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02-07-2010, 09:14 PM
Hum, isn't the noble samurai a romanticised version of the real thing?
I mean, I'm a big fan of Samurai flicks (seven samurai is my fave atm, followed by Tommy-boy's "the last samurai".), but in real life wasn't it also about status?
Samurai had high status in society. They also demanded that and could pretty much do whatecver they wanted as long it didn't reflect badly on their lord.
The image of the noble samurai could be true, it could also be pure fiction.
But I agree with Jaydelart. I love that image to much to bust it ^^.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Henry V, St. Crispin Day speech
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