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• Inaba Masatomo
  ...ransferred to [[Yodo han]] in [[1723]].<ref name=yodojo>Plaques on-site at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/456525 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadatake
  ...i Shimazu house]], and succeeded his adoptive father to become the head of the family. He then married a relative of that family, with whom he had a daugh [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sugi Okitsura
  Okitsura was a son of [[Sugi Okifusa]]. He served the Ôuchi and acted as the ''[[shugodai]]'' of [[Chikuzen province]]. In [[1530]] he was tasked with l [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Isshiki Yoshisada
  ...[[1582]] by his uncle [[Isshiki Yoshikiyo]], who was in turn destroyed by the [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shimazu Torajumaru
  ...n [[1854]], however, at the age of [[Age Calculation|five or six]], before the betrothal was formalized. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ijuin Suma
  [[File:Ijuin-suma.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Ijûin Suma at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...eath, she was enshrined or deified as Warei-tokuju-hime, and was buried at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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• Isshiki Naoyasu
  ...Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' in [[1850]] and then being reassigned to the position of ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' (finance magistrate) a few mo [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shiga Chikamori
  ...family]] lost much of its influence when the Ôtomo were dispossessed after the [[1600]] [[Sekigahara Campaign]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Seki Morinobu
  ...iner of [[Oda Nobutaka]] though he supported [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] during the [[Shizugatake Campaign]] ([[1583]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Imagawa Norinobu
  ...nvoy to the imperial court and on similar missions on several occasions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...o Kyoto in [[1854]]/4 to officially inquire (on the shogun's behalf) as to the emperor's health and wellbeing.
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• Matsudaira Naochika
  ...placing [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], who was forced into retirement as part of the [[Ansei Purge]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yashiro Kageyori
  ...his family to death. He was an important commander in the campaign against the [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]] in 1600 but was dispossessed in 1607 for illegal act [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsu-hime
  ...-hime was an adoptive daughter of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. Born the daughter of [[Tokugawa Tsunanari]], she was later adopted by Shogun Tsunayo *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Machida Sanetsumi
  ...the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. He was 19 at the time. One of the other students was his 15-year-old younger brother, [[Machida Seijiro|Machi Sanetsumi returned to Japan the following year, in the 8th month.
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• Shimazu Hisamoto (1734-1805)
  ...gent watching over [[Shimazu Shigehide]], daimyô of [[Satsuma han]], until the latter was of age. Hisamoto accompanied the young ''daimyô'' to [[Edo]] on a number of occasions, most notably in [[17
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• Gono
  ...|gôshi]]'', wealthy rural peasants or commoners who enjoyed some degree of samurai privileges. *[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge
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• Yura Sadatoki
  ...perial court with gifts, on behalf of the shogun, in the wake of a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Okubo Tadakazu
  ...province|Mikawa]] after [[1561]]. While the young Ieyasu was a hostage of the [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]], Tadakazu worked effectively to help keep his clan [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Toda Tadahisa
  Toda Tadahisa was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Mito Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa clan]] of [[Mito han]]. ...severe damage in the [[Ansei Earthquake]]. He was posthumously elevated to the Senior Fourth Rank.
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• Araki Sotaro
  ...d, originally, to the Dutch.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2 ...s, along with a Japanese manuscript translation of an original letter from the Ruan family to Araki.
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• Kote
  ''Kote'' are a piece of Japanese armor which protects the lower arm. ...andard to wear protection on both arms, and this remained standard through the [[Edo period]], and into martial arts practices today.
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• Sudo Shuntaro
  ...u at [[Totsuka]] [[shukuba|post-station]] on [[1853]]/11/22 in revenge for the death of their father, Sudô Kyûemon. ...the case on [[1854]]/2/6 and acquitted the brothers. On 5/29 of that year, the brothers were honored by their lord, [[Matsudaira Tsunenori]], for their su
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• Iriki-in Shigetaka
  ...of [[Shimazu Yoshitora]]. He was adopted into first the [[Ei clan]], then the [[Iriki-In clan|Iriki-In]], where he succeeded [[Iriki-in Shigetoki]], who [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Fujiwara no Shunzei
  The ''[[Senzai-shu|Senzai-shû]]'', compiled in [[1188]], is among his famous c *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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• Kodama Naritada
  Naritada was the 2nd son of [[Kodama Motozane]] and became the head of the [[Kodama clan|Kodama family]]. He was a popular and effective administrator [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kinoshita Katsutoshi
  ...d was dispossessed after the latter's defeat. He retired to [[Kyoto]] with the name Chôshôshi and produced a number of books relating to [[waka]] (31 sy [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Artists and Artisans]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Honda Hirotaka
  ...mi]] army in its invasion of [[Kyushu]]. There he distinguished himself at the brief battle for [[Ganjaku castle]] in [[Buzen province]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kotohira Shrine
  ...is a [[Shinto shrine]] in [[Kagawa prefecture]], likely the most famous on the entire island of [[Shikoku]]. ...s today dedicated to the deity [[Omononushi|Ômononushi no mikoto]], and to the spirit of [[Emperor Sutoku]].
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• Kan'ei shoka keizuden
  ...Period"<ref>Berry. p234.</ref> was the first compilation of genealogies of the daimyô and ''[[hatamoto]]'' families. ...n [[1643]], the ''Kan'ei shoka keizuden'' covered the genealogies of 1,419 samurai families in two sets of 186 volumes (one set in Japanese, one in Chinese).
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• Oguri Tadamasa
  ...inance commissioner, and later military commissioner, in the last years of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. ...the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]] in [[1860]].
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• Shimazu Hisachika
  ...Iwami Hisachika was a late [[Edo period]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Kagoshima han]]. He led the [[1850]] [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] on their [[1
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• Oyama Takatomo
  ...he latter. Takatomo's second son [[Yuki Harutomo|Harutomo]] was adopted by the former's brother Masakatsu. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hashiguchi Denzo
  Hashiguchi Denzô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer involved in the [[1862]] [[Teradaya Incident]]. ...o put an end to the plot. Hashiguchi was killed by [[Narahara Shigeru]] in the resulting fight.
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• Kawamura Zuiken
  Kawamura Zuiken was an [[Edo period]] timber merchant who rose to samurai status. ...courier, he amassed a fortune through dealings in timber futures following the [[Meireki Fire]] of [[1657]]. He also became involved in public works proje
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• Nejime Shigetake
  ...toshi]]. He was the 16th head of his family and was at first a retainer of the [[Kimotsuki clan|Kimotsuki]] of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]] (Shigetake's [[Ne [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kagekiyo
  ...gekiyo'' is a [[Noh]] play by [[Zeami]], centering on the [[Taira clan]] [[samurai]] [[Taira no Kagekiyo]]. ...ow comes around looking for him, and finds him living as a blind beggar in the countryside.
