Were all Japanese samurai ?
4th July 2007
I am from Sweden, and even though 90% of the people were peasants it is still popular to claim that we used to be vikings. Guess it is the same here in Japan. Japundit has got an interesting piece on Japanese names:
Related articles:One amusing aspect of living in Japan is hearing people with names like Tanaka (”in the rice field”), Yamada (”rice field on the mountain”) and Nakamura (”in the village”) argue vehemently that their ancesors were samurai warriors despite their agrarian sounding names.
July 26th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I think not all Japanese were samurai. Some were fishermen, some were farmers. If everyone were samurai, who grew vegitables and stuff? Maybe all Swedish people could have been vikings because they were able to fish ? I think samurai did not make anything to eat!
:p
Hur mar dur?
July 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I think some 10 % of the Japanese were samurai. Most of them were probably as you say farmers and fishermen.
ps- Jag mår bra!
July 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
lol Thank you for replying with that Jag mar bra. My keyboard does not have that small dot above an a. What do you call it?
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
we call it an å (sounds like the oo sound in the word door)