Word: samurais
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...Curriculum. By not saying “you must take this,” you have caused us all to abandon those courses which look too hard, too legitimate. How many of your wards graduate without reading Aristotle or Shakespeare or Locke, but having learned of Mongolian architecture and samurai...
...somewhere in between. Maier, writing in Essays on General Education in Harvard College, himself touts connectivity as this Golden Meana reaction to the gradual deprivileging of Western values by the new, connected global community in which all of us now reside. In student-speak, this means that Constructing the Samurai might not be around in a couple years...
...modern television has come up with an even better weapon: cute high-school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...
...movie, Seven Swords, he has dipped into the endless supply of old Chinese wuxia (martial arts) novels to come up with a gritty and extremely violent epic. Noble warriors literally descend from the mountaintop to protect an endangered village from an implacable evil?think Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Qing-dynasty China. While the attempts at romantic subplots fizzle and the film is paced so strangely that it feels both too long and too short, for fans of wuxia, Seven Swords will still satisfy. Every time the plot threatens to twist itself into knots, Tsui lets loose with eye-popping...
...some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem not to be there--a helmet, for instance, covered with a wig of animal hair to mimic a young man's coiffure, thus fooling an enemy into thinking the samurai is helmetless...