"Consider all three literary works in the latter half of the course (Hinin Taiheiki, Ch?shingura, and Musuis Story), discuss how individuals at the bottom (or outside) of the Tokugawa structure related to warrior ethics and values in those stories. What observations can you draw from all three works that seem to cut across all of them? How did characters define the samurai based on their actions/thoughts/justifications? Given that the samurai was seen as a scholar-warrior bureaucrat, what implications can you draw from these works that seem to speak for or against this modeling?" This is the exact wording of the assignment with the relevant readings to use and cite.
