Example sentences for: samurai

How can you use “samurai” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.

  • The Tokugawa had successfully persuaded the samurai that traditional Japanese values might suffer, and now the samurai felt betrayed, rallying under the slogan “Sonno joi! ”

  • This shrine is dedicated to Kyushu’s most celebrated son and one of Japan’s national heroes, Takamori Saigo, last great champion of the samurai.

  • The simple, serene style of landscaping, with rocks, gravel, and a few shrubs, draws on the precepts of Zen Buddhism that had such a special appeal for the austere samurai.

  • The layout of the show is neither by chronology nor by medium, and the big thematic divisions--"Style," "Samurai," "Travel and Landscape," and the like--give the impression that time stood still.


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