Samurai after Meiji Restoration

During Meiji authority, the samurai was dismissed. To protect country’s sovereignty, Meiji established an army which was taken from samurai and civilian through military due.

The elimination of samurai was automatically put samurai into aside. The samurai then tried to seek job to live their life. The samurai then became artist, farmers, traders, and some of them became attorney. While some other parts of the samurai still last the martial arts by founding Kendo Institutions.

Though the ‘samurai’ had been dismissed, but the spirit and strength still be memorized and proud of.

Musashi Miyamoto

Musashi Miyamoto is one among samurai which is very famous, and had been considered as ‘the God of sword’ in Japan. Mushashi was born when Japan was still in civil war (onin). Musashi was known as the one that always brings two swords anywhere. When the army was dismissed by Hideyoshi and Leyasu, many of the Ronin ( samurai with no master ) wandered with no destination

Ronin lived apart from society. Samurai that time became an isolated which still holds the ancient tradition of military art of Japan. Musashi – which in the golden of Samurai is considered the best ever – kept him self as a Ronin, by searching for enlightment through kendo. That time, the rest of the Ronin had given up their life as farmers.

It was hard to be Samurai, whereas a Samurai must be able to hold hunger, pain, and suffer. They are commanded to act like there’s nothing wrong even when they hurt so badly.