HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Members of a warrior class in Japan feudal society
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Wealthy land owners
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Code of conduct for the Samurai during the feudal period in Japan
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Payment that a girl’s family pays to a boy’s family to enter marriage with her.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The original purpose of a dowry was to compensate the bride’s family for the loss of her labour and her reproductive potential. Somewhere before the start of the Ancient Roman period, the custom became reversed, so that the bride’s family had to give a dowry to the husband’s kin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even when the groom’s family does not make demands, the bride’s family pays a dowry because it is a matter of pride and a symbol of social status.
Detailed explanation-3: -dowry, the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband or his family in marriage.
Detailed explanation-4: -If the wife, at the time of her marriage, has neither father, mother, nor grandparents, she enjoys her dowry-which, in such a case, belongs to no other relative or child.”