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  • ==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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  • '''Recent Updates to the Samurai Archives Japanese History Page.''' ** Added [http://samuraiarchives.podbean.com Samurai Archives Podcast] rotating image to main page.
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  • ...ight|thumb|320px|A ''suô'' costume from the [[Noh]] theater, on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]]]] ::''For the placename, see [[Suo province]].''
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  • ...defend himself from attack, ultimately killing two of his attackers before the skirmish ended. *Andrew Rankin, ''Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide'', Kodansha International (2011), 123.
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  • Moriharu controlled the Goto Islands and clashed with the [[Matsura clan|Matsura]] and [[Ryuzoji clan|Ryûzôji]]. He became a Christ ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...father of [[Asakura Sadakage]]. He took control of the Asakura clan after the death of his father [[Asakura Toshikage|Toshikage]] in [[1481]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...y the [[Meiji government]] to terminate samurai status, and in particular, samurai stipends. ...r one's domain, and difficult too to unite across regional boundaries with samurai who had received their stipends from a different lord.
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  • ...do castle|castle]] guards. As his own son had died previously, this marked the end of his line. *Andrew Rankin, ''Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide'', Kodansha International (2011), 123-124.
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  • ...army to Kagataka, who was also a commander in a [[1564]] campaign against the ikko of Kaga. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Noguchi was a [[Mito han]] samurai. He joined the [[Roshigumi]] with [[Serizawa Kamo]]. The reason is unknown.
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  • ...samurai class.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge ...class from the villagers around them, but were not retainers in service to the domain.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', Universit
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  • ...]/3/21, at the Battle of Higokagami in [[Higo province]]. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]. *Plaques on-site at the Nanshû Cemetery.
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  • ...s described as the model of the [[Mikawa province|Mikawa]] samurai. He was the father of [[Torii Mototada]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...events, and it was nearly three years before the Court regained control of the area. *Karl Friday, ''Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan'', Routledge (2004), 11.
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  • ''Suneate'', or shin guards, are a part of a suit of samurai armor. ...e legs from the metal, and also to extend the protection upwards, to cover the knees.
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  • ...]/3/30, at the Battle of Matsubashi in [[Higo province]]. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]. *Plaques on-site at the Nanshû Cemetery.
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  • ...clan and served under the command of [[Saito Tomonobu|Saitô Tomonobu]]. At the [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]] ([[1561]]) Akishige fought gallantly and ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...ess capturing an enemy commander, Itô Kaga no kami. He went on to serve in the [[Odawara Campaign]] ([[1590]]). ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...ave dressed so nicely that those in attendance mistook him for the lord of the clan, causing him much embarrassment. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...ce]] following the death of [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1582]]. He was killed in the fighting at [[Battle of Nagakute|Nagakute]] fighting for [[Toyotomi Hideyos ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Takaki Kanehiro was the first Japanese to hold a formal (modern) medical degree, and a prominent fi ...and later founded the Jikei University School of Medicine. He is known as the "father of vitamins" for his efforts to combat beriberi.
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  • ...exhibitions/past/Samurai-in-New-York.html Samurai in New York]." Museum of the City of New York. 25 June - 7 Nov. 2010.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料 [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...kaga Yoshiaki]] when the latter came to [[Echizen province|Echizen]] after the death of [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] in [[1565]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...y]]) in [[1643]]. He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and [[samurai]] status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon. He died in [[1657]] at the age of 82.
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  • ....jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Ikeda (at left) and several others at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]]]] ...at age 14, on [[1877]]/9/24, at the Battle of Shiroyama. He was buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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  • ...nce]] taken from the [[Nakamura clan]] in [[1601]],<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Matsudaira Tadaatsu was one of the first Japanese to graduate from Harvard University, doing so in [[1879]]. ...e the city engineer for Bradford, Pennsylvania, and inspector of mines for the State of Colorado.
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  • ...life was in danger. He therefore fled to Wakasa Province and took up with the Takeda. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...mune was a senior councilor to [[Shimazu Tadatsune]], who played a role in the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu]]. ...une, at a meeting of the senior retainers of the clan on 1609/2/6, to lead the invasion; Masamune served as his second-in-command.
