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• The Samurai Archives
  ==Origin of the Samurai Archives== ...he website were taken from notes originally researched by C.E. West during the summer of 1998 during slow periods at work while he was working for Maui Di
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• S-A Recent Updates
  '''Recent Updates to the Samurai Archives Japanese History Page.''' ** Added [http://samuraiarchives.podbean.com Samurai Archives Podcast] rotating image to main page.
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• Suo
  ...ight|thumb|320px|A ''suô'' costume from the [[Noh]] theater, on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]]]] ::''For the placename, see [[Suo province]].''
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• Hattori Hanzaburo
  ...defend himself from attack, ultimately killing two of his attackers before the skirmish ended. *Andrew Rankin, ''Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide'', Kodansha International (2011), 123.
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• Goto Moriharu
  Moriharu controlled the Goto Islands and clashed with the [[Matsura clan|Matsura]] and [[Ryuzoji clan|Ryûzôji]]. He became a Christ ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Asakura Ujikage
  ...father of [[Asakura Sadakage]]. He took control of the Asakura clan after the death of his father [[Asakura Toshikage|Toshikage]] in [[1481]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Shizoku rebellions
  ...y the [[Meiji government]] to terminate samurai status, and in particular, samurai stipends. ...r one's domain, and difficult too to unite across regional boundaries with samurai who had received their stipends from a different lord.
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• Inaba Masayasu
  ...do castle|castle]] guards. As his own son had died previously, this marked the end of his line. *Andrew Rankin, ''Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide'', Kodansha International (2011), 123-124.
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• Asakura Kagetaka b.1508?
  ...army to Kagataka, who was also a commander in a [[1564]] campaign against the ikko of Kaga. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Noguchi Kenji
  Noguchi was a [[Mito han]] samurai. He joined the [[Roshigumi]] with [[Serizawa Kamo]]. The reason is unknown.
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• Goshi
  ...samurai class.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge ...class from the villagers around them, but were not retainers in service to the domain.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', Universit
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• Niiro Sojiro
  ...]/3/21, at the Battle of Higokagami in [[Higo province]]. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]. *Plaques on-site at the Nanshû Cemetery.
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• Torii Tadayoshi (Sengoku)
  ...s described as the model of the [[Mikawa province|Mikawa]] samurai. He was the father of [[Torii Mototada]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Taira no Tadatsune
  ...events, and it was nearly three years before the Court regained control of the area. *Karl Friday, ''Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan'', Routledge (2004), 11.
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• Suneate
  ''Suneate'', or shin guards, are a part of a suit of samurai armor. ...e legs from the metal, and also to extend the protection upwards, to cover the knees.
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• Ijichi Suekichi
  ...]/3/30, at the Battle of Matsubashi in [[Higo province]]. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]. *Plaques on-site at the Nanshû Cemetery.
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• Hasegawa Akishige
  ...clan and served under the command of [[Saito Tomonobu|Saitô Tomonobu]]. At the [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]] ([[1561]]) Akishige fought gallantly and ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Godai Tomoyoshi
  ...ess capturing an enemy commander, Itô Kaga no kami. He went on to serve in the [[Odawara Campaign]] ([[1590]]). ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Asakura Kagetsura
  ...ave dressed so nicely that those in attendance mistook him for the lord of the clan, causing him much embarrassment. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Ikeda Yukisuke
  ...ce]] following the death of [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1582]]. He was killed in the fighting at [[Battle of Nagakute|Nagakute]] fighting for [[Toyotomi Hideyos ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Takaki Kanehiro
  Takaki Kanehiro was the first Japanese to hold a formal (modern) medical degree, and a prominent fi ...and later founded the Jikei University School of Medicine. He is known as the "father of vitamins" for his efforts to combat beriberi.
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• Namura Gohachiro
  ...exhibitions/past/Samurai-in-New-York.html Samurai in New York]." Museum of the City of New York. 25 June - 7 Nov. 2010.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Asakura Kagetoshi
  ...kaga Yoshiaki]] when the latter came to [[Echizen province|Echizen]] after the death of [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] in [[1565]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Giuseppe Chiara
  ...y]]) in [[1643]]. He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and [[samurai]] status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon. He died in [[1657]] at the age of 82.
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• Ikeda Kotaro (d. 1877)
  ....jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Ikeda (at left) and several others at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]]]] ...at age 14, on [[1877]]/9/24, at the Battle of Shiroyama. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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• Naito Nobunari
  ...nce]] taken from the [[Nakamura clan]] in [[1601]],<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Matsudaira Tadaatsu (Ueda)
  Matsudaira Tadaatsu was one of the first Japanese to graduate from Harvard University, doing so in [[1879]]. ...e the city engineer for Bradford, Pennsylvania, and inspector of mines for the State of Colorado.
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• Asakura Kagetaka b.1495
  ...life was in danger. He therefore fled to Wakasa Province and took up with the Takeda. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Hirata Masamune
  ...mune was a senior councilor to [[Shimazu Tadatsune]], who played a role in the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu]]. ...une, at a meeting of the senior retainers of the clan on 1609/2/6, to lead the invasion; Masamune served as his second-in-command.
