Joshi & goshi

Quotes from a website:

"Ryoma was born in Kochi, in the feudal domain known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku. He was the youngest son in the rich family, whose father ran a big shop. In those days, there was a class distinctions called, "shi-nou-kou-sho" (samurai, farmer, artisan and merchant in descending order of rank). In Tosa, the samurai divided into two class, joshi and goshi(Upper and lower). The Sakamoto family belonged to the merchant class, lowest in the class distinctions. Ryoma's father bought the right to be a goshi, a lower class samurai. The difference between joshi and goshi were strict rules. For example, joshi can have an umbrella when it rains, but goshi can't. Joshi can wear "tabi" a kind of socks, but goshi can't. Ryoma was born under this circumstance."

Does anyone know any other rules that differentiated between Goshi and Joshi?

Thanks

Totok Sudarijanto

Amazing input Totok, please input some more about such kind of classes,
categories and maybe some sources that we can read more about.

I will also perform a google search to see the results. But you've opened a
great thread in my mind, thanks for your input.

Best regards,
Michael

On 9/10/06, Totok Sudarijanto <totoks@...> wrote:
>
> Quotes from a website:
>
> "Ryoma was born in Kochi, in the feudal domain known as "Tosa," on the
> island of Shikoku. He was the youngest son in the rich family, whose father
> ran a big shop. In those days, there was a class distinctions called,
> "shi-nou-kou-sho" (samurai, farmer, artisan and merchant in descending order
> of rank). In Tosa, the samurai divided into two class, joshi and goshi(Upper
> and lower). The Sakamoto family belonged to the merchant class, lowest in
> the class distinctions. Ryoma's father bought the right to be a goshi, a
> lower class samurai. The difference between joshi and goshi were strict
> rules. For example, joshi can have an umbrella when it rains, but goshi
> can't. Joshi can wear "tabi" a kind of socks, but goshi can't. Ryoma was
> born under this circumstance."
>
> Does anyone know any other rules that differentiated between Goshi and
> Joshi?
>
> Thanks
>
> Totok Sudarijanto
>
>
>


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