士し族ぞく

noun

samurai lineage; person of samurai descent

Refers to a family or individual with samurai ancestry, often used in historical or genealogical contexts.

• 彼かれは士し族ぞくの家か系けいに生うまれた。

  He was born into a family of samurai lineage.

noun

shizoku; former samurai class (1869–1947)

Historical term for the second of three official classes in Meiji-era Japan, comprising former samurai. The class system was abolished in 1947.

See also: 族称

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、士し族ぞくは華か族ぞくの下した、平へい民みんの上うえの身み分ぶんだった。

  In the Meiji period, the shizoku were a class below the kazoku (peerage) and above the commoners.