There are very few of these legendary characters in legends evoke vivid pictures and is notable as the Samurai of Japan.The era of the Samurai are identified by the year 1185 judgements since 1868, although armed conflict last great Samurai is said to take place in 1877. And the influence of the thought of the Samurai is clearly obvious thing in Japanese society in the 20th century.In contrast with the brutality of their profession, many leaders of the military government became highly cultivated individuals. Some were devoted patrons of Buddhism, especially of the Zen and Jodo schools. Several were known as accomplished poets, and others as talented calligraphers. During the Muromachi period (1392-1573), a number of shoguns exerted a profound cultural influence by amassing impressive collections of painting, enthusiastically supporting Noh and Kyōgen theater, and sponsoring the construction of beautiful temples and gardens in Kyoto. Powerful warriors of the succeeding era Momoyama period (1573-1615) inherited this repertoire of interests and added to it a love of grandeur and splendor. The massive walls, vast audience chambers, and soaring keeps of their great castles became the central symbols of the age. Glittering with the abundant use of gold and dynamic in design, the paintings of this period exuded power and monumentality. On a more intimate scale, the development of the tea ceremony was closely intertwined with the samurai culture in the late medieval period. During the Edo period (1615-1868), the cult of the warrior, bushido, became formalized and an idealized code of behavior, focusing on fidelity to one's lord and honor, developed. The samurai of this period inherited the traditional aesthetics and practices of their predecessors and, therefore, continued the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the cultivation of bu and bun — the arts of war and of culture — that characterized Japan's great warriors.
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