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Japanese:郷士(~~Gôshi~~)

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*''Japanese'': 郷士 ''(goushi)''

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~~A social rank in~~ Edo period. ~~Country Samurai~~.

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''Gôshi'' (lit. "countryside/village warrior") were [[Edo period]] [[samurai]] who remained situated in the countryside rather than residing in [[castle town]]s. This was possible only in a few parts of the archipelago, including chiefly in [[Satsuma han]], which had the highest samurai to non-samurai ratio of any [[han|domain]], and which was powerful enough to exact from the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] exceptions to policies such as that removing samurai from the land.

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==~~Famouse~~ Gôshi==

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''Gôshi'' thus had more personal, direct power over the peasants of their local area, though many also worked the land themselves.

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==Famous Gôshi==

*[[Sakamoto Ryoma]]

*[[Kiyokawa Hachiro]]

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*[[Saito Yakuro]]

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==References==

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*Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 155.

[[Category:Terminology]]

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[[Category:Samurai]]

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[[Category:Edo Period]]

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