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• Baba Nobufusa
  ...son of Kyôraishi Nobuyasu (教来石信保) and eventually succeeded Baba Torasada, the latter having been killed by [[Takeda Nobutora]]. He was at first known as ...ho'' (侍大将) and at this time changed his name to Baba Nobufusa and recieved the title of ''Minbu no shô''.
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• Kuroda Kiyotaka
  ...taka was the 2nd [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau]]. ...of the Hokuriku Pacification Supervisory Division (北陸鎮撫総監府), and fought in the [[Battle of Hakodate]].
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• Kiyokawa Hachiro
  ==The life of Kiyokawa Hachirô== ...n Kiyokawa village in [[Shonai han]] as a son of a [[Goshi|Gôshi]] (rural Samurai). Disinterested in his family's ''Sake'' brewing business, he travelled to
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• Oda Nobunori
  ...0, he was succeeded by his adopted son [[Oda Nobutami]], who had been born the son of [[Kuroda Nagamoto]], lord of [[Akizuki han]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ryuzoji Nobuchika
  ...He assisted his brother in various military endeavors (including war with the [[Matsura clan|Matsura]]). After Takanobu's death he assisted [[Ryuzoji Mas [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Yasutoshi
  ...ampaign]] ([[1590]]). He was a cousin to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and served in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] ([[1614]]). He received Zeze in [[Omi province|Ô [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kiire Hisamichi
  ...i was a son of [[Shimazu Tadayoshi (Soshu)|Shimazu Tadayoshi]] and assumed the name 'Kiire' in [[1558]]. He became an important Shimazu retainer who was p [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsudaira Mochiaki
  ...the [[Ansei Purge]]. Naokiyo was then granted the use of a character from the name of shogunal heir [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] and changed his name to Mochiaki [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshiakira
  Ashikaga Yoshiakira was the second [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Retired Emperor
  ...is was seen chiefly in the mid-[[Heian period]], an era often described as the "Insei Period" for that reason, though some later retired emperors were qui ...himself, naming those loyal to him to those positions, while also reducing the power of those positions.
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• Court costume
  ...mb|400px|Mannequins dressed in ''sokutai'' (left) and ''nôshi'' (right) at the National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku)]] ...loped into the forms of formal or ceremonial dress now associated with the samurai class.
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• Furihime
  *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tsuchiya Tadanao
  ...pted into the family, becoming [[Soma Tadatane|Sôma Tadatane]] and head of the Sôma. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
  Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Endo Tanenori
  ...ters of coastal defense as ''kaibô kakari'', and reconstruction efforts at the Nishinomaru of [[Edo castle]] as ''katte kakari''. In [[1852]], he was rewarded for his efforts in the Nishinomaru reconstruction by having his ''[[kokudaka]]'' increased by 2000
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• Shimazu Hisayoshi
  ...Kingdom]], likely dating to around [[1634]], survives in the collection of the Kagoshima Prefectural History Museum (Reimeikan) today. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kawakami Hisakane
  ...azu Narioki]] and his heir [[Shimazu Nariakira]] in [[1850]], accompanying the final [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
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• Kuchiki Masatsuna
  ...rote two books: one on Western coins, entitled ''Seiyô senpu'', and one on the geography and customs of Western countries, ''Taisei yochi zusetsu''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ogasawara Sadayoshi
  ...]], he left the Uesugi's service and joined [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Following the [[Komaki Campaign]] ([[1584]]) he defected to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sato Masayoshi
  Satô Masayoshi served as an assistant to [[Inoue Masaru]], in directing the first [[railroad]] construction in Japan. ...gunnery, and surveying at [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû's]] ''juku'', and at the [[Nagasaki Naval Training Center]] (''Nagasaki Kaigun Denshū-jo''), before
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• Tsuchiya Toshinao
  ...]]'' domain, in [[1612]]. Three years later, at the age of 8, he served in the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]]. He was also named Minbu-no-shô in [[1621]], but [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Reizei Takatoyo
  ...loyal to Yoshitaka when [[Sue Harukata]] rebelled in [[1551]] and assisted the former in committing suicide, after which he killed himself. He was a poet [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hongo Tadatora
  ...s with the [[Ryuzoji clan|Ryûzôji]] and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] and fought in the first of [[Korean Invasions|Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea]] ([[1592]]-93). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Akamatsu Yoshisuke
  ...ived in [[Himeji castle|Himeji]] at the sufferance of his nominal vassals, the [[Kodera clan|Kodera]] (Kuroda's lord). [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yang Su
  ...e]] - including textiles, [[tiger]] skins, and [[ginseng]] - by pirates in the [[Inland Sea]]. ...e among Koxinga’s Japanese Pirate Ancestors,” in ''Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai'', ed. by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang. UH Press (2016), 43-44.
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• Masuda Eitaro
  ...Nanshû Cemetery]] for Masuda and the 21 other men from Nakatsu who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]]] ...at group, 22 died in battle, with Masuda himself being killed at age 28 in the battle of Komekura (in [[Kagoshima]] City) on Sept 4, [[1877]].
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• Yangban
  ...officials and administrators in [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea, patterned after the scholar-official aristocracy in China. ...rmers and merchants below them, with a class of outcastes at the bottom of the ladder.
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• Otomo Chikamori
  ...[[1587]] [[Battle of Hetsugigawa|battle of Hetsugigawa]] and led troops in the 1st Korean Campaign. After his elder brother [[Otomo Yoshimune|Yoshimune]] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ito Sukeyuki
  Itô Sukeyuki was an early leader of the [[Satsuma han]] navy. ...cked Kagoshima]] in response to that incident, Itô was among those manning the coastal defenses at Gionnosu.
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• Iriki-in Kimihiro
  ...ead of the [[Iriki-in clan]], retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] and lord of the Iriki [[sub-fief]] within [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hayashi Tadakata
  ...umatsu period]] lord of [[Jozai han|Jôzai han]] ([[Kazusa province]]), and the last ''[[Fushimi bugyo|Fushimi bugyô]]'' ([[Fushimi]] Magistrate). He was ...position of Fushimi ''bugyô'' was abolished, and its duties transferred to the [[Kyoto]] ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.
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• Okubo Tadataka
  Ôkubo Tadataka was the 8th son of [[Okubo Tadakazu|Ôkubo Tadakazu]]. From [[1576]] he served his ...temple he established. The temple was relocated to its current location in the Takanawa neighborhood of [[Edo]]/[[Tokyo]] in [[1668]].
