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Originally Posted by John Takeshi  I don't think either one of them was right. Ninjas were ninjas, samurai were samurai, and ronin were ronin. Ronin were masterless samurai; samurai had masters; ninjas were masters. It's really a simple hierarchy. |
And here I thought that it was the Shogun who were above the Samurai in the Japanese hierarchy. Stupid world history textbook. (Or maybe the ninjas are so secret that they didn't want me to know about their rule over all of Japan.)