Sterling Silver "Samurai" Kanji Chinese Symbol Charm

         Price: $39.95

Item #: 87975

Metal: STERLING SILVER
Length: 1" Pendant symbol means "Samurai". Samurai, is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. English translation of the word "Samurai" is engraved on the back of the pendant. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai." According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashū (905-914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the ninth century. Item is available as a pendant.

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