the sword was discovered to be from the 12th century, making it one of the oldest in existence. The 32-inch sword, known as a ...

In the seven centuries samurai ruled Japan ... Under the first shogun, Yoritomo Minamoto, in the 12th century, women acted as local constables and met military obligations from providing soldiers ...

Samurai were the working-class warriors and ... The shgun was the most powerful figure in Japan between the late 12th century and mid-19th century. While the Emperor may have been the de-facto ...

Starting in the late 12th century, Japan evolved into a feudal ... Each daimyo, who typically came from the samurai class, relied heavily on the elite, highly trained samurais, to defend his ...

Even during the 265-year stability of the Edo period (1603-1867), every samurai would have had a suit of armour to sym­bolise their position, and there was a taste for reproduction 12th-century ...

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it's hard to escape the impression that samurai are really, really cool. The Japanese figures—military nobility from a certain period in Japanese history, beginning in the 12th century—have ...

Taking a leaf out of the training programmes of athletes through the ages, the Samurai warriors had a fitness regime that was holistic as well as primed for gaining full-body muscle. The Samurai ...