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• Doi Michitake
  ...[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] at Wake Beach in [[1565]] and in [[1572]] against both the [[Mori clan|Môri]] and [[Miyoshi clan|Miyoshi]]. He surrendered to [[Kobay ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Ikeda Nagayoshi
  ...] ([[1600]]) and assisted his elder brother [[Ikeda Terumasa|Terumasa]] in the reduction of [[Gifu castle]] in [[Mino province]]. He was afterwards given ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Takasugi Shinsaku
  ...r it was illness that ended his short life before he could see his goal of the Imperial Restoration realized. ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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• Hitatare
  ''Hitatare'' was one standard style of samurai dress. It consisted of two pieces: a long-sleeved jacket, and ''[[hakama]]' ...some point in the 13th century, the ''hitatare'' became truly the standard samurai outfit.
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• Mori Masana
  Mori Masana was a samurai retainer of [[Tosa domain]]. ...aving traveled to the latter five times in [[1828]] to [[1856]] as part of the Tosa lord's ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' entourage.
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• Hasekura Tsunenaga
  ...13]]. He was baptized en route to Italy and was admitted into Rome, but by the time he returned to Japan in [[1620]], he found that Masamune had dramatica ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• 1631
  *1631/10/5 The shogunate appoints two ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' for Edo (one "north *1631/11/5 The shogunate issues restrictions on samurai's clothing and housing.
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• Arima Yoshisada
  ...tomo clan|Ôtomo]] in their own struggle with Takanobu (which culminated in the [[Battle of Iyama]]). He retired in [[1571]] in favor of his younger brothe ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Aragaki Chikubei
  ...se paper (''tôshi'' or ''karakami'') into [[Satsuma han]], and was granted samurai status. ...as rewarded in [[1786]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of the domain, with samurai status and a position as an official Satsuma retainer.
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• Ijuin Tadazane
  ...actions in [[1599]], he was allowed to remain a Shimazu retainer owing to the intercession of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. However, on a 10/2/1602 hunting expedi ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Honma family
  ...s of [[Shonai han|Shônai han]], and made massive monetary contributions to the domain government. ...00,000 ''ryô'', which was never repaid. The family head was granted full [[samurai]] status, and came to be regularly consulted on financial matters.
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• Hasegawa Gonroku
  ...ki bugyô]]'' circa [[1621]], and in that year played a significant role in the reception of a formal embassy from [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam). ...etainers to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], but were also directly involved in the Southeast Asia trade, and held [[shuinsen|red seal ship]] licenses (''shuin
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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.
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• 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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• Hachisuka Iemasa
  ...1st [[Korean Invasions|Invasion of Korea]] (1592-93). After returning from the 2nd Korean Campaign ([[1597]]-[[1598|98]]), he retired in favor of his son ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Asai Chu
  Asai Chû was one of the earliest and most prominent ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' (Western-style oil painting) ...styles. He then went on to become one of the leading ''yôga'' painters of the [[Meiji period]].
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• Ichijo Nobutatsu
  ...o]] in [[1575]] under his nephew Katsuyori. In [[1582]] he was captured by the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] and was put to death along with his son [[Takeda * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Arima Haruzumi
  ...clan|Ômura]], [[Saigo clan|Saigô]], and [[Taku clan|Taku]]) as he expanded the [[Arima clan|Arima]] to control five districts of Hizen Province. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Onjo Kendo
  Onjô Kendô was a samurai scholar and Buddhist monk known for his exceptional devotion to his lord, [ ...in [[1823]], Onjô Heiemon entered the domain's [[teppo|gunnery]] squad at the age of 15, but soon afterwards began studying medicine under a domain physi
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• Hojo Tokimune
  [[Image:Hojo_tokimune_cipher.jpg||thumb|left|The cipher of Hôjô Tokimune.]] ...der son (Tokimune's older brother) [[Hojo Tokisuke|Hôjô Tokisuke]], naming the younger Tokimune his heir.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Po
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• Rinka Zen
  ...en temples. Primarily popular among merchants, peasants, and lower-ranking samurai, they were located in more remote areas and commercial towns. ''Rinka'' tem ...Much of what [[Rinzai]] and [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] are today is owed not to the big-name Five Mountains temples in [[Kyoto]] and [[Kamakura]] but to region
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• Asakura Kagetake
  ...en the ikko of the province rebelled, he surrendered to them. As a result, the following year Nobunaga sent out an army to destroy him. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Goto Shojiro
  ...e one who submitted Ryôma’s [[Eight Point Plan]] to Yôdô for submission to the reigning Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], who then resigned his post in [[186 ...97), 327-329.</ref> He was granted the title of ''hakushaku'' ("Count") in the new ''[[kazoku]]'' aristocracy.
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• Tani Sanjuro
  Tani Sanjurô was a [[Bitchu province|Bitchu]] Matsuyama han samurai. His kenjutsu style was [[Jikishin Ryu]] and [[Shin-Kage Ryu]]. ...wn when he joined the [[Shinsengumi]], however his name was on the list of the [[Ikedaya Affair|Ikedaya]] bonus conferment.
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• Hanmoto mitodoke
  ...ctors) in the service of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], in order to determine the validity of a family's succession. ...omote|on paper]] (and often even altering the officially recorded date of the lord's death), even though privately things might not be quite according to
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• Satsuma Rebellion
  ...tsuma han]] ([[Kagoshima prefecture]]), and involved roughly 15,000 former samurai facing off against around 100,000 [[Imperial Japanese Army]] troops. ...no Toshiaki]] can be seen in the left panel, and [[Shinohara Kunimoto]] in the center.]]
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• Shudo
  ...]]'' [[emaki|handscroll]] by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]] depicting a samurai and his young male lover.]] ...th younger samurai. This custom is most prominently seen, or discussed, in the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] and [[Edo period]]s.
