Sentence examples for samurai classes from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, even the samurai classes, their military duties radically reduced by decades of peace, took up other professions and artistic and artisanal tasks to make a living.

In spite of compulsory loans, property confiscations, and legislation designed to restrict their wealth, the chōnin multiplied rapidly during the Tokugawa period, and their prosperity contrasted greatly with the financial straits of the peasant and samurai classes, who became heavily indebted to the chōnin.

While early Genji art was considered symbolic of court culture, by the middle of the Edo period the mass-produced ukiyo-e prints made the illustrations accessible for the samurai classes and commoners.

According to Naoko Takemaru in her book "Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias," during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), the idea that women were impure was extended to mean men were superior to women, a concept called danson johi that took hold among the samurai classes.

The samurai class lost its privileged position when feudalism was officially abolished in 1871.

The modern game began to emerge in Japan with the subsequent rise of the warrior (samurai) class.

Others felt that it was unwise to deprive the samurai class of their ancient monopoly on warfare.

Kodama, born into the samurai class, fought in several battles before enrolling in the Ōsaka Heigakuryō (military training school).

By the eve of World War II, most officers came from the middle classes rather than the samurai class and so had an affinity with the enlisted men.

Although his participation in the restoration made him a legendary hero, it also, to his mortification, relegated his samurai class to impotence.

The son of a physician of the aristocratic warrior (samurai) class, Mori Ōgai studied medicine, at first in Tokyo and from 1884 to 1888 in Germany.