what is a roving samurai whoclaims allegiance to no master?
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Ronin\n\nThese were samurai class warriors who no longer had a master to follow/protect, so they hired their "services" out to the highest bidder.\n\n  The word Ronin actually translates into "Water people", signifying that they were transient, and seldom stayed in the same place for long.
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There aren't any samurai left dude. Back in fuedal Japan I think that the samurai actually did rebel a couple of times.
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yeah!\nNaruto rocks!!\n~^-^~
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yup sakurasama is right kohai is the word\nit literlly mean the one who came after
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Ninja!! they can sneak around while pirates are saying"Yerr'" even though you tell them to stfu when you are hiding or something, ninja will just get away...you wouldn't even notice it.
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Its all about tactics. The samurai tended too pair of in battle and fight one on one with strict codes of hounor. Were as knights were brutal killing machines with no codes of conduct. Maybe knight would win because of better overall tactics.
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After a great defeat, normally the victor would take the head of the leader.  His vassels, the samurai, sometimes would kill themselves, both as a show of loyalty, even unto death, and to purify themselves of the dishonor of failing their master.  \n\nThe key to the code of honor of the samurai can be summed up in the opening to "Bushido Shoshinshu", the "Code of the Samurai":  \n"One who is supposed to be a warrior considers it his formost concern to keep death in mind at all times, every day and every night, from the morning of New Year's Day through the night of New Year's Eve."\n\nnext sentence explains why:\n"As long as you keep death in mind at all times, you will also fulfill the ways of loyalty and familial duty."
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Naruto has a bad habit of getting hit early and triumphing in the end. But inuyasha's backlash wave or windscar would kill him way before he has a chance to do anything. Not to mention the Iron Reaver Soul Stealer move. I really like that one. (-;
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The Supreme Lord is the Flying Spaghetti Monster,as any Pastafarian will tell you. The FSM never gets angry.
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.Anyone who is without morals and is a born conniver
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I'd say Saito, or possibly Yukishiro Enishi (from the unanimated jinchuu arc) b/c it's a much more personal battle with him.
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Bushido, literally translated "Way of the Warrior," developed in Japan between the Heian and Tokugawa Ages (9th-12th century). It was a code and way of life for Samurai, a class of warriors similar to the medieval knights of Europe. It was influenced by Zen and Confucianism, two different schools of thought of those periods. Bushido is not unlike the chivalry and codes of the European knights. "It puts emphasis on loyalty, self sacrifice, justice, sense of shame, refined manners, purity, modesty, frugality, martial spirit, honor and affection"Bushido comes out of Buddhism, Zen, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The combination of these schools of thought and religions has formed the code of warrior values known as Bushido.\n\n\nFrom Buddhism, Bushido gets its relationship to danger and death. The samurai do not fear death because they believe as Buddhism teaches, after death one will be reincarnated and may live another life here on earth. The samurai are warriors from the time they become samurai until their death; they have no fear of danger. Through Zen, a school of Buddhism one can reach the ultimate "Absolute." Zen meditation teaches one to focus and reach a level of thought words cannot describe. Zen teaches one to "know thyself" and do not to limit yourself. Samurai used this as a tool to drive out fear, unsteadiness and ultimately mistakes. These things could get him killed.\n\n\nShintoism, another Japanese doctrine, gives Bushido its loyalty and patriotism. Shintoism includes ancestor-worship which makes the Imperial family the fountain-head of the whole nation. It awards the emperor a god-like reverence. He is the embodiment of Heaven on earth. With such loyalty, the samurai pledge themselves to the emperor and their daimyo or feudal landlords, higher ranking samurai. Shintoism also provides the backbone for patriotism to their country, Japan. They believe the land is not merely there for their needs, "it is the sacred abode to the gods, the spirits of their forefathers . . ." (Nitobe, 14). The land is cared for, protected and nurtured through an intense patriotism.\n\n\nConfucianism gives Bushido its beliefs in relationships with the human world, their environment and family. Confucianism's stress on the five moral relations between master and servant, father and son, husband and wife, older and younger brother, and friend and friend, are what the samurai follow. However, the samurai disagreed strongly with many of the writings of Confucius. They believed that man should not sit and read books all day, nor shall he write poems all day, for an intellectual specialist was considered to be a machine. Instead, Bushido believes man and the universe were made to be alike in both the spirit and ethics.\n\n\nAlong with these virtues, Bushido also holds justice, benevolence, love, sincerity, honesty, and self-control in utmost respect. Justice is one of the main factors in the code of the samurai. Crooked ways and unjust actions are thought to be lowly and inhumane. Love and benevolence were supreme virtues and princely acts. Samurai followed a specific etiquette in every day life as well as in war. Sincerity and honesty were as valued as their lives. Bushi no ichi-gon, or "the word of a samurai," transcends a pact of complete faithfulness and trust. With such pacts there was no need for a written pledge; it was thought beneath one's dignity. The samurai also needed self-control and stoicism to be fully honored. He showed no sign of pain or joy. He endured all within--no groans, no crying. He held a calmness of behavior and composure of the mind neither of which should be bothered by passion of any kind. He was a true and complete warrior. \n\n\nThese factors which make up Bushido were few and simple. Though simple, Bushido created a way of life that was to nourish a nation through its most troubling times, through civil wars, despair and uncertainty. "The w
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Obelisk the TORMENTER.\n\n....you do mean "Yu-Gi-Oh," don't you?\n\nI shouldn't even know the answer to that question.  I worry myself sometimes...
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well, he doesn't exactly turn evil. He just has a desire to go after Orochimaru and take his power. But, i don't think he's gunna be permanently good again. Every now and then, he is good...The curse mark is permanent. The sensai who said "Just don't die!" At the beginning of the second chuunin exam has the exact same curse mark as sasuke.
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Manjusri.\n\nHe's the Bodhisattva with the sword.
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I suggest Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo (Bodyguard)" or "Seven Samurai" which was remade as "The Magnificent Seven"  Any movie review site will give you a quick grounding in "Bushido" (Way of the Samurai) try this link:\n\nhttp://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/bushido/bindex.html
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ummm, i'm not really sure.  i guess if you wanted to find out what samurai did, i'd recommend a visit to japan. =)