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    A gokenin (御家人) was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods. In exchange for protection and the right to become...
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  • Gokenin Zankurō (御家人斬九郎) is a novel by Renzaburō Shibata. The protagonist of this jidaigeki is Matsudaira Zankurō, a low-ranking gokenin in the service...
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    were referred to as gokenin. However, in the Edo period, hatamoto were the upper vassals of the Tokugawa house, and the gokenin were the lower vassals...
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    (大江広元), gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. Mōri Tsunemitsu (毛利経光, ? – ? ), gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. Mōri Tokichika (毛利時親, ? –1341), gokenin of the...
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    council of the shogunate (Hyōjō (評定)), the Imperial Court of Kyoto, or their gokenin vassals, and they made their decisions at private meetings in their residences...
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    period, at least in theory, gokenin owed some kind of service at the shogun's court. The obligatory ōyuka service made gokenin attend at the shogun's court...
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  • During the Kamakura period, the jitō were chosen amongst the ranks of gokenin (the shogun's vassals) who handled military affairs. Jitō handled the taxation...
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    1281. The shogunate defeated the Mongols with the help of samurai called gokenin (御家人), lords in the service of the shogunate. However, since the war was...
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  • shogunates. The role of the Samurai-dokoro was to take the leadership of gokenin, the shogun's retainers, and to be in charge of the imprisonment of criminals...
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  • family and have one of his own. The term can also be synonymous with gokenin. The gokenin were vassals of the shōgun during the Kamakura, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa...
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    no Yoritomo in 1180 but eventually surrendered to Minamoto and became a gokenin for the Kamakura shogunate. At the fall of the shogunate in the 14th century...
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    played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigeki Gokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons. He has gone on to garner acclaim...
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    Suzerainty Thegn Vavasour, a type of vassal Zamindar Multiple vassalage [de] Gokenin, vassals of the shogunate in Japan Manrent, Scottish Clan treaties of offensive...
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    (hatamoto 旗本) had the privilege to directly approach the shogun; the housemen (gokenin 御家人) did not have the privilege of the shogun's audience. By the early...
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    and gokenin of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. He served as shugo of Shimotsuke Province and Harima Province. He was an influential gokenin during...
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    Kamakura shogunate, giving the Shugo jurisdiction over land disputes between gokenin (御家人) and allowing the Shugo to receive half of all taxes from the areas...
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    the Genpei War in 1185. On the other hand, Suketsune quickly became a gokenin (retainer) of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo. The Soga brothers, grandsons...
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    known under the titles of shugo or jitō, from among his close vassals, the gokenin. The Kamakura shogunate allowed its vassals to maintain their own armies...
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    Officially, the gokenin in each province were supposed to serve the shugo, but in practice, the relationship between them was fragile, as the gokenin were vassals...
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    with gokenin (御家人), which refers to bushi who owned territory and served the shogun. However, there were some samurai of exceptional status, hi-gokenin (非御家人)...
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  • Takaoka Ichizaemon, Takaoka Gonzaemon, and Takaoka Keisuke who was the Tada Gokenin (in Settsu Province) samurai at the end term of Edo period was the same...
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    one of the few vocational positions available to the blind in that era. Gokenin Zankurō is a samurai but, due to his low rank and income, he has to work...
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  • Hōkōshū (奉公衆) were high-ranking samurai guard-officials and close retainers (gokenin) to the Ashikaga shogun in Muromachi period Japan. The hōkōshū were made...
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    (山口 祐助), an ashigaru of the Akashi Domain, who had bought the rank of gokenin (a low-ranking retainer directly serving the Tokugawa shōgun), and his...
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  • (2001) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 'Special' (2001) Red - Recurring Guest - (2001) Gokenin Zankuro - Guest Star - (2002) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 4 - Series Regular -...
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    000 participated in the event, including a large number of the shogun's gokenin (retainers) and their beaters. Fuji no Makigari was held from June 8 to...
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    died August 26, 1341) was a samurai during the Kamakura period and a gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. He was the fourth son of Mōri Tsunemitsu, and...
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    the vassals (the gokenin) were allowed to become de facto owners of the land they administered, coupled to the custom that all gokenin children could inherit...
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    on geography. While Tokugawa vassals of the warrior caste (hatamoto and gokenin) lived in the hilly Yamanote, lower castes (merchants and artisans) lived...
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    "national ceremony and ritual".: 317–318, 327, 329, 331  Yoritomo gathered his gokenin in May 1193 and arranged a grand hunting event, Fuji no Makigari. On May...
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