Did japanese medieval peasantry really have no personal names? Or did I get meme'd

>>1421772
From what I know landless bondsmen did not have a surname. landowners, samurai or not would have had one

They had no family names and retarded personal names that essentially meant "Son n°1", "Son n°2" etc while the aristocrats had poetic and elaborate naming schemes much like in China.

>>1421973
>>1422004
The way it was described in Shogun was that adults are referred to by their vocation one guy is Fisher and the other Farmer and they might elaborate that "Farmer by the river" or something but that was it, and kids had that whole Firstson Secondson Firstdaughter thing going on

>>1422021
That's not far from the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name#Historical_names

>>1422055
>>1422021
What stopped someone from just calling there daughter Yoko?

>>1422021
John smith

God is graceful, I'm a smith

Stepehan molonyeux
I'm from the forest, I'm a miller