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  • ...[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] at Wake Beach in [[1565]] and in [[1572]] against both the [[Mori clan|Môri]] and [[Miyoshi clan|Miyoshi]]. He surrendered to [[Kobay ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...] ([[1600]]) and assisted his elder brother [[Ikeda Terumasa|Terumasa]] in the reduction of [[Gifu castle]] in [[Mino province]]. He was afterwards given ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...r it was illness that ended his short life before he could see his goal of the Imperial Restoration realized. ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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  • ''Hitatare'' was one standard style of samurai dress. It consisted of two pieces: a long-sleeved jacket, and ''[[hakama]]' ...some point in the 13th century, the ''hitatare'' became truly the standard samurai outfit.
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  • Mori Masana was a samurai retainer of [[Tosa domain]]. ...aving traveled to the latter five times in [[1828]] to [[1856]] as part of the Tosa lord's ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' entourage.
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  • ...13]]. He was baptized en route to Italy and was admitted into Rome, but by the time he returned to Japan in [[1620]], he found that Masamune had dramatica ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • *1631/10/5 The shogunate appoints two ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' for Edo (one "north *1631/11/5 The shogunate issues restrictions on samurai's clothing and housing.
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  • ...tomo clan|Ôtomo]] in their own struggle with Takanobu (which culminated in the [[Battle of Iyama]]). He retired in [[1571]] in favor of his younger brothe ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...se paper (''tôshi'' or ''karakami'') into [[Satsuma han]], and was granted samurai status. ...as rewarded in [[1786]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of the domain, with samurai status and a position as an official Satsuma retainer.
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  • ...actions in [[1599]], he was allowed to remain a Shimazu retainer owing to the intercession of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. However, on a 10/2/1602 hunting expedi ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...s of [[Shonai han|Shônai han]], and made massive monetary contributions to the domain government. ...00,000 ''ryô'', which was never repaid. The family head was granted full [[samurai]] status, and came to be regularly consulted on financial matters.
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  • ...ki bugyô]]'' circa [[1621]], and in that year played a significant role in the reception of a formal embassy from [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam). ...etainers to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], but were also directly involved in the Southeast Asia trade, and held [[shuinsen|red seal ship]] licenses (''shuin
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  • ...[[Kaga province|Kaga]] ([[1494]], [[1504]]), the ikko-ikki of Echizen, and the [[Rokkaku clan|Rokkaku]] of [[Omi province|Ômi]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...Tokugawa shoguns]] claimed descent.<ref>Karl Friday, ''Samurai Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan'', Routledge (2004), 9.</ref> ...stopping it before it reached the emperor.<ref>Gallery labels, "Moon Over the Inner Palace, 1887," Santa Barbara Museum of Art.[https://www.flickr.com/ph
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  • ...of Mimigawa]], and the [[1581]] [[Battle of Minamata]]. He was wounded at the 1584 [[Battle of Okitanawate]]. Ruling or governing the southern tip of Satsuma province, including the port of [[Yamakawa]], Ei received orders in [[1583]] from Shimazu Yoshihisa
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  • ...f the authority of the [[Kyogoku clan|Kyogoku]] and supported them against the [[Rokkaku clan|Rokkaku]]. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...[[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], and was highly regarded by the latter. He served at the [[Siege of Osaka|sieges of Osaka Castle]] in [[1614]] and [[1615]], having ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...k ''Kinkin sensei eiga no yume'', published in [[1775]], is often cited as the first work of that type, setting a model or precedent for an entire publish Koikawa's works attracted the negative attention of the authorities, however, and he received a summons in [[1789]] to appear befor
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  • Ôshio Heihachirô was a low-ranking samurai who led a significant uprising or revolt in [[Osaka]] in [[1837]]. ...efore the rebellion was suppressed by the authorities. Ôshio was killed in the process.
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  • Mori Hirosada was a member of the mounted guard (''[[umamawari]]'') of the [[Yamauchi clan]] lord of [[Tosa han]]. ...to captain of a unit of twenty [[teppo|gunmen]], to captain of one unit of the domain's mounted guard.
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  • ...[[han|domains]] at certain times, especially times of financial crisis, in the [[Edo period]]. ...e taken out"), eliminating the pretense that it was a loan to be repaid in the future.
