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• Shimazu Mitsuhisa
  Shimazu Mitsuhisa was the second [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]]. He succeeded [[Shimazu Ta ...h Rank at court, before being elevated to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank and the title of Minor Captain (少将, ''shôshô'') in [[1651]], and then Middle
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• Shimazu Tsunahisa
  ...bassy to Edo]] and engaging in various formal ceremonial interactions with the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] in conjunction with that embassy on behalf
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• Godai Hidetaka
  ...to resist Western ships militarily, and thus had no choice but to approach the situation diplomatically. ...trade, in order to help guard against having to open any ports in Satsuma. The ''daimyô'', advised additionally by [[Zusho Shozaemon|Zusho Shôzaemon]],
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• Kuroda Yoshitaka
  ...that [[Akamatsu Yoshisuke]] was essentially living under the protection of the Kodera at Himeji. ...e Oda forces would force the Kodera to follow suit, as well as, of course, the Akamatsu. After Yoshitaka’s father had been convinced, this was just what
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• Mori Yoshiki
  Mori Yoshiki was a prominent late 18th century retainer of the [[Yamauchi clan]], lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...Hirotake's part to restore the family to Hirosada's direct lineage, or as the result of pressure from Yoshiki's mother is unclear. In either case, seven-
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• Kido Takayoshi
  ...chose not show up for the loyalist meeting on that fateful night. He spent the next few days hiding incognito as a beggar. ...to continue to serve as lead intermediary for relations with Korea, under the new Meiji government.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard
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• Yoshida Kiyonari
  ...Japanese ambassadors to the United States, serving in that position during the administration of President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. ...me Nagai Iosuke. He studied naval surveying, and in [[1867]]/7 traveled to the United States, where he studied political economy at Rutgers University.
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• Albert M. Craig
  ...yoto University and the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1988. ...including ''[[Musui's Story]]'', the autobiography of late [[Edo period]] samurai [[Katsu Kokichi]].
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• Tokugawa Narikatsu
  Tokugawa Narikatsu was a late [[Edo period]] lord of [[Wakayama han]], and the adoptive father of [[Tokugawa Iemochi|Tokugawa Yoshitomi]], who would later ...ef> and adopted Nariyuki's illegitimate son Tokugawa Yoshitomi as his heir the following year.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937),
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• Ofuri-no-kata (d. 1640)
  [[File:Jishoin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Jishô-in Mausoleum at the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum]] ...ka Shigemasa]], a retainer to [[Gamo Hideyuki|Gamô Hideyuki]], and entered the [[Ooku|Ôoku]] in [[1626]]. In [[1637]], she gave birth to [[Chiyohime]].
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• Aloeswood
  ...a: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia'', Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project (1999), 103n1 ...and other tropical products.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region'', 1000-1800, Hong Kong University Press (2
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• Ekathotsarot
  Ekathotsarot was king of the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]] from [[1605]] to [[1610]]. ...owder were ever actually sent also remains unclear.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Nanbu Toshiyuki
  [[File:Nanbu-toshiyuki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Nanbu Toshiyuki and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] i ...f [[Iwashiro Shiraishi han|Iwashiro Shiraishi]]. The following year, under the new [[Meiji government]], he returned to Morioka, and was granted a salary
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• Miyahara Yoshinao
  ...period]] ''[[koke|kôke]]'' who performed a number of ceremonial roles for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He was a son of ''kôke'' [[Miyahara Yoshichika]]. ...fficial shogunal envoy to Kyoto again the following year in celebration of the confirmation of a new empress (''kôtaigô'').
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• Hojo Ujinao
  ...Hojo Ujimasa|Hôjô Ujimasa]], and succeeded him to become the fifth head of the [[Go-Hojo clan|Hôjô clan]]. ...ed Kyôto, Kuniomaru was born as the first son of Hôjô Ujimasa and Ôbai-in (the eldest daughter of [[Takeda Shingen]]). In his coming of age ceremony, his
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• 1811
  ...]]'' department for the translation of foreign books is established within the shogunate, with ''[[Tenmon gata]]'' [[Takahashi Kageyasu]] as its head. ..., along with 7 others of his party, are captured on [[Kunashir Island]] by samurai of [[Matsumae han]]. Golovnin is held for two years.
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• Masuyama Sessai
  ...a clan's]] [[bodaiji|family temple]], the stone is now located in front of the main hall of [[Kan'ei-ji]].]] ...flora and fauna); he went by a number of [[art-name]]s, of which Sessai is the one by which he is most known.
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• Satsuma biwa
  ...Satsuma biwa (left), compared with a [[Heike biwa]] (right), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ''Satsuma biwa'' is a style or genre of narrative storytelling in which the storyteller accompanies him or herself on a lute-like musical instrument ca
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• Matsumoto Kokujitsu
  ...hogunate]] official involved in engagement with Western representatives in the 1850s. ...of a [[Korean embassy to Edo]], though that embassy never materialized. In the course of this work, he was frequently dispatched to Uraga and [[Shimoda]],
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• Sakai Tadazumi
  Sakai Tadazumi was the first [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]]. ...adazumi's death in [[1772]], Ming music continued to be passed down within the Sakai family, but was never again studied and practiced in such a lively ma
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