| His retainers, now ronin, lordless samurai, pretend to scatter, some of them appearing to live dissolute lives. |
| Born about 1680 he, by birth a Samurai, became a ronin, and entered the studio of Kiyonobu. |
| The Buddhist monks who are still praying for the souls of the ronin, visitors from near and far, and the neighbourhood residents, are all aghast. |
| And the reason she built the temple was that she might pray for the soul of the ronin whom the sight of her beauty had ruined. |
| The second, Jin, is a laconic and enigmatic ronin, a disgraced and masterless samurai who travels the land for reasons unknown. |
| The ronin's distant past explores the conflict between an honorable samurai heritage and the financial worries of masterless ronin. |
