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• Narahara Kizaemon
  ...e most responsible for the death of English merchant Charles Richardson in the [[1862]] [[Namamugi Incident]]. He was a master of the ''[[Yakumaru Jigen-ryu|Yakumaru jigen-ryû]]'' sword school.<ref>"Narahara
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• Shimazu Tadayoshi (Soshu)
  ...kami 相模守. Not to be confused with the Sôshû Shimazu family 総州島津家 from when the main, central, Shimazu lineage was split into Sôshû 総州家 and Ôshû ...imazu Yukihisa]], head of the Sôshû Shimazu, making Tadayoshi heir to both the Isaku and Sôshû Shimazu lines.
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• Tokugawa Iesato
  ...ollowing the fall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He served as president of the [[House of Peers]] from [[1903]] to 1933. ...came the 7th head of that family before becoming adopted as successor into the main line Tokugawa house.<ref>Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www
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• Naito Nobuchika
  Naitô Nobuchika was a [[Bakumatsu period]] member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. ...] from [[1850]]/9/1 until [[1851]]/12/21, after which he was reassigned to the post of ''Nishinomaru rôjû''; he was succeeded as Kyoto shoshidai by [[Wa
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• Shimazu Hisanaru
  ...ed. He then replaced Bungo as leading<!--首席--> ''karô'', and became one of the protectionist / national defense faction. When he refused to join or suppor [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nozoki Yoshimasa
  ...he dramatic reversal, for the better, of Yonezawa's financial situation in the 1790s. ...higesada]] before he and a group of like-minded domain officials, known as the Seigasha, convinced Shigesada to retire in [[1767]] in favor of [[Uesugi Ha
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• Morikawa Masakazu
  [[File:Morikawa-Masakazu.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Morikawa's tombstone at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...anese Army]] soldier in the [[Boshin War]] and Satsuma fighter who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Kasamori Osen
  ...murai, on account of his swords, or a [[kabuki]] actor merely dressed as a samurai. ''[[Ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock print by [[Suzuki Harunobu]], c. 1768-69. Brookl ...artists of the time, [[Suzuki Harunobu]] first among them, who took her as the subject of their prints.
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• Manabe Akifusa
  ...ujiwara clan]]. Akifusa served Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferre [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Tadamasa
  ...awa Hidetada]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and fought in the [[Osaka Campaign|Osaka castle]] sieges ([[1614]], [[1615]]). ...ain of [[Himeji han]] in [[Harima province]], and expanded [[Himeji castle|the castle]] considerably, including adding residences for his son [[Honda Tada
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• Hatakeyama Yoshinari
  Hatakeyama Yoshinari was the first head of the Tokyo Kaisei Academy (today, the [[University of Tokyo]]). ...ile in Europe, he studied military science. In [[1867]]/7, he relocated to the United States, where he studied law, politics, and social sciences at Rutge
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• Koremune clan
  The Koremune clan were a [[samurai]] clan originally from [[Sanuki province]] on [[Shikoku]]. ...onmyodo|onmyôdô]]''. From the medieval period onwards, the Koremune served the Imperial court.
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• Ii Naomasa
  ...s encroachment into Totomi but later accepted their rule. He was killed at the [[Battle of Okehazama]] along with his lord, [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]]. ...utoyo]] be assisted in quelling the erstwhile [[Chosokabe clan|Chosokabe]] samurai of [[Tosa province]], instead sending one of his retainers ([[Suzuki Hyoe]]
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• Yamaguchi Naoki
  ...n his historic trip to [[Kyoto]] (along with the [[Shinsengumi]]). During the same year, he was appointed administrator of Kanagawa. ...a cannon attack on an American ship in [[Choshu|Chôshû]], he investigated the incident along with [[Matsumae Takahiro]].
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• Kodai-in (1773-1844)
  Kôdai-in was the chief wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]]. .... In [[1776]], at the age of 4, she was engaged to Matsudaira Toyochiyo of the [[Hitotsubashi family]], who would later become Tokugawa Ienari. He became
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• Inoue Kiyonao
  ...hin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 142.</ref> He was then reassigned to the position of [[Machi bugyo|Kyoto machi bugyô]] later that same year.<ref>Is [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kuze Hirochika
  ...hika was lord of [[Sekiyado han]] and a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in the late 1840s to early 1850s. ...e being named ''[[jisha bugyo|jisha bugyô]]'' in [[1843]]. He was named to the ''nishinomaru rôjû'' in [[1848]], and to full ''rôjû'' status shortly a
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• Sakata Moroto
  ...ate behavior was based on unfounded rumors and accounts written long after the fact. ...[[Akizuki han]], and after the [[Meiji Restoration]] became an official in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] prior to his death in [[1875]].
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• Mori Takachika
  ...obumi]] and [[Hayashi Tomoyuki]]; a sixth statue was added in [[1906]], on the initiative of [[Katsura Taro|Katsura Tarô]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nakamura Josuke
  [[File:Nakamura-josuke.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Grave of Nakamura Josuke at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...ita prefecture]], who turned against the [[Meiji government]], and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Nakamura Goro
  Nakamura Goro joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1865]]. He tried to join the [[Goryo Eji|Goryô Eji]] but was refused by [[Ito Kashitaro|Itô Kashitarô
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• Maeda Toshitomo
  ...田利保-->, stepped down as lord of Toyama due to illness in [[1846]], passing the position to Toshitomo. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hosokawa Yoshikuni
  Hosokawa Yoshikuni was the 13th [[Hosokawa clan]] lord of [[Kumamoto han]]. ...shogun's name, taking on the name Yoshiyuki. In [[1868]], he then took on the name Yoshikuni.
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• Ikki
  ...acts with one another to work together for common interests, and to defend the group's independence from warlords or others. ...ember would then drink, in a ritual called ''ichimi shinsui'' ("one sip of the gods' water").<ref>[[Eiko Ikegami]], ''Bonds of Civility'', Cambridge Unive
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• Hori Hideharu
  ...hough he was to play only a small role in the 'Eastern' campaign to defeat the [[Uesugi clan]]. He died at a young age, prompting some to question whether [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Maeda Gen'i
  ...f the ''[[odoi]]'' embankment surrounding the center of the city, and work the following year on [[Fushimi castle]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nagai Motofusa
  ...found today, on the former site of Terumoto's residence in Hagi, alongside the graves of Terumoto and his wife. ...at-japan Paying my respects to the most loyal cat in Japan]," The Order of the Good Death, 27 June 2017.
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• Shimazu Hisayasu
  ...e adopted Hisayasu to be his heir. After the [[Shimazu clan]] submitted to the authority of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] in [[1587]], Hideyoshi granted Morokata Hisayasu then led Shimazu forces in the [[Odawara Campaign]] of [[1590]]. He accompanied his father in Hideyoshi's
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• Naito Nobuteru (1592-1665)
  ...City of New York by Tokyo's Taitô Ward in 1980, the lantern now stands in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.<ref>"[http://www.bbg.org/about/history A Brief Hi Naitô Nobuteru was the son of [[Naito Nobumasa|Naitô Nobumasa]], and first [[Edo period]] [[Naito
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• Akashi Motojiro
  ...-determination for all peoples were beginning to seep into many corners of the globe. ...tudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 1
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• Morishima Churyo
  ...nent writer and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the late 18th century, known as the writer of numerous popularly-published books on foreign cultures, as well a ...ery work on Ryûkyû published later in the Edo period drew extensively upon the ''Ryûkyû-banashi''. Chûryô seems to have planned a ''Chôsen-banashi''
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• Kiya Kyuzaemon
  ..., appearing in a number of secondary sources under the surname Kii, and/or the given name Kyûemon. ...in [[1619]]; it is therefore unclear just when he stepped down as head of the ''Nihonmachi'', returned to Japan, and/or died.
