This led to a meeting between Toranaga and Ishido, during which a young samurai named Tadayoshi ended up asking permission to ...

As the first foreign-born samurai, Yasuke fought important battles ... Nobunaga ended his own life by performing seppuku, a ritual suicide. Before he killed himself, he asked Yasuke to decapitate ...

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau, meaning "to serve," and was first used in A.D. 702 to describe mid-to-low-ranking court administrators and, later, armed imperial guards.

Regular Skill Useable on swords as well as polearms capable of thrusting (small and colossal weapons excepted). A forbidden technique used by swordsmen from the Land of Reeds. Plunge the blade ...

These values began to develop very informally as early as the ninth century among the samurai warrior class ... ritualistic suicide (seppuku) was required. Off the battlefield, Bushido required ...