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• Yamada Kiyoyasu
  A retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]], he studied poetry under [[Kagawa Kageki]], and classical ...hat year (Jan [[1850]] on the Western calendar). He is buried just outside the Shimazu clan family cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshinori
  Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shogun]]. He succeeded [[Ashikaga Yoshi In [[1433]], Yoshinori sent the first [[tribute]] mission to China in several decades (since [[1410]]), and
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• Goten jochu
  ...from well-to-do commoner families or low-ranking samurai families who, in the [[Edo period]], served as ladies-in-waiting in ''daimyô'' households. ...l standing of her own family. In order to obtain such a position, however, the young woman had to go through expensive training, proving her artistic and
  1 KB (160 words) - 07:04, 23 July 2022
• Watanabe Yusai
  ...n the castle, as they prepared for and then received formal audiences with the shogun. ...ord of [[Izushi han]], was the senior member of the ''daimyô'' assigned to the ''Yanagi-no-ma'', and Yûsai visited him to relay requests or questions fro
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• Nagoya Sagenta
  ...s, in which numerous domain retainers and others who backed one faction or the other were exiled or punished otherwise. ...Historiographical Institute ([[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]]) as part of the ''[[Shimazu-ke monjo]]'' (Shimazu Family Documents).
  1 KB (163 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2021
• Yokoyama Yasutake
  ...de the gates to the [[National Diet]] House of Representatives on a day in the seventh month, [[1870]]. ...a monument to Yokoyama was erected by [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]] Ci
  1 KB (175 words) - 09:14, 26 September 2016
• Tokugawa Akitake
  ..., before the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]]. A son of former lord of the domain [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], he was a younger brother to Nariaki's successo ...he domain, arriving in Japan shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Toda Mosui
  Toda Mosui was a prominent ''[[tanka]]'' poet and literary critic of the [[Genroku period]]. ...[[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer based at [[Sunpu castle]], he took on the name Toda when adopted by his uncle, Toda Masatsugu, following his father's
  1 KB (174 words) - 12:33, 3 September 2016
• Jinbaori
  ...more elaborate garments, decorated with various motifs as an expression of the wearer's wealth, power, and aesthetic taste. ...a great convenience for wintry or inclement weather.<ref>Gallery labels, "Samurai Class Men's Winter Formal Surcoat," LACMA, January 2015.</ref>
  1 KB (183 words) - 18:42, 26 November 2016
• Inoue Katsunosuke
  Inoue Katsunosuke was an official in the [[Meiji government]], and the son of [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs|Foreign Minister]] [[Inoue Kaoru]]. ...1886]] and taking into account Katsunosuke's recommendations, arranged for the Japanese in Hawaii to be provided with doctors, interpreters, and inspector
  1 KB (184 words) - 14:34, 25 June 2014
• Tokugawa Ieharu
  Tokugawa Ieharu was the 10th [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. The third son of [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], he became shogunal heir as a result of h
  1 KB (152 words) - 07:05, 22 September 2016
• Gannenmono
  ...rom Japan and/or arrival in Hawaii in 1868, the first year (''gannen'') of the [[Meiji period]]. ...r-old heavy drinker named Ichigorô and nicknamed Mamushi-no-Ichi, or "Ichi the Viper."
  1 KB (196 words) - 15:22, 22 June 2014
• Wakashu
  ...yet. The term can also refer more specifically to the younger partner in a samurai pederastic relationship (''[[shudo|shûdô]]''), or to young male actors in ...ref>Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal On
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• Hosokawa Tadaoki
  ...Hosokawa]] for help. Tadaoki replied by preparing to send his wife back to the Akechi and both he and Fujitaka refused to provide their erstwhile comrade
  3 KB (454 words) - 08:51, 26 March 2017
• Mori Heiemon
  ...domain in [[1760]], he spearheaded a number of policies aimed at improving the domain's financial well-being, before being assassinated by his political o ...ineered the removal of some of the domain's most influential families from the domain government, and had appointed his own allies.
  4 KB (663 words) - 17:39, 30 July 2014
• Ii Naonaka
  ...of the [[Ii clan]] and lord of [[Hikone han]]. He is perhaps most known as the father of ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' [[Ii Naosuke]]. ...ience with the shogun, in conjunction with being officially recognized (by the shogunate) as Ii Naohide's heir.
  1 KB (170 words) - 20:26, 5 March 2018
• Hirayama Yoshitada
  Hirayama Yoshitada was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official who, while holding the post of ''kachi-metsuke'' in [[1854]], participated in receptions and meeti ...erry again, this time to negotiate policies governing American activity in the port of Hakodate.
  1 KB (184 words) - 02:04, 13 August 2020
• Jeremias van Vliet
  ...liet was a [[Dutch East India Company]] ''opperhoofd'' (factor) who headed the Company's operations in [[Ayutthaya]] (in Siam) from [[1633]] to [[1641]]. ...and on the history of the [[Nihonmachi|Japantown]] which thrived there in the 1590s-1630s.
  1 KB (189 words) - 21:00, 9 April 2017
• Hasegawa Seifuku
  ...a number of years in the 1850s as ''kinritsuki'' (an official attached to the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial court]]) and in other positions. ...ment with the United States (i.e. by responding to [[Commodore Perry]]) to the shogunate.
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• Katsu Kokichi
  Katsu Kokichi was the father of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], and author of the autobiographical ''[[Musui's Story]]'' (''Musui dokugen'', 夢酔独言). ...istrator. Kokichi's other half-brother, Otani Saburôemon, was adopted into the [[Matsusaka family]], and also served as a district administrator. Their fa
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