What Are The Similarities Between Samurai And Knights
In The Samurai, Japanese and European societies appeared with their individual class systems, social standards, and religions. A similarity between these societies was that they used feudalism as their form of class system; each system had a basis of a head of government, a warrior class, and peasant class. In the book, Hasekura Rokuemon was part of the warrior class called samurais, which are similar to the European knights in roles, such as being in charge of fiefs. Both samurais and knights followed codes to live by including the samurai code, bushido, or “the way of the warrior”, and the knight’s chivalry code. They followed these codes in order to be honorable. An example of bushido was when Tanaka committed suicide to preserve honor.