Gassan-Toda the Ouchi / Mori effort faltered and fell back in disarray. Motonari himself came very close to being captured in the retreat and this reverse is said to have brought about a decided change in Yoshitaka, who afterwards displayed little interest in military endeavors (samuariarchives.com).

katana a short sword called the wakizashi a small knife called the tanto. bo staff ( a longer staff), the jo staff (a shorter staff), the jutte, and the keibo. They fought they ninja enemy, this required much zanshin.Ninja were pretty much invisible; they were like the first special ops. Ninja attacked quietly at night. Ninja had many tools including the kama, the shurikan or the ninja star as many people know it, and a egg that they filled with grinded up glass that they would throw into the samuari's eyes, the more the samuari blinked the deeper the glass would dig in. Scince the ninja attacked at night they were considered cowards. Ninja were farmers who thought the feudal system was unfair.

samuari weapons

keibo, juttes, jo staff, bo staff, wakizashi, tanto,

katana, naginata



ninja weapons

kamas, shurikan or ninja star, **NUNCHAKUS,** dart gun or fukiya, ashiko

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http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/ schwww/sch618/japan/war/war_ warfare_weapons.html

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