Child with samurai warrior shrine

In Japan's society through pre-modern days, samurai constituted the country's military elite for nearly a thousand years. Samurai ranked just below daimyo lords in the social hierarchy.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2000-03

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Japanese

Kyoto, Japan

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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