1. common foot soldier (feudal Japan); samurai of the lowest rankHistorical term
2. AshigaruAshigaru (lightfeet) (足軽) were foot-soldiers who were employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The first known reference to ashigaru was in the 1300s, but it was during the Ashikaga Shogunate-Muromachi period that the use of ashigaru became prevalent by various warring factions.
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