Talk:Yamatai/@comment-96.18.41.111-20150308221233/@comment-83.191.101.7-20160306160117

The social class of samurai is a thing solely from Japan. China never had anytihng like that. Weapons and armor in Japan are not of any Chinese influence by the time samurai came to be. Take the katana/tachi or the yumi. They have no equivalent in China.

The cultural exchange in regards to philosphy was inevitable, given the close proximity, but Japan brought out their own philosophers as well.

However, when the Japanese introduce the Chinese letters they quickly encountered the problem that these letters are not suficient to write Japanese with, so they developed two more alphabets, hiragana and katakana. Japanese and Chinese are not related at all.

And well, nobody doing research or having knowledge about Japan writes Japanese words with an S in pural. Every publication of note talks of "samurai" in both plural and singular. Every work in college does so, too.