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• Ariyoshi Daizen
  ...f>The reading "Tachikuni" is only a guess; though the ''kanji'' are known, the reading is unclear.</ref> ...d of Kumamoto), and Hori Heitazaemon (a [[bugyo|magistrate]] in service to the Hosokawa). Ariyoshi was sentenced to house arrest, indefinitely.
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• Shinagawa Yajiro
  ...signed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]].<p>An inscription on the back of the stone base reads "Field Marshal Admiral Marquis [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô T ...in [[1857]]. In [[1862]]/12, Shinagawa was involved in the destruction of the British legation in [[Yokohama]].
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• Hachisuka Yoshishige
  ...wa province]] when Iemasa retired. He supported [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and later served him at [[Osaka castle]] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Date Mochimura
  ...i]], who he succeeded as lord of [[Ichinoseki han]] in [[1857]], taking on the name Tamura Yukiaki.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (19 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hotta Masatora
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masatora, [[Hotta Masanari]], and [[Hotta Masasuke]] at [[Ji Hotta Masatora was the second son of [[Hotta Masatoshi]], and a ''daimyô'' of [[Yamagata han]].
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• Ichijodani castle
  ...sakurayakata.jpg|right|thumb|500px|A scale model of the Asakura yakata, at the National Museum of Japanese History]] ...zed in [[1575]]. It is said that after [[Asakura Yoshikage]] fled for Ôno, the fortress burned for three days.
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• Asahi Shigeaki
  ...riod]]. He is particularly known for his extremely lengthy personal diary, the ''Ômurôchûki'' 鸚鵡籠中記, which he kept for 34 years. ...venteen in [[1684]], until one year before his death, as a grandfather, at the age of 45.
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• Oishi Sadahisa
  ...imasa|Hôjô Ujimasa's]] 2nd son [[Hojo Ujiteru|Ujiteru]]. After the fall of the Hôjô, his sons [[Oishi Yoshinaka|Yoshinaka]] and [[Oishi Sadakatsu|Sadaka [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Fujiwara no Teika
  ...o Shunzei]] and [[Fujiwara no Tokushi|Bifukumon-in no Kaga]], he was among the most prominent nobles of his time. ...on imperial orders, he compiled a ''[[waka]]'' poetry collection known as the ''[[Shinchokusen]]''.
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• Saito Tomonobu
  ...tora]] and was afterwards involved in the war with [[Shibata Katsuie]] (of the [[Oda clan|Oda]]). [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Otomo Chikasada
  ...ji]] of [[Hizen province]] but was himself killed and his army defeated at the [[Battle of Iyama|battle of Iyama]] in September of that year. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tsukushi Mamoru
  ...a han]] retainer active in the ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' movement in the 1860s. He was involved in a number of loyalist activities, including plotting to see the [[Fall of Seven Nobles Incident|former exiled nobles]] [[Sanjo Sanetomi|San
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• Nanbu Shigenao
  Nanbu Shigenao was a son of [[Nanbu Toshinao]], and lord of the 130,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Morioka han|Morioka]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hashimoto Sanai
  ...court physician who contributed to the translation of Western materials in the mid-1850s.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 97.</ In [[1856]], he was appointed organizer of the Fukui [[domain school]] [[Meidokan|Meidôkan]], and led classes for domain
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• Kawagoe Yotaro
  ...g to [[Kagoshima prefecture]] in answer to a call for aid from the rebels, the Fukuoka warriors never managed to join up with their Satsuma brethren befor ...Shiroyama]], on September 24, [[1877]], at the age of 26. He is buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.
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• Tokugawa Ieyoshi
  Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the 12th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. ...enpo Reforms|Tenpô Reforms]] of [[Mizuno Tadakuni]], and the beginnings of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and foreign policy efforts by [[Abe Masahiro]].
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• Murahashi Naoe
  ...eteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who snuck out of the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. ...the [[Meiji Restoration]], and contributed to agricultural development of the territory.
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• Morimoto Sosetsu
  Morimoto Sôsetsu was a [[Satsuma han]] official, the younger brother of court physician [[Morimoto Koken|Morimoto Kôken]]. He was one of several tens of officials exiled in the [[1808]] [[Kinshirokukuzure Incident]], in which [[Shimazu Shigehide]] rail
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• Ito Kashitaro
  ...Hitachi]] as a son of [[Shizuku han]] Samurai. His family was expeled from the han when he was little. He married to dojo master's daughter and inherited the dojo.
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• Isshiki Yoshimichi
  ...ul against Fujitaka but was defeated when [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] arrived and the [[Nuta clan]] betrayed him after his castle fell in [[1579]]. Yoshimichi co [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakai Shigetada
  ...] while [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada|Hidetada]] was away at the front. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Okubo Toshimichi
  ...rea]] in [[1873]], and took part in the [[Iwakura Embassy]] which traveled the world and visited a great many governments in [[1871]]-[[1872]]. ...y for Japanese of the [[Edo period]].<ref>Plaque on-site at former site of the Ryûkyû-kan, Nagata Middle School, Kagoshima.</ref>
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• Inoue Masaru
  Inoue Masaru was the first Japanese head of the [[railroads]] (''tetsudô-no-kami''). ...udied coal mining and railroads. Upon returning to Japan, he helped direct the establishment of railroads there.
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• Yamauchi Kazutoyo
  ...ame is sometimes rendered alternatively as Yamanouchi instead of Yamauchi; the given name, similarly, is alternatively Kazutoyo or Katsutoyo.</ref> ...ding troops in several of the most major battles of the closing decades of the [[Sengoku period]].
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• Takeda Nobuchika
  ...e|Shinano]]. He committed suicide when [[Kai province|Kai]] was invaded by the [[Oda clan|Oda]] and [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] in [[1582]]. His son [[Take [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Omura Masujiro
  ...of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]]. ...[[Edo]] known as the Kyûkyodô, and was subsequently appointed to teach at the [[Bansho shirabesho]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (
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• Ikeda Terumasa
  Ikeda Terumasa was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Himeji castle]]. ...ook steps to reduce the alarming power of the Ikeda and eventually reduced the family to Tottori (Inaba) and Okayama (Bizen).
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• Yamano Yasohachi
  Yamano Yasohachi joined the [[shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] with [[Shimada Kai]] and [[Ogata Shuntaro]]. It seemed he left the Shinsengumi in Hakodate before surrendered.
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• Ijuin Tadaaki
  ...'[[karo|karô]]'' and chief military strategist for the [[Shimazu clan]] in the 16th century. ...onda clan|Honda]] and [[Ichiki clan]]s, and aided [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] in the [[1554]] [[siege of Iwatsurugi]].
