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• Inaba Masatomo
  ...ransferred to [[Yodo han]] in [[1723]].<ref name=yodojo>Plaques on-site at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/456525 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadatake
  ...i Shimazu house]], and succeeded his adoptive father to become the head of the family. He then married a relative of that family, with whom he had a daugh [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sugi Okitsura
  Okitsura was a son of [[Sugi Okifusa]]. He served the Ôuchi and acted as the ''[[shugodai]]'' of [[Chikuzen province]]. In [[1530]] he was tasked with l [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Isshiki Yoshisada
  ...[[1582]] by his uncle [[Isshiki Yoshikiyo]], who was in turn destroyed by the [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shimazu Torajumaru
  ...n [[1854]], however, at the age of [[Age Calculation|five or six]], before the betrothal was formalized. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ijuin Suma
  [[File:Ijuin-suma.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Ijûin Suma at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...eath, she was enshrined or deified as Warei-tokuju-hime, and was buried at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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• Isshiki Naoyasu
  ...Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' in [[1850]] and then being reassigned to the position of ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' (finance magistrate) a few mo [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shiga Chikamori
  ...family]] lost much of its influence when the Ôtomo were dispossessed after the [[1600]] [[Sekigahara Campaign]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Seki Morinobu
  ...iner of [[Oda Nobutaka]] though he supported [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] during the [[Shizugatake Campaign]] ([[1583]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Imagawa Norinobu
  ...nvoy to the imperial court and on similar missions on several occasions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...o Kyoto in [[1854]]/4 to officially inquire (on the shogun's behalf) as to the emperor's health and wellbeing.
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• Matsudaira Naochika
  ...placing [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], who was forced into retirement as part of the [[Ansei Purge]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yashiro Kageyori
  ...his family to death. He was an important commander in the campaign against the [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]] in 1600 but was dispossessed in 1607 for illegal act [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsu-hime
  ...-hime was an adoptive daughter of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. Born the daughter of [[Tokugawa Tsunanari]], she was later adopted by Shogun Tsunayo *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Machida Sanetsumi
  ...the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. He was 19 at the time. One of the other students was his 15-year-old younger brother, [[Machida Seijiro|Machi Sanetsumi returned to Japan the following year, in the 8th month.
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• Shimazu Hisamoto (1734-1805)
  ...gent watching over [[Shimazu Shigehide]], daimyô of [[Satsuma han]], until the latter was of age. Hisamoto accompanied the young ''daimyô'' to [[Edo]] on a number of occasions, most notably in [[17
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• Gono
  ...|gôshi]]'', wealthy rural peasants or commoners who enjoyed some degree of samurai privileges. *[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge
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• Yura Sadatoki
  ...perial court with gifts, on behalf of the shogun, in the wake of a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Okubo Tadakazu
  ...province|Mikawa]] after [[1561]]. While the young Ieyasu was a hostage of the [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]], Tadakazu worked effectively to help keep his clan [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Toda Tadahisa
  Toda Tadahisa was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Mito Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa clan]] of [[Mito han]]. ...severe damage in the [[Ansei Earthquake]]. He was posthumously elevated to the Senior Fourth Rank.
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• Araki Sotaro
  ...d, originally, to the Dutch.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2 ...s, along with a Japanese manuscript translation of an original letter from the Ruan family to Araki.
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• Kote
  ''Kote'' are a piece of Japanese armor which protects the lower arm. ...andard to wear protection on both arms, and this remained standard through the [[Edo period]], and into martial arts practices today.
