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*[[Footbinding]] first spread from courtesans to all women in the [[Song Dynasty]]. - Valerie Hansen, Open Empire, 261.
*[[Footbinding]] first spread from courtesans to all women in the [[Song Dynasty]]. - Valerie Hansen, Open Empire, 261.
*On origins of samurai/bushi, Karl Friday writes that during the Heian period, they were essentially ''miyako no musha'', with much closer associations to their social peers within the Court & aristocracy than to a warrior or bushi identity, and that it was only after the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate and of the gokenin hierarchy that a distinctive bushi identity began to emerge. More details of his argument/explanation can be seen at: Karl Friday, Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan, Routledge (2004), 10.
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