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• Kawajiri Hidetaka
  ...eople of Kai rose up against Hidetaka and he was killed attempting to flee the province. * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Makino Tadatoki
  Makino Tadatoki was the third [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Nagaoka han]] in [[Echigo province]]. ...] he was called upon by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to organize and oversee the reception (lodgings, meals, etc.) of [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean envoy
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• Itagaki Nobukata
  ...hingen in [[1542]]. He was killed at the [[Battle of Uedahara]] in 1548 by the [[Murakami clan|Murakami]] due to apparent carelessness on his part. Itagak * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Anthony Bryant
  ...worked as a features editor for the Mainichi Daily News, and as editor for the Tokyo Journal, an English language monthly magazine. He was also the author of four books for Osprey Military Publishing on samurai history.
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• Nishida Shogoro
  ...ô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer who was involved in the plot which became the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kodama Gentaro
  ...ral of Taiwan]], as well as [[Minister of the Army]] and Chief of Staff of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. ...erial forces in the [[Battle of Hakodate]] in [[1868]], and in suppressing the [[Saga Rebellion]] and [[Shinpuren Incident|Shinpûren Incident]], two [[sh
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• Narushima Motonao
  Narushima Motonao was the compiler of the ''[[Tokugawa jikki]]''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Arima Kazuzumi
  ...a 19th century ''daimyô'' of [[Maruoka han]]. He was originally born into the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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• Shibayama Aijiro
  Shibayama Aijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer involved in the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
  ...gashino]] in [[1575]] and later took part in the failed expedition against the [[Sanada clan|Sanada]] ([[1585]]). He was given a 30,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Arima Shinshichi
  ...n]] retainer who was among the organizers of the plot which developed into the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Asakura Kageakira
  ...fief in Echizen and he changed his name to Tobashi Kageakira. In [[1574]] the Echizen ikko, supported by fighters from [[Kaga province|Kaga]] commanded b ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Shimazu Keijiro
  ...o.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Shimazu Keijirô and his followers at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Shimazu Keijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] samurai who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Kabayama Sukenori
  ...u clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and fought in several of the key conflicts of the 1860s-1870s. ...nd [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874|a punitive expedition to Taiwan]] following the [[Taiwan Incident of 1871]].
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• Hashiguchi Sosuke
  ...[[Satsuma han]] retainer who was involved in the plot which developed into the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nomura Fumio
  Nomura Fumio was the founder of the [[Meiji period]] newspaper ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]''. ...zeal for "civilization and enlightenment" as understood or defined through the British Victorian lens.
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• Hirata Naokata
  Hirata Naokata was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' under the [[So clan|Sô clan]] of [[Tsushima han]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Main Page
  *[[:Category:Samurai|Samurai]] *[[:Category:Sengoku Period|The Sengoku Period]]
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• Mizuno Tadamitsu
  ...a 19th century ''daimyô'' of [[Tsurumaki han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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• Saito Seiichiro
  ...he [[Shinsengumi]] sometime after the 7th month of [[1865]]. He fought at the [[battle of Toba-Fushimi]], but deserted after returning to Edo. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tokugawa Harunari
  ...Harusada, was the head of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]] and father of the 11th shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienari]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hosokawa Yoriyuki
  ...the island of [[Shikoku]], provinces that would be Hosokawa bastions until the 16th Century. ...fter a 12-year tenure as Kanrei, Yoriyuki was forced to step down, costing the Ashikaga an almost indispensable asset.
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• Kaneko Jusuke
  Kaneko Jûsuke was a [[Choshu han|Chôshû domain]] who was stripped of his [[samurai]] status and later imprisoned for crimes committed alongside [[Yoshida Shoi ...r turned themselves in to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] authorities the next day. The pair were imprisoned at [[Tenmacho prison|Tenma-chô]] in [[Edo]] for a tim
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• Nabeshima Katsushige
  ...d by his grandson [[Nabeshima Mitsushige|Mitsushige]] ([[1632]]-[[1700]]), the son of [[Nabeshima Tadanao|Nabeshima Hizen no Kami Tadanao]]. He died on 7 ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Komagome
  ...ya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 45-60.< ...eighborhood takes its name from its location at the division (''wake'') of the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]] and Iwatsuki kaidô highways. It also contains a s
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• Tozawa Masayoshi
  ...entury ''daimyô'' of [[Shinjo han|Shinjô han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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• Asano Naganao
  Asano Naganao was the founder of [[Ako castle|Akô castle]] in [[Harima province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Abe Masaatsu
  ...akumatsu]] era ''daimyô'' of [[Shirakawa han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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• Tokugawa Munetada
  ...Munetada was the fourth son of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], and the founder of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakai Hyogo
  Hyôgo joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] and deserted in [[1865]]. He was killed by pursuers from the Shinsengumi.
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• Nakamura Kosaburo
  He joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1866]]. He deserted when the group was in [[Edo]] after the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]].
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• Arai Akinori
  Arai Akinori was the eldest son of Confucian scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Iwasaki Yataro
  ...His many philanthropic projects included the restoration of [[Rikugien]], the [[Edo period]] gardens of ''daimyô'' [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]]. ...llowed in turn by Yatarô's eldest son [[Iwasaki Hisaya]], who also founded the [[Toyo Bunko|Tôyô Bunko]].<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.
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• Goto Nuinosuke
  ...ineage of ''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'' (official merchants) employed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to produce formal clothes. ...in 1627 passing that name on to his descendants, down through the rest of the [[Edo period]].
