Kabukimono

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The "kabuki-mono" were a group that dressed in a somewhat peculiar style and spoke in a vulgar, specialized vernacular which matched their often abrasive and outrageous behavior.

Kabukimono ( 傾奇者 (カブキもの), Kabukimono ^?) or hatamoto yakko ( (旗本奴, hatamoto yakko ^?) were in Japan, between the end of the Muromachi era and the beginnining of the Edo period, ronin who claimed to be samurais of the shogun, while in fact they acted as outlaws. They were used to spend their time in the city of pleasure of Edo, and wear unusually flamboyant and strange outfits, behaving in a vulgar and irritating way.

It is thought that the modern yakuza originated from groups of kabukimono; though other scholars believe that the yakuza origins are to be found in the machi yakko ( 町奴 , machi yakko ^?), a form of private police.^{[citation needed]}