Talk:Hiraga Saito/@comment-24439116-20140119023736/@comment-1909530-20151228050629

I put this in one other post just watch the movie "Girl with the Pearl earring". If you are not a noble you had no land or some sort of craft you didn't eat. You did whatever the noble asked. Like when the noble wanted Siesta, she had to go. If the noble said we are going to war meeting you will go and not the noble. Oh ya you still had to run the farm and the noble owns the land. You are the dirt and can be replace with hundred of others waiting in line. And on top of that woman are not allow to own land. A lot of this continue through 1800. So if the partner (what would be husband now) died she had to find some other man to take over the land and hopefully he like her. When there was marriages they were usually arrange by the dad and the dad had to to put up a dowry. Everybody has a place and everybody knew there place. Very hard to move up in the system. Not a very good time.