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• Asakura Toshikage
  ...tal at Ichijô no dani, which in some ways foreshadowed the castle towns of the Edo Period. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Ogasawara Yoshiyori
  ...a son of [[Ogasawara Haruyoshi]] and served the Tokugawa, participating at the [[Battle of Anegawa]] in [[1570]] and other engagements. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Koriki Tanenobu
  ...sed book collector and illustrator, as well as being a samurai retainer of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] with a stipend of 300 ''[[koku]]''. ...nts included [[Odagiri Shunko|Odagiri Shunkô]]. He died on [[1831]]/7/3 at the age of 76. Many of Tanenobu's diaries survive today, serving as valuable hi
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• Shui wakashu
  The ''Shûi wakashû'' was the third ''[[waka]]'' poetry anthology to be compiled on official imperial ord *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Soanshu
  The ''Sôanshû'' ("Collection from a Reed Hut") is a collection of ''[[waka]]' *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Shibazaki Juroemon
  Shibazaki Jurôemon was a riding master and ''[[kobushin]]'' in the service of [[Kai province]], with a salary of 250 ''[[Japanese Measurements [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsudaira Norikuni
  Matsudaira Norikuni helped oversee the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]], alongside [[Oku [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kuroda Mototaka
  ...Kodera of [[Harima province|Harima]]. He helped his son Yoshitaka convince the Kodera to submit to [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1577]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Murata Juroemon
  Murata Jûroemon was a swordsmanship master in the service of the lords of [[Kai province]]. He became a ''[[yoriai]]'' in [[1716]], with a s [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ichimura Tetsunosuke
  ...f Ichimura Hanemoki, a samurai from Ogaki-han. Ichimura Tetsunosuke joined the [[Shinsengumi]] with his older brother [[Ichimura Tatsunosuke]] in [[1867]] ...le of Koshu-Katsunuma]], Tatsunosuke deserted from the [[Koyo Chinbutai]] (the renamed Shinsengumi) but Tetsunosuke stayed.
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• Kamei Korechika
  ...INGUA FRANCA’ OF DIPLOMACY IN JAPANESE–KOREAN ENCOUNTERS, c. 1600-1868,” ''The Historical Journal'', 62:2 (2019), pp. 289-309: 300. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shirakawa Yuki Naotomo
  ...uki clan|Shirakawa Yûki family]]. A son of [[Komine Tomochika]], he became the adopted heir of [[Yuki Ujitomo|Yûki Ujitomo]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsura Nagashi
  ...ura Hikaru]], lord of a branch domain of [[Hirado han]]. He became lord of the domain upon his father's retirement in [[1850]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Takai Dochi
  He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Luke Roberts
  ...in [[Edo period]] Japan, among other subjects, with a particular focus on the history of [[Tosa province]]. ...aphy of [[Mori Yoshiki]], a mid-ranking samurai official in the service of the lords of Tosa.
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• Kume no Heinai
  ...usa]] district of [[Edo]]. A small shrine dedicated to him can be found at the temple today. ...e for some reason it came to be worshipped as a deity for a good marriage. The hall was destroyed in 1945, and rebuilt in 1978.
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• Senzai-shu
  The ''Senzai-shû'' ("Collection from a Thousand Years") is a ''[[waka]]'' poet *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Aoyama Tadamasa
  ...n in [[1601]], and simultaneously to the position of magistrate overseeing the entire [[Kanto|Kantô]] region. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nagoya Sansaburo
  ...ts, as the lover of [[Okuni|Izumo no Okuni]], the woman often described as the founder of [[kabuki]]. A member of the samurai class, his father was [[Nagoya Takahisa]], governor (''kami'') of [[Inaba p
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• Shoni Tokinao
  ...Takanobu|Ryûzôji Takanobu]] in [[1554]] and fled to [[Chikugo province]]. The following year he clashed with Takanobu and was killed. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Takigawa Guchi
  He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kazoku
  The ''kazoku'' was a Western-style peerage or aristocracy created by the [[Meiji government]] in [[1869]]/6 as part of a broader restructuring of so ...[[Tokushima han|Tokushima]], petitioned the Emperor for the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]].
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• Hosokawa Morishige
  ...red the 15th head of the [[Hosokawa clan]] (counting from the beginning of the [[Edo period]]). [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ichijo Uchimasa
  ...be Motochika's]] daughters but was later killed after he attempted to defy the will of his father-in-law. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Baba clan (Shinano)
  ...lan|Tokugawa]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and served at the [[Siege of Ueda]] castle. Toshishige afterwards served shôgun [[Tokugawa H ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Nagai Naomune
  ...itated and called back into government service where he eventually rose to the post of ''[[genro|genrô-in]]''. *Hillsborough, Romulus. ''[[Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps]]'', Tuttle Publishing, 2005
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• Iriki-in Shigetoyo
  ...n Shigetoshi]], married an elder sister of [[Shimazu Yukihisa]] and served the Shimazu loyally. He died without an heir and was succeeded by [[Iriki-in Sh [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tayasu Kojiro
  Tayasu Kojirô was the young son of [[Tayasu Munetake]], who in turn was a son of [[Shogun]] [[Tok [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Akimoto Takatomo
  Akimoto Takatomo was one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1699]] to [[1707]]. He was named Tajima-no-kami [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Masanaga
  Honda Masanaga was named ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1705]]. He adopted the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], [[Honda Masatake]], in [[1693]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Masanobu
  ...Masanobu was said to have been at the center of the scandal that disgraced the [[Okubo clan|Okubo]] family ([[1614]]) and some scholars believe that Masan * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Hattori Ransetsu
  ...s dedication to Bashô was such that after the master's death, Hattori took the tonsure and became a monk.
