Yoritomo Minamoto in the 1100s
No, burghers were the town people, who were mostly free laborers and middle class.
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Feudal estates were farmed by peasants. For much of the Middle Ages, the peasants were serfs, which meant that they were bound to the estates and not allowed to move away. There were some places where a lot of them were slaves. There were also places were they were mostly free peasants who were tenants on the estates.
Lord's manors
The Second Estate.
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
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The European Ages used class and estates as a system of stratification for feudal societies. Feudalism had three estates, which were the Church was the first estate, the nobility were the second, and the peasants were the third estate.
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In Japan, the equivalent of European lords were the daimyo, who were powerful feudal lords governing large estates and commanding samurai warriors. During the Edo period, these daimyo held significant political and military power, similar to the role of lords in medieval Europe. They were responsible for the administration of their domains and maintained a degree of autonomy under the shogunate, akin to the feudal system in Europe where lords held sway over their vassals.