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• Shinohara Kunimoto
  [[File:Shinohara.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shinohara's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Shigakkô]], he is often considered one of the most prominent commanders in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]], along with [[Kirino Toshiaki]].
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• Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)
  ...atsura domain). The assault failed after another Portuguese vessel came to the Ship's aid. He retired in [[1568]] in favor of his son [[Matsura Shigenobu] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Mizuno Tadakuni
  ::''For the 18th century official, see [[Mizuno Tadakuni (kanjo bugyo)]].'' ...ntial ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' of the [[Edo period]], serving in that position in the 1840s and effecting a number of controversial policies.
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• Matsura Shigenobu
  Matsura Shigenobu was the son of [[Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)|Matsura Takanobu]], and was a [[Sengo ...ign]] and did not suffer the loss of any lands as a result; he came aboard the English ship ''Clove'' in [[1613]], an event recorded by [[John Saris]].
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• Otomo Yoshiaki
  ...orked to secure [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] influence over Bungo and clashed with the [[Ouchi clan|Ôuchi]] and [[Shoni clan|Shôni]]. He inherited a troubled re [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Umezu Masakage
  ...est advisors, and soon afterwards was named in [[1612]] administrator over the domain's mines. ...e for the lord's use, as well as women (prostitutes, ''baijo'') to work in the mining towns.<ref>Stanley, 32-33.</ref>
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• Asano Nagayoshi
  ...-style ship ''[[Soshunmaru|Sôshunmaru]]'', and engaged in discussions with the central shogunate court regarding matters of coastal defense. ...shin bugyô. The following year, he was dismissed from that position amidst the dismissal and (in some cases) house confinement of a number of prominent fi
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• Nabeshima Naomasa
  Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of [[Saga han|Saga domain]]. ..., receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.<ref>Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at [[Sakuragicho Station|Sakuragichô Station
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• Sumptuary regulations
  ...histication of particular techniques; ''[[yuzen|yûzen]]'' dyeing was among the techniques which benefited greatly from this, as people forbidden from usin ...of Tokugawa power and control, and as aimed at ensuring the maintenance of samurai legitimacy and authority.
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• Sengoku Hisatoshi
  Sengoku Hisatoshi was the last [[Edo period]] ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Izushi han]] in [[Tajima pr ...alf its ''kokudaka''; for the remainder of the Edo period, the domain (and the ''daimyô'') were recognized as being only of 30,000 ''koku'' rank.
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• Katagiri Katsumoto
  ...n: [[Toyotomi clan|Toyotomi]], [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer, one of the [[Seven Spears of Shizugatake]]'' ...ed neutral during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]], but was nevertheless one of the first warlords to be granted a larger domain by Ieyasu following Sekigahara
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• Kasuga no Tsubone
  ...ayment for her husband's hand in convincing [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] to join the Eastern army at [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]]. ...widely accepted as having played a pivotal role in him being appointed to the position over his younger brother [[Tokugawa Tadanaga|Tadanaga]].
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• Toiyaba
  ...ers or others carrying packages or luggage along the highway would stop at the ''toiyaba'' in each town to change horses. This relay system was known as ' ...''toiya'' or ''[[tonya]]'', officially authorized wholesalers who managed the trade in a given good. When a post-town had multiple ''tonya'', there was t
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• Chobunsai Eishi
  ...e, using the character ''sai'' (斎) in its meaning of "studio," much as did the artists [[Hokusai]], [[Isoda Koryusai|Kôryûsai]], [[Keisai Eisen]] and [[ ...maro and Kiyonaga, and they bear a refinement and grace rarely exceeded by the figures in ''[[bijinga]]'' by other artists.
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• Yamagata Masakage
  ...n]]'s 'Twenty-Four Generals', Yamagata Masakage was one of the fiercest of the Takeda warriors. Masakage's elder brother [[Obu Toramasa]] was charged with ...amagata's troops the nickname 'Red Regiment', or 'Red (Fire) Unit', though the phrase may have been coined later.
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• Shakuhachi
  ...uhachi'' (right), compared with a ''[[hitoyogiri]]'' (left), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ...mon traditional wind instrument seen in Japan today. Its name derives from the flute being typically one ''shaku'' and eight ''sun'' in length (see [[Japa
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• Kenzanya
  ...regularly gave them to the ''kenzanya'', to be purchased and presented by the ''daimyô'' once again. ...acquered wooden ceremonial swords came to dominate, and the institution of the ''kenzanya'' grew in importance.
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• Hachisuka Narihiro
  Hachisuka Narihiro was the penultimate lord of [[Tokushima han]]. The 22nd child of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]], Narihiro was adopted into the [[Hachisuka clan]] in [[1827]], and became lord of Tokushima in [[1843]].
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• Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu
  ...wearing reproductions of traditional Ryukyuan court costume, on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...ra]] dominated the highest positions in the central government, those from the aristocratic families of [[Naha]] and [[Tomari]] occupied other positions.
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• Honda Tadakatsu
  ...dakatsu commanded troops in the left wing of Ieyasu's army and fought with the warriors of [[Naito Masatoyo]]. ...o outnumbered Honda perhaps 50 or 60 to 1) was said to have been struck by the bravery of this warrior, and ordered that no harm come to him, his men, or
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