samurai

A Shogun and a SamuraiA samurai on horse back

with a bow and arrows on the way to fight or hunt. For samurai warriors being a samurai was a way of living not just fighting for their shogun.

Famous samurai• A couple of

famous samurai:

• Oda nobunaga

• Hideyoshi toyotomi

• Agaike nagatou

• Endo nautsune

Art of war Samurai had

mastered the art of war by the time there was no Iceland and Europe was inhabited by barbarians and Gauls.

Samurai way of life The samurai

warriors were extremely disciplined and rated honor over everything else if he would lose a battle he would ask the enemy to behead him.

shoguns Shoguns were the

powerful leaders who led samurai and fought each other for land. Unlike samurai shoguns weren't disciplined and also didn't rate honor very much

Nobunaga

• He one of the most famous samurai fought for unification of japan. He lived from 1534 till 1582 . He made many changes in policies and lived a good life. He won many battles for the Oda clan.

End of shogunate

The shogunate started in the period called Edo and ended after 1868 when Japanese

armed forces over threw the samurai lords and took over. After that the one emperor lead the armed forces and ruled all of Japan.