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This is my latest offering entitled "Ghost of Samurai" and this was a labour of love because it was tricky as theres was a little more detail than I am used to doing. My mantra is Less is more, It is of Samurai which I am very interested in Asian history and is my second painting concerning Samurai. There is sprinkled onto the surface of the painting real diamond dust to give a little bling to the background. Here is dome facts about Samurai. I hope you like it.

Samurai (?) were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (?, [bu.i]) or buke (?). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" 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 Wakash (905914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.[1]