Sentence examples for group of samurai from inspiring English sources

Following Yamaga's code, that group of samurai in 1702 defied shogunate law and risked their own lives to avenge the death of their lord.

A group of samurai, along with a motley gang of armed villagers, await the arrival of 13 formidable bandits on horseback.

An efficient yet elegant gloss on "The Seven Samurai" and "The Wild Bunch," it stars Mr. Yakusho as the leader of a group of samurai assigned to kill a psychopathic warlord, wielding his sword in defense of honor and reason.

It's the story of a group of samurai whose lord has been put to death — ordered to commit hara-kiri — by the shogun, and whose castle has been confiscated.

Reeves portrays a former outcast who is elevated to head-honcho status after a group of samurai are banished and must battle their way to vengeance.

Fifteen days later, Sir Harry Parkes, the British ambassador, was attacked by a group of samurai in a street of Kyoto.

After an awkward pause, he said that his dream was to be classified as a Living National Treasure by the government — an honor currently reserved, in the realm of tools and cutlery, for a select group of samurai-sword makers.

After an awkward pause, he said that his dream was to be classified as a Living National Treasure by the government an honor currently reserved, in the realm of tools and cutlery, for a select group of samurai-sword makers.

Satsuma and Chōshū leaders, however, decided to move first; on Jan . 3 1868, a group of radical samurai seized the palace in Kyōto and declared an Imperial restoration.

Determined to stop the assault, the village hires in exchange for food a disparate group of hungry samurai to help stave off the attack.

One of the most famous debates of the Tokugawa period centered around an incident occurring in 1703 concerning a group of forty-seven samurai who had been left masterless (rônin) due to the shogun's forcing the suicide of their lord.