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  • They say he possesses what the Japanese samurai called bushi no nasake, the tenderness of a warrior. '

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • It dances Kuroda-bushi, which is a folk song from Fukuoka, Kyushu.

    Japundit - Published news Japan_Style 2010

  • It dances Kuroda-bushi, which is a folk song from Fukuoka, Kyushu.

    Japundit - Published news Japan_Style 2010

  • It dances Kuroda-bushi, which is a folk song from Fukuoka, Kyushu.

    Japundit - Published news Japan_Style 2010

  • History is silent as to the exact date when the term "bushi" came into use, but from a very early era its Japanese equivalent, "monono-fu," was applied to the guards of the sovereign's palace, and when great provincial magnates began, about the tenth century, to support a number of armed retainers, these gradually came to be distinguished as bushi.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • Next came the "bushi" of shogun, daimyo and layers of feudal lords whose rank was indicated by their closeness to the Tokugawa.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In 2005, he and a colleague named three new species of beetle after President George W. Bush and two members of his administration: Agathidium bushi , A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi .

    The Fungus Among Us Multiplies As Mycological Taxonomists Wither Gautam Naik 2011

  • Irezumi tattoos were given to cultural heroes in Japan: bushi, firefighters (for luck and protection) and beloved bodyguards.

    Tattoo in Japan Boing Boing 2009

  • Known as a master of tokiwazu bushi, a Japanese song featured in Kabuki plays, she published her autobiography two years ago.

    Autopsy Disclosed 2008

  • But the crowning touch that I recently came up with was to add a spoonful of katsuo bushi shavings, which is unsalted smoked fish that kind of looks like sawdust but smells really good.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

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