The Japanese term for a (western) serf is *noudo*, literally meaning farm
servant. If you want something from the historical Japanese caste system,
since they took after Confucian ideas, peasant was was actually the highest
commoner class (above craftsmen and merchants); the outcasts of the
Japanese feudal system were the *eta* (historical name, somewhat derogatory
today, means "full of defilement"), *hinin* ("non-humans"), or the modern
politically correct term in English, *burakumin* ("hamlet people",
referring to how they were exiled from towns and cities to have their own
hamlets). Hopefully that helped.天火狐 On 13 September 2017 at 15:38, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > - Any player with a karma of -5 or less is a (Japanese term for > serf?). > > Just as an addendum, if 天火狐 or anyone with better knowledge of Japanese > feudal/cultural terms than me wants to suggest flavor improvements (in > English > alphabet please), I'd gratefully add them. Maybe we should call the whole > thing a tea ceremony... > > >
