Yoritomo Bushi and Peasant Weapons
The Yoritomo Bushi's rank 1 technique states that they suffer no off-hand, or two weapon fighting penalties when weilding "peasant weapons." Now my question is does this refer to the weapons under the Weapon Skill Peasant Weapons or does it refer to any weapon used by peasants? There are several weapons that say that peasants use them in their descriptions. Nunchaku Tonfa Bo Jitte and Sai Thanks!

In addition, "peasant weapon" in the technique description is not capitalized, meaning it's a common noun and not a proper noun. If it were proper noun, I would immediatly side with it only working on weapons that fall under the Peasant Weapons skill description, however its use as a common noun intuits its application to any peasant weaponry. This also plays into mild annoyance at weapons that have traditionally been peasant-use being shunted into different categories (such as Staves). Weapons that, in earlier editions, were stated to be in common use as peasant items are no longer labeled clearly as such.

This also plays into mild annoyance at weapons that have traditionally been peasant-use being shunted into different categories (such as Staves). Weapons that, in earlier editions, were stated to be in commun use as peasant items are no longer labeled clearly as such. This is true. I think they did that so that it was clear which weapons went with which weapon skills. Ninja weapons are another category that is all spread out among the weapons.

FAQ : the Yoritomo school consider peasants weapons all the weapons who carry the stigma, not only those falling under the skill.