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Japanese:郷士(Gôshi)
*''Japanese'': 郷士 ''(goushi)''
''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.
==Famouse Gôshi==
''Gôshi'' thus had more personal, direct power over the peasants of their local area, though many also worked the land themselves.
==Famous Gôshi==
*[[Sakamoto Ryoma]]
*[[Sakamoto Ryoma]]
*[[Kiyokawa Hachiro]]
*[[Kiyokawa Hachiro]]
*[[Saito Yakuro]]
*[[Saito Yakuro]]
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 155.
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