{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "About the samurai:\nBack when they were real warriors they were mostly mounted archers\nThen there was a period where they oversaw...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/658577045729705984/", "html": "<p>About the samurai:</p><ul><li>Back when they were real warriors they were mostly mounted archers</li><li>Then there was a period where they oversaw land but it was more administrative at-the-pleasure-of-the-Emperor than Western feudalism in a lot of ways</li><li>A LOT of the romantic stuff about them as honorable poet-duelist swordsmen was backwards-projected legend made up in the later period when they were really a superfluous class mostly known for causing trouble in the bar district</li></ul>"}