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• Sudo Shuntaro
  ...u at [[Totsuka]] [[shukuba|post-station]] on [[1853]]/11/22 in revenge for the death of their father, Sudô Kyûemon. ...the case on [[1854]]/2/6 and acquitted the brothers. On 5/29 of that year, the brothers were honored by their lord, [[Matsudaira Tsunenori]], for their su
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• Iriki-in Shigetaka
  ...of [[Shimazu Yoshitora]]. He was adopted into first the [[Ei clan]], then the [[Iriki-In clan|Iriki-In]], where he succeeded [[Iriki-in Shigetoki]], who [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Fujiwara no Shunzei
  The ''[[Senzai-shu|Senzai-shû]]'', compiled in [[1188]], is among his famous c *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Kodama Naritada
  Naritada was the 2nd son of [[Kodama Motozane]] and became the head of the [[Kodama clan|Kodama family]]. He was a popular and effective administrator [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kinoshita Katsutoshi
  ...d was dispossessed after the latter's defeat. He retired to [[Kyoto]] with the name Chôshôshi and produced a number of books relating to [[waka]] (31 sy [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Artists and Artisans]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Honda Hirotaka
  ...mi]] army in its invasion of [[Kyushu]]. There he distinguished himself at the brief battle for [[Ganjaku castle]] in [[Buzen province]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kotohira Shrine
  ...is a [[Shinto shrine]] in [[Kagawa prefecture]], likely the most famous on the entire island of [[Shikoku]]. ...s today dedicated to the deity [[Omononushi|Ômononushi no mikoto]], and to the spirit of [[Emperor Sutoku]].
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• Kan'ei shoka keizuden
  ...Period"<ref>Berry. p234.</ref> was the first compilation of genealogies of the daimyô and ''[[hatamoto]]'' families. ...n [[1643]], the ''Kan'ei shoka keizuden'' covered the genealogies of 1,419 samurai families in two sets of 186 volumes (one set in Japanese, one in Chinese).
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• Oguri Tadamasa
  ...inance commissioner, and later military commissioner, in the last years of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. ...the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]] in [[1860]].
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• Shimazu Hisachika
  ...Iwami Hisachika was a late [[Edo period]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Kagoshima han]]. He led the [[1850]] [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] on their [[1
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• Oyama Takatomo
  ...he latter. Takatomo's second son [[Yuki Harutomo|Harutomo]] was adopted by the former's brother Masakatsu. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hashiguchi Denzo
  Hashiguchi Denzô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer involved in the [[1862]] [[Teradaya Incident]]. ...o put an end to the plot. Hashiguchi was killed by [[Narahara Shigeru]] in the resulting fight.
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• Kawamura Zuiken
  Kawamura Zuiken was an [[Edo period]] timber merchant who rose to samurai status. ...courier, he amassed a fortune through dealings in timber futures following the [[Meireki Fire]] of [[1657]]. He also became involved in public works proje
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• Nejime Shigetake
  ...toshi]]. He was the 16th head of his family and was at first a retainer of the [[Kimotsuki clan|Kimotsuki]] of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]] (Shigetake's [[Ne [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kagekiyo
  ...gekiyo'' is a [[Noh]] play by [[Zeami]], centering on the [[Taira clan]] [[samurai]] [[Taira no Kagekiyo]]. ...ow comes around looking for him, and finds him living as a blind beggar in the countryside.
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• Baba Nobufusa
  ...son of Kyôraishi Nobuyasu (教来石信保) and eventually succeeded Baba Torasada, the latter having been killed by [[Takeda Nobutora]]. He was at first known as ...ho'' (侍大将) and at this time changed his name to Baba Nobufusa and recieved the title of ''Minbu no shô''.
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• Kuroda Kiyotaka
  ...taka was the 2nd [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau]]. ...of the Hokuriku Pacification Supervisory Division (北陸鎮撫総監府), and fought in the [[Battle of Hakodate]].
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• Kiyokawa Hachiro
  ==The life of Kiyokawa Hachirô== ...n Kiyokawa village in [[Shonai han]] as a son of a [[Goshi|Gôshi]] (rural Samurai). Disinterested in his family's ''Sake'' brewing business, he travelled to
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• Oda Nobunori
  ...0, he was succeeded by his adopted son [[Oda Nobutami]], who had been born the son of [[Kuroda Nagamoto]], lord of [[Akizuki han]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ryuzoji Nobuchika
  ...He assisted his brother in various military endeavors (including war with the [[Matsura clan|Matsura]]). After Takanobu's death he assisted [[Ryuzoji Mas [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Yasutoshi
  ...ampaign]] ([[1590]]). He was a cousin to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and served in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] ([[1614]]). He received Zeze in [[Omi province|Ô [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kiire Hisamichi
  ...i was a son of [[Shimazu Tadayoshi (Soshu)|Shimazu Tadayoshi]] and assumed the name 'Kiire' in [[1558]]. He became an important Shimazu retainer who was p [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsudaira Mochiaki
  ...the [[Ansei Purge]]. Naokiyo was then granted the use of a character from the name of shogunal heir [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] and changed his name to Mochiaki [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshiakira
  Ashikaga Yoshiakira was the second [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Retired Emperor
  ...is was seen chiefly in the mid-[[Heian period]], an era often described as the "Insei Period" for that reason, though some later retired emperors were qui ...himself, naming those loyal to him to those positions, while also reducing the power of those positions.
