Look up: Gokenin

1. gokenin
   (from the article `Japan`) During the troubled state of society at the end of the Kamakura period, the gokenin faced difficult times. They had borne virtually all the expense ... ...one-fourth of the whole country. Of these lands, more than four million koku were under its direct control, and three million koku were ... [2 related ar...
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2. Gokenin
   A was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods.<ref name="IK">Iwanami Kōjien, "Gokenin"--> In exchange for protection and the right to become shugo (governor) or jitō (manor`s lord), in times of peace a gokenin ha...
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