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  • ...is said to have been of particular use to Hideyoshi in his construction of the 'One Night Castle' at [[Sunomata castle|Sunomata]] in [[1567]], though if t * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He is said to have been particularly expert at the mixing of medicines. ...amed court physician (''oku ishi'') to the shogunate. He was later granted the physicians' lay monastic title of ''[[hogan|hôgan]]''.
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  • ...was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] aristocrat who later became a samurai in the service of [[Satsuma han]]. He is thus an important example of a very rare ...now a samurai in service to the domain, that his name should be moved from the [[kafu|Ryukyuan family registries]] to a new Satsuma one, and that he and h
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  • Toshima Nobumitsu was a ''[[hatamoto]]'' and member of the [[Toshima clan]], known for his assassination of ''[[Roju|Rôjû]]'' [[Inou ...was that Nobumitsu's suicide had resolved the matter sufficiently, and so the Toshima were allowed to retain their lives, and their status.
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  • Honda Masazumi was a prominent minister in the service of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. ...se men filled in the outer and second moats of the castle, in violation of the peace treaty. He was dispossessed of his lands in [[1622]] and died in [[De
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  • ...ential theorist of the [[Edo period]], many of whose writings commented on samurai identity and warrior spirit. ...rted that [[Sinocentric world order|it held this position]]. With Japan at the center of his worldview, Yamaga identifies China as "Outer Court," or "Fore
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  • ...onstruct a ''[[Daibutsu]]'' (Great Buddha statue) for [[Hoko-ji|Hôkô-ji]], the Kyoto temple Hideyoshi founded.<ref>Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo, Univer ...but Hideyoshi's was unprecedented in its scale. The order itself, known as the "Sword Hunt Order," or ''katanagari rei'', was issued on 1588/7/8. In one c
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  • ...ers & peasants were also sometimes invested with stipends by a ''daimyô'', the shogunate, or another authority. ...he largest domains, controlling between them roughly half the land area of the archipelago.<ref>Ravina, 64.</ref>
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  • ...nous behavior, an act that secured the Môri as Aki's most powerful family. The Inoue were afterwards allowed to continue on as Môri retainers * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...s, and one of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori's]] chief strategists during the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. ...]] samurai military academy, the [[Zoshikan|Zôshikan]], he was a master of the sword, and of strategy, even though his eyes and legs were weak, or disable
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  • ...een [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] in sneaking out of the country to go study in Europe. ...osa, he settled in [[Kagoshima]], where he became a math teacher at one of the city's middle schools.
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  • ...1st [[Korean Invasions|Invasion of Korea]] (1592-93). After returning from the 2nd Korean Campaign ([[1597]]-[[1598|98]]), he retired in favor of his son ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Asai Chû was one of the earliest and most prominent ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' (Western-style oil painting) ...styles. He then went on to become one of the leading ''yôga'' painters of the [[Meiji period]].
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  • ...o]] in [[1575]] under his nephew Katsuyori. In [[1582]] he was captured by the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] and was put to death along with his son [[Takeda * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...clan|Ômura]], [[Saigo clan|Saigô]], and [[Taku clan|Taku]]) as he expanded the [[Arima clan|Arima]] to control five districts of Hizen Province. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Onjô Kendô was a samurai scholar and Buddhist monk known for his exceptional devotion to his lord, [ ...in [[1823]], Onjô Heiemon entered the domain's [[teppo|gunnery]] squad at the age of 15, but soon afterwards began studying medicine under a domain physi
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  • [[Image:Hojo_tokimune_cipher.jpg||thumb|left|The cipher of Hôjô Tokimune.]] ...der son (Tokimune's older brother) [[Hojo Tokisuke|Hôjô Tokisuke]], naming the younger Tokimune his heir.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Po
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  • ...en temples. Primarily popular among merchants, peasants, and lower-ranking samurai, they were located in more remote areas and commercial towns. ''Rinka'' tem ...Much of what [[Rinzai]] and [[Soto Zen|Sôtô Zen]] are today is owed not to the big-name Five Mountains temples in [[Kyoto]] and [[Kamakura]] but to region
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  • ...en the ikko of the province rebelled, he surrendered to them. As a result, the following year Nobunaga sent out an army to destroy him. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...e one who submitted Ryôma’s [[Eight Point Plan]] to Yôdô for submission to the reigning Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], who then resigned his post in [[186 ...97), 327-329.</ref> He was granted the title of ''hakushaku'' ("Count") in the new ''[[kazoku]]'' aristocracy.
