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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6408461" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>Interestingly, despite my mentions in previous posts in this thread in how oppressive Kaidan society is, like Japan, there were no such thing as "serfs" in feudal Japan. The farmers are the land owners and not renters/tenants of the land. The taxes paid in rice, were so high that it might equate the land-owning farmers as treated virtually as serfs, but Japan never had serfs, nor does Kaidan. Also the majority of samurai, called jizamurai in old Japan, were farmers too, while some were fisherman. Except in times of war, like during the Sengoku period when the majority of samurai were employed by one ruler or another, only about 10% of the samurai were holding positions serving a lord at his estate, for the imperial court or in the army of the Shogun. Especially after the end of the Sengoku Period at the start of the Tokugawa Era, as many has half the existing samurai population were ronin - no wars meant no employment. There were stories of many bands of near starved ronin samurai trying to eek a living with the majority failing - with ronin bodies found everywhere and not killed due to violence rather disease and starvation.</p></blockquote><p></p>