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How a young samurai was born and raised
Back then the only way you could have become a samurai was by being "born in the samurai family, adopted by a samurai family with the permission of authorities, or get married to a samurai” (Okamoto). If your child was indeed born into this type of family they were given a small bow and arrow in which their family wished for health and success with the new baby boy. With this child growing up in this atmosphere they held wooden swords and practiced the arts of sword fighting rather than martial arts.
While being a part of a samurai family came great effort and dedication at a very young age in which every few years these children would develop new skills when maturing and developing. After the first few years of learning the basics of samurai development, at the age of 5 these children “needed to practice sword fighting with other children in the clan by swordmasters” (Okamoto). With this practice involving the ways of the samurai and their sword involvement, this led these children to develop early battle skills in order to be prepared in their teen years. After a couple years of practice at the age of 7 these children ended up upgrading their swords when eventually being given the wakizashi (short sword). When eventually turning 9 these children had been ordered to go move to the swordmasters house. With this move this led to greater sword and battle development for these young children in order to be prepared for battle in the next couple of years. Eventually when turning 13 years old these children had officially become samurai/warriors and were eligible to be immediately put into battle.
Done by : Bryson R
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