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• Rikiishi Katsunosuke
  ...shogunate]] official who played a role in port affairs in [[Hakodate]] in the 1850s-1860s. ...ohn Rodgers]] on several occasions, representing the ''bugyô'' in refusing the Americans permission to come ashore or to take up lodgings in Hakodate.
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• Hongo Tadaoki
  ...], also known as the Miyakonojô [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]]. He later took on the name Hisatatsu. ...s permission, returned to [[Kagoshima]] early the following year alongside the returning [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
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• Niiro Hisanobu
  Niiro Hisanobu, also known as Hisanaga, was the leader of a group of nineteen [[Satsuma students|students]] from [[Satsuma Niiro was 34 when he left Japan; like all the other members of the mission, he adopted a new name, and was known as Ishigaki Einosuke while ov
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• Hino Toshimoto
  [[File:Hino-toshimoto.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hino Toshimoto at [[Kuzuharaoka Shrine]] in [[Kamakura]]]] ...was a retainer in the service of [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] who fought to topple the [[Kamakura shogunate]].
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• Honda Tadatoki
  ...attack that resulted in the death of [[Sanada Yukimura]]. He was killed in the same battle. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Makino Narisada
  ...ng in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661–1711," The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 76, No. 3 (August) 2017: 608-609. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Niiro Nagazumi
  ...oshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] and at the [[Battle of Sekigahara]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Wakasa no Tsubone
  ...ly, the [[Hiki clan]]. Her father Yoshikazu and son Ichiman were killed in the same attacks; her daughter Take no gozen survived and went on to marry shog [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Maki Yoshinori
  ...yô]]'' (public works magistrate) until [[1850]], when he was reassigned to the position of [[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]. While serving in that posit [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshitoshi
  ...ht|thumb|400px|Statue of Sô Yoshitoshi in the former ''[[buke yashiki]]'' (samurai households) district of Tsushima Fuchû (Izuhara).]] * ''Japanese:'' 宗 義智 (''Sô Yoshitoshi'')<ref>One sometimes sees the name given as "Yoshitomo."</ref>
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• Tokugawa Tsunashige
  ..., and lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]] in [[Kai province]]. He became lord of the 350,000<ref>Hakuseki, 292n125.</ref> ''[[koku]]'' domain in [[1661]]. ...sunayoshi]] as his heir in [[1704]], and became shogun in [[1709]], taking the name [[Tokugawa Ienobu]].
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• Uemura Masakatsu (1535-1592)
  ...and in [[1608]] was made a commander of ashigaru. Iemasa served notably at the Seiges of [[Osaka castle]] and in [[1640]] was made a Daimyô at [[Takatori [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Naito Masahiro
  ...19th century lord of [[Koromo han]] in [[Mikawa province]] who also served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] as ''[[soshaban|sôshaban]]''. ...Naitô family of Koromo domain, and became lord of that domain (and gained the title of Tanba-no-kami) in [[1830]]. Appointed ''sôshaban'' in [[1842]], h
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• Hayashi Jussai
  ...shogunate|shogunate]] Confucian academy, the [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo]], in the early 19th century. ...imori]], lord of [[Iwamura han]] in [[Mino province]], he was adopted into the Hayashi family in [[1793]] to succeed [[Hayashi Kinpo|Hayashi Kinpô]], who
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• Hori Takayuki
  ...uma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who in [[1865]] snuck out of the country in order to study in Europe. ...a Michihira]] and others, he was later a member of a Satsuma delegation to the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]].
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• Ikeda Nobuteru
  ...ng his sorrow at her loss, saying "There is simply nothing I can say about the recent [death of your husband] Shônyû and your son. I share your sorrow a ==Notes to the Text==
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• So Yoshishige (1532-1588)
  [[Image:So mon.jpg|right|thumb|The Sô kamon.]] ...ed attempt at negotiations with the Koreans, with whom he had ties through the [[So clan|Sô's]] trading endeavors. He died while these negotiations, aime
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• Yamamoto Gonnohyoe
  Yamamoto Gonnohyôe was the 16th [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, serving another term as 22nd Prime Minist ...ro|Tôgô Heihachirô]] to Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, prior to the [[Russo-Japanese War]].
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• Nori-hime
  ...ger sister, [[Yasu-hime]]. Nori-hime was married to [[Shimazu Uzuhiko]] of the Echizen [[Shimazu clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Togo Ainoshin
  ...atsuma students|nineteen young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who snuck out of the country in [[1865]] in order to study in Europe. ...e name Iwaya Toranosuke as part of the deception necessary to sneak out of the country. While in Europe, he studied naval military science in particular.
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• Takanashi Sumiyori
  ...en lost to the Takeda. Sumiyori went on to serve under Kenshin's banner in the hopes that he might be restored to his old domain, but this was not to be. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Soda Hikosaburo
  ...(Korean) royal court in [[1482]]. Though he did not live in Korea or serve the court in any concrete fashion, this status granted him benefits when he tra [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Oban
  ...tle]]s, as well as patrolling the samurai districts of [[Edo]] (outside of the castle grounds proper). The commander of the ''Ôban'' was typically among the highest-ranking ''[[hatamoto]]'', but possessed little political power.
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• Kuroda Narihiro
  Born into the [[Shimazu clan]] as a son of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of [[Kagoshima han [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tokushi yoron
  ...r Montoku]] (r. [[850]]-[[858]]) through that of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] in the 1580s-1590s. ...okugawa clan]] in similar fashion, invoking the ancient Chinese concept of the [[Mandate of Heaven]].
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• Tsukushi Hirokado
  ...s]] under [[Kobayakawa Takakage]]. He sided with the Western forces during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] and fought at [[Otsu castle|Ôtsu castle]]. Althoug [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kimotsuki Kanetsugu
  ...e [[Ito clan|Itô]] of [[Hyuga province|Hyûga]]. In 1566 he was captured by the Shimazu and made to commit suicide. He was succeeded by his son [[Kimotsuki [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Maeda Toshitsune
  ...bio-->. He led men against the defenders of [[Osaka Castle]] and fought at the [[Battle of Tennoji|Battle of Tennôji]] ([[1615]]). ...[[Tokugawa Hidetada]].<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Kinoshita Iesada
  ...a 40,000-koku fief at Himeji in [[Harima province]] in [[1585]]. Following the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]), he was moved to Ashimori in [[Bitchu pr [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ii Naohira
  Ii Naohira was a [[Sengoku era]] head of the [[Ii clan]]. ...oshimoto, and who gave birth to [[Lady Tsukiyama]] (who would later become the first wife of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]).
