The 'deviants' of that time were mainly people in the service of thesamurai, joined by masterlesssamurai.From theCambridge English Corpus
Since the early nineteenth century the borderlines between estates, even betweensamuraiand merchants, became permeable.From theCambridge English Corpus
From the late sixteenth century until the early seventeenth century,samuraiwere separated from farming communities throughout the country.From theCambridge English Corpus
Because of the long peace most of thesamuraibecame administrators rather than actually serving as fighters.From theCambridge English Corpus
Among thesamuraiit was always the required form.From theCambridge English Corpus
This ideology, however, did not always protect merchants fromsamuraiand authorities.From theCambridge English Corpus
If an estimated 500,000samuraiis added, the total population comes to about one million.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the pre-modern period statistics are especially unreliable as official population records did not count thesamurai.From theCambridge English Corpus
Many served as employment agents who providedsamuraiemployers with labourers, and they had many followers under them.From theCambridge English Corpus
While clearly the injured party, the merchants had little recourse against the rulingsamuraiclass.From theCambridge English Corpus
Although thesamuraiclass was dysfunctional by their fathers' time, they were still strongly attached to the moral training and ideology nurtured for centuries in the samurai tradition.From theCambridge English Corpus
In order to serve the needs of this largesamuraipopulation, for house construction and regular household consumption, merchants and artisans also congregated in the city in large numbers.From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.