Editing Knight-errant (section)

==In East Asian cultures==
[[Youxia]], [[China|Chinese]] knights-errant, traveled solo while protecting common folk from oppressive regimes. Unlike their European counterpart, they did not come from any particular [[social caste]] and were anything from soldiers to poets. There is even a popular literary tradition that arose during the [[Tang dynasty]] which centered on slaves who used supernatural physical abilities to save kidnapped [[damsel in distress|damsels in distress]] and to swim to the bottom of raging rivers to retrieve treasures for their feudal lords (see [[Kunlun Nu]]).<ref>Liu, James J.Y. ''The Chinese Knight Errant''. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967 {{ISBN|0-226-48688-5}}</ref><ref>.Snow, Philip. ''The Star Raft: China's Encounter With Africa''. Cornell Univ. Press, 1989 {{ISBN|0-8014-9583-0}}</ref> A youxia who excels or is renowned for martial prowess or skills is usually called [[wuxia]].

In Japan, the expression ''[[musha shugyō]]'' described the traveling of a [[samurai]] who, wanting to test his abilities in real life conditions, would travel the land and engage in duels along the way.