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• Ijichi Sueyasu
  ...ensive and valuable collection of Satsuma domain records. Sueyasu was also the author of ''Nanbei kikô'', a three-volume treatment of Satsuma history fro [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hishijima Kunisada
  ...he early years of the [[Edo period]], he served as a ''[[karo|karô]]'' for the [[Shimazu clan]].<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu t [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Honda Tadatsugu
  ...He was married to a daughter of [[Suganuma Sadamura]] and was present for the marriage of Ieyasu's second daughter to [[Hojo Ujinao|Hôjô Ujinao]] ([[15 [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ogasawara Ujisuke
  ...ed to the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô]] domain. He was assassinated after the fall of the Hôjô in [[1590]], and went down in family history as a disgrace. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakai Ietsugu
  ...o 50,000 in [[1594]]. He fought at [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]] and the [[Osaka Campaign|Osaka Castle campaigns]] and in [[1619]] received a 100,00 [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Miyoshi Chokei
  ...a notable temple later rebuilt (following its destruction in [[1615]]) by the renowned priest [[Takuan Soho|Takuan Sôhô]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Suzuki Mikisaburo
  He survived the [[Incident at Aburano Koji]]. In the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]], he worked under [[Kirino Toshiaki|Nakamura Hanj
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• Ogiwara Shigehide
  ...been trampled upon, arousing the anger and grievance of the retainers and the populace."<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ikeda Yorikata
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ichijo Fusaie
  ...egion, Fusaie was able to firmly established the [[Ichijo clan|Ichijô]] in the region as daimyô. He founded Nakamura, which he planned to construct in su [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kawasho Yoshinori
  ...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 ...p survived the battle, only to be killed weeks later. Kawashô is buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.
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• 1488
  *The [[Hongzhi Emperor]] takes the throne in China. ...ki|monto]]'' revolt in [[Kaga province]] and drive out the ruling samurai (the ''[[shugo]]''/daimyô [[Togashi Masachika]]), establishing that province as
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• Sagara Yorimoto
  Sagara Yorimoto was the last [[Edo period]] lord of [[Hitoyoshi han]] in [[Higo province]]. He succ [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ota Nanpo
  ...agoromo Kisshû]] and [[Akera Kanko|Akera Kankô]], he was considered one of the Three Great Masters of ''[[tanka]]'' poetry of his time. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tokugawa Yorinobu
  ...Yorinobu was the tenth son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], and was the founder of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa branch family]]. ...e]], 550,000 ''koku'') in [[1619]] and so became the head of the second of the Tokugawa ''[[gosanke]]'' houses.
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• Murata Shinpachi
  [[File:Murata-shinpachi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Murata's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]]]] ...vernment]] and returned home to [[Kagoshima]], where he became the head of the ''[[Shigakko|Shigakkô]]'' artillery crew.
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• Matsudaira Yoritsugu
  ...aira Yorinobu]] while the lord of Mito, [[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]], was young. The three were dismissed from that position in [[1849]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôy ...ded [[Tani Morinori]] to become lord of [[Yamaga han]] in [[1855]], taking the name [[Tani Morishige]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2
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• Moko Shurai Ekotoba
  The Mongol Invasion Scroll, or ''Môko Shûrai Ekotoba'' was commissioned in [[ *Karl Friday, ''Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan'', Routledge (2004), 17.
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• Matsudaira Naomasa
  ...nitor of the [[Matsudaira clan (Echizen)|Matsudaira clan of Echizen]], and the first Matsudaira lord of [[Matsue han]]. He was the third son of [[Yuki Hideyasu|Yûki Hideyasu]], the second son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Naomasa's elder brothers were [[Matsudai
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• Tokugawa Mochinaga
  ...a]]) in [[1858]] when [[Tokugawa Yoshikumi]] was forced into retirement in the [[Ansei Purge]]. ...illegitimate child Matsudaira Yoshimasa (Hidemaro), who then later took on the name [[Tokugawa Yoshinori]].
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• Hosokawa Shigekata
  Hosokawa Shigekata was the 8th [[Edo period]] head of the [[Hosokawa clan]], and lord of [[Kumamoto han]]. ...his elder brother [[Hosokawa Munetaka]] as head of the family, and lord of the domain, after Munetaka died suddenly.
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• Matsudaira Nobuakira
  ...s lord of [[Yoshida han]] in [[Mikawa province]]. He served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1788]] until his resignation on [[1803]]/12/12. The annual ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' procession reenactment performed
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• Shimazu Tadashige
  Shimazu Tadashige was the son of [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], last ''daimyô'' of [[Satsuma han]]. ...aining traditional samurai modes of dress and lifestyle for some time into the [[Meiji period]], Tadashige had a British tutor from a young age, and adopt
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• Tokugawa Nobuyasu
  ...eyasu ordered him to commit suicide. Prior to his death, Nobuyasu had been the keeper of Okazaki in [[Mikawa province]]. He was also said to have had a cr [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Okochi Teruna
  ...haracter for "fun" or "relaxation" (楽, ''raku''), by Ôkôchi, on display at the [[Hotta mansion]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]]]] Ôkôchi Teruna was the last [[Edo period]] [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke provinc
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• Sakaino Ryoun
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Maeno Tadayasu
  ...[[Tanaka Yoshimasa]] and [[Kuroda Nagamasa]]. Whether or not he survived the battle is unknown. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Mori Takasue
  ...or archive of books and documents, within the grounds of [[Saiki castle]]. The 80,000 or so books in this collection were chiefly Chinese works, but also [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ogasawara Nagashige
  Ogasawara Nagashige was a shogunal official, who served as one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1697]]-[[1705]], and again from [[1709]]-[[1710] [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Imperial Rescript to the Military
  ...cts of all classes, and intimately tied into loyalty to the Emperor and to the nation. ...ment that the military "should be viewed as the reflection of the whole of the subjects of Japan,"<ref>Friday, 342.</ref> and indicates that soldiers shou
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• Shimazu Katsuhisa
  ...a]], he succeeded his elder brother [[Shimazu Tadataka]] to become head of the clan in [[1519]]. ...later years but when the two came at odds Katsuhisa was banished and spent the rest of his life wandering from place to place on [[Kyushu]].
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• Kaieda Nobuyoshi
  ...[[Narahara Kizaemon]] attempted unsuccessfully to seize control of one of the British vessels. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Narishige
  ...hige was given a fief in [[Omi province|Ômi province]] and later served in the [[Osaka Campaign|Osaka Campaigns]] ([[1614]], [[1615]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tanaka Yoshimasa
  ...at [[Kurume]]. Like [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]], Yoshimasa came from the humblest of roots but gained a high position due to his natural talents. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Odawara-shu shoryo yakucho
  ...its kind, making it a very valuable resource for historians investigating the relationship between ''[[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] [[daimyo|daimyô]]'' and ...men a given retainer was obliged to contribute, however, is not listed in the ''yakuchô''.
