All 15 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Pregnant women were marched to one killing field where Japanese placed bets on the sex of the fetus about to tumble from its mother's womb, cut by a samurai sword.†
Chpt 3.
- The Japanese fighting man believed he was fighting in the proud tradition of ancient samurai.†
Chpt 3. *
- Bushido, the "Way of the Warrior," had for centuries been the honored code of Japan's proud samurai caste.†
Chpt 3.
- The samurai had always been a small elite within the larger society.†
Chpt 3.
- This vulgarized version of the Warrior's Way would have surprised samurai of an earlier era.†
Chpt 3.
- A true samurai would slice his belly open over an issue of honor.†
Chpt 3.
- But the twentieth-century Japanese military wasn't being run by samurai.†
Chpt 3.
- They were, in effect, brainwashed to believe that by laying down their lives they were walking in the footsteps of heroic samurai.†
Chpt 3.
- Peaceable American boys, citizen-soldiers about to engage with a myth-obsessed samurai foe.†
Chpt 6.
- Kuribayashi's ancestors were samurai and had served six emperors over five generations.†
Chpt 6.
- A Japanese officer towered over him with a raised samurai sword, about to chop the Australian's head off.†
Chpt 6.
- One Japanese officer brandished his samurai sword as he made his break for it: a bad mistake.†
Chpt 10.
- A Marine, seething with four days' worth of grief and terror, grabbed the blade out of the samurai's hands and sliced its owner to death with it.†
Chpt 10.
- A traditional samurai might expect to die in combat and be honored for it.†
Chpt 11.
- But suicide as an expression of ultimate sacrifice for one's country was not a traditional samurai value.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(samurai) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)