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• Takami Senseki
  ...nteractions or connections with other scholars, literati (''bunjin''), and the like. ...kan'') in Ibaraki City holds some 3,000 documents associated with Senseki; the collection as a whole has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]
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• Tomo Kaneyuki
  [[File:Tomo-kaneyuki.jpg|Right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tomo Kaneyuki at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...Shigakko|Shigakkô]] ([[Satsuma Army Cadet School]]) who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Tosen
  ...en-kogyo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A woodblock print of the climactic scene of the play, by [[Tsukioka Kogyo|Tsukioka Kôgyô]]]] ::''This is about the Noh play. For Chinese trading ships, see [[Chinese in Nagasaki]].''
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• Kaigai Iden
  ...衛-->, Japanese figures prominent in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam) and [[Taiwan]] in the early 17th century. ...ative of Foreign Travel of Modern Japanese Adventurers,” ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'', vol. VII (1879), 196-210.</ref>
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• Japanese Inn
  ...apanese-inn.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A copy of ''Japanese Inn'' on display at the Minaguchiya Gallery]] ...he inns that supported it were an important feature of the [[Edo Period]]. The book became a bestseller soon after its initial publication in 1961, and wa
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• Hirano Shosuke
  [[File:Hirano-shosuke.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Hirano's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Hirano Shôsuke was a notable commander of Satsuma forces in the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Wada Nobunari
  ...r. In [[1590]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] armies invaded the Hôjô domain and Wada castle was captured. Nobunari fled and dropped out o [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• 1394
  *[[Seoul]] becomes the capital of [[Joseon]] dynasty [[Korea]]. ...tsu is named ''[[daijo daijin|daijô daijin]]'', becoming only the second [[samurai]] after [[Taira no Kiyomori]] to hold that title.
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• Mori Ranmaru
  * ''Distinction: One of the [[Vassals of Oda Nobunaga]]'' ...mura castle]] in Mino in [[1582]], he was at the side of Oda Nobunaga when the latter was attacked by [[Akechi clan|Akechi]] troops at [[Honnoji]] in Jun
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• Kochi
  ...efecture|Kôchi prefecture]], and was the [[jokamachi|castle town]] seat of the [[Yamauchi clan]] lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...er the remainder of the Edo period, however, the population of the rest of the domain roughly doubled.
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• So Yoshinobu
  Sô Yoshinobu was the 24th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]]. He became the sixth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]] in [[1718]]. Yoshinobu was the 7th son of [[So Yoshizane|Sô Yoshizane]]. He is known for austerity polici
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• Kimotsuki Kaneshige
  ...eshige was a prominent leader of the [[Kimotsuki clan]] during the wars of the [[Nanbokucho period|Nanboku-chô period]]. ...asted eight months, ending in Kaneshige's death, and the castle falling to the [[Shimazu clan]]. Kaneshige was buried at Jôkô-ji in Kimotsuki Town, [[Ka
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• Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
  ...ho was supposed to be Hideyoshi's heir but died when still quite young, at the age of three. ...omi Hideyori]], the one who would finally actually go on to become head of the [[Toyotomi clan]] after Hideyoshi's death.
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• Inoue Masamine
  Inoue Masamine served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1705]] to [[1722]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yamauchi Toyomasa
  ...He was the grandson of the second lord, [[Yamauchi Tadayoshi]], and son of the third lord, [[Yamauchi Tadatoyo]]. ...bly higher than those of his predecessors, but they more than doubled over the course of only about five years, within his own period of lordship. Whereas
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• Matsuda Naoe
  ...an official at [[Kamigamo Shrine]], and eventually succeeded his father to the same position. He studied poetry under [[Kamo Suetaka]]. ...ntitled ''Mitsugi no hachijû sen'', is a valuable source for understanding the Ryukyuan missions.
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• Itakura Shigemune
  ...Shigemune served as [[Kyoto shoshidai]] (chief [[Kyoto]] city official for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]) from [[1619]]/9 until [[1654]]/12/6. ...ref>Jiang Wu, ''Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia'', Oxford University Press (2
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• Matsudaira Tadakata
  ...was dismissed from that position on [[1858]]/6/23 following the signing of the [[Harris Treaty]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kano Hisayoshi
  ...Hisayoshi in Kagoshima, with the former prefectural government offices in the background]] ...reviving its commercial production after the destruction and exhaustion of the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Maeda Nariyasu
  ...nds today, while the grounds of the mansion have become the main campus of the [[University of Tokyo]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshiaya
  ...myô'' of [[Tsushima han]] from [[1838]] to [[1842]]. His wife, Jihôin, was the daughter of a [[Mori clan|Môri clan]] ''daimyô'' of [[Choshu han|Chôshû [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Beppu Kagenaga
  [[File:Beppu-shinsuke.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Beppu Kagenaga at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima]] ...naga was a [[Satsuma han]] warrior perhaps best known for having served as the ''kaishakunin'' ("second") who beheaded [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]]
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• Maeno Nagayasu
  ...ess, he was forced to commit [[suicide]] along with his son as a result of the [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu|Hidetsugu]] affair. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shirao Kunihashira
  ...strate of Records (''kiroku [[bugyo|bugyô]]'') and ''[[monogashira]]'' for the [[han|domain]]. In [[Edo]], he studied under [[Hanawa Hokiichi]] and [[Mura Shirao worked with [[So Senshun|Sô Senshun]], at the orders of ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Shigehide]], to produce a volume on agricul
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• Takahashi Shoun
  ...i and all of his men were killed, his resistance played a key role towards the Shimazu decision to give up on their efforts to push further into Ôtomo te After the [[Battle of Sekigahara]], the Takahashi clan would cease to exist. However, Shôun's bloodline did contin
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• Kabayama Hisataka
  ...t two [[Edo period]] lords of [[Satsuma han]], and was involved in many of the [[Shimazu clan]]'s major military campaigns of his time. ...ng the [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]] as the chief commander of the ''[[han]]'s'' forces in [[1609]].
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• Konando
  ...and to the lord's personal effects and private chambers, than most of even the highest-ranking retainers. ...ding the swords worn by the lord on a regular basis (other swords owned by the lord, such as treasured heirlooms, were typically overseen by a different o
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• Asano Nagamichi
  ...acter from the name of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] in [[1859]], he took on the name Mochinaga.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Asano Yoshiteru
  ...Hiroshima branch domain, who was then adopted into the main line to become the new ''daimyô''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Makara Naotaka
  ...t the [[1570]] [[battle of Anegawa]], engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the support of his son until he was cut down. ...e six years later, in [[1576]], by Yamada Jinpachirô Yoshihisa, a man from the nearby Kumano [[shoen|manor]] in Kasugai district, [[Owari province]].<ref>
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• Itakura Katsukiyo
  ...'[[roju|rôjû]]'', but was ousted from that position as well in [[1864]] as the result of political factionalism. While serving as ''rôjû'' in the early 1860s, he worked alongside [[Kido Takayoshi]], [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu K
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• Matsudaira Naonori
  ...is elder brother [[Matsudaira Naomune]]<!--直致-->, he inherited headship of the family in [[1884]]. ...e House of Lords, and board member or company director of Akashi Bank, and the Hakushika [[sake|saké]] company.
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• Tokugawa Mitsutomo
  Tokugawa Mitsutomo was the third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Owari han]]. A son of [[Tokugawa Yoshinao]], Mitsutomo was also the seventh generation master of the [[Yagyu Shinkage Ryu|Yagyû Shinkage ryû]] school of swordsmanship.
