Sentence examples for the samurai of from inspiring English sources

I thought of him as the samurai of Zionism.

"They were the samurai of the day - the era of the gunfighter was over".

And there is a chapter that we all can learn from, called "A Life of Restraint: The Samurai of Edo".

On Mount Iimori, outside the city, is the cemetery for the samurai of the White Tiger Corps, who withstood the Meiji forces.

Like the knights in medieval Europe and the samurai of Japan, the priyayi were loyal to their lord and had a sense of honour and a readiness to die in battle.

Emerging from provincial warrior bands, the samurai of the Kamakura period (1192 1333), with their military skills and deep pride in their stoicism, developed a disciplined culture distinct from the earlier, quiet refinement of the imperial court.

"Hara-Kiri" might well be called "The Curse of the Samurai," for its story of a man forced by famine to beg is one of cruel injustice.

His strong-arm style and disdain for democracy earned him comparisons with Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia, and he himself boasted of the "samurai spirit" of his Japanese ancestors.

The two great skills of the Samurai, members of the warrior caste that ruled Japan for 300 years until 1867, were swordsmanship and calligraphy.

Originally a military exercise, it is now a tradition that not only represents the spirit of the samurai (many of whom are farmers or have jobs related to the nuclear plant), but also acts as a catalyst to provincial pride.

Just a card with the samurai symbol of a red dragonfly and the name of a street off Tokyo's Ginza.