What did it truly mean to be samurai?

Joseph Noel Paton

>implying manlets don't run shit

Tall fags are only good minions. Us man let's run shit. Stalin, Hitler, Napolean, Mohammed, effective infantry, real niggas ,eazy-e, all manlets all ran shit.

It meant someone with government authority had invested you with the social rank and privileges that came with it, such as the right to wear the two swords.

Thats pretty much it. Everything else was situational

People nobilitate themselves, the emperor just makes it official.

Do you even Natural Heroic Rights brah?

>Natural Heroic Rights

tell me more user

It means to be a servant.

Seriously, it's what 侍 means.

Another list of points to ignore while hiding behind it to pretend you're better than others.

slicing poor people

The last one is two characters, it's pronounced chuu gi

Romanizations that do not differentiate between short and long consonants make my blood boil.

Honor.

(OP)

a pretentious midget in lace, silk and lacquered wood armor pretending to be a warrior because its fashionable meanwhile slaughtering real innocent people and ruining real lives to fight battles that have absolutely no necessity or purpose and are fought entirely for the hell of it because you can and you're a wannabe big bad warrior

lmao stay mad you don't have a warrior spirit prole

a pretentious midget in lace, silk and lacquered wood armor pretending to be a warrior because its fashionable meanwhile slaughtering real innocent people and ruining real lives to fight battles that have absolutely no necessity or purpose and are fought entirely for the hell of it because you can and you're a wannabe big bad warrior

The same could be said of knights and lords too though...well accept for the manlet and lacquered armor part.

I'm pretty sure that Samurai were basically mercenaries, and their warrior code was adapted in the early 20th century by the Japanese government into what we know as Bushido today in order to engergize and control the public.

*16th century by the end of the Sengoku period and beginning of Tokagawa shogonate and was constantly adapted until the 20th century
>ftfy
youtube.com/watch?v=DWYuBxVmQLg
see 11:15

they were actually necessary and performed a function. Japan was an isolated island trying to emulate what it saw as fashionable parts of foreign cultures like china, which is essentially what traditional japanese culture was. Samurai were pretenders, they would not stand a chance against any real warriors hardened by real wars with real weapons and armour. They were the equivalent of homicidal kids playing dangerous games with dangerous weapons.

But what about some of the successful Japanese wars against other people/ invaders?
Where dd you even get this conclusion from? Sauce? How was European warfare different or more necessary? Half the time it was over religious b.s. They were fighting for control of resources just like the japs. The only different is it was between neighboring countries rather than within so it also involved whole cities being conquered. Few areas in Japan had the all natural resources needed for wealth so rich families were competing for it. Rich royal families competed with other royal families in Europe.
>they're culture is a copy cat of china
Sure they were chinkaboos like how Romans were greecaboos at first, but they eventually rebelled to create their own culture...that's kind of what Heian period was about.
>real weapons and armor
I sense this post is bait but i'll bite. The Japanese did not have high access to iron like these other countries so what little supplies they had in certain areas were likely the reason disputes happened.

>would will have survived if the chief didn't smash his chest, splintering his rib cage into his heart?

because they weren't killing each other over
"son of a bitch! he's got a hide saying a thing like that! I must save face!"

what? This post barely made sense. Sure there were personal vendettas too but that just adds to it. hat the hell does that have to do with the main point?

the Japanese had steel armor just like every other advanced civilization at the time, and they at least held their own against foreign armies/warriors. Indeed their reputation in east Asia was formidable

It pretty much meant being a dog of war fighting to protect a feudal lord's belongings. They didn't even use swords, they used bows like the FUCKING PUSSIES they were.

Admittedly they were cool bows.

>obvious

>respect
>courage
>honesty (integrity)
>being good
These are all things parents teach their kids. Society reinforces. Normally. Its ethics 101.
>honor
This is the only thing that's not relevant these days in common life. Even so, people still honor military in most american life.

Literally normal everyday ethics + special military honors.

and polearms* ftfy
Also swords were a sub weapon too usually strapped at the waist user.

taking yourself way, way too seriously.

*bips stegosaurus*