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• Asakura Norikage
  ...the main thing is winning." He had adopted the name Soteki after entering the priesthood. He hewed to his religious beliefs and produced no children of h ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Katsuhime
  *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kawarake
  ...or hierarchical power relative to the other; after the exchange of drinks, the plates would be broken.
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• Princess Yamashina Hisako
  ...Tadayoshi]], 29th head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. She was born and raised at the Shimazu clan's Iso Palace ([[Sengan'en]]) in [[Kagoshima]], and married Imp Following her death, some of her teeth and hair were buried at a gravesite at the Sengan'en.
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1632-1717)
  ...a member of the [[Matsudaira clan (Echizen)|Echizen Matsudaira clan]], and the first [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Hirose han]] in [[Izumo province]]. ...66]], marking the establishment of Hirose han. In [[1682]], as a result of the [[Echigo sodo|Echigo succession dispute]], Chikayoshi had his domain reduce
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• Samejima Hisanobu
  ...While in Europe, he studied literature in particular. He then traveled to the United States in [[1867]]/7 alongside [[Mori Arinori]] and [[Nagasawa Kanae Samejima returned to Japan the following year, in [[1868]]/6, and later became one of Japan's first ambass
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• Matsudaira Katamori
  Matsudaira Katamori was the ninth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Aizu han]], and a prominent figure in [[Baku Katamori was the sixth son of Lord [[Matsudaira Yoshitatsu]] of [[Takasu han]]. He was adopt
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• Fuchibe Takateru
  [[File:Fuchibe-gunpei.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Fuchibe Takateru at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Fuchibe Takateru was a notable [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] commander in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Ogasawara Tadazane
  ...transferred to [[Kokura han]] in Kyushu in [[1632]], as part of efforts by the shogunate to place more ''fudai [[daimyo|daimyô]]'' in that region, as a b ...which was abolished following the death of the other concurrent holder of the position, [[Okubo Tadamoto|Ôkubo Tadamoto]], in [[1670]].
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• Sano Tsunesada
  ...e of Tsunesada's temporary lodging on [[Tsushima]] during the reception of the [[1811]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Japan]].]] ...sunesada was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] envoy who played a role in receiving the [[1811]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Japan]] on [[Tsushima]
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• Yagyu Hisamichi
  ...e of Hisamichi's temporary lodging on [[Tsushima]] during the reception of the [[1811]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy]].]] ...n [[Tsushima]]. He held the position of ''[[Kanjo bugyo|Kanjô bugyô]]'' at the time.<ref>Suzuki Yasuko 鈴木康子, "Jûhasseiki kôki - Jûkyû seiki sh
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• Tokugawa Muneharu
  .... He was succeeded by [[Tokugawa Munekatsu|Matsudaira Yoshiatsu]], head of the [[Mino Takasu Matsudaira clan|Mino Takasu Matsudaira branch family]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ikusen-hime
  ...of [[Sakura han]]. She died in [[1863]] at the age of 59, and is buried at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery at [[Jindai-ji]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tokugawa Yoshiyori
  Tokugawa Yoshiyori was a head of the [[Tayasu clan|Tayasu]] branch family of the [[Tokugawa clan]]. ...f [[Tokugawa Narimasa]], he succeeded his father to become the 8th head of the Tayasu family in [[1839]]. In [[1858]], he was promoted from Gonnochûnagon
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• Jingasa
  ...right|thumb|300px|An 18th-19th century lacquered ''jingasa'' on display at the Metropolitan Museum.]] ...pe with the straw, conical ''kasa'' once called a "coolie hat" in English, the ''jingasa'' is typically [[lacquer]]ed, making it especially lightweight an
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• Mark Ravina
  ...ecent years, he has begun focusing on topics relating to state-building in the [[Meiji period]]. He has also appeared on CNN and the History Channel as an expert on Saigô Takamori, and other related subjects
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• Sakai
  ::''For the samurai clan, see [[Sakai clan]].'' ...derable degree of independence from [[samurai]] control throughout much of the [[Sengoku period]].
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• Muragaki Norimasa
  [[File:Muragaki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Muragaki and his family at [[Yanaka Tenno-ji|Yanaka Tennô-ji]] i ...y to the United States]], the only official overseas embassy dispatched by the shogunate.
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• Kamei Koremi
  ...f Rites [[Fukuba Bisei]], he was among the chief officials responsible for the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' ("separation of Shinto and Buddhism") policies. ...of [Shinto] shrines by all people below heaven, [and] the preservation of the doctrine of our Imperial nation."<ref>Ketelaar, 9.</ref>
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• Hotta Masamori
  ...d as ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1633]] until his death in 1651. He served on the ''[[hyojosho|hyôjôsho]]'', and was named chamberlain in [[1640]]. Masamori's third son, [[Hotta Masatoshi]], also joined the ''rôjû'' and became [[Tairo|Tairô]] later in life. Masamori's fifth son,
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• Hassaku
  ...[[Kanto|Kantô]] in [[1590]].<ref>Anne Walthall, “Hiding the Shoguns.” In ''The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion'', ed. Bernhard Scheid and Mark Tee
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• Tsuda Nobumitsu
  ...ka]] ([[1542]]) and later assisted his nephew [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] in the capture of [[Kiyosu]] ([[1544]]) and [[Muraki]] ([[1554]]). He died suddenl [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Todo Takatora
  ...al illness of the latter. In [[1620]] Takatora was tasked with supervising the reconstruction of [[Osaka castle]], which was conducted between 1620 and [[ [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ijichi clan
  ...were a samurai clan of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi province]], and retainers to the [[Shimazu clan]]. ...but were defeated the following year, and submitted to Shimazu authority. The Ijichi were granted territory in Ôsumi, and were based at Shimonojô (toda
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• Abe Masayoshi
  Abe Masayoshi was the second [[Abe clan]] lord of [[Fukuyama han]]. He was succeeded by [[Abe Mas His second-born son, [[Sakai Tadao (d. 1765)|Tadao]], was adopted by the ''[[hatamoto]]'' [[Sakai Tadaoka]], while his fourth son, [[Abe Masaoki]],
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• Abe Masasuke
  Abe Masasuke was the third [[Abe clan]] lord of [[Fukuyama han|Fukuyama domain]] (located in mod ...o castle]] the following month ([[1761]]/1). In [[1764]], he became one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''.
