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🇯🇵 rōnin (浪人, "drifter" or "masterless") A samurai became masterless from the death or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege🥋 rōnin, any of the masterless samurai warrior aristocrats of the late Muromachi (1138–1573) and Tokugawa (1603–1867) periods who were often vagrant and disruptive and sometimes actively rebellious.rōnin ceased to exist after samurai privileges were abolished in 1873.