#IS he… technically a samurai? like where do cops land on this social spectrum

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QUESTION inspector ishida is a little old man and it is very possible that the Tokugawa shogunate is less than ten years old present day. So we are only about ten years out of the constant warfare of the Sengoku period. What was Ishida doing during the Sengoku wars.

#usagi yojimbo #IS he… technically a samurai? like where do cops land on this social spectrum #extremely dumb question. did they still have cops during the sengoku period?? #like i know there were a couple of ‘great unifier’ leaders before and leading up to the tokugawa shogunate #so maybe they had an established police within their own lands #and when the shogunate got established the police system got absorbed into it. and ishida got him jimbei #(i hope i spelled that right) #seriously tho. in the same way that daimyo or feudal lords still consider themselves samurai despite being a social step above them (and #presumably a shogun considers himself samurai too) #are police officers usually from the samurai class as well? #i’ve always wondered about where exactly the power levels lay whenever usagi deals with them with trepidation #then again he Is a clanless ronin #if noriyuki killed a cop in broad daylight even With self defense as a reason—exactly how much of violent reaction would that generate #i am getting off track. this started because i feel like Inshida has been an officer for like 20 yrs. way more than just 10 at least. #imagine: the age of great wars was terrible. but at least there were fewer cops around