The Similarities Between European Kights And Japanese Samurai

Jason Romero-Granados

Freshman History and Philosophy Seminar Honors

05 May 2023

European Kights and Japanese Samurai

European knights and Japanese Samurai were separated by vast geographical distances and differing cultural contexts, they were both defenders of their respective cultures and shared many similarities. the similarities between European knights and Japanese samurai shared many common traits such as origins, social roles, training, code of conduct, and cultural impact.

One of the main similarities between European knights and Samurai was their origins and social roles. For example, the knights' origins started around 1000 when England and France had many counts and dukes independent in different castles. So naturally they need

Both of these groups had Training and Education that a person would have to go through to call themselves a defender of their culture. For the Knights, first, only nobles' sons could become Kights meaning their families had to own land. The first thing that the knights in training would learn is riding. Boys who were planning to be knights would already learn how to ride horses. By riding on poneys when they were young due to the expectation that the knights would ride their houses with no effort. Aswell the combat practice of weapons with wooden swords, and lances, and wresting with one another. They used these weapons on and off their horses and used a target called a quintain which was a target with poles and sandbags the rider would hit the target while avoiding everything else. As the future knights grew they started their education on social hierarchy, tactics through chess, and manners. The older boys started to wear amour as they practice so it would feel weightless as well as other movements like climbing ropes, and ladders and getting on and off their horse. The last stage before they were dub kights was becoming a squire for a kights which is a knight's apprentice. As a squire, they would follow their kight teaching to tournaments or war until they were considered ready to become a knight which could happen in many ways but the main way was The Dubbing Ceremony. The Dubbing Ceremony was first just a way of giving good weapons to a new fighter, sworn under a lord giving the name of a knight. A squire could be dubbed a knight if in battle a squire performs well where a simple ceremony would take place dub said squire as a knight. As time went back this ceremony change into something more a more religious symbolism. Some changes were a group of men would be knighted instead of just one as well if one man was royal he could kight his friends. Another way to get knighted was to win a torment or