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• Nanbu Toshinao
  Toshinao was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Morioka han]], in northern [[Tohoku|Tôhoku] ...]] and [[Date Masamune]] against the forces of [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]]. After the campaign was concluded, Toshinao was confirmed in his 100,000 ''[[koku]]''
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• Clothing
  ==The Kimono== ...rer, you'll become a laughingstock."<ref>Sato, Hiroaki. ''[[Legends of the Samurai]] Overlook pg. 251</ref>
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• Egawa Hidetatsu
  ...aikan]], overseeing [[Izu province]] and some of the surrounding areas, in the late 1840s until his death in [[1855]]. He played a prominent role in coast ...d on 1855/1/16 at his [[Edo]] residence. He was later posthumously granted the Senior Fourth Rank, and was succeeded as ''daikan'' and ''teppôkata'' by h
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• Nagayama Morihiro
  [[File:Nagayama-morihiro.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Nagayama Morihiro at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...sts in [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]) and a notable commander of Satsuma forces in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Yari no Gonza kasane katabira
  ...who end up deciding to die together since they cannot be together in life. The story was inspired by events which took place in [[Osaka]] earlier that yea ...with one of Ichinoshin's students, Gonza, a love which ultimately leads to the double-suicide.
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• Toma Juchin
  ...ukyuan royal court and who is known for his role in currency reform within the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. ...around this time, and stands as an example of the fluidity of identity at the time, in a handful of notable marginal cases at least.
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• Ishiko Masahira
  ...in [[1854]]. In 1855, he was reassigned to become a ''[[karo|karô]]'' for the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan|Hitotsubashi family]]. ...rô'' to the position of ''[[sobashu|sobashû]]''. In [[1858]]/7, as part of the [[Ansei Purge]], he was dismissed from his position and sentenced to house
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• Matsudaira Tadaaki
  ...ttsu]] and [[Kawachi province|Kawachi provinces]] worth 100,000 ''koku''), the central town of which he set about rebuilding. He was transferred to [[Yama [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakakibara Masaharu
  ...:Sakakibara-masaharu.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Sakakibara Masaharu at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...Shigakko|Shigakkô]] ([[Satsuma Army Cadet School]]) who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Ie
  ...traditional Japanese arts also bears a strong connection to the concept of the ''ie''. ...ndividual, wealth or power. This was the case for myriad decisions made by the head of household, including decisions regarding marriage prospects for the
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• Yae-hime
  ...[[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], and wife of [[Tokugawa Yoshizane]] of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]]. Born the daughter of [[Takatsukasa Sukenobu]], she was later adopted by ''[[Kanpaku]
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• Kinoshita Toshifusa
  ...hi]] in fighting against [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] in [[1600]], but went to join the Tokugawa attack on [[Osaka castle]], for which he was awarded his father's In [[1633]], following the death of his aunt [[Kodai-in (d. 1624)|Kitamandokoro Nene]] in [[1624]], he
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1828-1886)
  Matsudaira Chikayoshi was the 10th [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Funai han]] in [[Bungo province]]. ...in [[Ise province]], Chikayoshi was adopted by [[Matsudaira Chikanobu]] of the [[Matsudaira clan (Ogyu)|Ogyû Matsudaira clan]] and succeeded him, becomin
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• Art-name
  ...ame more popular, the use of ''gô'' expanded dramatically, with commoners, samurai, and others alike taking on names they would then use in ''[[haikai]]'' or ...ng akin to "enclave publics," comprising between them a "public sphere" in the Tokugawa period.
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• Kodama brothers
  [[File:Kodama-bros.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Gravestone for Kodama Sanenao at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Rebellion]], mostly in and around [[Kumamoto]]. All are buried together in the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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• Nyui Mitsugi
  ...osaki castle]] kitchen staff (''zenban'') in 1744, valet (''konandoyaku'') the following year, personal secretary (''kinju koshô'') in [[1749]], and fina ...s to ensure that necessities flowed without scarcity or abundance, without the price fluctuations caused by supply and demand; as an example, he often cit
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• Sanjo Munechika
  ...which he is assisted by a [[kitsune|fox spirit]] in producing a sword for the emperor.<ref name=pitelka138>Pitelka, 138-140.</ref> ...be used today) to top the ''naginata-hoko'' ("Halberd Float") which leads the procession in Kyoto's ancient [[Gion Matsuri]].
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• Hojo Takatoki
  ...in [[1333]] (''Hôjô Takatoki Harakiri [[Yagura]]''), a short distance from the grave of [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], in [[Kamakura]].]] ...ô clan regents]] (''[[shikken]]''). He was forced to commit suicide during the [[1333]] [[Siege of Kamakura|fall of Kamakura]] to pro-Imperial forces led
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• Go Shiken
  ...its of the kings (''[[ogo-e]]'') and paintings to be presented as gifts to samurai elites, among other sorts of works.
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• Tanuma Mototomo
  Tanuma Mototomo was a prominent shogunate official, and the son of [[Tairo|Tairô]] [[Tanuma Okitsugu]]. ...-kami and Master of Shogunal Ceremony, being elevated to Yamashiro-no-kami the following year. In [[1783]], he was named a ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'', with a s
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• Taira no Yukimori
  [[File:Yukimori-jinja.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall at Yukimori Shrine on [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]]] ...r who fought in the [[Genpei Wars]] and is believed to have likely died in the [[Battle of Dan no Ura]] in [[1185]].
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• Saito Tatsuoki
  ...|Asakura]] of [[Echizen province|Echizen]]. He was killed at Tonezaka when the Oda invaded Echizen in [[1573]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshishige (1717-1775)
  Sô Yoshishige was the 27th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and the ninth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. ...hiyuki|Sô Yoshiyuki]] died, in [[1752]] he succeeded him to become lord of the domain.
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• Emperor Go-Daigo
  ...emmu Restoration]], which for a brief time in the 1330s brought a break in samurai (shogunate) rule over Japan. ...akura]], that year, marking the fall of the shogunate and the beginning of the Kemmu Restoration.
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• Saito Toshimitsu
  ...June 2010.</ref>. Another theory has that he killed himself the day after the battle. ...s said that his close friends, the painter [[Kaiho Yusho|Kaihô Yûshô]] and the tea master [[Toyobo Chosei|Tôyôbô Chôsei]], took his head to [[Shinnyod
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• Toda Ujiyoshi (Uraga bugyo)
  ...rhaps best known for his efforts as ''[[Uraga bugyo|Uraga bugyô]]'' during the visits of [[Commodore Matthew Perry]] to Japan in [[1853]]-[[1854]]. ...the construction of the ''[[Soshunmaru|Sôshun-maru]]'' and other ships for the shogunate, among other tasks.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要,
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• Chikamatsu Shigenori
  ...and an amateur [[tea ceremony|tea]] enthusiast, known for his writings on the subject. ...republished in [[1816]], in response to popular demand. The text speaks of the values of tea as articulated by [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]], with emphas
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• Sakai Tadanori
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakuma Nobumori
  ...hiyama Honganji]] from [[1575]] until [[1580]]. Following the surrender of the Honganji, Nobunaga wrote a scathing letter to Sakuma, accusing him of both [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadahiro
  Shimazu Tadahiro was the final lord of [[Sadowara han]]. ...]] at the young age of 12, when his father died suddenly at [[Kusatsu]] on the way to [[Edo]].
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• Nagasawa Kanae
  ...ut of the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. He eventually settled in the United States and started a vineyard. ...a Hikosuke, he took on the name Nagasawa Kanae, and is more known today by the latter.
