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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
  650 bytes (89 words) - 22:17, 21 July 2014
• 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
  690 bytes (85 words) - 03:00, 17 December 2019
• 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]]
  670 bytes (82 words) - 14:52, 31 October 2017
• 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
  592 bytes (78 words) - 02:35, 16 August 2021
• 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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