*"The samurai were not dissatisfied with the premises of a social system in which, after all, they formed the ruling class, but they were enraged by the discrepancy between the theoretical elevation of their status and the reality of their poverty." - Schirokauer, Gay, Lurie, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Fourth Edition, 154. | *"The samurai were not dissatisfied with the premises of a social system in which, after all, they formed the ruling class, but they were enraged by the discrepancy between the theoretical elevation of their status and the reality of their poverty." - Schirokauer, Gay, Lurie, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Fourth Edition, 154. |