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.

Shadows” set for wide release in 2025, it looks as though feudal Japan is going to be on a lot of gamers’ minds this year.

The influence of the samurai class can also be seen in the Japanese religious practices associated with Mount Fuji. Many of key figures in the Kamakura shogunate came from the provinces of Suruga ...

Samurai women and men learned the techniques ... an event that resulted in the transfer of power from the shogunate to the emperor. On one side was the new imperial Japanese army headed by the ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

Rise of the Ronin, the PlayStation 5 exclusive, is coming to Steam later this year with several PC-only upgrades.

After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial rule ... The Glories and Treasures of the Last Samurai Dynasty” was held in the Tokyo National Museum in 2007. In 2017, a large silver ...

HIKONE, Shiga Prefecture—The city government here will offer guests a chance to experience the splendor of a samurai-style tea ... councilor of the Tokugawa Shogunate toward the end of the ...

As samurai battle and die on both sides ... and the abolition of the Shogunate ways. He and his friends Sanosuke the Gangster, Yahiko, and Lady Kaoru, are on a train to Yokohama to see the ...