Samurai As Scholars, Swimmers, And Swordsmen Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese samurai has to master many things including swordsmanship, Chinese studies, poetry, spiritual discipline…and open water swimming. Samurai learned suijutsu or suiei-jutsu (水術 in Japanese), one form of a martial art of combative swimming. The samurai encountered numerous situations where he might need […]