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Bookmark or Share- Ronin – The Disgraced Japanese Samurai - Symbol SageApril 7, 2023. Table of Contents. The Japanese ronin are legendary and yet they’re often widely misrepresented. Fascinating historic figures turned into romantic mythological characters, these wandering and disgraced samurai played a major role in the shaping of medieval Japan.
- Rōnin - WikipediaThe word rōnin is usually translated to 'drifter' or 'wanderer'; however, per kanji, rō (浪) means "wave" (as in body of water) or "unrestrained", while nin (人) means "man" or "person". It is an idiomatic expression for 'vagrant' or 'wandering man', someone who finds the way without belonging to one place. The term originated in the Nara ...
- Who Were the Ronin of Feudal Japan? - ThoughtCoUpdated on August 19, 2019. A ronin was a samurai warrior in feudal Japan without a master or lord — known as a daimyo . A samurai could become a ronin in several different ways: his master might die or fall from power or the samurai might lose his master's favor or patronage and be cast off.
- Forty-seven rōnin - WikipediaForty-seven rōnin. Coordinates: 35°41′36.0″N 139°47′39.5″E. The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin (四十七士, Shijūshichishi), [2] also known as the Akō incident (赤穂事件, Akō jiken) or Akō vendetta, is a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai) avenged the death of their master on 31 January 1703. [3] .
- Rōnin | Samurai, Bushido, Feudal Japan | Britannicarōnin, any of the masterless samurai warrior aristocrats of the late Muromachi (1138–1573) and Tokugawa (1603–1867) periods who were often vagrant and disruptive and sometimes actively rebellious.
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