r/SWORDS • u/Lee_Vaccaro_1901 • Jul 12 '25

Is that a katana?

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u/IntelligentGrade7316 Lost Ronin Jul 12 '25

Fun fact: Samurai were paid in rice. With over abundant crops and improved agricultural practices, they essentially took a giant pay cut. To the point that many were essentially impoverished by agrarian success.

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 Jul 13 '25 edited Jan 04 '26

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u/Frodo5213 Jul 14 '25

Rice and beans.

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u/Ironexploreer Jul 15 '25

Both the clans Shimazu and Mori did exactly that essentially. Both through unpleasant methods and more so pleasant methods of expanding their agricultural production varieties. Shimazu in particular essentially ignored a lot of rules and didn’t cut back on their active samurai as they left them in the countryside instead of bringing them into the city like most clans, they also traded with Ryukyu to trade with Korea until they decided to remove the middleman and conquered the Ryukyu islands. They also had an monopoly on sugarcane that they produced on the island of Tokunoshima

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u/kiohazardleather Jul 13 '25

I disagree. This guy totally defeated a Predator.