1) Samurai
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The lit. `warrior families` was a social class merged with former Samurai on 25 July 1869, as part of the Meiji Restoration. It was a class distinct from the Kazoku (a merger the former Kuge and Daimyo classes), and heimin (commoners). The Shizoku, as former Samurai, retained some of their salaries, but the right to wear a katana in public was e.....
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• (n. sing. & pl.) The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called samurai; also, any member of this class.
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http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/shizoku/
Shi·zo'ku noun sing. & plural [ Jap.
shi-zoku , from Chin.
ch' (
chi ) branch, posterity +
tsu kindered, class.] The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called
samurai ; also, any member of this class.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/90
Term used after 1869 to refer to former samurai.
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http://www.samurai-archives.com/vocab.html
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