Samurai: Japan’s elite warrior class
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The Identity Crisis of the Warriors
Before the seventeenth century, before the establishment of the togaa sogenet, the imperial court and aristocrats who supported the imperial court still had administrative power. The further along we go in the tokugaa period, the fewer opportunities there are to let loose that violence if need be. And instead, what we have or large, relatively autonomous domai s ruled by lords. You no, dimo would have been called war lords in the warring states period, perhaps you know the english translation. But now they're really lords. And this requires a lot of administration. And that administration is largely done by warriors.
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