What were Ronin?

The term rōnin also made its way into normal Japanese life to mean a "drifter". Back when it was the norm for a salaryman to work for the same company from (essentially) college graduation to retirement, someone who left a company (at least without starting their own business for immediately going to another company), and had to re-enter the job market were called rōnin. As far as I am aware, still to today the term rōninsei 浪人生 is used to describe a student who, for one reason or another, did not take or failed entrance exams for school , but plans to (re)take it the following year.

Ronin = hobo with sword and swordskills

heyy thats my name!

Nice ❤

The Samurai Code was just an excuse for dudes to act subservient around each other and not let it be gay

I saw a streetwear brand on Instagram with the name "wlcm ronin". Do you think they know the meaning about ronin or they took the name because of the feudal meaning which says masterless samurai?

(in feudal Japan) ronin means a wondering samurai who had no lord or Master.

What what? The whole honor thing was a myth? That's actually better.

Ronin are the only samurai worth a toss because they're just better because the forsook honor and loyalty to warlords.

Idk but I would assume that mercenaries would be pretty far form there home as the old saying goes war must never come to urbino

hiw tf do u win against 100.000 ronin

I named my son ronin.
No regrets

really? insurection? like cmon dude theres a billion other words you could use

The loyalty/disloyalty debate can be significantly cleaned up by all parties at work recognizing the reality that every man is only truly capable of adhering to one oath at a time. Leaving an oath behind for another isnt the same as breaking it and the loyalty goes with it as part of the job function, not sentiment. Sentimental loyalty cant be bought but you can certainly create some pretty well defined parameters for a formal oath and what leaving it behind might look like and entail. It cant simply be the case that switching employers being so commonplace also carried the weight of sentimental disloyalty. Every head of every house would feel irrevocably betrayed as a norm and thats pretty dysfunctional even for ye old Japan.

Basically the Japanese equivalent of a hedge knight. A trained soldier without stable employment, living paycheck to paycheck.

Hmmmm.. unemployment is no joke especially under jurisdiction of capitalism economic system.. hmmmm..

Hedge knights basically

What about ronins before Sengoku? What was their life then?

Some japanese ronin travel outside japan to be a mercenary like Yamada Nagamasa his statue is in southern province of Thailand.

Some japanese ronin travel outside japan to be a mercenary like Yamada Nagamasa his statue is in southern province of Thailand.

The most famous samurai was a Ronin - Himura Kenshin 😅 I mean Miyamoto Musashi 😊

When the boss man says you can have this land, but then the boss man dies and you don’t want to seppuku so you lose your claim to the land and just wander around with a sword for a bit.

little known fact, ronin had perfected multiple techniques for teleportation

As a veteran who is having a tough time after getting out. I will be referring to now as my Ronin era

From various Chinese history books, official or folklore, the Japanese ronins (drifters) were unemployed samurais or soldiers who were recruited by the sea-going pirates to raid Chinese coastal towns. Started from 1600 until 1850, many of them joined forces with Korean and Chinese pirates thus became big problems. Some of them merged and settled in China without their Japanese or Korean traces. However, with the modern DNA testing, some coastal Chinese have traces of Japanese and Korean DNA without any mentions in their family ancestry. 🧐🤔🤨😶😎

"I was Ronin through the six with my woes..." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Ruroni Kenshin 🫡🔥

In Japan wee usually use 浪士 for “masterless samurai” and 浪人 for students taking a gap year or can’t figure out what university they want to go to.

Harakiri is a beautifully heartbreaking movie.

Aside from mercenaries, I wonder why the idea of ronin didn't exist in medieval Europe? I feel it has something to do with the difference in how fiefdom was set up differently.

This looks like a double agent situation.

A man who is both masterless and maidenless has hit rock bottom.

Masterless samurai

Curse you, now I just want to watch Yojimbo

The comparison to the American cowboy is one way to think about it, another is that of the Knight Errant

Before there was Yojimbo and Musashi, there was Authurian Legend, and fencing masters like Fiore De Libre, which followed a very similar path, and are very similarly romanticized.

hobo samurai

I think you need a part 2 as you really didn’t cover much in this video. The most glaring thing is you mention how someone was able to recruit a massive army of samurai ronin and what did that mean/how did it happen.

I think everyone who contributes themselves to winning over tyranny today would be a modern Ronin. It's important that people see a return off their efforts, but if you are liberating people from evil, seeing a return off the development that ensues from the region, a percentage, and not the majority percentage, is fair compensation for risking life and limb for people who could not win freedom without intervention.
Emperor = Shogun
General = Samurai
Ronin
Ashigaru

Who are famouse.ronins guys

What "are" Ronin🃏
I have no Master save myself.
I hold no Quarter to those that make their intent Violent.
I am a Whisper of Wind in a Sea of Grass.
I am that I am, I will Live and Die as a Warrior🃏

I actually wrote my final for a film course on yojimbo and how it blends aspects of traditional samurai films and westerns. But even after all that research there is still so much I didn’t know until I found your videos

Dude this video was posted 5 months ago. My son was born 5 months ago and guess what I named him? Ronin

You don’t actually teach anything new.

Ronin is a gay samurai

A “Ronin” doesn’t mean what y’all think. It means “unemployed Samurai”. It’s a derogatory term. I’m Japanese, from the waist down.

also "R"s are pronoused mor like "L"s so it would be more like lonin

intro after intro after intro...layers of boredom. People who live by the ego of intellect always get so beaurocratic and wordy.

The idea of Robin as the wandering noble warrior is funny when you consider in Seven Samurai, only a few of the characters were actually skilled at fighting and arguably only a couple were noble. The rest were untrained, a bandit, or a regular guy.

Ronin means you have a skillful degree but you don't want to work for any employers so you choose to be a hobo instead :P

Ronin were a bunch of criminals chasing a case oder south france 😂