"rōnin" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1876, William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado’s Empire, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 307",
          "text": "Boiling over with patriotism, bands of assassins, mostly rōnins, roamed the country, ready to slay foreigners, or the regent, and to die for the mikado.",
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          "ref": "1895, Katharine Schuyler Baxter, In Bamboo Lands, New York, N.Y.: The Merriam Company, […], page 166",
          "text": "After many secret consultations, it was determined among the rōnins that they should separate and dissemble.",
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          "ref": "2005, Romulus Hillsborough [pseudonym; Jeff Cohen], “Newly Selected Corps”, in Shinsengumi: The Shōgun’s Last Samurai Corps, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, page 35",
          "text": "The rōnin phenomenon of this era has been likened to a movement for social equality in a suppressive society. Many rōnin had been motivated more by a desire to wear the two swords and look like samurai than by lofty political aspirations. They fulfilled this desire by becoming rōnin under the false pretext of “loyalty.”",
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          "ref": "2021, Albert Liebermann, translated by Russell Andrew Calvert, Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward, Tuttle Publishing",
          "text": "The shōgun, aware of what they had done—and why–and also aware of the rōnins’ growing fame, allowed them to die through seppuku and be buried next to their lord.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Sybille Jagusch, Japan and American Children’s Books: A Journey, Rutgers University Press",
          "text": "Greey wrote and translated a number of plays and books, among them A Captive of Love (1886), a retelling of one of the dramatic and popular yomi hon (books for reading) by Takizawa Bakin, and Tamenaga Shunsui’s The Loyal Ronins: A Historical Romance (1884), the classic story of the forty-seven rōnins, which he translated with Shiuichiro Saito.",
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          "ref": "1895, Katharine Schuyler Baxter, In Bamboo Lands, New York, N.Y.: The Merriam Company, […], page 166",
          "text": "After many secret consultations, it was determined among the rōnins that they should separate and dissemble.",
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          "ref": "2005, Romulus Hillsborough [pseudonym; Jeff Cohen], “Newly Selected Corps”, in Shinsengumi: The Shōgun’s Last Samurai Corps, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, page 35",
          "text": "The rōnin phenomenon of this era has been likened to a movement for social equality in a suppressive society. Many rōnin had been motivated more by a desire to wear the two swords and look like samurai than by lofty political aspirations. They fulfilled this desire by becoming rōnin under the false pretext of “loyalty.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2021, Sybille Jagusch, Japan and American Children’s Books: A Journey, Rutgers University Press",
          "text": "Greey wrote and translated a number of plays and books, among them A Captive of Love (1886), a retelling of one of the dramatic and popular yomi hon (books for reading) by Takizawa Bakin, and Tamenaga Shunsui’s The Loyal Ronins: A Historical Romance (1884), the classic story of the forty-seven rōnins, which he translated with Shiuichiro Saito.",
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