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• Falconry
  ...njoyable pastime in itself, the falcon also came to be associated with the samurai class itself - highly trained and dangerous, but restrained, controlled, an Signalling batons called ''zai'' (麾), and similar to the ''[[saihai]]'' used in battle, were used in falconry.<ref>"[http://kotobank
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• Mizuno Tadamasa (水野忠政)
  Tadamasa was the son of [[Mizuno Kiyotada]] (also known as [[Mizuno Nobumasa]]) and held [[K [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Hino Nariko
  Hino Nariko was the wife of [[Shogun]] [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]]. ...n Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., ''Japan in the Muromachi Age'', University of California Press (1977), 198.
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• Arai Tadao
  Arai Tadao joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1864]], and left for [[Goryo Eji]] in [[1867]]. He fought against the Tokugawa [[Bakufu]] in the [[Boshin War]].
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• Endo Kinsuke
  ...ity College London (UCL), he returned to Japan to become the first head of the Osaka mint. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsumae Kageyu
  ...nt of the area that would be granted to Americans for free movement within the port city. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Oguri Tadayoshi
  He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/11/8. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Takanashi Masayori
  ...he [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]], he afterwards entered the service of the Ogasawara. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shokugozenshu
  The ''Shokugozenshû'' (Continued Later Collection of Poems) is a collection of *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Ogata Shuntaro
  Ogata Shuntarô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in early [[1863]]. He went missing during the [[Battle of Aizu]], and was never seen again. It is not known if he deserte
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• Kimura Shigekore
  ...became an associate of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and committed suicide after the latter's downfall in 1595. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Akizuki Taneshige
  Akizuki Taneshige was the 7th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Takanabe han]]. He was an elder brother to [[U [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kikuchi Takeshige
  ...was the 13th head of the [[Kikuchi clan]], and a notable warrior figure in the late [[Kamakura period]] and [[Nanbokucho period|Nanbokuchô period]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shinchokusen
  The ''Shinchokusen'' ("New Collection On Imperial Orders") is a collection of ' *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Ito Tetsugoro
  Tetsugorô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1864]]. He was killed during the [[Battle of Aizu]].
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• Kuze Shigeyuki
  Kuze Shigeyuki was an official in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], who served for a time as ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'', and [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kawakami Shikibu
  ...a time as ''Ryûkyû shuei'', inspecting and overseeing security concerns in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Tadazumi
  Tadazumi was the third son of [[Honda Masanobu]]. In [[1605]] he was given a 10,000-koku dom [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kodama Narikata
  ...ame a leader in the Môri navy, seeing service in various campaigns against the Amako and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsura Hikaru
  ...fourth son of [[Matsura Seizan]], lord of [[Hirado han]], and was himself the lord of a Hirado branch domain. He retired in [[1850]] and was succeeded by [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Omura Sumiyasu
  He was a cousin of the [[Itakura clan]], lords of [[Bitchu Matsuyama han|Bitchû Matsuyama domain] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hori Hidemasa
  ...mi]] army besieging [[Odawara castle]] in [[1590]] but died in camp during the campaign. * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Asahi-no-kata
  Asahi-no-kata was one of the chief wives (''midaidokoro'') of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], marrying him in [[158 ...med Chikuami. She was a half-sister of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]; the two had the same mother.
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• Inaba Masashige
  Masanari was the son of [[Inaba Ittetsu]] and like his father served [[Oda Nobunaga]] and th [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsui Tameyuki
  Matsui Tameyuki was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 7th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tanegashima Satotoki
  ...[[Shimazu Takahisa]], who he assisted on a number of occasions, including the [[Siege of Kajiki castle]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Yoshida Toyo
  ...[1853]] to help oversee reforms in domain governance at [[Tosa Edo mansion|the domain's Edo mansion]], he had a notable influence on other upcoming Tosa l By remaining loyal to the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Bakufu]], Yoshida drew the wrath of [[Takechi Zuizan]] and his [[Tosa Loyalist Party]], and as a resul
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• Sanjo Seisatsu Incident
  ...hoshu han|Chôshû han]] was an enemy of the Imperial court, was placed near the [[Sanjo Ohashi|Sanjô bridge]]. ...satsu'' was pulled down and trashed on the side of [[Kamo River]]. On 9/2, the ''seisatsu'' was replaced, however it was gone again in three days.
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• Meiji Restoration
  ...the most significant events in Japanese history, it marks the beginning of the [[Meiji period]], which saw dramatic changes and developments throughout ne ...word "restoration," which has become very much the standard translation of the term.
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• Machi doshiyori
  ...ere the highest-ranking [[chonin|townsmen]] (non-[[samurai]] commoners) in the city's official administrative ranks. ...) of areas within [[Edo]] answered to the ''machi doshiyori'', and oversaw the ''[[goningumi]]'' (five-person collective responsibility groups), and guard
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• Takeda Nobuhiro
  ...re-adopted by [[Kakizaki Sueshige]]. Some sources say he was originally of the [[Minabe clan]]. ...to have been adopted, not a true blood relative, and became estranged from the family.
