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*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.
*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.
*Ifa Fuyu wrote in his 琉球人種論 (1910?) that the Ryukyuans were of the same 人種 (race?) as the Japanese, and that for today's Ryukyuans, quick assimilation 同化 with the Japanese was the best path. - Yokoyama, 8.
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