...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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...Munetada was the fourth son of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], and the founder of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]].
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Hyôgo joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] and deserted in [[1865]].
He was killed by pursuers from the Shinsengumi.
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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 was the eldest son of Confucian scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]].
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...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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...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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...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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...a son of [[Ogasawara Haruyoshi]] and served the Tokugawa, participating at the [[Battle of Anegawa]] in [[1570]] and other engagements.
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...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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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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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 Jurôemon was a riding master and ''[[kobushin]]'' in the service of [[Kai province]], with a salary of 250 ''[[Japanese Measurements
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Matsudaira Norikuni helped oversee the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]], alongside [[Oku
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...Kodera of [[Harima province|Harima]]. He helped his son Yoshitaka convince the Kodera to submit to [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1577]].
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Murata Jûroemon was a swordsmanship master in the service of the lords of [[Kai province]]. He became a ''[[yoriai]]'' in [[1716]], with a s
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...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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...INGUA FRANCA’ OF DIPLOMACY IN JAPANESE–KOREAN ENCOUNTERS, c. 1600-1868,” ''The Historical Journal'', 62:2 (2019), pp. 289-309: 300.
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...uki clan|Shirakawa Yûki family]]. A son of [[Komine Tomochika]], he became the adopted heir of [[Yuki Ujitomo|Yûki Ujitomo]].
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...ura Hikaru]], lord of a branch domain of [[Hirado han]]. He became lord of the domain upon his father's retirement in [[1850]].
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He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1.
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...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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...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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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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...n in [[1601]], and simultaneously to the position of magistrate overseeing the entire [[Kanto|Kantô]] region.
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...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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...Takanobu|Ryûzôji Takanobu]] in [[1554]] and fled to [[Chikugo province]]. The following year he clashed with Takanobu and was killed.
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He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1.
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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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...red the 15th head of the [[Hosokawa clan]] (counting from the beginning of the [[Edo period]]).
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...be Motochika's]] daughters but was later killed after he attempted to defy the will of his father-in-law.
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...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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...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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...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
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Tayasu Kojirô was the young son of [[Tayasu Munetake]], who in turn was a son of [[Shogun]] [[Tok
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Akimoto Takatomo was one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1699]] to [[1707]]. He was named Tajima-no-kami
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Honda Masanaga was named ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1705]]. He adopted the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], [[Honda Masatake]], in [[1693]].
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...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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...s dedication to Bashô was such that after the master's death, Hattori took the tonsure and became a monk.
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...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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Tadamasa was the son of [[Mizuno Kiyotada]] (also known as [[Mizuno Nobumasa]]) and held [[K
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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 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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...ity College London (UCL), he returned to Japan to become the first head of the Osaka mint.
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...nt of the area that would be granted to Americans for free movement within the port city.
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He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/11/8.
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...he [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]], he afterwards entered the service of the Ogasawara.
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The ''Shokugozenshû'' (Continued Later Collection of Poems) is a collection of
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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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...became an associate of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and committed suicide after the latter's downfall in 1595.
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Akizuki Taneshige was the 7th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Takanabe han]]. He was an elder brother to [[U
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...was the 13th head of the [[Kikuchi clan]], and a notable warrior figure in the late [[Kamakura period]] and [[Nanbokucho period|Nanbokuchô period]].
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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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Tetsugorô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1864]].
He was killed during the [[Battle of Aizu]].
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Kuze Shigeyuki was an official in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], who served for a time as ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'', and
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...a time as ''Ryûkyû shuei'', inspecting and overseeing security concerns in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
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Tadazumi was the third son of [[Honda Masanobu]]. In [[1605]] he was given a 10,000-koku dom
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...ame a leader in the Môri navy, seeing service in various campaigns against the Amako and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]].
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...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
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He was a cousin of the [[Itakura clan]], lords of [[Bitchu Matsuyama han|Bitchû Matsuyama domain]
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...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 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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Masanari was the son of [[Inaba Ittetsu]] and like his father served [[Oda Nobunaga]] and th
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Matsui Tameyuki was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 7th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]].
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...[[Shimazu Takahisa]], who he assisted on a number of occasions, including the [[Siege of Kajiki castle]].
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...[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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...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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...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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...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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...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'' 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 was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 6th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]].