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• Genpuku
  ''Genpuku'' was the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for members of the samurai class. ...hiefly involved a change of clothes and hairstyle, and in certain periods, the young man would receive his first ''[[eboshi]]'' court cap, sword, and suit
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• Matsui Toyoyuki
  Matsui Toyoyuki was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 6th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsudaira Tadayoshi
  Matsudaira Tadayoshi was one of the ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' beginning in [[1685]]. He was named ''[[soba yonin|so [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Rimei
  ..., building an economy based on trade, and taking possession of [[Ezo]] and the [[Kurile Islands]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Wada Akitame
  Akitame was a long-time retainer of the Satake and served three generations of that family - [[Satake Yoshiaki|Yosh [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Hatamoto
  ...daimyo|daimyô]]'' or being ''daimyô'' themselves, were direct retainers of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. ...from the smallest ''daimyô'' was that ''daimyô'', unlike ''hatamoto'', had the right to sentence their subjects to death.<ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and
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• Yamauchi Toyoshige
  ...urging the shogun to resign peacefully and cede political control back to the throne, which he did. ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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• Hosokawa Tadatoshi
  ...]] to [[Kumamoto han]], where the Hosokawa would remain through the end of the Edo period. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Okochi Terutoshi
  Ôkôchi Terutoshi was a [[Bakumatsu]] era lord of [[Takasaki han]]. He served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] for many years as ''[[sojaban|sôjaban]]'' and as '' [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Watanabe Moritsuna
  ...attle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] ([[1575]]). He was known for his skill with the spear and was nicknamed "Spear Hanzo". [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Hotta Masanaka
  ...[Yamagata han]] in [[1685]], before being transferred to [[Fukushima han]] the following year. Alongside [[Abe Masatake]], he co-edited the ''[[Butoku taiseiki]]'' in [[1683]].
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• Okubo Tadayoshi
  ...[[1716]], during which time he oversaw the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]] alongside [[Mats [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ikeda Kotaro (d. 1868)
  Kotarô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in Edo in [[1864]]. He participated in the [[Sanjo Seisatsu Incident]]. He was killed in the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]], but some sources say he returned to [[Edo]].
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• Koku
  ...amount known as ''[[kokudaka]]''. This, in turn, would indirectly dictate the number of men such a lord could be expected to field, if necessary. ...samurai relying on stipends paid in rice less and less wealthy relative to the [[chonin|merchant class]], who earned their incomes in gold and silver.
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• Hattori Hanzo
  ...nzo-grave.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hattori Hanzô at Sainen-ji in the Yotsuya neighborhood of Tokyo]] ...ngth, Tokugawa and his band returned to [[Mikawa province|Mikawa]] safely. The same could not be said for [[Anayama Beisetsu]], a recent Tokugawa addition
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• Oishi Kuwajiro
  ...d "Hitokiri Kuwajiro" because of his involvement in many assassinations by the [[Shinsengumi]]. In March [[1868]], he fled the Shinsengumi and tried to join [[Satsuma han]] troops.
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• Manabe Akihira
  Manabe Akihira was the younger brother of [[Manabe Akifusa]]. From [[1710]], he had 500 ''[[koku]] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yamao Yozo
  ...became Minister of Industry, and established an art school and schools for the blind & deaf. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Iwashita Michihira
  ...orked with [[Charles Comte de Montblanc]] to plan the Satsuma pavilion for the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Orei sanga
  ...a month. At each such ''orei sanga'' event, guests were obliged to present the shogun with a sword, and early on, with a horse as well. ...it became quite standard for ''kuge'' to present swords to the shogun, to the [[Emperor]] or [[Retired Emperor]], and to one another.
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• Kimura Shigenari
  ...[[Osaka castle]] in [[1614]] and was killed at the [[Battle of Wakae]] in the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]]. He was said to have been a strikingly handsome m [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shiga Kinpachiro
  ...tsu'' (private secretary), and then as ''okuyuhitsu kumigashira'' (head of the private secretaries) beginning in [[1856]]. He committed suicide on [[1858] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Masatake
  Honda Masatake was the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], and was adopted by [[Honda Masanaga] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tani Tadazumi
  ...of [[Chosokabe Nobuchika]], killed by the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] during the [[Battle of Hetsugigawa]] ([[1587]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Diplomats]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Hirata Tamenojo
  ...r congratulations to [[King Cheoljong]] of [[Joseon]] on his succession to the throne. In [[1868]], he was serving as ''[[rusui]]'' for the domain in Kyoto.
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• Maeno Goro
  ...eft the [[Shinsengumi]] after the [[Battle of Koshu-Katsunuma]] and joined the [[Seikyotai]] but surrendered to [[Satsuma han]]. He became a wealthy merchant in Hokkaido after the [[Meiji Restoration]].
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• Odagiri Shunko
  ...l by Odagiri depicting the ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' procession of the ''daimyô'' of [[Owari han]]. [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]]]] ...he [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] lords of [[Owari han]] ([[Nagoya]]) in the late [[Edo period|Edo]] and early [[Meiji period]]s.
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• Honda Chikasada
  Chikasada was of the [[Honda clan (Satsuma)|Satsuma Honda clan]], and one of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Hasegawa Heizo
  ...he ''hitsuke tôzoku aratame kata'' (火付盗賊改方), the chief official overseeing the apprehension of arsonists, thieves, and gamblers. Heizô is the protagonist of a novel by [[Ikenami Shotaro|Ikenami Shôtarô]].
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• Abe Masaoki
  ...a han]], he was adopted by [[Abe Masatane]], lord of Sanuki, and succeeded the latter. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ogasawara Ujikiyo
  ...aka castle|Mabusezaka]] and [[Takatenjin castle|Takatenjin]] castles. When the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] and Imagawa went to war after [[1568]], he sided [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Watanabe Hajime
  ...ori silver mines and gained much prestige for this. He went on to fight at the [[Battle of Miyajima]] in [[1555]] and [[Battle of Moji|Moji]] in [[1561]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Arima Sugihiro
  ...'' (Japantown) in the Siamese city of [[Ayutthaya]]. He may have been from the [[Arima family]] of merchants, who held a [[shuinsen|red seal license]] for Sugihiro was succeeded as head of the community by [[Kiya Kyuzaemon|Kiya Kyûzaemon]], in [[1610]].
