Knights and Samurai have traits in similar What makes samurais and knights in common? Is it the way they serve their superior? Or is it the similarities in their honor codes? Knights and samurais date as far back as the 1400s, the knight’s years, and the samurais’ in the mid 1600s. Samurais and knights qualities are almost parallel with social order system, training, honor codes, and views of death/casualties. The social order is the “social structure in sociology, the distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together.”(Form, 2014, social structure, para 1) The social order in feudal japan consisted of an emperor,shogun, daimyos, samurai, peasant farmers, artisans/trades people and merchants. The highest status to the lowest. That made samurai directly in the middle. The warriors owed loyalty and military service to daimyos. The social order in feudal Europe began with the pope , king, lesser lords, knights, artisans/merchants, and peasant serfs, Again, the warriors of the social order, knights, are in the middle. Also having to be loyal to lesser lord which were one step above them in the …show more content…
In japan young samurai had poetry, spiritual discipline and physical training. They learned Kendo(physical training) and soon after other enriching practices and further training they were able to become samurai. At the age of 14 they have a ceremony called Genpuku which celebrated their official becoming of a samurai. In Europe young squires began their training at the ages of 4 to 5. They used wooden swords to practice, and learned to care for horses. As the squire grew he would accompany his master knight and he would tend his master’s horse, suit him etc. At this point the master would decide if his little knight was approved to officially become a knight. Samurai had a set recognition, while the knights were varied, due to the opinion of their master