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Matsudaira Tadayoshi was one of the ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' beginning in [[1685]]. He was named ''[[soba yonin|so
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..., building an economy based on trade, and taking possession of [[Ezo]] and the [[Kurile Islands]].
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Akitame was a long-time retainer of the Satake and served three generations of that family - [[Satake Yoshiaki|Yosh
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...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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...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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...]] to [[Kumamoto han]], where the Hosokawa would remain through the end of the Edo period.
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Ôkôchi Terutoshi was a [[Bakumatsu]] era lord of [[Takasaki han]]. He served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] for many years as ''[[sojaban|sôjaban]]'' and as ''
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...attle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] ([[1575]]). He was known for his skill with the spear and was nicknamed "Spear Hanzo".
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...[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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...[[1716]], during which time he oversaw the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]] alongside [[Mats
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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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...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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...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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...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 was the younger brother of [[Manabe Akifusa]]. From [[1710]], he had 500 ''[[koku]]
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...became Minister of Industry, and established an art school and schools for the blind & deaf.
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...orked with [[Charles Comte de Montblanc]] to plan the Satsuma pavilion for the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]].
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...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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...[[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
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...tsu'' (private secretary), and then as ''okuyuhitsu kumigashira'' (head of the private secretaries) beginning in [[1856]]. He committed suicide on [[1858]
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Honda Masatake was the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], and was adopted by [[Honda Masanaga]
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...of [[Chosokabe Nobuchika]], killed by the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] during the [[Battle of Hetsugigawa]] ([[1587]]).
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...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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...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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...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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Chikasada was of the [[Honda clan (Satsuma)|Satsuma Honda clan]], and one of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa
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...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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...a han]], he was adopted by [[Abe Masatane]], lord of Sanuki, and succeeded the latter.
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...aka castle|Mabusezaka]] and [[Takatenjin castle|Takatenjin]] castles. When the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] and Imagawa went to war after [[1568]], he sided
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...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]].
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...'' (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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...[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
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...eji han]]. Born in [[1756]], he died at the age of five, and was buried at the temple of [[Keifuku-ji]] in [[Himeji]].
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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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...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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.... The ''[[Shokugozenshu|Shokugozenshû]]'', compiled in [[1251]], was among the famous compilations accredited to him.
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...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
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...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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...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''.
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...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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...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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...Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]], the final such visit by any shogun prior to the [[Meiji Restoration]].
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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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...ce]]. His diary of the invasion, ''Ryûkyû tokai nichinichi ki'', is one of the chief surviving firsthand accounts of those events.
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...|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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...tsu]]. In her infancy, she was betrothed to [[Date Tadamune]], but died at the age of two.
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...(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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...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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...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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...ator, herbalist and physician, attributed with revitalizing or reinventing the genre of travel writing.<ref>Yonemoto, Marcia. ''Mapping Early Modern Japan
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...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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...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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...hosomichi'') and many of his poems remain well-known in Japan - and around the world.
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...tainers in [[1578]]. He acted as a hostage to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] after the latter invaded [[Kyushu]] in [[1587]]. He was afterwards installed at Miyan
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...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 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 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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...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
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...ois]] an audience with [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] in [[1569]]. He supported the [[Takayama clan]] and was later killed fighting with [[Araki Murashige]] in
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Naitô Nobuteru was the third son of [[Naito Nobuyoshi|Naitô Nobuyoshi]]. Adopted by his brother-i
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Matsura Terasu was the second-to-last lord of [[Hirado han]]. He was a son of [[Matsura Hiromu]],
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...ce]]. He commanded naval ships for Michinao and was considered a pillar of the Kôno house. He died in 1567 of illness.
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...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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...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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...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
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...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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...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
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...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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...]] (1868-1912) when the term became properly entrenched through its use in the [[Meiji education|public education]] curriculum.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, Luke
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...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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...]] in quelling the difficult elements of [[Tosa province]] and was awarded the 20,000 ''[[koku]]'' branch domain of [[Nakamura han (Tosa)|Nakamura]]. Afte
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.... He committed suicide when he lost Daishôji to [[Maeda Toshinaga]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] (September [[1600]]).
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...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:/
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...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 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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...[[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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...of [[Asano Nagamasa]] and after serving the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] at the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] had his fief of [[Toyooka]] in [[Tajima province]
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...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
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...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
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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
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...[[1582]] by his uncle [[Isshiki Yoshikiyo]], who was in turn destroyed by the [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]].
