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• Asakura Sadakage
  ...[[Kaga province|Kaga]] ([[1494]], [[1504]]), the ikko-ikki of Echizen, and the [[Rokkaku clan|Rokkaku]] of [[Omi province|Ômi]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Minamoto no Tsunemoto
  ...Tokugawa shoguns]] claimed descent.<ref>Karl Friday, ''Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan'', Routledge (2004), 9.</ref> ...stopping it before it reached the emperor.<ref>Gallery labels, "Moon Over the Inner Palace, 1887," Santa Barbara Museum of Art.[https://www.flickr.com/ph
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• Ei Hisatora
  ...of Mimigawa]], and the [[1581]] [[Battle of Minamata]]. He was wounded at the 1584 [[Battle of Okitanawate]]. Ruling or governing the southern tip of Satsuma province, including the port of [[Yamakawa]], Ei received orders in [[1583]] from Shimazu Yoshihisa
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• Asakura Takakage (1493-1546)
  ...f the authority of the [[Kyogoku clan|Kyogoku]] and supported them against the [[Rokkaku clan|Rokkaku]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Doi Toshikatsu
  ...[[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], and was highly regarded by the latter. He served at the [[Siege of Osaka|sieges of Osaka Castle]] in [[1614]] and [[1615]], having ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Koikawa Harumachi
  ...k ''Kinkin sensei eiga no yume'', published in [[1775]], is often cited as the first work of that type, setting a model or precedent for an entire publish Koikawa's works attracted the negative attention of the authorities, however, and he received a summons in [[1789]] to appear befor
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• Oshio Heihachiro
  Ôshio Heihachirô was a low-ranking samurai who led a significant uprising or revolt in [[Osaka]] in [[1837]]. ...efore the rebellion was suppressed by the authorities. Ôshio was killed in the process.
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• Mori Hirosada
  Mori Hirosada was a member of the mounted guard (''[[umamawari]]'') of the [[Yamauchi clan]] lord of [[Tosa han]]. ...to captain of a unit of twenty [[teppo|gunmen]], to captain of one unit of the domain's mounted guard.
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• Kariage
  ...[[han|domains]] at certain times, especially times of financial crisis, in the [[Edo period]]. ...e taken out"), eliminating the pretense that it was a loan to be repaid in the future.
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• Hachisuka Masakatsu
  ...is said to have been of particular use to Hideyoshi in his construction of the 'One Night Castle' at [[Sunomata castle|Sunomata]] in [[1567]], though if t * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Katsuragawa Hochiku (Kuniteru)
  ...the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He is said to have been particularly expert at the mixing of medicines. ...amed court physician (''oku ishi'') to the shogunate. He was later granted the physicians' lay monastic title of ''[[hogan|hôgan]]''.
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• Niigaki
  ...was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] aristocrat who later became a samurai in the service of [[Satsuma han]]. He is thus an important example of a very rare ...now a samurai in service to the domain, that his name should be moved from the [[kafu|Ryukyuan family registries]] to a new Satsuma one, and that he and h
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• Toshima Nobumitsu
  Toshima Nobumitsu was a ''[[hatamoto]]'' and member of the [[Toshima clan]], known for his assassination of ''[[Roju|Rôjû]]'' [[Inou ...was that Nobumitsu's suicide had resolved the matter sufficiently, and so the Toshima were allowed to retain their lives, and their status.
  953 bytes (146 words) - 19:27, 30 May 2015
• Honda Masazumi
  Honda Masazumi was a prominent minister in the service of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. ...se men filled in the outer and second moats of the castle, in violation of the peace treaty. He was dispossessed of his lands in [[1622]] and died in [[De
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• Yamaga Soko
  ...ential theorist of the [[Edo period]], many of whose writings commented on samurai identity and warrior spirit. ...rted that [[Sinocentric world order|it held this position]]. With Japan at the center of his worldview, Yamaga identifies China as "Outer Court," or "Fore
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• Sword Hunt
  ...onstruct a ''[[Daibutsu]]'' (Great Buddha statue) for [[Hoko-ji|Hôkô-ji]], the Kyoto temple Hideyoshi founded.<ref>Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo, Univer ...but Hideyoshi's was unprecedented in its scale. The order itself, known as the "Sword Hunt Order," or ''katanagari rei'', was issued on 1588/7/8. In one c
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• Stipends
  ...ers & peasants were also sometimes invested with stipends by a ''daimyô'', the shogunate, or another authority. ...he largest domains, controlling between them roughly half the land area of the archipelago.<ref>Ravina, 64.</ref>
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• Inoue Motokane
  ...nous behavior, an act that secured the Môri as Aki's most powerful family. The Inoue were afterwards allowed to continue on as Môri retainers * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Ijichi Shoji
  ...s, and one of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori's]] chief strategists during the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. ...]] samurai military academy, the [[Zoshikan|Zôshikan]], he was a master of the sword, and of strategy, even though his eyes and legs were weak, or disable
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• Takami Yaichi
  ...een [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] in sneaking out of the country to go study in Europe. ...osa, he settled in [[Kagoshima]], where he became a math teacher at one of the city's middle schools.
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