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A samurai became a rōnin upon the death of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or legal privilege. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In modern Japanese, the term is usually used to describe a salaryman who is unemployed or a secondary school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university .
Though the film takes the name from the 'masterless' samurai of Japan, it has nothing to do with the actual events of the forty-seven ronin. A comedic adaptation was presented in a 2002 episode of the Canadian television series History Bites titled "Samurai Goodfellas", mingling the story with elements from The Godfather film series.
The commemorative plaque standing at the former site of the Ikedaya Inn. The Ikedaya incident (池田屋事件, Ikedaya jiken), also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the shishi which included masterless samurai formally employed by the Chōshū, Tosa and Higo domains (), and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's special police force in Kyoto on July 8, 1864 ...
He was a Ronin, or a masterless samurai, meaning he didn’t have the governance of noble sponsorship. This title, typically given to those who lost this sponsorship through death or wrongdoing ...
The Rōshigumi (浪士組), was a group of 234 masterless samurai, founded by Kiyokawa Hachirō in 1862. [1] Loyal to the shogun, they were supposed to act as the protectors of the Tokugawa shōgun, but were disbanded upon their arrival in Kyoto in 1863.
English: Ronin are masterless samurai. Chushingura is the true story of 47 samurai who became masterless in 1701, after their lord had been forced to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) for assaulting a court official who had insulted him. They avenged him by killing the court official after patiently planning for over a year.
Kabuki actor Ichikawa Sadanji I playing Marubashi Chūya in Keian Taiheiki (detail of a woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika). Marubashi Chūya (丸橋 忠弥, died September 24, 1651) was a rōnin (masterless samurai) from Yamagata, and instructor in martial arts and military strategy, most famous for his involvement in the 1651 Keian Uprising which sought to overthrow Japan's Tokugawa ...
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