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• Shimazu Kameju
  ...r of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]], 16th head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and wife to the 18th clan head, [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu Iehisa]]. ...uthority, Kameju was taken as a hostage. She later married Shimazu Iehisa, the eldest son of her uncle [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]].
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• Oyama Tsunayoshi
  [[File:Oyamatsunayoshi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Ôyama's grave at the Nanshû Cemetery in Kagoshima]] Ôyama Tsunayoshi was the first governor of [[Kagoshima prefecture]].
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• Inaba Masakatsu
  Born the son of [[Inaba Masanari|Inaba Sado-no-kami Masanari]] and Kasuga no Tsubone [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Inoue Genzaburo
  Inoue Genzaburo was born into a family of [[Hachioji Sennin Doshin]] as the third son of [[Inoue Tozaemon]]. He became a pupil of [[Tennen Rishin Ryu]] He effectively supported [[Kondo Isami]] in the [[Shinsengumi]], they had great trust in each other.
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• Chiyohime
  ...was the wife of [[Tokugawa Mitsutomo]] (third lord of [[Owari han]]), and the daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] & his concubine [[Ofuri-no-kata (d. ...nal Japanese count]]).<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Tsukegaro
  ...awa seasonal observances|seasonal occasions]] such as New Year's alongside the ''daimyô''; such requests were regularly denied.
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• Kodai-in (d. 1624)
  ...nun, retiring in [[1601]] to the [[Kodai-ji|Kôdaiji]] in [[Kyoto]] (where the tombs of Hideyoshi, his mother, and, later, [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] came to r ...[[1605]], and Kôdai-in and [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]] were buried in the temple.
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• Tokugawa Yorifusa
  ...awa Ieyasu]], and was the first head of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]], one of the ''[[gosanke]]''. ...the third of the ''gosanke'', a lineage which two centuries later provided the 15th and final Tokugawa [[shogun|shôgun]], [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]].
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• Minamoto no Yoshiie
  ...fact described as ebisu, a somewhat generic term which was also applied to the Ainu. ...ven for Yoshiie and Yoriyoshi. Yet the Minamoto cause was much assisted by the enlistment of [[Kiyowara Noritake]], a locally powerful figure whose rugged
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• Kabukimono
  ...e Screen]]'', an image often used to represent the attitude and fashion of the ''kabukimono''.]] ...t mean, essentially, one (者) who leans (傾) [away from normal, or away from the norm] and is unusual (奇).
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• Shoni Sukeyoshi
  [[File:Shoni-graves.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Shôni Sukeyoshi and his father [[Muto Sukeyori|Mutô Sukeyori]], Shôni Sukeyoshi was the son of [[Muto Sukeyori|Mutô Sukeyori]], and served as [[Dazaifu shoni|Daza
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• Satake Yoshinobu
  ...d to have been a sad one, as his first wife evidently committed suicide at the age of 24 and his principal concubine also died young due to illness. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Toyama Sokukun
  Tôyama Sokukun was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official active during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...ji bugyô]]''. In [[1857]], he was reassigned to ''[[ometsuke|ômetsuke]]''. The following year he was named ''[[dochu bugyo|dôchû bugyô]]''. In [[1860]]
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• Tagaya family
  ...sea-lords or pirates based in [[Kamagari]] and the surrounding islands in the [[Inland Sea]]. ...ds both locally within their local section of the Inland Sea as well as to the Kyoto/Osaka region.
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• Sakai Tadazane
  Sakai Tadazane was the second [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]]. The eldest son of [[Sakai Tadamochi]] (heir to [[Sakai Tadazumi]], first Sakai [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadahisa
  [[Image:Morishimazuyagura.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The graves of Shimazu Tadahisa and [[Mori Suemitsu|Môri Suemitsu]] in [[Kamaku *''Titles: ''[[shugo]]'' of Satsuma; "Lord of the Twelve Southern Islands"''
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• Saito Hajime
  He joined the [[Mibu Roshigumi]] in Kyoto in [[1863]]. In [[1865]], he became captain of the 3rd unit of the [[Shinsengumi]].
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• Shimazu Tsunataka
  Shimazu Tsunataka was the third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]. He was the eldest son of [[Shimazu Tsunahisa]].
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• So Yoshitada
  Sô Yoshitada was the 30th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and 13th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. ...in [[1813]]. Prior to that, he served as proxy for his father in receiving the [[1811]] [[Korean embassy to Edo|Korean embassy to Japan]], when Yoshikatsu
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• Saigo Kohei
  [[File:Saigo-kohei.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Saigô Kohei's gravestone at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...and [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]]. He was killed in battle during the [[Satsuma Rebellion]] in [[1877]].
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• Abe Masatomo
  ...fourth [[Abe clan]] lord of [[Fukuyama han]]. Though appointed a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1787]]/3, he resigned less than a year later, in [ ...to his position as a ''rôjû''), he returned to the domain in [[1790]] for the first time in some time, and initiated a series of administrative reforms.
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• Tateishi Tokujuro
  ...the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]]. ...Dutch-language translator, translating books provided to the shogunate by the [[Dutch East India Company]], he was ordered in [[1859]] to begin studying
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• Honda Masashige
  ...himôsa province]] but retired in 1616 and went to [[Kyoto]], where he died the following year. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• So Yoshiyuki
  Sô Yoshishige was the 26th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and the eighth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. The eldest son of [[So Yoshinobu|Sô Yoshinobu]], he became lord of Tsushima in
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• Yamada Kiyoyasu
  A retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]], he studied poetry under [[Kagawa Kageki]], and classical ...hat year (Jan [[1850]] on the Western calendar). He is buried just outside the Shimazu clan family cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshinori
  Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shogun]]. He succeeded [[Ashikaga Yoshi In [[1433]], Yoshinori sent the first [[tribute]] mission to China in several decades (since [[1410]]), and
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• Goten jochu
  ...from well-to-do commoner families or low-ranking samurai families who, in the [[Edo period]], served as ladies-in-waiting in ''daimyô'' households. ...l standing of her own family. In order to obtain such a position, however, the young woman had to go through expensive training, proving her artistic and
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• Watanabe Yusai
  ...n the castle, as they prepared for and then received formal audiences with the shogun. ...ord of [[Izushi han]], was the senior member of the ''daimyô'' assigned to the ''Yanagi-no-ma'', and Yûsai visited him to relay requests or questions fro
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• Nagoya Sagenta
  ...s, in which numerous domain retainers and others who backed one faction or the other were exiled or punished otherwise. ...Historiographical Institute ([[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]]) as part of the ''[[Shimazu-ke monjo]]'' (Shimazu Family Documents).
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• Yokoyama Yasutake
  ...de the gates to the [[National Diet]] House of Representatives on a day in the seventh month, [[1870]]. ...a monument to Yokoyama was erected by [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]] Ci
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• Tokugawa Akitake
  ..., before the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]]. A son of former lord of the domain [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], he was a younger brother to Nariaki's successo ...he domain, arriving in Japan shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Toda Mosui
  Toda Mosui was a prominent ''[[tanka]]'' poet and literary critic of the [[Genroku period]]. ...[[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer based at [[Sunpu castle]], he took on the name Toda when adopted by his uncle, Toda Masatsugu, following his father's
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• Jinbaori
  ...more elaborate garments, decorated with various motifs as an expression of the wearer's wealth, power, and aesthetic taste. ...a great convenience for wintry or inclement weather.<ref>Gallery labels, "Samurai Class Men's Winter Formal Surcoat," LACMA, January 2015.</ref>
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• Inoue Katsunosuke
  Inoue Katsunosuke was an official in the [[Meiji government]], and the son of [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs|Foreign Minister]] [[Inoue Kaoru]]. ...1886]] and taking into account Katsunosuke's recommendations, arranged for the Japanese in Hawaii to be provided with doctors, interpreters, and inspector
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• Tokugawa Ieharu
  Tokugawa Ieharu was the 10th [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. The third son of [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], he became shogunal heir as a result of h
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• Gannenmono
  ...rom Japan and/or arrival in Hawaii in 1868, the first year (''gannen'') of the [[Meiji period]]. ...r-old heavy drinker named Ichigorô and nicknamed Mamushi-no-Ichi, or "Ichi the Viper."
