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800 CE - 1876 CE: Samurai active in Japanese warfare.
1159 CE - 1189 CE: Life of the legendary samurai Yoshitsune
1580 CE: It becomes fashionable for Japanese samurai to wear two swords: the daisho ("great and small").
1588 CE: Toyotomi Hideyoshi rules that only full-rank samurai may carry two swords.
1591 CE: Samurai are no longer permitted to farm their own land making them dependent on their lords for income.