Sometimes not only servants of samurai families but also merchants, craftsmen, hatamoto(direct retainers of a feudal government headed by a shogun), and gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate), who are in the proper samurai class, became Kabuki-mono.
武家奉公人だけでなく、町人や、れっきとした武士である旗本や御家人がかぶき者になることもあった。