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It is believed there were roughly 20,000 ''gokenin'' in Edo period Japan. They held low-level government posts within the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], enjoyed smaller stipends than ''hatamoto'', and were not entitled to audiences with the shogun.
It is believed there were roughly 20,000 ''gokenin'' in Edo period Japan. They held low-level government posts within the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], enjoyed smaller stipends than ''hatamoto'', and were not entitled to audiences with the shogun.
Like the ''hatamoto'', ''gokenin'' were not permitted to leave [[Edo]] without official authorization.<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 43.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p.xii.
*Teruko Craig (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p.xii.
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