Why are Some Samurai Called Bushi #Shorts

Have you ever heard a samurai referred to as a "bushi" in anime or movies? However, they almost look identical... How are they different?

The answer is that a bushi is a person who makes his living by military force, and a samurai is one who serves someone else among the bushi.

The kanji for 武士 bushi is a combination of 武 bu, meaning military power, and 士 shi, meaning professional, and thus referred to all people who make money by military force.

Samurai, on the other hand, originally derived from 侍うsaburau, meaning to serve. Therefore, those who not only have a mastery of martial arts, but also serve organizations such as the Imperial Court or the Shogunate, or people of high rank, were called samurai.

On the other hand, it means that there were many samurai who were not that specialized in fighting.

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[anas-]

Basically a bushi can be a samurai but not every samurai was a bushi, like not every soldier is a warrior.

[tykep]

Yeah. Because of peace full time, most samurais in the Edo period were basically bureaucrats or officers.

[PenneySounds]

Sounds like the difference between a soldier and a knight. Soldier being a job and knight being a status.

[blutarchmann]

Man, i love learning about foreign cultures and history. You manage to be educational, but avoid being dull or boring about it.

[Fae]

Why are some samurai called bushi? Because some samurai don't shave. I'll see myself out.

[FFXI_Addict]

To chime in on that last bit: I was surprised many years ago when I learned the *MANY* arts a Samurai could or was expected to know. Things like playing instruments, singing and dancing, being pro at calligraphy so when they conscripted somebody on the road to fight for their lord, the contract was written brilliantly and perfectly. Wandering samurai patrolling their lord's land were expected to absolutely ALWAYS carry a brush, an ink well and parchment to write contracts.

Probably the most-shocking to me was that late in the samurai times, some actually knew how to use firearms. Samurai at one point, used GUNS. Makes them even cooler to me.

[davidanderson]

Interesting. I always mentally translated the terms as 'bushi = warrior' while 'samurai = serviceman'. So bushi was the more general term.

[william]

Aww the last samurai screenshot, the best scene is when Katsumoto walks in to the palace and offers his life to the emperor, because he is serving as best he can.

[jflowairwalker]

I love these videos thanks for doing them.

[poempadgett]

You explain things so well, so fundamentally and clearly. You’re a wonderful, natural-born teacher!❣️⛩❣️

[bigbeefscorcho]

It makes sense to me, even with my limited knowledge, only because I am familiar with the word bushido!

[crystalevans]

That was interesting, I thought all were Samurai.

[deanmcintyre]

I just found out Kanji has a cursive script and frankly, it scares me

[fsdds]

Samurai is simply a social class, it originates from the warriors hired by Kuge nobles, but once they solidofies themselves in the hierarchy it becames hereditary and therefore disjointed itself from its roots, in Edo period most samurai were employed by wealthy merchants as clerks or security guards, higher ranking samurai who cannot take such lowly job oftens had to borrow money to survive, of course there are people like Sumitomo family, which abandoned samurai rank as they believe that becoming merchants are a much better option, and they got their status back by being the designated merchants of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

[darrianweathington]

So... Bushido is the way of the literal military. I get it now

[CCootauco]

I've heard of bushi and hatamoto. I also took it as samurai were a civil servant class, not wholly a warrior class.

[santiagobalado]

So all samurai are bushi, but not all bushi are samurai. 👌

[conorcrockett]

Is that where the samurai's code of honor "Bushido" comes from?

[samsanimationcorner]

A bushi is a soldier and a samurai is like a US Marshal.

[kdefensemartialarts]

There is an anime called "Orient, " that uses the word "Bushi." So you answered a question that I was wondering about. Thanks again!