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• Yashiro Masakuni
  ...[Takeda clan|Takeda]], Masakuni came to serve the latter. He was killed at the [[Battle of Nagashino]] and was succeeded by his younger brother [[Yashiro [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakai Makinosuke
  ...eji han]]. Born in [[1756]], he died at the age of five, and was buried at the temple of [[Keifuku-ji]] in [[Himeji]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Muto Nobuyoshi
  Mutô Nobuyoshi was a prominent military officer and official of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. ...attached to the Russian Legation, and as head of the secret service during the [[Siberian Intervention]].
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• Ota Sukemoto
  ...as ''[[Jisha bugyo|Jisha bugyô]]'' in the early 1850s, and as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1858]] to [[1859]].
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• Fujiwara no Tameie
  .... The ''[[Shokugozenshu|Shokugozenshû]]'', compiled in [[1251]], was among the famous compilations accredited to him. *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Ogasawara Tadakata
  ...ima]] in [[1811]] (not traveling to [[Edo]]), Tadakata served as proxy for the shogun in formal audiences with them.<ref>Miyake Hidetoshi 三宅英利, "R [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ashikaga Chachamaru
  ...in 1498 and forced him to commit suicide. Some older sources give 1491 as the year Chachamaru was driven from Izu. * Nagahara, K. ''The Great History of Japan'' Japan, 1975
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• Kinoshita Masanao
  ...ess warrior and at the [[Battle of Okitanawate]] he was killed fighting in the rear guard. He is sometimes ranked as one of Takanobu's ''shi-tenno''. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ikeda Shigeaki
  [[File:Ikeda-seihin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Ikeda Shigeaki and his relatives at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji ...ing at times on the board of directors of [[Mitsui Bank]], as president of the [[Bank of Japan]], and as [[Ministry of Finance|Minister of Finance]] and [
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• Itagaki Taisuke
  ...民撰議院設立建白書-->, submitted to the government; the memorial was also signed by the likes of [[Soejima Taneomi]], [[Goto Shojiro|Gotô Shôjirô]], [[Eto Shinp ...helped found the [[Liberal Party]], Japan's first modern political party. The following year, he survived an assassination attempt by a right-winger.<ref
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• Ando Nobuyoshi
  ...Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]], the final such visit by any shogun prior to the [[Meiji Restoration]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• San Buena Ventura
  The ''San Buena Ventura'' was the first ship built in Japan to cross the Pacific Ocean, doing so in [[1610]]. ...p the ''[[Liefde]]''. The shogunate's ship was then piloted in 1610 across the Pacific, to New Spain, by Iberian navigators.
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• Ichiki Magobei
  ...ce]]. His diary of the invasion, ''Ryûkyû tokai nichinichi ki'', is one of the chief surviving firsthand accounts of those events. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Chikamatsu Monzaemon
  ...|right|thumb|320px|Monzaemon as seen in a [[Meiji period]] print depicting the seven legends of ''[[bunraku]]'']] ...helping establish or create art forms which would go on to become some of the most prominent and distinctive of Japan's traditional arts.
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• Ichihimegimi
  ...tsu]]. In her infancy, she was betrothed to [[Date Tadamune]], but died at the age of two. *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Gregorio de Cespedes
  ...(letters or other documents) which have survived and give us insight into the European view of Japan. * Medina, Jean Ruiz de, trans. John Bridges, ''The Catholic Church in Korea: Its origins 1566-1784'' Istituto Storico S.I. - R
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• Koshimaki
  ...e of garment often worn by samurai women in certain ceremonial contexts in the [[Edo period]]. ...tubes, which held it up creating a rectangular or wing-like effect behind the wearer.
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• Hotta Masataka
  ...as the third son of [[Hotta Masatoshi]], and founder of a junior branch of the [[Hotta clan]]. The son of Masatoshi by a concubine, he was later given 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' and
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• Kaibara Ekiken
  ...ator, herbalist and physician, attributed with revitalizing or reinventing the genre of travel writing.<ref>Yonemoto, Marcia. ''Mapping Early Modern Japan He was the fifth son of [[Kaibara Kansai]]<!--貝原寛斎-->, a samurai in the service of [[Kuroda Mitsuyuki]], lord of [[Fukuoka han]]. Ekiken traveled t
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• Uesugi Kagetora
  Uesugi Kagetora was the seventh son of [[Hojo Ujiyasu|Hôjô Ujiyasu]] and was adopted by [[Uesugi [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• 1804
  ...ov]] arrives at [[Nagasaki]] seeking to trade. He is refused and sent away the following year. ...hreatening, and issues permission to troops from [[Fukuoka han]], guarding the harbor, to return to their home province.
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• Hojo Ujiteru
  ...minally cooperated in the invasion of the [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] domain in the Spring of [[1582]], Ujimasa distrusted Nobunaga's intentions and was roused ...though damaged in the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923, were repaired again the following year.<ref>Plaques at gravesite.</ref>
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• Matsuo Basho
  ...hosomichi'') and many of his poems remain well-known in Japan - and around the world.
