Talk:Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150218000348/@comment-115.66.219.32-20150723125412

following your argument, a feudal society is all fine and good - but for only as long as you're high enough on the hierarchy. while a man-to-man relationship may have been present among samurai, the samurai hardly amounted to a majority of pre-meiji japanese society. what about the peasants? the merchants? or the burakumin, who are, to this day, still discriminated against for the occupations their long-dead ancestors used to have?