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• Wakashu
  ...yet. The term can also refer more specifically to the younger partner in a samurai pederastic relationship (''[[shudo|shûdô]]''), or to young male actors in ...ref>Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal On
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• Hosokawa Tadaoki
  ...Hosokawa]] for help. Tadaoki replied by preparing to send his wife back to the Akechi and both he and Fujitaka refused to provide their erstwhile comrade
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• Mori Heiemon
  ...domain in [[1760]], he spearheaded a number of policies aimed at improving the domain's financial well-being, before being assassinated by his political o ...ineered the removal of some of the domain's most influential families from the domain government, and had appointed his own allies.
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• Ii Naonaka
  ...of the [[Ii clan]] and lord of [[Hikone han]]. He is perhaps most known as the father of ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' [[Ii Naosuke]]. ...ience with the shogun, in conjunction with being officially recognized (by the shogunate) as Ii Naohide's heir.
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• Hirayama Yoshitada
  Hirayama Yoshitada was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official who, while holding the post of ''kachi-metsuke'' in [[1854]], participated in receptions and meeti ...erry again, this time to negotiate policies governing American activity in the port of Hakodate.
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• Jeremias van Vliet
  ...liet was a [[Dutch East India Company]] ''opperhoofd'' (factor) who headed the Company's operations in [[Ayutthaya]] (in Siam) from [[1633]] to [[1641]]. ...and on the history of the [[Nihonmachi|Japantown]] which thrived there in the 1590s-1630s.
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• Hasegawa Seifuku
  ...a number of years in the 1850s as ''kinritsuki'' (an official attached to the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial court]]) and in other positions. ...ment with the United States (i.e. by responding to [[Commodore Perry]]) to the shogunate.
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• Katsu Kokichi
  Katsu Kokichi was the father of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], and author of the autobiographical ''[[Musui's Story]]'' (''Musui dokugen'', 夢酔独言). ...istrator. Kokichi's other half-brother, Otani Saburôemon, was adopted into the [[Matsusaka family]], and also served as a district administrator. Their fa
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• Rusuiyaku
  ...facilitating the domain's involvement in political and economic matters in the major metropolises. ...tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo Shoseki (2008), 93.</ref> and communicating with the ''rusuiyaku'' of other domains, as intermediaries in arranging various poli
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• Shimazu Shoso
  Shimazu Shôsô Hisanori was a late [[Edo period]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Kagoshima han]]. ...s formally named ''karô'' and served for part or most of that year in Edo. The following year, however, after Narioki's death and Nariakira's succession,
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• Arima Harunobu
  ...mazu Yoshihisa suggested the Arima renounce Christianity but did not press the issue when Harunobu declined. ...Western side in the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) but did not suffer the loss of any land as a result.
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• Midaidokoro
  ...s above all other consorts or concubines, and was the ''de facto'' head of the [[Ooku|Ôoku]]. ...y|Nijô]], [[Kujo family|Kujô]], and [[Takatsukasa family|Takatsukasa]]) or the [[Fushimi family|Fushimi]] or [[Arisugawa family|Arisugawa families]].
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• Date Tadamune
  Date Tadamune was the second son of [[Date Masamune]], and succeeded his father as lord of [[Send ...a concubine and thus less eligible to become heir. Hidemune became lord of the smaller branch [[han|domain]] of [[Uwajima han]], while Tadamune went on to
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• Katsura Hisatake
  [[File:Katsura-hisatake.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Katsura Hisatake at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...e was a prominent [[Satsuma han]] official in the [[Bakumatsu period]] and the subsequent [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Odano Naotake
  ...Shozan]] of [[Akita han]]. Along with his lord, he was a major painter in the short-lived [[Akita ranga|Akita ''ranga'']] school. ...irst such essays to be written in Japan - as well as numerous paintings in the Western style.
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• Shimazu Tadatoki
  Shimazu Tadatoki was the second head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and second Shimazu ''[[jito|jitô]]'' & ''[[shugo]]'' of ...o Yoshitoki|Hôjô Yoshitoki]], against the forces of [[Emperor Go-Toba]] in the [[Jokyu War|Jôkyû War]] of [[1221]].
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• Usami Sadayuki
  ...against the [[Usami clan|Usami]] for this, and when he assumed command of the Uesugi in [[1579]], compelled Sadayuki's son [[Usami Katsuyuki|Katsuyuki]] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsudaira Yasuyoshi
  ...ai]] for a time, before being named to the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', remaining in the latter position from [[1763]] to [[1788]]. In [[1759]], the shogunate ordered that Hamada be given to the [[Honda clan]]; Yasuyoshi became lord of [[Koga han]] in [[Shimousa provinc
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• 1807
  ...ru clan]], and [[Nanbu clan]] samurai encounter a few Russian soldiers, in the [[Kurile Islands]], and are routed. *[[Ichikawa Ebizo V|Ichikawa Ebizô V]] takes on the name Ichikawa Danjûrô VII.
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1810-1891)
  Matsudaira Chikayoshi was the 9th [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Kitsuki han]] in [[Bungo province]]. ...accompanied Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]] the following year.<ref>''[[Ryuei bunin|Ryûei bunin]]'' 柳営補任, vol. 1,
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• Togawa Anchin
  ...notable role in coastal defense and related matters in the first years of the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...no Nagatoshi]] and others, he was one of a number of officials who pressed the shogunate in [[1853]] to allow [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], former lord of [[Mito
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• Wakisaka Yasuori
  ...; he remained in the latter post until [[1857]]/8/11, when he was named to the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hair
  Trends in hairstyles and facial hair changed dramatically over the centuries, and were often markers of status, cultural refinement, or identi ...most solid appearance. Interestingly, these styles were not uncommon among the lower classes.
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• Namamugi Incident
  [[Image:Namamugi Marker.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Marker at the site of the incident.]] ...Namamugi Incident itself has come to be counted among the major events of the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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• Sakai Tadatomi
  Sakai Tadatomi was a late [[Edo period]] head of the [[Sakai clan]] and sixth Sakai clan lord of [[Himeji han]]. Adopted into the Sakai clan, he was married to [[Kiso-hime]], a daughter of [[Sakai Tadanori
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• Tawara Chikakata
  Tawara Chikakata was a retainer to the [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo clan]] in the mid-to-late 16th century. ...n of his uncle [[Takita Akio]], he was able to become a close confidant to the young [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Sôrin]].
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• Shimazu Munehisa
  [[File:Morohisa-munehisa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Shimazu Munehisa (right) and his brother [[Shimazu Morohisa]] (le ...isa was the second son of [[Shimazu Sadahisa]], and a prominent warrior of the [[Nanboku-cho|Nanboku-chô period]].
