Samurai once lived in Buddhist temples here, Nagashima explained, working as security guards called boukan.
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.
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.
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.
Of course, most samurai in Japan never lived this luxurious, peaceful lifestyle.
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.
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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He said the force had "received a number of reports that a man was walking through Chorley armed with a samurai sword".
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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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Millions of viewers, mostly guys 15 to 34 years old, who flock to the harder-edged titles like Samurai X and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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
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