Compare And Contrast European And Japanese Feudalism

Japan and Europe both had periods of feudalism in the early points of last millennia.
Both systems of feudalism had different treatments of women, diffrent codes of honor, and different rulers.
The rulers in Europe were kings, with very little power. Most of the power of the kings was in the hands of the Catholic church. The Catholic Church and the kings would give fiefs to those under them in the feudal system, the lords and vassals. These lords and vassals would allow peasants and serfs to live on their land in return for the food they grew. The lords also gave out land to knights in return for their military service. This is like the Japanese, who were ruled by an emperor. The emperor was a front for the shogun. The shogun loaned out land to the daimyo, who did the same things with peasants and serfs that the Europeans did. The
Bushido is the code that all samurai followed. It told them to behave with courage, virility, and bravery. The samurai held all up to bushido, even girls. In Europe, the knights followed chivalry, a set of rules that had the same kind of values, bravery, courage, loyalty.
Chivalry held women up to be weak and prone to needing a man’s protection. The samurai did not believe this, the samurai thought that women were the same as men and should be held to the same degrees. In both Japan and Europe women were powerless in the society.
In both Europe and Japan, there were many similarities in their feudal system. But there were a lot of differences, in their gender roles, their classes and their honor