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• So Yoshizane
  ...o clan|Sô clan]] and third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. He was the eldest son of [[So Yoshinari|Sô Yoshinari]] and succeeded his father in [[ ...own]] of Tsushima Fuchû (today, Izuhara-chô), and establishment of much of the basic layout of that castle-town.<ref name=bansho>Explanatory plaques, Bans
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• Shinmon Tatsugoro
  ...Shrine]] for recovery from a serious illness, and enjoyed a full recovery. The 1855 structure survives today. ...r the prince's travels between Asakusa and Ueno. Though originally bearing the surname Machida, Tatsugorô then came to be known as Shinmon (lit. "new gat
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• Vasily Golovnin
  ...the islands around [[Kunashiri]] and [[Iturup]], and was captured there by samurai forces, along with seven other members of his party. While imprisoned in [[ ...lume entitled "Navigation in Japanese coastal waters and negotiations with the Japanese government" as a supplement to Golovnin's account.
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• Ichijo Kanesada
  ...st of [[Iyo province]] (Kojima). Motochika allowed him to stay there after the Chosokabe took Iyo, but is thought to have had a hand in his death in 1585. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Christians]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tsuchiya Masanao
  ...served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' for over thirty years, through the reigns of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], [[Tokugawa Ienobu|Ienobu]], a ...to shoshidai]] from [[1685]]/9/23 to [[1687]]/10/13, before being named to the ''rôjû'' in 1687.
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• Munakata Shrine
  ...nto Hetsu-miya in Tashima (on the mainland of [[Kyushu]]), Nakatsu-miya on the island of Ôshima, and Okitsu-miya on [[Oki Island]] (''Oki no shima''). The three enshrine three daughters of [[Amaterasu]], Ichikishima-hime no kami,
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• Taira no Takakiyo
  ...was the last male descendant of [[Taira no Kiyomori]] to be hunted down by the forces of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]]. ...the ''Kanjô no maki'', but is still considered to be the final chapter, as the ''Kanjô no maki'' appears to have been added later.</ref>
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• Iwami Ginzan
  ...uries. Located in what is today [[Shimane prefecture]], the former site of the mine was designated a UNESCO [[World Heritage Site]] in 2007.<ref>[http://w ...ons of silver each year in the 16th-17th centuries.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Shimazu Tadayoshi
  [[File:Shimazu-tadayoshi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze statue of Tadayoshi at the [[Tanshoen|Tanshôen]] gardens in [[Kagoshima]], designed by [[Asakura Fumi ::''This article is about the Bakumatsu/Meiji era daimyô. For others by the same name, see [[Shimazu Tadayoshi (disambig)]].''
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• Toko-en
  Tôko-en was the private retreat of [[Ikeda Tadakatsu]] (1602-1632), the second [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Okayama han]]. Located in [[Okayama] ...enery]]), incorporating the vision of Mt. Misaoyama into the aesthetics of the garden.
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• Hotta Masanari
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masanari, [[Hotta Masasuke]], and [[Hotta Masatora]] at [[Ji ...gyô]]'', ''[[Osaka jodai|Osaka jôdai]]'', and ''[[Kyoto shoshidai]]'' over the course of his career.
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• Thomas Glover
  ...e American [[Eugene Van Reed]], a merchant with the [[Yokohama]] branch of the [[Canton]]-based [[Augustine Heard & Company]], for privileged status in tr ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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• Ishin Suden
  ...s a result, he played a notable role in those spheres in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. ...u in [[1608]] to serve as a foreign policy advisor.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Kayama Eizaemon
  ...nstead travel to [[Nagasaki]]; ultimately, however, Kayama and the rest of the ''Uraga bugyôsho'' were forced to give in. ...anagawa-juku]], ultimately succeeding in convincing the Americans to leave the inner harbor of [[Edo Bay]].
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• Date Yoshikuni
  ...lord of [[Matsumae han]] [[Matsumae Takahiro]], Yoshikuni was assigned by the shogunate in [[1855]] to take on guard duties in certain areas of [[Ezo]].< [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Saito Kakuki
  [[File:Saito-kakuki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Kakuki's grave at the [[Somei Cemetery]] in Tokyo]] ...kuki was a prominent [[Confucianism|Confucian]] scholar and topographer of the [[Edo period]].
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• Sakai Tadayoshi
  ...ar. After serving as Kyoto shoshidai from 1843 to [[1850]], he returned to the same post from [[1858]] to [[1862]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakai Tadahiro
  Sakai Tadahiro was the third [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]], ruling as such from [[1790]] t ...Ming music to himself and to others in his court. In the first decades of the 1800s, Tadahiro had Ming music performed at gatherings at his [[daimyo yash
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• Oda Nobushige
  ...tached to the Yanagi-no-ma of [[Edo castle]], who helped guide him through the process. ...the [[Oda clan]] to be granted "castle holder" (''shironushi'') status by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Oei Invasion
  The Ôei Invasion was an attack on the island of [[Tsushima]] launched in [[1419]] by [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea. ...erceived threat of Sôda in particular was a notable factor contributing to the Korean decision to attack Tsushima at this time.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Marit
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• Miyazaki Toten
  ...for reform, and in particular believed that effecting reform in China was the best way to inspire changes in Japan. ...onnected up with Sun Yat-Sen, he remained in service to Sun's movement for the rest of his life.
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• Toda Ujiyasu
  ...gaki Shinden han]] (a branch domain of [[Ogaki han|Ôgaki han]]) and served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] as ''Ôban gashira'' for a time, and then as ''[[soj ...s succeeded by [[Toda Ujiyoshi (daimyo)|Toda Ujiyoshi]]<!--氏良-->, a son of the lord of Ôgaki, [[Toda Ujimasa]].
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• Osawa Noriaki
  ...ved as ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' beginning in [[1852]]. He was the lead figure who interacted with Russian naval captain [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich ...eassigned again, this time to serve as ''[[karo|karô]]'' (House Elder) for the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要
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• Taira no Masakado
  ==The Life of Taira no Masakado== ...nki|Shômonki]]''.<ref>''Shômon'' being the Chinese-style or ''on-yomi'' of the characters for "Masakado."</ref>
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• Hosokawa Narimori
  ...tsu]], and succeeded Naritatsu to becoming the 12th [[Edo period]] head of the [[Hosokawa clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Taira no Tadamori
  ...damori was a prominent [[shoen|estate]]-holder of the 12th century. He was the father of [[Taira no Kiyomori]], and grandfather of [[Emperor Antoku]], [[T ...icular Chinese trading ship, resisting the involvement of the [[Dazaifu]] (the Imperial Court's branch office in [[Kyushu]] which ostensibly oversaw ''all
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• Cornelis van Nijenroode
  ...nelia]]. She went on to have an active life in the Dutch East Indies. With the other woman, Tokeshio, he had a daughter named [[Esther van Nijenroode|Esth ...Nijenroode spent some time in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam).<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• 1658
  *1658/7/23 The [[Eiroku era]] begins. ...r firefighting squads, covering all of [[Edo]], and consisting entirely of samurai.
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• Saigo Tanomo
  The Saigô family held the post of ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Aizu-Matsudaira clan]] hereditarily, from generation to generation. In [[1862]], Lord [[Matsudaira Katamori]] was appointed the [[Kyoto Shugo Shoku]](Military Commissioner of Kyoto).
