Samurai.

A Samurai was part of the Japanese warrior class. They wore protective armour ,a scary mask, and 2 curved swords. One of the swords was long and the other was short. The long one was called "Daito" or "Katanta". The shorter one was called "Shoto" or "Wakizash". A Samurai road on the back of a horses back. seeing a Samurai go to battle was an awesome sight.

A Samurai exsited in the 1100's and the 1800's. Usually a Samurai started training at the age 5. When a boy in the Samurai family turned 5, he was giving an imitation sword at a special ceramony. Poor kids in the Samurai family were trained by their fathers,uncles, or even their older brothers. The kids in the Samurai family who were wealthy got sent to special school's. At the school they would learn : Milatary skills,fighting technics, and also literature and arts.Students learned wrestling and striking technics during trainging. They also had sword pratice.

A Samurai's best hope was to die before his lord in a battle. His worst fait was if his lord died before he did. Samurai's followed rules. such as " Bushido" which means "Way of the Warrior". Honor was a huge thing to Samurai's. They would take they're own life in the face of a failure. They would do a thing that is called " Suppuku". That means "Stomache Cutting" . During a Suppuku, a Samurais would wear proper clothing , and carrie the Samurai knife. then they would cut open their own stomache, starting from left to right. at the end they would finish with a upward cut. The Suppuku wasn't performed alone. Another Samurai would stand behind the Samurai that was cutting their stomache open.

* I think these are some of the really COOL facts about Samurai's!

By:
Courtney Wilson.