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A woodblock print by ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicting famous rōnin Miyamoto Musashi having his fortune told Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yoshitoshi depicting Oishi Chikara, one of the forty-seven rōnin. In feudal Japan (1185–1868), a rōnin (/ ˈ r oʊ n ɪ n / ROH-nin; Japanese: 浪人, IPA:, 'drifter' or 'wandering man', lit.
46 rōnin sentenced to ritual suicide on 4 February 1703, with 1 pardoned 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 , was a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai ) avenged the death of their ...
Ronin is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by John David Zeik and David Mamet, under the pseudonym Richard Weisz.It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce.
Now adapted into contemporary Japanese slang, a rōnin (浪人) is a student who has graduated from middle school or high school but has failed to achieve admission to a desired school or even any school at the next level, and consequently is studying outside of the school system for admission in the next year.
Forty-seven rōnin (disambiguation) 5 Ronin, comic book limited series; Green Ronin Publishing, a role-playing game publisher; Ronin Arts, a role-playing game company; Ronin Network, an Ethereum sidechain
Rōnin, a samurai without a lord or master; Rounin, a Philippine television series; See also. Ronin (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 18 November 2024 ...
Yui Shōsetsu. Yui Shōsetsu (由井 正雪 or 由比 正雪, 1605 – September 10, 1651) was a Japanese military scholar and rōnin in the Edo period. He was one of the ringleaders of the 1651 Keian Uprising, an attempt to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, but informal communication uncovered the plot and he was cornered and committed suicide.
Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the Engetsu ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom the "fallen" priest had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after ...