1. Learning Target: I can describe Feudal Japan using PIRATES.

2. The Shogun Begins Minamoto Yoritomo
Shogun means:
Commander in Chief
Shoguns hired Samurai for ______
Samurai were rewarded with _________

3. Full Samurai Attire
Samarai boys and girls were highly trained from a young age in the art of war focused on archery

4. Enter the Daimyo
Daimyo were Warrior-Lords who expected to be rewarded with food and land for loyalty

5. Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the holding of land, and military service Japan:
Shogun
Land - Shoen
Loyalty
Land - Shoen
Daimyo
Daimyo
Loyalty
Samurai
Samurai
Samurai
Food
Protection
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant

6. Feudalism
A political, economic, and social system based on loyalty, the holding of land, and military service Europe:
King
Land - Fief
Loyalty
Land - Fief
Lord
Lord
Loyalty
Knight
Knight
Knight
Food
Protection
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant
Peasant

7. Samurai Sword

8. Early Mounted Samurai Warriors

9. Medieval Warriors
vs.
Knight’s Armor
Samurai Armor

10. Underpinnings: Basic Steps in Self Defense
A COTTON BREECH CLOUT that extended up over the chest was the basic undergarment of a samurai’s costume
A SHORT SLEEVED KIMONO, or “armor robe,” was tied snugly at the waist with a special knot (lower right)

11. BILLOWING PANTALOONS,worn over the armor robe, fitted loosely in the legs to allow freedom of movement
AN EXQUISITE BROCADE, richly worked with a design of peonies, was one of the extravagant materials used in an armor robe that may have been made for a 14th Century imperial prince
STURDY SHINGUARDS of cloth or leather were reinforced with strips of iron to give protection from the front

12. Military Training and Fighting
Archery
Sword
Prepare mentally and physically
Control breathing
People would attack from 100 yards
Learned to make the opponent attack first
Extreme defense
Martial Arts
Many battles were settled in one on one duels.

13. Samurai Charging

14. Medieval Warriors
vs.
European knight
Samurai Warrior

15. Modern-Day “Samurai Warriors”

16. Mental Training Self Control Endure pain and suffering
March barefoot in the snow and other torture
Never fear death:
Meditation on death show be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, riffles, spears and swords being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightening…

17. Training Preparedness
Mental Training
Training Preparedness
Never relax- 6th sense
Teachers would wack students in the head with 2 X 4
Use anything as a weapon…ink, paper…

18. Training in Writing and Literature
Calligraphy
Haiku- 3 lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables
An ancient pond A frog jumps in The splash of water

19. Zen Buddhism
A Japanese variation of the Mahayana form of Buddhism, which came from India through China.
It reinforced the Bushido values of mental and self-discipline.

21. Code of Bushido
Fidelity
Politeness
Virility
Simplicity

22. Seppuku: Ritual Suicide
It is honorable to die in this way.
Kaishaku – his “seconds”

23. Code of Chivalry Justice Loyalty Defense Courage Faith Humility
Nobility