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"Each bugyo commanded 25 middle-ranked samurai known as yoriki. [...] During the Edo period, three of the most popular professions chosen by commoners were sum
by lif 1y ago
"Each bugyo commanded 25 middle-ranked samurai known as yoriki.
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During the Edo period, three of the most popular professions chosen by commoners were sumo wrestling, firefighting and assisting police squads as a yoriki."
So, middle-ranked samurai were also commoners?
- Henchman21 1y agoMy reading of it was that the commoners chose their favorite profession, as in they were polled and the results tallied and made public. Not that they themselves had these professions.