> i'm sure you are but is any one else planning on becoming a realOh, for the love of God.
> samurai or swordsman? i have a job as one
> onyxtsunami wrote:Come on Tony you must conform with all the little samurai`s out
>
> > i'm sure you are but is any one else planning on becoming a real
> > samurai or swordsman? i have a job as one
>
> Oh, for the love of God.
>
> Has everyone gone insane?
>
>
>
> Tony
> I'm sure you are but is any one else planning on becoming a realSure I practice kendo in my spare time, and I follow some stuff from "Haga
> samurai or swordsman? i have a job as one just kinda hard to get
> around without 2000 questions from modern people not used to the
> samurai. e-mail me
> Come on Tony you must conform with all the little samurai`s outTablets? Hell, I'm beyond tablets. I'm doing Scotch now. I *have* to.
> there,how much longer can you hold out for,every ones got thier
> limit,if you like i will loan you my time machine so you can send
> all these samurai wannabes back 400 years then they can find out
> what its really like,they will be running away throwing their
> katana`s as they go,now just calm down breath in deeply and count to
> 10 give it a go it works for me,and keep taking the tablets..lmao
> Come on Tony you must conform with all the little samurai`s outTablets? Hell, I'm beyond tablets. I'm doing Scotch now. I *have* to.
> there,how much longer can you hold out for,every ones got thier
> limit,if you like i will loan you my time machine so you can send
> all these samurai wannabes back 400 years then they can find out
> what its really like,they will be running away throwing their
> katana`s as they go,now just calm down breath in deeply and count to
> 10 give it a go it works for me,and keep taking the tablets..lmao
> Tablets? Hell, I'm beyond tablets. I'm doing Scotch now. I *have* to.
>
> Tony
>i'm no wannabe samurai.i have a life of swordsmanship and it wont hurt toIt's not a matter of making fun of anyone. I believe you're missing
>be mocked or made fun of.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Arsenault" <taisho@...>
To: <samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 2:44 PM
Subject: [samuraihistory] Re: hello again
> At 09:46 AM 2/1/04, you wrote:
> >i'm no wannabe samurai.i have a life of swordsmanship and it wont hurt to
> >be mocked or made fun of.
>
> It's not a matter of making fun of anyone. I believe you're missing
> Tony's point. Specifically, the term "samurai" is not synonymous with
> "swordsman" or "one who tries to adhere to Bushido" or anything similar.
> Samurai were a caste, and one that no longer exists. So in the strict
> definition of the term, one cannot "become" a samurai any more.
>
>
> Mark Arsenault
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> not synonymous withPoint of fact, if you told you're average Japanese
> "swordsman" or "one who tries to adhere to Bushido"
> or anything similar.
> Samurai were a caste, and one that no longer exists.
> So in the strict
> definition of the term, one cannot "become" a
> samurai any more.
> not synonymous withPoint of fact, if you told you're average Japanese
> "swordsman" or "one who tries to adhere to Bushido"
> or anything similar.
> Samurai were a caste, and one that no longer exists.
> So in the strict
> definition of the term, one cannot "become" a
> samurai any more.
> Quite so.__________________________________
> The term 'samurai' does not regard simply to those
> men (and some women) who trained with, and deployed
> their swords. The word comes from the kanji meaning
> literally 'to serve', whether it was the Emperor, a
> daimyo, or even one of the equally mighty temples.
> However, upon this point of 'to serve', would you
> classify the likes of the Miyamoto Musashi as a
> 'samurai' since his carrer with the sword was one
> essentially without a master??
> M.Lorimer
>
> Nate Ledbetter <ltdomer98@...> wrote:
>
> --- Mark Arsenault <taisho@...> wrote:
> Specifically, the term "samurai" is
> > not synonymous with
> > "swordsman" or "one who tries to adhere to
> Bushido"
> > or anything similar.
> > Samurai were a caste, and one that no longer
> exists.
> > So in the strict
> > definition of the term, one cannot "become" a
> > samurai any more.
>
> Point of fact, if you told you're average Japanese
> person you were a "samurai", you'd have them
> laughing
> until next week. It just ain't possible.
>
> Nate
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> Quite so.__________________________________
> The term 'samurai' does not regard simply to those
> men (and some women) who trained with, and deployed
> their swords. The word comes from the kanji meaning
> literally 'to serve', whether it was the Emperor, a
> daimyo, or even one of the equally mighty temples.
> However, upon this point of 'to serve', would you
> classify the likes of the Miyamoto Musashi as a
> 'samurai' since his carrer with the sword was one
> essentially without a master??
> M.Lorimer
>
> Nate Ledbetter wrote:
>
> --- Mark Arsenault wrote:
> Specifically, the term "samurai" is
> > not synonymous with
> > "swordsman" or "one who tries to adhere to
> Bushido"
> > or anything similar.
> > Samurai were a caste, and one that no longer
> exists.
> > So in the strict
> > definition of the term, one cannot "become" a
> > samurai any more.
>
> Point of fact, if you told you're average Japanese
> person you were a "samurai", you'd have them
> laughing
> until next week. It just ain't possible.
>
> Nate
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> I'm sure you are but is any one else planning on becoming a realSure I practice kendo in my spare time, and I follow some stuff from "Haga
> samurai or swordsman? i have a job as one just kinda hard to get
> around without 2000 questions from modern people not used to the
> samurai. e-mail me
> Thanbk you.therefore still consider themselves to be samurai, although not with
> So theoretically the descendants of the samurai class could