Kōke
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For other uses, see Koke (disambiguation).
A kōke (高家, "high families"[1]) during the Edo period in Japan generally referred to the hereditary position of the "Master of Ceremonies", held by certain fief-less samurai ranking below a daimyō. Historically, or in a more general context, the term may refer to a family of old lineage and distinction.
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Perhaps the most famous Master of Ceremonies in history was Kira Yoshinaka aka Kira Kōzuke-no-suke (吉良上野介),[1] the real-life model of the villain avenged in the tale of the forty-seven rōnin of Akō.