Meaning
武士 (ぶし, bushi) is a JLPT N2 noun meaning “warrior,samurai”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼の家柄は武士でした。
He comes from a warrior family.
武士は食わねど高楊枝。
A samurai, even when he has not eaten, uses a toothpick like a lord.
古武士のように固苦しい
He is as punctilious as an old-time samurai.
江戸時代、武士は刀を2本刺していた。
A samurai in the Edo Era carried two swords.
武蔵国は中小武士団が栄える国となった。
Musashi Province became a province in which small to medium-size warrior bands thrived.
剣道は、武士の時代に遡る日本古来の武術です。
Kendo is an ancient Japanese martial art that dates back to the time of the samurai warriors.
首実検の前には、武士の婦女子により首に死化粧が施された。
Prior to making the identification of the severed head, the samurai womenfolk would apply funereal cosmetics to the head.
西国の武士を軒並み味方に加えながら、軍勢を海と陸の二手に分け、東上を開始した。
Gaining over almost all warriors in Saigoku (the western part of Japan), Takauji started to go to the east with his two troops; one by the sea and the other by land.
しかし保守的な武士からは絵画的で華美な刃文で退廃的だと忌避されるものもあった。
However, conservative samurai avoided some of them because they thought those swords looked decadent with the picturesque and ornate Hamon (blade pattern).
日常の座法は武士、女性、茶道などでも胡座(あぐら)、立膝、で座る事が普通であった。
In everyday life, samurai, women, and even participants in tea ceremonies, typically used agura (sitting cross-legged) style or sat with one knee drawn up.
男舞は「安宅」「盛久」など現在物の直面の武士が速く颯爽と舞う舞事で、必ず大小物に限る。
Otoko-mai is the mai-goto that samurai with no masks dance quickly and vigorously in Genzai-mono (noh plays of a miscellaneous or contemporary character), including "Ataka" or "Morihisa", and always accompanied on dai-sho hand drums.
外国人の片寄った日本観が好きだ。忍者、変態アニメ、武士道などが出てくると本当幸せになる。
I like the one-sided view foreigners have of Japan. It makes me happy when ninjas, hentai anime, samurai and stuff like that come up.