rōnin

See also: ronin and Ronin

English

Noun

rōnin (plural rōnin or rōnins)

1. Alternative spelling of ronin.
   • 1876, William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado’s Empire, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 307:

     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.

   • 1895, Katharine Schuyler Baxter, In Bamboo Lands, New York, N.Y.: The Merriam Company, […], page 166:

     After many secret consultations, it was determined among the rōnins that they should separate and dissemble.

   • 2005, Romulus Hillsborough [pseudonym; Jeff Cohen], “Newly Selected Corps”, in Shinsengumi: The Shōgun’s Last Samurai Corps, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:

     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.”

   • 2021, Albert Liebermann, translated by Russell Andrew Calvert, Ganbatte!: The Japanese Art of Always Moving Forward, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2021, Sybille Jagusch, Japan and American Children’s Books: A Journey, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

     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.

Japanese

Romanization

rōnin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ろうにん