The artisans sold materials for clothing. These mateials were dyed or plain, silk or cotton. The artisans were privilaged in the way that they always had money to buy food whereas the peasants only could eat what they grew and a lot of what they grew went to the Daimyo for the Samurai.
The merchants would buy items from artisans and farmers and sell them.
The peasantry.
An artisan in Feudal Japan would have been constantly on the move. Small settlements meant a need to travel in search of reliable work.
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the social pyramid isn't real. there are no people that are less than another. they are all equal in japan today. In feudal Japan there was a strict social pryamid. The emperor was a figurehead but at the top. The shogun was a military leader and had the real power. Pheasants were next. Artisans were below and the merchants were at the bottom.
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