The word 'samurai' derives from the Japanese verb saburau, 'to serve'.

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A blanket of snow covered Tokyo in the early hours before dawn on 26 February 1936 as more than fourteen hundred troops of the Japanese Army's First Brigade filed swiftly out of their barracks and moved to occupy positions near the Imperial Palace grounds, including the Diet building and the office of the Minister of War.

1. Genesis of government by assassination.