Something interesting I learned about rōnin recently is that most of the dramas we have of them come from a very specific period of time during the Edo period, namely when all of the remnant conflicts ended after the second unification. Japan turned inward, shunning . That’s when the largest number of people became rōnin, since suddenly there was no longer a need for a standing army. So now you’ve got all these armed and dangerous men with… nothing to do all day.
Something interesting I learned about rōnin recently is that most of the dramas we have of them come from a very specific period of time during the Edo period, namely when all of the remnant conflicts ended after the second unification. Japan turned inward, shunning . That’s when the largest number of people became rōnin, since suddenly there was no longer a need for a standing army. So now you’ve got all these armed and dangerous men with… nothing to do all day.