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  • Tani Sanjurô was a [[Bitchu province|Bitchu]] Matsuyama han samurai. His kenjutsu style was [[Jikishin Ryu]] and [[Shin-Kage Ryu]]. ...wn when he joined the [[Shinsengumi]], however his name was on the list of the [[Ikedaya Affair|Ikedaya]] bonus conferment.
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  • ...ctors) in the service of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], in order to determine the validity of a family's succession. ...omote|on paper]] (and often even altering the officially recorded date of the lord's death), even though privately things might not be quite according to
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  • ...tsuma han]] ([[Kagoshima prefecture]]), and involved roughly 15,000 former samurai facing off against around 100,000 [[Imperial Japanese Army]] troops. ...no Toshiaki]] can be seen in the left panel, and [[Shinohara Kunimoto]] in the center.]]
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  • ...]]'' [[emaki|handscroll]] by [[Miyagawa Issho|Miyagawa Isshô]] depicting a samurai and his young male lover.]] ...th younger samurai. This custom is most prominently seen, or discussed, in the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] and [[Edo period]]s.
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  • ...eople of Kai rose up against Hidetaka and he was killed attempting to flee the province. * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Makino Tadatoki was the third [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Nagaoka han]] in [[Echigo province]]. ...] he was called upon by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to organize and oversee the reception (lodgings, meals, etc.) of [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean envoy
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  • ...hingen in [[1542]]. He was killed at the [[Battle of Uedahara]] in 1548 by the [[Murakami clan|Murakami]] due to apparent carelessness on his part. Itagak * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...worked as a features editor for the Mainichi Daily News, and as editor for the Tokyo Journal, an English language monthly magazine. He was also the author of four books for Osprey Military Publishing on samurai history.
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  • ...ô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer who was involved in the plot which became the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ral of Taiwan]], as well as [[Minister of the Army]] and Chief of Staff of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. ...erial forces in the [[Battle of Hakodate]] in [[1868]], and in suppressing the [[Saga Rebellion]] and [[Shinpuren Incident|Shinpûren Incident]], two [[sh
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  • Narushima Motonao was the compiler of the ''[[Tokugawa jikki]]''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...a 19th century ''daimyô'' of [[Maruoka han]]. He was originally born into the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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  • Shibayama Aijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer involved in the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...gashino]] in [[1575]] and later took part in the failed expedition against the [[Sanada clan|Sanada]] ([[1585]]). He was given a 30,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...n]] retainer who was among the organizers of the plot which developed into the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...fief in Echizen and he changed his name to Tobashi Kageakira. In [[1574]] the Echizen ikko, supported by fighters from [[Kaga province|Kaga]] commanded b ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...o.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Shimazu Keijirô and his followers at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Shimazu Keijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] samurai who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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  • ...u clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and fought in several of the key conflicts of the 1860s-1870s. ...nd [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874|a punitive expedition to Taiwan]] following the [[Taiwan Incident of 1871]].
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  • ...[[Satsuma han]] retainer who was involved in the plot which developed into the [[Teradaya Incident]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Nomura Fumio was the founder of the [[Meiji period]] newspaper ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]''. ...zeal for "civilization and enlightenment" as understood or defined through the British Victorian lens.
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  • Hirata Naokata was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' under the [[So clan|Sô clan]] of [[Tsushima han]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • *[[:Category:Samurai|Samurai]] *[[:Category:Sengoku Period|The Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...a 19th century ''daimyô'' of [[Tsurumaki han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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  • ...he [[Shinsengumi]] sometime after the 7th month of [[1865]]. He fought at the [[battle of Toba-Fushimi]], but deserted after returning to Edo. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...Harusada, was the head of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]] and father of the 11th shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienari]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...the island of [[Shikoku]], provinces that would be Hosokawa bastions until the 16th Century. ...fter a 12-year tenure as Kanrei, Yoriyuki was forced to step down, costing the Ashikaga an almost indispensable asset.
