Samurai once lived in Buddhist temples here, Nagashima explained, working as security guards called boukan.
The teenagers had come prepared with knives and a samurai sword for the clash.
He blames his woes on the freemium model, which he likens to a Samurai sword.
Most of them were historical novels set in ancient times when samurai roamed the land.
Legend has it that a famous samurai gulped one down before winning a battle.
Kurosawa's epic masterpiece The Seven Samurai (1954) became the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven.
Nomura is rumoured to want to issue samurai bonds for the city of Moscow.
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.
Operation Samurai will involve Cumbria Police, Forestry Commission, Environment Agency as well as local gamekeepers and landowners.
The attack ended, said the judge, when Telford thrust a samurai sword into James Kerr's head and neck.
On the back cover, a high-ranking Japanese samurai looks splendid sitting on a trunk in full battle dress.
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The film will follow Hugh Jackman's character as he travels to Japan to train with a Samurai warrior.
Following Nagashima into the labyrinth of teahouses, temples and restored samurai houses, I felt like Alice slipping into the rabbit hole.
The lot of a Japanese CEO like that of samurai of old is hard indeed.
Max and Yves hooked up (by e-mail) after Max completed his first book, Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai--at age 15.
Colin Farmer, 61, was stunned by police following reports of a man walking through Chorley with a samurai sword.
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Redeemed by discipline and honor, Algren trains as a samurai and, in the end, fights alongside the great man.
"Maybe the samurai are rushing down a hill to give hugs, " Parks says.
In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.
He was carrying three pistols, a samurai sword and a container of kerosene.
Of course, most samurai in Japan never lived this luxurious, peaceful lifestyle.
Running the length of the back wall is a blow-up reproduction of a Japanese print featuring you guessed it samurai in battle.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
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
The play, performed in February, was about the celebrated samurai Sakamoto Ryoma, a key figure in the 1868 Meiji Restoration.
With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.
He was advised that the then prime minister, Hashimoto Ryutaro, should fall on his sword like a samurai of old.
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
If you've been waiting for the chance to watch, er, "The Last Samurai" in true HD, you already know the answer.
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Mr Williams said police had "received a number of reports that a man was walking through Chorley armed with a samurai sword".
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