えることができるでしょう。そして、今の苦しみから脱して幸福を得ることができるのは疑いのないところです。 そもそもあなた達は、昔より勤王で名高い十津川郷士であります。また、北海道は我が国の北方警備の重要な要所であります。今、その地へ移住をするあなた達が一団となって開拓を行うことは、自分たちの生活の為だ...

few samurai were allowed to remain in the countryside; the landed samurai (郷士, gōshi). Some 5 per cent of the population were samurai. Only the samurai...

gōshi-kaku (郷士格) was known as tojōshujū-kaku (外城衆中格). See (Yuge:2005) Yuge Masami 弓削政己 (2005). "Amami no ichiji myōji to gōshikaku ni tsuite" 奄美の一字名字と郷士格について...

(八王子千人同心) Kumigashira House: The mansion of the late Edo period Kumigashira (郷士). It has a higher style than ordinary private houses, such as a tatami room...

peaceful childhood, but he soon learns about the oppression of the gōshi (郷士) by the upper class jōshi (上士) samurai. His mother is chased to her death...