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What is a Ronin?

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(The Art of Usagi Yojimbo #2) Miyamoto Usagi: “A masterless samurai was called a ‘ronin’ because he had been set adrift in the sea of life.” (UY Vol 2, #14) The ronin maintained their samurai status without burden of its duties but they were also without the protection and benevolence of a lord. (UY Vol 2, #12) Masterless samurai were called ronin, literally “men of the waves”, because they were subject to the ebbs and flows of life without a lord to anchor them. They were looked upon with fear and suspicion because many of these ronin were desperate men trying to earn a living any way they could. Also, even after the great “Sword Hunt” of 1587, which had supposedly disarmed everyone outside of the samurai class, there were still criminals who wore the two swords and passed themselves off as samurai.

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(The Art of Usagi Yojimbo #2) Miyamoto Usagi: “A masterless samurai was called a ‘ronin’ because he had been set adrift in the sea of life.” (UY Vol 2, #14) The ronin maintained their samurai status without burden of its duties but they were also without the protection and benevolence of a lord. (UY Vol 2, #12) Masterless samurai were called ronin, literally “men of the waves”, because they were subject to the ebbs and flows of life without a lord to anchor them. They were looked upon with fear and suspicion because many of these ronin were desperate men trying to earn a living any way they could. Also, even after the great “Sword Hunt” of 1587, which had supposedly disarmed everyone outside of the samurai class, there were still criminals who wore the two swords and passed themselves off as samurai. There were also groups such as the Otokodate (Chivalrous Men) who were feudal Japans’ equivalent of today’s street gangs and who walked about openly in defiance of the laws forb

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