★FUN FACTS
1. Buddhism was one religion practiced in medieval Japan.
2. The emperor was head of the feudal system during medieval Japanese times.
3. If a woman from a regular family got engaged to a samurai, she could be adopted by a second samurai family.
4. Society was divided into two classes, the noble and the peasants. The noble class made up approximetely twelve percent of the population with peasants making up the rest.
5. The Samurai swords were built of the strongest steel of any swords ever made.
6. For more than 200 years, from 1600 to 1868, the whole Japanese social system revolved around the samurai military.
7. Commoners had to earn the right to recieving a surname.
8. When a horse, ox or other large farm animal died, the local outcasts were then the owners of the deceased animal.
9. Commoners who failed to commit sepuku were considered criminals. But were not killed as that was there wish, but instead were shunned from society. They then became an outcast.
10. Blind Japanese were allowed to stay in the class they were born or brought up in, they just had to stay in the family home.
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2. The emperor was head of the feudal system during medieval Japanese times.
3. If a woman from a regular family got engaged to a samurai, she could be adopted by a second samurai family.
4. Society was divided into two classes, the noble and the peasants. The noble class made up approximetely twelve percent of the population with peasants making up the rest.
5. The Samurai swords were built of the strongest steel of any swords ever made.
6. For more than 200 years, from 1600 to 1868, the whole Japanese social system revolved around the samurai military.
7. Commoners had to earn the right to recieving a surname.
8. When a horse, ox or other large farm animal died, the local outcasts were then the owners of the deceased animal.
9. Commoners who failed to commit sepuku were considered criminals. But were not killed as that was there wish, but instead were shunned from society. They then became an outcast.
10. Blind Japanese were allowed to stay in the class they were born or brought up in, they just had to stay in the family home.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107666.html
http://www.facts-about-japan.com/feudal-japan.html