Suwa Yorishige
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For the samurai by the same name who died in 1335, see Suwa Yorishige (Nanboku).
(1516–1542) was a Japanese samurai
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(1516–1542) was a Japanese samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
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