rōnin

See also: ronin and Ronin

English

Noun

rōnin (plural 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.
    • 2021, Albert Liebermann, Russell Andrew Calvert, transl., 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.
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