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• Petro Kibe
  ...saki]]. Kibe arrived in Nagasaki in [[1630]], and was formally executed by the shogunate, for his religion, in Edo in [[1639]]. *Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Yoshida Shoin
  Yoshida Shôin was a prominent ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activist of the 1850s. Strongly influenced by [[Mitogaku|Mito thought]], ideas of ''[[bushi ...having studied books of military science, Confucianism, and ''bushidô'' in the tradition of [[Yamaga Soko|Yamaga Sokô]] before journeying to Tôhoku, una
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• Yatabe Kumohachi
  ...Mito han]] retainer known for his involvement in factional politics within the domain, and for efforts to weaken and seize control from lord [[Tokugawa Yo In [[1855]], Yatabe, alongside a number of others who favored the politics of imprisoned former [[Mito Tokugawa clan]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' [[Y
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• Arao Shigemasa
  ...er positions, Arao was assigned in [[1853]] to remain on-duty in Nagasaki; the following year he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official overseeing coastal In 1859, he was reassigned from the position of ''Nagasaki bugyô'' to that of ''[[Kobushin bugyo|Kobushin bugy
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• So Yoshiyori
  ...nce his fief; the Sô retained power in the domain until the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]].
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• 1648
  *1648/2 The shogunate issues a series of laws regulating [[chonin|commoners']] behavior *1648/2/15 The [[Keian era]] begins.
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• 1824
  ...i Ôtsu, demands fresh water, food, and other supplies. Crew is captured by samurai of [[Mito han]]. ...d seize two cattle, killing one. In the skirmish which ensues, a member of the crew is killed by a [[Shimazu clan]] retainer; his body is preserved in sal
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• Ogasawara Sadayasu
  ...asawara Tadahiro]] as lord of Chizuka in 1854 when Tadahiro became heir to the lord of Kokura domain.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 ( [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Daikan
  ...t administrator," was called ''daikan'' in Japanese. They were overseen by the Bureau of Finance (''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjôsho]]'').<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, Davi ...to 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', and maintained residences both in [[Edo]] and in the territory to which he was assigned. Within that territory, he was responsib
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• Tsuzuki Mineshige
  ...d played a role in organizing the exchange of ratification instruments for the [[Convention of Kanagawa]], which took place on [[1855]]/1/5.
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• Isawa Masayoshi
  ...Convention of Kanagawa]] (which Isawa and three others signed on behalf of the shogunate), which opened [[Shimoda]] to American ships and sailors. ...o|fushin bugyô]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 100.</ref> The following year, he was named ''[[metsuke]]'' and assigned to oversee matter
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• Otomo Chikaie
  Chikaie was the 2nd son of [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Yoshishige (Sôrin)]]. ...y]], however, in part on the advice of Sôrin's wife, a woman known only by the Jesuits' epithet for her - [[Otomo Nata Jezebel|Jezebel]] - and of other el
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• Shinohara Kunimoto
  [[File:Shinohara.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shinohara's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Shigakkô]], he is often considered one of the most prominent commanders in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]], along with [[Kirino Toshiaki]].
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• Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)
  ...atsura domain). The assault failed after another Portuguese vessel came to the Ship's aid. He retired in [[1568]] in favor of his son [[Matsura Shigenobu] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Mizuno Tadakuni
  ::''For the 18th century official, see [[Mizuno Tadakuni (kanjo bugyo)]].'' ...ntial ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' of the [[Edo period]], serving in that position in the 1840s and effecting a number of controversial policies.
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• Matsura Shigenobu
  Matsura Shigenobu was the son of [[Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)|Matsura Takanobu]], and was a [[Sengo ...ign]] and did not suffer the loss of any lands as a result; he came aboard the English ship ''Clove'' in [[1613]], an event recorded by [[John Saris]].
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• Otomo Yoshiaki
  ...orked to secure [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] influence over Bungo and clashed with the [[Ouchi clan|Ôuchi]] and [[Shoni clan|Shôni]]. He inherited a troubled re [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Umezu Masakage
  ...est advisors, and soon afterwards was named in [[1612]] administrator over the domain's mines. ...e for the lord's use, as well as women (prostitutes, ''baijo'') to work in the mining towns.<ref>Stanley, 32-33.</ref>
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• Asano Nagayoshi
  ...-style ship ''[[Soshunmaru|Sôshunmaru]]'', and engaged in discussions with the central shogunate court regarding matters of coastal defense. ...shin bugyô. The following year, he was dismissed from that position amidst the dismissal and (in some cases) house confinement of a number of prominent fi
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• Nabeshima Naomasa
  Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of [[Saga han|Saga domain]]. ..., receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.<ref>Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at [[Sakuragicho Station|Sakuragichô Station
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• Sumptuary regulations
  ...histication of particular techniques; ''[[yuzen|yûzen]]'' dyeing was among the techniques which benefited greatly from this, as people forbidden from usin ...of Tokugawa power and control, and as aimed at ensuring the maintenance of samurai legitimacy and authority.
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• Sengoku Hisatoshi
  Sengoku Hisatoshi was the last [[Edo period]] ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Izushi han]] in [[Tajima pr ...alf its ''kokudaka''; for the remainder of the Edo period, the domain (and the ''daimyô'') were recognized as being only of 30,000 ''koku'' rank.
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• Katagiri Katsumoto
  ...n: [[Toyotomi clan|Toyotomi]], [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer, one of the [[Seven Spears of Shizugatake]]'' ...ed neutral during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]], but was nevertheless one of the first warlords to be granted a larger domain by Ieyasu following Sekigahara
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• Kasuga no Tsubone
  ...ayment for her husband's hand in convincing [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] to join the Eastern army at [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]]. ...widely accepted as having played a pivotal role in him being appointed to the position over his younger brother [[Tokugawa Tadanaga|Tadanaga]].
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• Toiyaba
  ...ers or others carrying packages or luggage along the highway would stop at the ''toiyaba'' in each town to change horses. This relay system was known as ' ...''toiya'' or ''[[tonya]]'', officially authorized wholesalers who managed the trade in a given good. When a post-town had multiple ''tonya'', there was t
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• Chobunsai Eishi
  ...e, using the character ''sai'' (斎) in its meaning of "studio," much as did the artists [[Hokusai]], [[Isoda Koryusai|Kôryûsai]], [[Keisai Eisen]] and [[ ...maro and Kiyonaga, and they bear a refinement and grace rarely exceeded by the figures in ''[[bijinga]]'' by other artists.
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• Yamagata Masakage
  ...n]]'s 'Twenty-Four Generals', Yamagata Masakage was one of the fiercest of the Takeda warriors. Masakage's elder brother [[Obu Toramasa]] was charged with ...amagata's troops the nickname 'Red Regiment', or 'Red (Fire) Unit', though the phrase may have been coined later.
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• Shakuhachi
  ...uhachi'' (right), compared with a ''[[hitoyogiri]]'' (left), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ...mon traditional wind instrument seen in Japan today. Its name derives from the flute being typically one ''shaku'' and eight ''sun'' in length (see [[Japa
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• Kenzanya
  ...regularly gave them to the ''kenzanya'', to be purchased and presented by the ''daimyô'' once again. ...acquered wooden ceremonial swords came to dominate, and the institution of the ''kenzanya'' grew in importance.
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• Hachisuka Narihiro
  Hachisuka Narihiro was the penultimate lord of [[Tokushima han]]. The 22nd child of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]], Narihiro was adopted into the [[Hachisuka clan]] in [[1827]], and became lord of Tokushima in [[1843]].
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• Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu
  ...wearing reproductions of traditional Ryukyuan court costume, on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...ra]] dominated the highest positions in the central government, those from the aristocratic families of [[Naha]] and [[Tomari]] occupied other positions.
