Rōnin

A rōnin (浪人) was a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless from the death or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege.

In modern Japanese usage, the term also describes a salaryman who is "between employers" or a secondary school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university.

Etymology

The word rōnin literally means "wave man". It is an idiomatic expression for "vagrant" or "wandering man", someone who is without a home. The term originated in the Nara and Heian periods, when it referred to a serf who had fled or deserted his master's land. It then came to be used for a samurai who had no master. (Hence, the term "wave man" illustrating one who is socially adrift.)

The word "浪人" means a "drifter" or a "wanderer", i.e. "he who drifts/wanders".

Status

According to the Bushido Shoshinshu (the Code of the Samurai), a samurai was supposed to commit seppuku (also "hara kiri" — ritual suicide) upon the loss of his master. One who chose not to honor the code was "on his own" and was meant to suffer great shame. The undesirability of rōnin status was mainly a discrimination imposed by other samurai and by daimyo, the feudal lords.

Ronin (comics)

Ronin, in comics, may refer to:

See also

Ronin (disambiguation)

A rōnin is a samurai without a master.

Ronin may also refer to:

In entertainment

Companies

Tracer (bus)

Tracer is the public bus system for the city of Tracy, California, USA and the bus system is unique in that since 2002 every April and December the buses are 100% free to all riders.

Operations

The service provides six circulator routes. The buses are designated by letters A through E. Fares range from free to 1.50 depending on the category. Most routes operate from approximately 7 AM to 7 PM weekdays and 9 AM to 5 PM on hourly headways. Service is provided near Tracy ACE station and to West Valley Mall. Major hubs for this bus system are Tracy Transit Center with connections to San Joaquin Regional Transit District (SMART) bus lines to neighboring communities in addition to Greyhound Lines and Amtrak Thruway Bus services. The service's second hub is at Naglee Park and Ride Lot by West Valley Mall where numerous SMART lines connect to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station and job centers in Livermore, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Pleasanton, Milpitas, and San Jose. The Tracer line A connects with the Amtrak Thruway Bus at the Tracy Amtrak Bus Stop at Clover Road near I-205 and Tracy Boulevard. Line 6 runs six daily trips in either direction between Stockton and San Jose, California while line 34 twice daily trips to San Francisco.

Tracer (Marvel Comics)

Tracer is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe, in which he is an enemy of Spider-Man. His first appearance was in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1.

Fictional character biography

Tracer claims to be a "machine god" that the artificial intelligences of other machines created to worship, alleging that he becomes stronger over time since the more machines worship him the longer he operates. Testing his increasing powers, Tracer robs the Bank of New York, holds off Spider-Man and escapes. Soon after, Tracer takes to the skies in his Flying Wing, claiming he had a bomb he would detonate if New York City fails to pay him a fortune. Spider-Man and Iron Man (Tony Stark) foil his scheme, but Tracer escapes again.

The next night, Tracer infiltrates Stark Tower planning to kill Spider-Man after learning from his machine worshipers that Spider-Man is living there. At the same time, Tracer uses his powers to cause cars to swerve out of control, entire computers grids to crash, and a giant robot to rampage throughout New York as a diversion. Posing as a reserve Avenger named "Tommy" on monitor duty while the other Avengers were busy dealing with Tracer's "machine revolt", Tracer converses with Aunt May until Spider-Man returns and attacks him. During the battle, Tracer analyzes Spider-Man's DNA and determines that Spider-Man is in no condition to fight him. Vowing to rein in his mechanical worshipers and step off the path of divinity for the time being, his skin melts away, revealing his robotic body.

List of Sega arcade video games

The following is a list of arcade games developed and published by Sega on their arcade system boards. Sega has made many arcade system boards over the years, ranging from 1977's Sega Vic Dual to 2013's Sega Nu. This list comprises all of the games released on these arcade system boards. Sega has been producing unified arcade systems since the late 1970s.

Early arcade games

Discrete video games

Sega Blockade

Sega VIC Dual