Assertion: samurai | /r/CapableOf | begin as rent collectors
Facets:
value: for the kyoto nobility
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The notion that the samurai have been "protectors of the nation" for nine hundred or a thousand years (and Katsumoto uses both figures) is absurd: the samurai began as rent collectors and estate protectors for the Kyoto nobility, and evolved into an aristocracy in their own right.