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• Honda Tadakatsu
  ...dakatsu commanded troops in the left wing of Ieyasu's army and fought with the warriors of [[Naito Masatoyo]]. ...o outnumbered Honda perhaps 50 or 60 to 1) was said to have been struck by the bravery of this warrior, and ordered that no harm come to him, his men, or
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• Shimazu Mitsuhisa
  Shimazu Mitsuhisa was the second [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]]. He succeeded [[Shimazu Ta ...h Rank at court, before being elevated to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank and the title of Minor Captain (少将, ''shôshô'') in [[1651]], and then Middle
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• Shimazu Tsunahisa
  ...bassy to Edo]] and engaging in various formal ceremonial interactions with the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] in conjunction with that embassy on behalf
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• Godai Hidetaka
  ...to resist Western ships militarily, and thus had no choice but to approach the situation diplomatically. ...trade, in order to help guard against having to open any ports in Satsuma. The ''daimyô'', advised additionally by [[Zusho Shozaemon|Zusho Shôzaemon]],
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• Kuroda Yoshitaka
  ...that [[Akamatsu Yoshisuke]] was essentially living under the protection of the Kodera at Himeji. ...e Oda forces would force the Kodera to follow suit, as well as, of course, the Akamatsu. After Yoshitaka’s father had been convinced, this was just what
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• Mori Yoshiki
  Mori Yoshiki was a prominent late 18th century retainer of the [[Yamauchi clan]], lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...Hirotake's part to restore the family to Hirosada's direct lineage, or as the result of pressure from Yoshiki's mother is unclear. In either case, seven-
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• Kido Takayoshi
  ...chose not show up for the loyalist meeting on that fateful night. He spent the next few days hiding incognito as a beggar. ...to continue to serve as lead intermediary for relations with Korea, under the new Meiji government.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard
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• Yoshida Kiyonari
  ...Japanese ambassadors to the United States, serving in that position during the administration of President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. ...me Nagai Iosuke. He studied naval surveying, and in [[1867]]/7 traveled to the United States, where he studied political economy at Rutgers University.
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• Albert M. Craig
  ...yoto University and the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1988. ...including ''[[Musui's Story]]'', the autobiography of late [[Edo period]] samurai [[Katsu Kokichi]].
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• Tokugawa Narikatsu
  Tokugawa Narikatsu was a late [[Edo period]] lord of [[Wakayama han]], and the adoptive father of [[Tokugawa Iemochi|Tokugawa Yoshitomi]], who would later ...ef> and adopted Nariyuki's illegitimate son Tokugawa Yoshitomi as his heir the following year.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937),
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• Ofuri-no-kata (d. 1640)
  [[File:Jishoin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Jishô-in Mausoleum at the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum]] ...ka Shigemasa]], a retainer to [[Gamo Hideyuki|Gamô Hideyuki]], and entered the [[Ooku|Ôoku]] in [[1626]]. In [[1637]], she gave birth to [[Chiyohime]].
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• Aloeswood
  ...a: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia'', Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project (1999), 103n1 ...and other tropical products.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region'', 1000-1800, Hong Kong University Press (2
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• Ekathotsarot
  Ekathotsarot was king of the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]] from [[1605]] to [[1610]]. ...owder were ever actually sent also remains unclear.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Nanbu Toshiyuki
  [[File:Nanbu-toshiyuki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Nanbu Toshiyuki and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] i ...f [[Iwashiro Shiraishi han|Iwashiro Shiraishi]]. The following year, under the new [[Meiji government]], he returned to Morioka, and was granted a salary
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• Miyahara Yoshinao
  ...period]] ''[[koke|kôke]]'' who performed a number of ceremonial roles for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He was a son of ''kôke'' [[Miyahara Yoshichika]]. ...fficial shogunal envoy to Kyoto again the following year in celebration of the confirmation of a new empress (''kôtaigô'').
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• Hojo Ujinao
  ...Hojo Ujimasa|Hôjô Ujimasa]], and succeeded him to become the fifth head of the [[Go-Hojo clan|Hôjô clan]]. ...ed Kyôto, Kuniomaru was born as the first son of Hôjô Ujimasa and Ôbai-in (the eldest daughter of [[Takeda Shingen]]). In his coming of age ceremony, his
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• 1811
  ...]]'' department for the translation of foreign books is established within the shogunate, with ''[[Tenmon gata]]'' [[Takahashi Kageyasu]] as its head. ..., along with 7 others of his party, are captured on [[Kunashir Island]] by samurai of [[Matsumae han]]. Golovnin is held for two years.
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• Masuyama Sessai
  ...a clan's]] [[bodaiji|family temple]], the stone is now located in front of the main hall of [[Kan'ei-ji]].]] ...flora and fauna); he went by a number of [[art-name]]s, of which Sessai is the one by which he is most known.
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• Satsuma biwa
  ...Satsuma biwa (left), compared with a [[Heike biwa]] (right), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ''Satsuma biwa'' is a style or genre of narrative storytelling in which the storyteller accompanies him or herself on a lute-like musical instrument ca
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• Matsumoto Kokujitsu
  ...hogunate]] official involved in engagement with Western representatives in the 1850s. ...of a [[Korean embassy to Edo]], though that embassy never materialized. In the course of this work, he was frequently dispatched to Uraga and [[Shimoda]],
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• Sakai Tadazumi
  Sakai Tadazumi was the first [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]]. ...adazumi's death in [[1772]], Ming music continued to be passed down within the Sakai family, but was never again studied and practiced in such a lively ma
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• Terashima Munenori
  ...assistant instructors at the newly-established ''[[Bansho Shirabesho]]'' (the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate's]] institute for Western learning).<ref>Ish After spending two years in England as a student sponsored by the Tokugawa shogunate, he returned to England in [[1865]], at age 34, to serve
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• Shibuya clan
  ...to the [[Shimazu clan]] in [[1569]], and remained Shimazu vassals through the [[Edo period]]. ...ed the Iriki-in, Ketôin, Tôgô, Tsuruta, and Takajô families, also known as the "Shibuya five families" (''Shibuya goke'').
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• Innai
  ...tions or in the town otherwise largely came originally from other parts of the realm. ...e preyed on the community, and where samurai authorities were able to gain the upper hand, they did so only through violence.
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• Chosokabe Morichika
  ...with the preparation of the Chôsokabe-shi okitegaki ([[100-Article Code of the Chosokabe]]) in 1596 Sons: Moritaka (d.1615), Morinobu (d.1615), Moriyasu ( [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsumae Takahiro
  Matsumae Takahiro was the 12th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Matsumae han]]. ...1844-1869)|Matsumae Norihiro]] was still too young to take over as head of the clan. Takahiro later adopted Norihiro, and was succeeded by him on his deat
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• Takigawa Toshikatsu
  ...ult had his lands taken away by the victorious [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]]. The following year ([[1601]]), [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] relented somewhat and bestow [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tokugawa Mitsukuni
  ...is strongly associated with the [[Mitogaku]] intellectual movement. He was the son of [[Tokugawa Yorifusa]], and grandson of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. ...s in [[Edo]], begun by his father. For both of these projects, he enlisted the help of [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] loyalist [[Zhu Shunsui]].
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• Ijichi Sadaka
  ...kyû Kingdom]] and its new administration under the [[Meiji government]] in the 1870s. ...administration of the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]] with the heads of the royal government there.
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• Terasaka Kichiemon
  ...ce of [[Yoshida Chuzaemon|Yoshida Chûzaemon]], he was also the only one of the 47 ronin to not be a vassal of [[Asano Naganori]] of [[Ako province|Akô]]. ...'s]] mansion. According to some accounts, Terasaka fled the mansion during the raid.
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• Hikeshi
  ...the Hikeshi only worked for protecting [[Edo castle]], Daimyô mansions and Samurai houses. ...rom which winds blew which were the most dangerous for spreading a fire to the castle).<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo
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