HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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They were soldiers who protected the Daimyo
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They were scholars who learned about the empire and taught the nobles
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They were royal advisers who protected the emperor.
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They were workers who worked the fields for the nobles
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Detailed explanation-1: -Samurai () were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in the 1870s during the Meiji era. They were the well-paid retainers of the daimyo, the great feudal landholders. They had high prestige and special privileges.
Detailed explanation-2: -The daimyo were vassals of the shogun, each with control over their own lands. The daimyo then employed samurai (often paying them with land and title) as their warriors, guards, and officers. During times of peace, the samurai also served as advisors, managers, and overseers of the daimyo’s lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -samurai, member of the Japanese warrior caste. The term samurai was originally used to denote the aristocratic warriors (bushi), but it came to apply to all the members of the warrior class that rose to power in the 12th century and dominated the Japanese government until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Detailed explanation-4: -An army of samurai was expensive to support. Few daimyo (land owning lords) could afford to buy armor and weapons for their warriors. As a result, lords paid their samurai with land, gifts, or food. Samurai who received no land were given food-usually rice-or other gifts as payment.
Detailed explanation-5: -Daimyo were feudal lords who, as leaders of powerful warrior bands, controlled the provinces of Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 to the end of the Edo period in 1868. This warrior class, as newly risen holders of political authority, developed cultural traditions inherited from the court.