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• Hongo Tokihisa
  ...tainers in [[1578]]. He acted as a hostage to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] after the latter invaded [[Kyushu]] in [[1587]]. He was afterwards installed at Miyan [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Jidaimono
  ...uctions in this mode are called ''[[jidaigeki]]'' (時代劇), and share much of the same basic features. ...d heroic sacrifices was still something of a romanticized escape for these samurai, just as historical dramas are for us today.
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• Hizen Tadayoshi
  Hizen Tadayoshi was the name taken in succession by a line of prominent [[Edo period]] swordsmiths. Though formal samurai exchanges of swords as gifts typically took the form of older (pre-Edo) swords, when Edo period swords (''shin-tô'', lit.
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• Nitta Yoshishige
  Nitta Yoshishige was a grandson of [[Minamoto no Yoshiie]], and ancestor of the [[Nitta clan]]. ...t ranks|Lower Junior Fifth Rank]], Yoshishige was posthumously elevated to the Junior Second Rank in [[1850]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要
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• Ogasawara Tadayoshi
  ...ayoshi was a [[Bakumatsu]] era lord of [[Anji han|Anji domain]]. Following the death of lord of [[Kokura han|Kokura domain]] [[Ogasawara Tadahiro]] in [[1 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Wada Koremasa
  ...ois]] an audience with [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] in [[1569]]. He supported the [[Takayama clan]] and was later killed fighting with [[Araki Murashige]] in [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Naito Nobuteru (1682-1725)
  Naitô Nobuteru was the third son of [[Naito Nobuyoshi|Naitô Nobuyoshi]]. Adopted by his brother-i [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsura Terasu
  Matsura Terasu was the second-to-last lord of [[Hirado han]]. He was a son of [[Matsura Hiromu]], [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kurushima Michiyasu (Kono)
  ...ce]]. He commanded naval ships for Michinao and was considered a pillar of the Kôno house. He died in 1567 of illness. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Katsuragawa Hoken
  ...ularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku. ...y (2011), 94.</ref> He is also known for his scholarly writings, including the preface to [[Goto Godoan|Gotô Godôan's]] ''[[Oranda banashi]]''<!--紅毛
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• Chonin
  ...ard narrative of the Edo period emphasizes it as a period of the "rise" of the commoner class, as ''chônin'' became wealthier (more economically dominant ...ssociated, ''chônin'' can also be defined as "townspeople," in contrast to the ''hyakushô'' ("peasants" or "villagers") who lived in rural areas.
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• Wada Korenaga
  ...571]]. He held [[Takatsuki]] in [[Settsu province]]. He planned to destroy the [[Takayama clan|Takayama]] but that clan learned of his intentions and in A [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Nagoe Tokinari
  ...ts]] from [[Satsuma han]] who traveled to Europe for study in [[1865]], at the age of 21. ...s upon military (army) science in particular. He returned to Japan late in the 8th month, [[1866]].
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• Uemura Iemasa (b.1589)
  ...and in [[1608]] was made a commander of [[ashigaru]]. He served notably at the [[Osaka Campaign|Sieges of Osaka Castle]] and in [[1640]] was made a [[daim [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shimazu Toshihisa
  ...his fief. He adopted [[Shimazu Tadachika (1569-1587)|Shimazu Tadachika]], the 2nd son of [[Shimazu Yoshitora]], as his heir and married his eldest daught ...yoshi at all. When Hideyoshi passed through Toshihisa's territory, Satsuma samurai loosed arrows into Hideyoshi's palanquin.
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• Bakufu
  ...]] (1868-1912) when the term became properly entrenched through its use in the [[Meiji education|public education]] curriculum.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, Luke ...yûei'' in reference to that camp. The term can also refer to the person of the shogun himself, or to his family.<ref>"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9F%B3%
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• Tateishi Onojiro
  ...ork newspaper illustration, reproduced in a gallery label at the Museum of the City of New York.]] ...became a favorite of the US media. He was often mistakenly referred to in the American newspapers as "Jateishi Osojero" or by various other misspellings
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• Yamauchi Yasutoyo
  ...]] in quelling the difficult elements of [[Tosa province]] and was awarded the 20,000 ''[[koku]]'' branch domain of [[Nakamura han (Tosa)|Nakamura]]. Afte [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Yamaguchi Munenaga
  .... He committed suicide when he lost Daishôji to [[Maeda Toshinaga]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] (September [[1600]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• So Sadakuni
  ...ry from [[Saga]] (on the island of Kyushu) to Tsushima Fuchû (Izuhara), on the island of [[Tsushima]].<ref>Plaque at Sadakuni's grave, Banshô-in.[https:/ [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Fukuba Bisei
  ...f Rites [[Kamei Koremi]], he was among the chief officials responsible for the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' ("separation of Buddhism and Shinto") policies. He was an adherent of the ''[[kokugaku]]'' (Nativist) teachings of [[Okuni Takamasa]].
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• Sakai Tadateru
  Sakai Tadateru was a late [[Edo period]] head of the [[Sakai clan]] and lord of [[Himeji han]]. ...'s death in [[1853]], Tadateru succeeded him as lord of Himeji and head of the house.
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• Ijuin Tadamune
  ...[[Shimazu Yoshihisa|Shimazu Yoshihisa's]] campaigns and battles, including the [[1578]] [[battle of Mimigawa]]. ...]]. He fought for the Shimazu in the conquest of [[Higo province]], and in the [[1584]] [[battle of Okitanawate]].
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• Sugihara Nagafusa
  ...of [[Asano Nagamasa]] and after serving the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] at the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] had his fief of [[Toyooka]] in [[Tajima province] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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