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• Nagao Harukage
  ...t more reliable, version has him being made to adopt Kagetora and name him the new lord. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shimazu Tetsumaru
  ...u Tadayoshi]] succeeding him as lord of [[Satsuma han]] on [[1858]]/12/28, the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] obliged Tadayoshi to adopt Tetsumaru as hi [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tanaka Moriaki
  ::''For the Tanaka Moriaki involved in the [[Teradaya Incident]], see [[Tanaka Kensuke]].'' ...eteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who snuck out of the country in [[1865]] to study abroad in Europe.
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• Morimoto Koken
  Morimoto Kôken was a court physician to the lords of [[Satsuma han]]. ...[Morimoto Sosetsu|Morimoto Sôsetsu]], also a Satsuma official caught up in the affair, was exiled to a remote island as well.
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• Rusukan
  ::''Not to be confused with [[rusuiyaku]], a samurai official who oversaw the administration of his [[han|domain's]] mansions and interests in [[Edo]] on ...nly an ''[[anzaisho]]'', a temporary capital, at least initially, and that the Imperial government continued to be seated in Kyoto until at least 1871.
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• Henmi Jurota
  [[File:Henmi-jurota.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Henmi Jûrôta at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Henmi Jûrôta was a commander of Satsuma forces in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Okubo Tadahiro
  ...ficial who served in several ''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'' (Magistrate) positions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...59, he was dismissed from the position of ''[[Nishinomaru rusui]]'' amidst the dismissal and (in some cases) house confinement of a number of prominent of
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• 1617
  *1617/3 The shogunate authorizes construction of a licensed quarters at Fukiya-chô. *1617/3/19 (April 24) The Japanese interpreter for the leader of [[Quang Nam]] meets with William Adams.
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• Naito Masatsuna
  ...g the supervision of the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]). He was dismissed from the position of ''Fushimi bugyô'' in [[1859]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshitsugu
  Sô Yoshitsugu was the 22nd head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and the fourth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Asano Nagaakira
  ...ed loyal to the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] but reportedly took 44 heads in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign|sieges of Osaka Castle]] ([[1614]], [[1615]]). He w [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yamamoto Masayoshi
  ...Masayoshi was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer, and the first lead instructor of the [[Zoshikan|Zôshikan]], a [[han school|domain school]] established by [[Shi ...tsuma, before being appointed to head the school then being established at the Confucian Hall. This school was later renamed "Zôshikan" in [[1786]]. Yama
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• Ido Satohiro
  ...e of the ''Ôsetsukakari'' (reception officers) for a time, helping to lead the shogunate's engagement with [[Commodore Perry]] and his men. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1665-1725)
  Matsudaira Chikayoshi was the third [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Funai han]] in [[Bungo province]]. ...(Magistrate of Temples & Shrines). In the latter post, he played a role in the reception of [[Korean embassies to Edo]] in [[1711]] and [[1719]].
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• Yoshii Tomozane
  ...|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' movement to overthrow the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the 1860s. ...ed connections with [[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]], and participated in the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]].
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• Saito Nagatatsu
  ...as killed alongside [[Oda Nobutada]] at Nijô following Nobunaga's death at the hands of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Mogami Yoshiaki
  ...mb|left|The Mogami mon, which is the same as that of the Shiba – from whom the Mogami were descended.]] ...ily dear by allowing internal problems to get out of control - in [[1622]] the Tokugawa ordered him to give up his fief in Dewa and move to [[Omi Province
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• Fukami Juzaemon
  ...the inspiration for Ikyû, the chief antagonist in ''[[Sukeroku]]'', one of the most popular kabuki plays of all time.
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• Honda Yasushige (1554-1611)
  ...da|Tokugawa Hidetada's]] councilors while Ieyasu went to [[Kyushu]] during the [[1st Korean Campaign]] ([[1593]]-94). In [[1601]] he would be moved to Oka [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tamura Akikage
  ...etsuke|Ômetsuke]]'' and reassigned to the position of ''[[karo|karô]]'' of the [[Tayasu Tokugawa clan|Tayasu family]] in [[1855]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tokugawa Munekatsu
  ...e became head of that family before, on [[1739]]/1/13, being named head of the Owari Tokugawa clan, succeeding [[Tokugawa Muneharu]]. Muneharu, taking res [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakai Tadashige (Himeji)
  ...[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]], and served as [[Tairo|Tairô]] within the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] for much of [[1865]]. ...[[1862]]/9/27, but lived less than a year, dying on [[1863]]/6/27 while on the way from [[Edo]] to Himeji.<ref name=keifuku/>
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• Eto Shinpei
  Etô Shinpei was a ''[[shishi]]'' (anti-shogunate rebel) and thinker of the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...nts in Japan, but the greatest talents in the world, in order to implement the military, economic, and other developments which will bring Japan national
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• Gokenin
  ...to]]'' ("bannermen") who filled that role of being the direct retainers to the shogun. ...maller stipends than ''hatamoto'', and were not entitled to audiences with the shogun.
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• 1619
  ...ogunate]] bans [[Ronin]] and [[Chonin]] (townspeople) from living in the [[samurai|Buke]] (warrior) residential area. * 1619/8 Osaka is put directly under control of the Bakufu.
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• Minagawa Hiroteru
  ...t [[Iiyama]] (40,000-koku) but lost it as a result of his association with the [[Okubo clan|Okubo]], who were disgraced and fell from power in [[1616]]. H [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Oda Nobuhide
  ...d at [[Suemori castle]] on 8 April 1551 and his funeral was carried out at the Bansyôji. He is remembered as being brave, at times reckless, and intemper ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Ikeda Mitsumasa
  ...ter government.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge Mitsumasa bore some relations to the [[Tokugawa clan]], as his mother had been adopted by Shogun [[Tokugawa Hide
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• Tanegashima Hisatoki
  Tanegashima Hisatoki was a late 16th-early 17th century lord of the islands of [[Tanegashima]], [[Yakushima]], and [[Erabushima]]. ...uzoji clan|Ryûzôji]] and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo clans]] and later served under the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] in [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[K
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• Toda Ginjiro
  Toda Ginjirô was a notable [[Mito han]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' (House Elder) of the [[Bakumatsu period]]. Ginjirô was placed under house arrest by the shogunate along with former lord of Mito [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] and fellow ''
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• Ikenoue Sadakata
  [[File:Ikenoue-sadakata.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Ikenoue Sadakata at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...adakata was a [[Satsuma han]] warrior who fought in the [[Boshin War]] and the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Yamanoda Kazusuke
  [[File:Yamanoda.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Yamanoda's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]], Kagoshima]] Yamanoda Kazusuke was a notable fighter in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Asakura Yoshikage
  ...ts were betrayed by Asakura Kageakira and he took his life on 8/20/1573 at the Rokubô Kenshôji. His weak character had by then disenchanted a number of ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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• Tanegashima Hikonojo
  ...gashimahikonojo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Tanegashima Hikonojô at the Nanshû Cemetery.]] Tanegashima Hikonojô was co-leader of the 14th Kiheitai Army in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Matsumae Yoshihiro
  ...atsumae, the town in Ezo where his clan was originally from, to a group of the late Hideyoshi's chief retainers at [[Osaka castle]]. Yoshihiro had reporte [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• So Sadamori
  ...an important collection]] of Korean [[sutra]]s to a [[Hachiman]] shrine on the island, which was later donated by [[Ishida Mitsunari]] to [[Mt. Koya|Mt. K ...and. Sadamori's son [[So Shigemoto|Sô Shigemoto]] succeeded him as head of the Sô house and ruler of Tsushima.
