After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior.
"Maybe the samurai are rushing down a hill to give hugs, " Parks says.
With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.
Historically, the samurai serving a daimyo, or feudal lord, would all wear similar armor, while here the mannequins sport different styles.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
To portray a serene assassin in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, he studied Eastern and Egyptian philosophy and samurai meditation.
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It produced an intensely Elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl.
Like Kitano's other heroes, he follows the Samurai code -- that a man should choose the correct time and method of his death.
If ever a subject warranted such a degree of spectacle it is the samurai, for whom pageantry became a central part of their mission.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
As for the samurai themselves, beauty of armor and fierceness of countenance reinforced their own quasimythical status and helped them keep alive their sense of purpose.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
On the Golden League's opening day Kaval will be in Surprise, Ariz. with friends and family to watch as the hometown Fightin' Falcons play a traveling Japanese team named the Samurai Bears.
However, it also squandered much of the prestige it had enjoyed for upholding a spirit of public service that dated all the way back to the glory days of the samurai era in the 17th-19th centuries.
In the Edo period, when the vast majority of the objects on display were made, the samurai evolved from hired archers and swordsmen to an elite class of warriors respected for their military skills, education and refinement.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
But despite all the inefficiencies of the samurai market, which make it a costly place to issue bonds, it is cheaper at present for them to borrow yen and swap the proceeds into dollars than to borrow dollars directly.
Standing near one of the mounted warriors, for example, we take in gold-trimmed expanses of small lacquered squares that cover the horse's flank, the grain of a decorated leather saddle pad, the sheen of a black metal mask, the ribbing of the helmet, the softness of the underarmor shirt, and the vibrant orange-and-gold striation of the samurai's cuirass and skirt.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
In The Seven Samurai, the final battle scene used eight cameras and was shot at the expense of the director's toes, frostbitten from days stood in freezing mud.
Kurosawa's epic masterpiece The Seven Samurai (1954) became the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven.
The play, performed in February, was about the celebrated samurai Sakamoto Ryoma, a key figure in the 1868 Meiji Restoration.
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The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.
But Japan coach John Kirwan has vowed to follow a brand of rugby that suits his squad and to bring out the "Samurai Spirit", and has targeted at least two wins from the tournament.
The Blue Samurai, unchanged for their fourth straight World Cup match, sat deep and attempted to snuff out the opposition, while their opponents conceded a series of niggling fouls every time Japan looked to strike on the counter.
Japan appointed Italian coach Alberto Zaccheroni after Takeshi Okada stood down in July, having taken the "Blue Samurai" into the second round of football's biggest tournament before losing on penalties to Paraguay.
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But Paraguay's joy was Japan's agony as Yuichi Komano's spot-kick brushed the crossbar and flew over as the Blue Samurai's tournament came to an agonising end.
Japan still hold a six-point lead over Jordan, who moved from bottom to second, at the top of Asian qualifying Group B and the Blue Samurai will secure a place at next year's finals if they avoid defeat against Australia in June.
The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.
Another gathers together all the equipment a samurai needed, from woolen overcoats to striated longbow and a gently curving sword.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
Also in the house were three Samurai swords and several books, one titled "NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting, " another about Asperger syndrome and one on autism.
Most of them were historical novels set in ancient times when samurai roamed the land.
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