Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Responce to GG's Samurai post

Your blog included very interesting details about the Samurai's role in society. In particular, I liked your point that the samurai were not only strong warriors, but that they were connected to the government as well.

I would like to add on that the Samurai class was taken down because of that same point you stated about them being part of the government. Being part of government means that you have a great amount of power, and this was something that Japan at the time wanted to avoid. They were afraid of civil wars happening because of unhappy people from lower classes, and by taking away the samurai class it would have everyone be that much more equal. The samurai lost their ability to carry swords, and it was taken well by most of the samurai. This was they way that the samurai class was modernized.

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