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Men-yoroi (面鎧), also called menpō (面頬) or mengu (面具), [1] [2] [3] are various types of facial armour that were worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. These include the sōmen , menpō , hanbō or hanpō , and happuri .
Andrew "A.J." Befumo, [3] who is of Italian descent, previously worked as a professional wrestler for independent promotions around New Jersey, under the name "the American Powerchild Eric Justice", starting when he was in college and throughout the 1990s until 2005. [4]
Bakumatsu Rock (Japanese: 幕末Rock) is a Japanese video game developed and published by Marvelous AQL.It was adapted into a manga series, Bakumatsu Rock -howling ...
Luxurious and heavily armed ō-yoroi were worn by senior mounted samurai, while the lighter dō-maru were worn by lower-class infantry samurai. [2] The Japanese cuirass evolved into the more familiar style of armour worn by the samurai known as the dou or dō. Japanese armour makers started to use leather (nerigawa), and lacquer was used to ...
' indignation death '), which is any suicide made to protest or state dissatisfaction. [citation needed] Some samurai chose to perform a considerably more taxing form of seppuku known as jūmonji giri (十文字切り, lit. ' cross-shaped cut '), in which there is no kaishakunin to put a quick end to the samurai's suffering. It involves a ...
Atsumori (敦盛, Atsumori) is a Japanese Noh play by Zeami Motokiyo which focuses on Taira no Atsumori, a young samurai who was killed in the Genpei War, and his killer, Kumagai Naozane. Atsumori's death is portrayed tragically in the Heike monogatari ( Tale of the Heike ), from which this and many other works stem.
An Ittō-ryū swordsman living as a mask-maker. Determined to conceal his past from his son, Renzo, he is also the man who led the rape of Rin's mother. He first appears in On Silent Wings part 1, and is later killed by Manji in On Silent Wings part 6. Renzo then attacks Manji in rage, Manji feigning death.
Ichibanboshi (一番星) Voiced by: Gen Satō [2] During his childhood, his parents and young brother were killed by a demon samurai with a distinctive mask. Since then, he has had a strong dislike of samurai and vowed to take revenge but was arrested for attacking one of the masked men and sentenced to death.