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• Court costume
  ...mb|400px|Mannequins dressed in ''sokutai'' (left) and ''nôshi'' (right) at the National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku)]] ...loped into the forms of formal or ceremonial dress now associated with the samurai class.
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• Furihime
  *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tsuchiya Tadanao
  ...pted into the family, becoming [[Soma Tadatane|Sôma Tadatane]] and head of the Sôma. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
  Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Endo Tanenori
  ...ters of coastal defense as ''kaibô kakari'', and reconstruction efforts at the Nishinomaru of [[Edo castle]] as ''katte kakari''. In [[1852]], he was rewarded for his efforts in the Nishinomaru reconstruction by having his ''[[kokudaka]]'' increased by 2000
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• Shimazu Hisayoshi
  ...Kingdom]], likely dating to around [[1634]], survives in the collection of the Kagoshima Prefectural History Museum (Reimeikan) today. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kawakami Hisakane
  ...azu Narioki]] and his heir [[Shimazu Nariakira]] in [[1850]], accompanying the final [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
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• Kuchiki Masatsuna
  ...rote two books: one on Western coins, entitled ''Seiyô senpu'', and one on the geography and customs of Western countries, ''Taisei yochi zusetsu''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ogasawara Sadayoshi
  ...]], he left the Uesugi's service and joined [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Following the [[Komaki Campaign]] ([[1584]]) he defected to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sato Masayoshi
  Satô Masayoshi served as an assistant to [[Inoue Masaru]], in directing the first [[railroad]] construction in Japan. ...gunnery, and surveying at [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû's]] ''juku'', and at the [[Nagasaki Naval Training Center]] (''Nagasaki Kaigun Denshū-jo''), before
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• Tsuchiya Toshinao
  ...]]'' domain, in [[1612]]. Three years later, at the age of 8, he served in the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]]. He was also named Minbu-no-shô in [[1621]], but [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Reizei Takatoyo
  ...loyal to Yoshitaka when [[Sue Harukata]] rebelled in [[1551]] and assisted the former in committing suicide, after which he killed himself. He was a poet [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hongo Tadatora
  ...s with the [[Ryuzoji clan|Ryûzôji]] and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] and fought in the first of [[Korean Invasions|Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea]] ([[1592]]-93). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Akamatsu Yoshisuke
  ...ived in [[Himeji castle|Himeji]] at the sufferance of his nominal vassals, the [[Kodera clan|Kodera]] (Kuroda's lord). [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yang Su
  ...e]] - including textiles, [[tiger]] skins, and [[ginseng]] - by pirates in the [[Inland Sea]]. ...e among Koxinga’s Japanese Pirate Ancestors,” in ''Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai'', ed. by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang. UH Press (2016), 43-44.
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• Masuda Eitaro
  ...Nanshû Cemetery]] for Masuda and the 21 other men from Nakatsu who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]]] ...at group, 22 died in battle, with Masuda himself being killed at age 28 in the battle of Komekura (in [[Kagoshima]] City) on Sept 4, [[1877]].
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• Yangban
  ...officials and administrators in [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea, patterned after the scholar-official aristocracy in China. ...rmers and merchants below them, with a class of outcastes at the bottom of the ladder.
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• Otomo Chikamori
  ...[[1587]] [[Battle of Hetsugigawa|battle of Hetsugigawa]] and led troops in the 1st Korean Campaign. After his elder brother [[Otomo Yoshimune|Yoshimune]] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ito Sukeyuki
  Itô Sukeyuki was an early leader of the [[Satsuma han]] navy. ...cked Kagoshima]] in response to that incident, Itô was among those manning the coastal defenses at Gionnosu.