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...n [[1854]], however, at the age of [[Age Calculation|five or six]], before the betrothal was formalized.
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[[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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...Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' in [[1850]] and then being reassigned to the position of ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' (finance magistrate) a few mo
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...family]] lost much of its influence when the Ôtomo were dispossessed after the [[1600]] [[Sekigahara Campaign]].
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...iner of [[Oda Nobutaka]] though he supported [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] during the [[Shizugatake Campaign]] ([[1583]]).
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...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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...placing [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], who was forced into retirement as part of the [[Ansei Purge]].
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...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
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...-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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...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
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...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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...|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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...perial court with gifts, on behalf of the shogun, in the wake of a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]].
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...province|Mikawa]] after [[1561]]. While the young Ieyasu was a hostage of the [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]], Tadakazu worked effectively to help keep his clan
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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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...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'' 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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...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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...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
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The ''[[Senzai-shu|Senzai-shû]]'', compiled in [[1188]], is among his famous c
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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
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...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
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...mi]] army in its invasion of [[Kyushu]]. There he distinguished himself at the brief battle for [[Ganjaku castle]] in [[Buzen province]].
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...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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...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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...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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...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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...he latter. Takatomo's second son [[Yuki Harutomo|Harutomo]] was adopted by the former's brother Masakatsu.
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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 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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...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
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...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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...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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...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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...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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...0, he was succeeded by his adopted son [[Oda Nobutami]], who had been born the son of [[Kuroda Nagamoto]], lord of [[Akizuki han]].
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...He assisted his brother in various military endeavors (including war with the [[Matsura clan|Matsura]]). After Takanobu's death he assisted [[Ryuzoji Mas
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...ampaign]] ([[1590]]). He was a cousin to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and served in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] ([[1614]]). He received Zeze in [[Omi province|Ô
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...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
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...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
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Ashikaga Yoshiakira was the second [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]].
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...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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...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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...pted into the family, becoming [[Soma Tadatane|Sôma Tadatane]] and head of the Sôma.
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Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]].
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...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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...Kingdom]], likely dating to around [[1634]], survives in the collection of the Kagoshima Prefectural History Museum (Reimeikan) today.
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...azu Narioki]] and his heir [[Shimazu Nariakira]] in [[1850]], accompanying the final [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
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...rote two books: one on Western coins, entitled ''Seiyô senpu'', and one on the geography and customs of Western countries, ''Taisei yochi zusetsu''.
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...]], he left the Uesugi's service and joined [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Following the [[Komaki Campaign]] ([[1584]]) he defected to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]].
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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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...]]'' 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
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...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
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...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).
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...ived in [[Himeji castle|Himeji]] at the sufferance of his nominal vassals, the [[Kodera clan|Kodera]] (Kuroda's lord).
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...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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...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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...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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...[[1587]] [[Battle of Hetsugigawa|battle of Hetsugigawa]] and led troops in the 1st Korean Campaign. After his elder brother [[Otomo Yoshimune|Yoshimune]]
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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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...ead of the [[Iriki-in clan]], retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] and lord of the Iriki [[sub-fief]] within [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]].
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...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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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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...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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...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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...wa province]] when Iemasa retired. He supported [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and later served him at [[Osaka castle]]
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...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
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[[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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...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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...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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...imasa|Hôjô Ujimasa's]] 2nd son [[Hojo Ujiteru|Ujiteru]]. After the fall of the Hôjô, his sons [[Oishi Yoshinaka|Yoshinaka]] and [[Oishi Sadakatsu|Sadaka
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...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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...tora]] and was afterwards involved in the war with [[Shibata Katsuie]] (of the [[Oda clan|Oda]]).
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...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.
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...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 was a son of [[Nanbu Toshinao]], and lord of the 130,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Morioka han|Morioka]].
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...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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...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 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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...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 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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...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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...ul against Fujitaka but was defeated when [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] arrived and the [[Nuta clan]] betrayed him after his castle fell in [[1579]]. Yoshimichi co
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...] while [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada|Hidetada]] was away at the front.
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...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 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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...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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...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
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...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 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 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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...'[[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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...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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...], 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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