Land samurai

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As a country Samurai ( Jap. 郷士 , Goshi ), also Gōzamurai ( 郷侍 ), were in the Edo period samurai called, who lived in the countryside and managed a village. This occurred mainly in the "peripheral areas", in the south of Kyushu and on Shikoku . Usually samurai lived as paid employees in the samurai quarters of the castle towns . Members of old families or farmers who were granted the right to "take a family name and carry a sword" ( 名字 帯 刀 , myōjitaitō ) were also referred to as gōshi .

In the late Edo period, the number of those who achieved this status by donating money to their feudal lords increased.

One of the most famous land samurai was Sakamoto Ryōma .