![]() ![]() ![]() At a certain period samurai warriors were even allowed to behead a commoner who had offended them. Commoners were not allowed to wear any weapons at all. They were allowed to wear two swords - a long one and a short one. SAMURAI Samurai is the word for a Japanese warrior class and for a member of this class. The Daimyo were wealthy people and second in the feudal system under the Shogun. The establishment of the shogunate (or bakufu) at the end of the twelfth century saw the beginning of samurai control of Japan for 700 years until the Meiji Restoration in the middle of the nineteenth century.ĭAIMYO The Daimyo are the great feudal landholders of Japan, the territorial barons as distinguished from the kuge, or court nobles. SHOGUN OF JAPAN The title of shogun in Japan meant a military leader equivalent to general, and at various times in the first millennium shoguns held temporary power, but it became a symbol of military control over the county. In the Japanese Feudal system the Shogun ruled over the Daimyo who were head of the samurai.
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