i like posting in the same 4 threads for 5 years in a row because i'm a transgenerded nazi nam vet

[Dirty Harry]

Its basically calling a Japanese person a nigger

Becoming a Ronin

A bushi usually became ronin in one of four ways:

A clan or fief was defeated and abolished in battle, or the shogunate authorities reduced a fief in size or abolished the fief entirely (this is what happened with the well-known 47 ronin of Ako han who eventually mounted an attack upon the man they saw as being responsible). The samurai involved all would become ronin. Unless the lord of that fief took his retainers with him to his new fief, the samurai in his service would become ronin.

A samurai was dismissed from service by his daimyo. During the Tokugawa era, according to the Buke Shohatto, no daimyo was allowed to take into service a ronin who had been dismissed by his original daimyo.

A samurai voluntarily left his fief, with or without his daimyo’s permission, and thus become a ronin.

A bushi was born as a ronin; he was the son of a ronin.

Becoming a Ronin

A bushi usually became ronin in one of four ways:

A clan or fief was defeated and abolished in battle, or the shogunate authorities reduced a fief in size or abolished the fief entirely (this is what happened with the well-known 47 ronin of Ako han who eventually mounted an attack upon the man they saw as being responsible). The samurai involved all would become ronin. Unless the lord of that fief took his retainers with him to his new fief, the samurai in his service would become ronin.

A samurai was dismissed from service by his daimyo. During the Tokugawa era, according to the Buke Shohatto, no daimyo was allowed to take into service a ronin who had been dismissed by his original daimyo.

A samurai voluntarily left his fief, with or without his daimyo’s permission, and thus become a ronin.

A bushi was born as a ronin; he was the son of a ronin.

don't copy/paste crap from wikipedia, pls.
instead, use your life experience to explain to us why you chose your avatr. i still think it has to do with your military career or your life on the streets.