Medieval Japanese Peasants
By: Christian, Dane, Dominic, Steve
- Work fields daily harvesting and fertilizing crops
- No peasant children went to school and they could not read
- Religion was important to peasants
- Peasants were honored by higher classes because they provided food
- Had to provide food especially rice
- Peasants were born in role and could not go up in social classes
- Profit from sales were also used to by food for the farmers
- Peasants were 90% of Medieval Japanese population
- Peasants were split in two groups craftsmen and farmers
- Peasants built their goods to sell and pay taxes to the lord for the use of land
- Peasants wore potato sacks for clothes
- Peasants lived a hard life working in farms making wood and metal
- Peasants had a high tax rate
- Peasants only had one piece of clothing
- Peasants weren't free and were bound to their land