Natori-Ryu

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"A samurai rulebook offers guidance on how to kill enemies and refrain from gossip"

"From the 10th century till their abolition in the 1870s, samurai were a class of Japanese military nobility who inherited lives as warrior protectorates (bushi) for feudal lords, and had a notoriously strict and intricate honour code. This video from the YouTube channel Voices of the Past explores two scrolls from the famed samurai school Natori-Ryu’s 17th-century rulebook. The first scroll has codes of conduct for peacetime, with guidance ranging from the universal, such as the pitfalls of talking behind someone’s back, to the extremely samurai-specific, such as keeping a home garden that doesn’t leave you vulnerable to enemy attack. The second scroll lays out the rules of engagement in wartime "

The Japanese civilization having produced military men without a contradiction of sword and pen in harmony. Popular pursuits of the samurai to include flower arranging, zen meditation, poetry and brush stroke calligraphy.

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