Hikan in the Saga clan, different from that of other clans, had still remained a characteristics of middle ages. It was a special statous distinguished from each each of the bushi, peasant and merchant. This shows that the separation of the statous between bushi and common people had not been compleated. However, I believe that the Hon government intentionally tried to keep up the old hikan statous in order to make hikan military servant in case of emergdncy as taxpayer. This article is written to make clear such dual characteristics of hikan in the Soga clan by using the original historical documents still remained in the county.
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