【No.5】 What is "Bushi"?

Rekishi blog　No.5

By Yumeka Saito

In this blog, I would like to get to know about “Bushi”.

Have you heard of this word?

I guess many of you have heard a word "Samurai". And you probably imagine “a warrior”, “a soldier”, and “a fighter”.

I asked my colleagues who knows about the meaning of "Bushi" very well.

They told me that “ people who arm to protect themselves, land, and their family”.

I guess that’s not what you were imagining!

Bushi started to appear in the Heian period when citizens were suffering from heavy taxes.

Public safety wasn’t enough that people needed to protect their life.

That is how Bushi was formed.

The Bushi society became bigger and bigger, and there were many strong Bushi who became Busho, a head of Bushi group.

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