Tuesday, July 10, 2007

How Samurai Work!

HowStuffWorks.com is at it again, with a feature on "How Samurai Work," sure to interest anyone with a penchant for bowing before kicking and punching your friends:

"The samurai are the legendary armored swordsmen of Japan, known to many westerners only as a warrior class, depicted in countless martial arts movies. While being a warrior was central to a samurai's life, they were also poets, politicians, fathers and farmers. Samurai played a pivotal role in the last 1,500 years of Japanese history. In fact, the history of that period in Japan essentially is the history of the samurai."

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