Shizoku

Word SHIZOKU
Character 7
Hyphenation ‖Shi zo ku
Pronunciations N/A

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6 The word shizoku is simply the Chinese for samurai. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

It is only since the military caste has been abolished, and its name, simply as a body of gentry, changed to shizoku, [6] that some families have become victims of the superstition through intermarriage with the chonin or mercantile classes, among whom the belief has always been strong. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

A Matsue shizoku, going home one night by way of the street called ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The city can be definitely divided into three architectural quarters: the district of the merchants and shop-keepers, forming the heart of the settlement, where all the houses are two stories high; the district of the temples, including nearly the whole south-eastern part of the town; and the district or districts of the shizoku (formerly called samurai), comprising a vast number of large, roomy, garden-girt, one-story dwellings. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Izumo, the Rice-God, for obvious reasons, was a highly popular deity; and you can still find in the garden of almost every old shizoku residence in Matsue, a small shrine of Inari Daimyojin, with little stone foxes seated before it. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

In the houses of the poorest -- often consisting of but one apartment -- there can be little choice as to rooms; but it is a rule, observed in the dwellings of the middle classes, that the kamidana must not be placed either in the guest room (zashiki) nor in the kitchen; and in shizoku houses its place is usually in one of the smaller family apartments. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The news was brought one evening by some friends, shizoku of Matsue, who had settled in Oki, a young police officer and his wife. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Roshi shirakashi tokyo, adj. rumaki shitogi tsuba torii ryo shizoku Toyama, adj. ❋ Unknown (1982)

17 The Japanese police are nearly all of the samurai class, now called shizoku. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

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