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Japan's armed middle managers, famous for dying beautifully for bosses who often didn't deserve it.
means A member of Japan's hereditary warrior class who served a feudal lord in exchange for land, stipend, and a strict code of loyalty and honor.
from From Japanese samurai, tied to the verb saburau, 'to serve' or 'to wait upon' a person of rank — the word literally names an attendant before it ever names a swordsman. Over centuries that 'one who serves' hardened into a hereditary military caste, bound by bushido, the warrior code, until the class was formally dissolved in the 19th century.
- actual job
- bureaucrat and tax collector most of the time
- bushido code
- largely codified after samurai stopped fighting
- disarmed by
- 1876 law banning swords in public
- last stand
- inspired by 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, not fiction