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• Kuroda Nagamoto
  ...era lord of [[Akizuki han]]. Several of his sons were adopted as heirs by the lords of other [[han|domains]]. ...ta]] to become lord of a branch domain of [[Tosa han]] in [[1856]], taking the name [[Yamauchi Toyoyoshi]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, v
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• Mizuno Tadayuki
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yamato yokome
  ...bugyôsho]]'', the [[Satsuma han]] office which oversaw Satsuma business in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. ...dispatching of officials to [[Kumejima]] and elsewhere in conjunction with the kingdom's reception of [[Chinese investiture envoys]].
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• Yagyu Toshimune
  ...nate]] as a ''[[koke|kôke]]'', he was appointed on [[1854]]/11/5 to become the shogun's personal swordsmanship instructor. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Iriki-in Shigetoki
  ...s killed along with the entire Iriki-in contingent during the retreat from the battlefield. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ogura Tomochika
  [[File:Ogura-tomochika.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Ogura's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] Ogura Sôkurô Tomochika was a notable Satsuma commander in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Shigakko
  ...'shigakkô'' founded by [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] on the grounds of the stables of [[Tsurumaru castle]]]] ...s of Saigô's ''shigakkô'', marked by what are said to be bullet holes from the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]]]
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• Machida Seijiro
  ...nuck out of the country in [[1865]] in order to study in Europe. Age 15 at the time, he accompanied his two older brothers, 28-year-old [[Machida Hisanari ...s on in his studies, because of his young age. While in Europe, he went by the name Shimizu Kenjirô, but after he returned to Japan in [[1866]]/8, he cha
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• Saigo Kichijiro
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Ii Naotaka
  .... He distinguished himself at the Osaka Campaigns (commanding 3,200 men at the [[Battle of Tennoji|Battle of Tennôji]] in June [[1615]]) and following th [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Military conscription
  ...the [[Heian period|Heian]] through [[Edo period]]s, government relied on [[samurai]] forces (either hired, or called up by feudal obligations) for military ac ...o defend against possible invasion from the continent (in the aftermath of the wars with Tang & [[Silla]]).<ref name=debary>William de Bary, ''Sources of
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• Imperial Japanese Navy
  ...ther top-ranking naval officials in the Meiji period were [[shizoku|former samurai]] of [[Satsuma han|Satsuma domain]]. ...such as [[Kure]] and [[Sasebo]] were made able, from a very early point in the Meiji period, to house, arm, maintain, and repair modern warships.
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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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• Nakamura Hironari
  Nakamura Hironari was among Japan's first ambassadors to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark. ...l|domain school]] in Kagoshima, and later served as Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark.
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• Takenouchi Yasunori
  ...ting with Napoleon III in Paris several months later, as well as attending the 1862 World's Fair ([[Great London Exposition]]).
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• Takako joo
  ...sugawa Takahito]] and adopted daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]], was the wife of [[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]], lord of [[Mito han]]. She was also Yoshiats ...ya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 48.
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• Soma Yoshitane
  ...igahara Campaign]] and was deprived of his domain as a result. However, on the occasion of [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Tokugawa Iemitsu's]] birth in [[1604]], Yosh [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tokugawa Mochitsugu
  ...vol 2 (1937), 598.</ref> Mochitsugu then received the honor of the use of the ''mochi'' [[kanji|character]] from Iemochi at his ''[[genpuku]]'' on 1858/1 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kenmon
  ...period]]s. Often absentee landowners, they were [[kuge|aristocratic]] and samurai families, [[Buddhist temples]], and [[Shinto shrines]] which wielded extens ...both within their estates and in the capital and elsewhere, often skirting the control of central authorities and dominating local economies, trade networ
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• Funabenkei
  ...o]], is attacked by the angry spirit of [[Taira no Tomomori]], who died at the [[Battle of Dan no Ura]]. ...ki'' in terms of the plot, as well, having Shizuka sent away, to return to the capital, rather than traveling with Yoshitsune and Benkei, as she does in v
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• Satake Yoshiaki
  [[Image:Satake mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Satake kamon.]] ...ma]], Yoshiaki's health began to fail him and he handed over leadership of the family to his eldest son Yoshishige in [[1562]].
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• Taira no Sukemori
  ...iyomori]] who fought in the [[Genpei War]] and is believed to have died in the [[Battle of Dan no Ura]] in [[1185]]. ...Sukemori is said to have established his in an area known as Shodon 諸鈍 on the neighboring island of [[Kakeroma-jima]].
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• Tokugawa Yoshinao
  ...hed by his father Tokugawa Ieyasu to provide heirs to the main line should the latter require one. Like his two younger brothers, [[Tokugawa Yorinobu|Yori [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Yarazamori gusuku
  ...ô Sei]] using labor not only from [[Okinawa Island]] but from elsewhere in the kingdom as well.<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Japanese History (R ...ounted at each of the two fortresses as well.<ref>Turnbull, Stephen. ''The Samurai Capture a King: Okinawa 1609''. Oxford: Osprey Press, 2009. p26-27.</ref>
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• Miura Yoshimura
  ...o]] on a number of occasions, including contributing to the suppression of the [[1213]] [[Wada Conflict]]. ...e immediately after the assassination and sought to discuss with Yoshimura the process of how Kugyô would be named [[shogun]].
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• Honda Kinkichiro
  ...eiji period]] artist and cartoonist; he served as the first cartoonist for the influential newspaper ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]''. ...[Hiroshima]] run by [[Nomura Fumio]], who later invited him to join him on the ''Marumaru chinbun'', which Nomura founded in [[1877]].
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