Samurai Warrior

Samurai Warrior

Traditional Japanese

The Samurai warrior class was considered military nobility and part of the feudal system in Japan. William Scott Wilson, a translator of several works of Japanese literature, quotes that the use of the term Samurai dates to the Kokin Wakashu, a collection of poems in ancient and modern times. This statue depicts a Samurai during the Tokugawa Shogunate period, also known as the Edo period. In which their class ruled the majority of Japan though aristocratic bureaucrats and centralized government. The Samurais followed the teachings of Confucius and Mencius; this came to be known as the Bushido code. It required them to serve as a role model for other social classes to maintain social order. Therefore, with the decline in their need for military action, the samurais began pursuing other interests such as becoming scholars and arts.

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Sources: Wilson, William Scott (1982). Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors. Kodansha. ISBN 0-89750-081-4. & Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301 

Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. William V. Puffenberger

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A large sized samurai warrior statue.

Puffenberger #4

Measurements: 41 cm X 27 cm

Japan