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• Iriki-in Kimihiro
  ...ead of the [[Iriki-in clan]], retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] and lord of the Iriki [[sub-fief]] within [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hayashi Tadakata
  ...umatsu period]] lord of [[Jozai han|Jôzai han]] ([[Kazusa province]]), and the last ''[[Fushimi bugyo|Fushimi bugyô]]'' ([[Fushimi]] Magistrate). He was ...position of Fushimi ''bugyô'' was abolished, and its duties transferred to the [[Kyoto]] ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.
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• Okubo Tadataka
  Ôkubo Tadataka was the 8th son of [[Okubo Tadakazu|Ôkubo Tadakazu]]. From [[1576]] he served his ...temple he established. The temple was relocated to its current location in the Takanawa neighborhood of [[Edo]]/[[Tokyo]] in [[1668]].
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• Ariyoshi Daizen
  ...f>The reading "Tachikuni" is only a guess; though the ''kanji'' are known, the reading is unclear.</ref> ...d of Kumamoto), and Hori Heitazaemon (a [[bugyo|magistrate]] in service to the Hosokawa). Ariyoshi was sentenced to house arrest, indefinitely.
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• Shinagawa Yajiro
  ...signed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]].<p>An inscription on the back of the stone base reads "Field Marshal Admiral Marquis [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô T ...in [[1857]]. In [[1862]]/12, Shinagawa was involved in the destruction of the British legation in [[Yokohama]].
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• Hachisuka Yoshishige
  ...wa province]] when Iemasa retired. He supported [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and later served him at [[Osaka castle]] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Date Mochimura
  ...i]], who he succeeded as lord of [[Ichinoseki han]] in [[1857]], taking on the name Tamura Yukiaki.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (19 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hotta Masatora
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masatora, [[Hotta Masanari]], and [[Hotta Masasuke]] at [[Ji Hotta Masatora was the second son of [[Hotta Masatoshi]], and a ''daimyô'' of [[Yamagata han]].
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• Ichijodani castle
  ...sakurayakata.jpg|right|thumb|500px|A scale model of the Asakura yakata, at the National Museum of Japanese History]] ...zed in [[1575]]. It is said that after [[Asakura Yoshikage]] fled for Ôno, the fortress burned for three days.
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• Asahi Shigeaki
  ...riod]]. He is particularly known for his extremely lengthy personal diary, the ''Ômurôchûki'' 鸚鵡籠中記, which he kept for 34 years. ...venteen in [[1684]], until one year before his death, as a grandfather, at the age of 45.
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• Oishi Sadahisa
  ...imasa|Hôjô Ujimasa's]] 2nd son [[Hojo Ujiteru|Ujiteru]]. After the fall of the Hôjô, his sons [[Oishi Yoshinaka|Yoshinaka]] and [[Oishi Sadakatsu|Sadaka [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Fujiwara no Teika
  ...o Shunzei]] and [[Fujiwara no Tokushi|Bifukumon-in no Kaga]], he was among the most prominent nobles of his time. ...on imperial orders, he compiled a ''[[waka]]'' poetry collection known as the ''[[Shinchokusen]]''.
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• Saito Tomonobu
  ...tora]] and was afterwards involved in the war with [[Shibata Katsuie]] (of the [[Oda clan|Oda]]). [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Otomo Chikasada
  ...ji]] of [[Hizen province]] but was himself killed and his army defeated at the [[Battle of Iyama|battle of Iyama]] in September of that year. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tsukushi Mamoru
  ...a han]] retainer active in the ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' movement in the 1860s. He was involved in a number of loyalist activities, including plotting to see the [[Fall of Seven Nobles Incident|former exiled nobles]] [[Sanjo Sanetomi|San
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• Nanbu Shigenao
  Nanbu Shigenao was a son of [[Nanbu Toshinao]], and lord of the 130,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Morioka han|Morioka]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hashimoto Sanai
  ...court physician who contributed to the translation of Western materials in the mid-1850s.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 97.</ In [[1856]], he was appointed organizer of the Fukui [[domain school]] [[Meidokan|Meidôkan]], and led classes for domain
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• Kawagoe Yotaro
  ...g to [[Kagoshima prefecture]] in answer to a call for aid from the rebels, the Fukuoka warriors never managed to join up with their Satsuma brethren befor ...Shiroyama]], on September 24, [[1877]], at the age of 26. He is buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.
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• Tokugawa Ieyoshi
  Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the 12th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. ...enpo Reforms|Tenpô Reforms]] of [[Mizuno Tadakuni]], and the beginnings of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and foreign policy efforts by [[Abe Masahiro]].
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• Murahashi Naoe
  ...eteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who snuck out of the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. ...the [[Meiji Restoration]], and contributed to agricultural development of the territory.
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• Morimoto Sosetsu
  Morimoto Sôsetsu was a [[Satsuma han]] official, the younger brother of court physician [[Morimoto Koken|Morimoto Kôken]]. He was one of several tens of officials exiled in the [[1808]] [[Kinshirokukuzure Incident]], in which [[Shimazu Shigehide]] rail
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• Ito Kashitaro
  ...Hitachi]] as a son of [[Shizuku han]] Samurai. His family was expeled from the han when he was little. He married to dojo master's daughter and inherited the dojo.
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• Isshiki Yoshimichi
  ...ul against Fujitaka but was defeated when [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] arrived and the [[Nuta clan]] betrayed him after his castle fell in [[1579]]. Yoshimichi co [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakai Shigetada
  ...] while [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada|Hidetada]] was away at the front. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Okubo Toshimichi
  ...rea]] in [[1873]], and took part in the [[Iwakura Embassy]] which traveled the world and visited a great many governments in [[1871]]-[[1872]]. ...y for Japanese of the [[Edo period]].<ref>Plaque on-site at former site of the Ryûkyû-kan, Nagata Middle School, Kagoshima.</ref>
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• Inoue Masaru
  Inoue Masaru was the first Japanese head of the [[railroads]] (''tetsudô-no-kami''). ...udied coal mining and railroads. Upon returning to Japan, he helped direct the establishment of railroads there.
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• Yamauchi Kazutoyo
  ...ame is sometimes rendered alternatively as Yamanouchi instead of Yamauchi; the given name, similarly, is alternatively Kazutoyo or Katsutoyo.</ref> ...ding troops in several of the most major battles of the closing decades of the [[Sengoku period]].
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• Takeda Nobuchika
  ...e|Shinano]]. He committed suicide when [[Kai province|Kai]] was invaded by the [[Oda clan|Oda]] and [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] in [[1582]]. His son [[Take [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Omura Masujiro
  ...of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]]. ...[[Edo]] known as the Kyûkyodô, and was subsequently appointed to teach at the [[Bansho shirabesho]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (
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• Ikeda Terumasa
  Ikeda Terumasa was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Himeji castle]]. ...ook steps to reduce the alarming power of the Ikeda and eventually reduced the family to Tottori (Inaba) and Okayama (Bizen).
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• Yamano Yasohachi
  Yamano Yasohachi joined the [[shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] with [[Shimada Kai]] and [[Ogata Shuntaro]]. It seemed he left the Shinsengumi in Hakodate before surrendered.
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• Ijuin Tadaaki
  ...'[[karo|karô]]'' and chief military strategist for the [[Shimazu clan]] in the 16th century. ...onda clan|Honda]] and [[Ichiki clan]]s, and aided [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] in the [[1554]] [[siege of Iwatsurugi]].
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• Rikiishi Katsunosuke
  ...shogunate]] official who played a role in port affairs in [[Hakodate]] in the 1850s-1860s. ...ohn Rodgers]] on several occasions, representing the ''bugyô'' in refusing the Americans permission to come ashore or to take up lodgings in Hakodate.
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• Hongo Tadaoki
  ...], also known as the Miyakonojô [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]]. He later took on the name Hisatatsu. ...s permission, returned to [[Kagoshima]] early the following year alongside the returning [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
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• Niiro Hisanobu
  Niiro Hisanobu, also known as Hisanaga, was the leader of a group of nineteen [[Satsuma students|students]] from [[Satsuma Niiro was 34 when he left Japan; like all the other members of the mission, he adopted a new name, and was known as Ishigaki Einosuke while ov
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