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  • Kaneko Jûsuke was a [[Choshu han|Chôshû domain]] who was stripped of his [[samurai]] status and later imprisoned for crimes committed alongside [[Yoshida Shoi ...r turned themselves in to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] authorities the next day. The pair were imprisoned at [[Tenmacho prison|Tenma-chô]] in [[Edo]] for a tim
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  • ...d by his grandson [[Nabeshima Mitsushige|Mitsushige]] ([[1632]]-[[1700]]), the son of [[Nabeshima Tadanao|Nabeshima Hizen no Kami Tadanao]]. He died on 7 ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...ya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 45-60.< ...eighborhood takes its name from its location at the division (''wake'') of the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]] and Iwatsuki kaidô highways. It also contains a s
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  • ...entury ''daimyô'' of [[Shinjo han|Shinjô han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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  • Asano Naganao was the founder of [[Ako castle|Akô castle]] in [[Harima province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...akumatsu]] era ''daimyô'' of [[Shirakawa han]]. His wife was a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]]. *Gallery labels, Museum of the Meiji Restoration.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20750897483/siz
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  • ...Munetada was the fourth son of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], and the founder of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Hyôgo joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] and deserted in [[1865]]. He was killed by pursuers from the Shinsengumi.
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  • He joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1866]]. He deserted when the group was in [[Edo]] after the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]].
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  • Arai Akinori was the eldest son of Confucian scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...His many philanthropic projects included the restoration of [[Rikugien]], the [[Edo period]] gardens of ''daimyô'' [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]]. ...llowed in turn by Yatarô's eldest son [[Iwasaki Hisaya]], who also founded the [[Toyo Bunko|Tôyô Bunko]].<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.
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  • ...ineage of ''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'' (official merchants) employed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to produce formal clothes. ...in 1627 passing that name on to his descendants, down through the rest of the [[Edo period]].
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  • ...tal at Ichijô no dani, which in some ways foreshadowed the castle towns of the Edo Period. ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...a son of [[Ogasawara Haruyoshi]] and served the Tokugawa, participating at the [[Battle of Anegawa]] in [[1570]] and other engagements. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...sed book collector and illustrator, as well as being a samurai retainer of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] with a stipend of 300 ''[[koku]]''. ...nts included [[Odagiri Shunko|Odagiri Shunkô]]. He died on [[1831]]/7/3 at the age of 76. Many of Tanenobu's diaries survive today, serving as valuable hi
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  • The ''Shûi wakashû'' was the third ''[[waka]]'' poetry anthology to be compiled on official imperial ord *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • The ''Sôanshû'' ("Collection from a Reed Hut") is a collection of ''[[waka]]' *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • Shibazaki Jurôemon was a riding master and ''[[kobushin]]'' in the service of [[Kai province]], with a salary of 250 ''[[Japanese Measurements [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Matsudaira Norikuni helped oversee the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]], alongside [[Oku [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...Kodera of [[Harima province|Harima]]. He helped his son Yoshitaka convince the Kodera to submit to [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1577]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Murata Jûroemon was a swordsmanship master in the service of the lords of [[Kai province]]. He became a ''[[yoriai]]'' in [[1716]], with a s [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...f Ichimura Hanemoki, a samurai from Ogaki-han. Ichimura Tetsunosuke joined the [[Shinsengumi]] with his older brother [[Ichimura Tatsunosuke]] in [[1867]] ...le of Koshu-Katsunuma]], Tatsunosuke deserted from the [[Koyo Chinbutai]] (the renamed Shinsengumi) but Tetsunosuke stayed.
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  • ...INGUA FRANCA’ OF DIPLOMACY IN JAPANESE–KOREAN ENCOUNTERS, c. 1600-1868,” ''The Historical Journal'', 62:2 (2019), pp. 289-309: 300. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...uki clan|Shirakawa Yûki family]]. A son of [[Komine Tomochika]], he became the adopted heir of [[Yuki Ujitomo|Yûki Ujitomo]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ura Hikaru]], lord of a branch domain of [[Hirado han]]. He became lord of the domain upon his father's retirement in [[1850]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...in [[Edo period]] Japan, among other subjects, with a particular focus on the history of [[Tosa province]]. ...aphy of [[Mori Yoshiki]], a mid-ranking samurai official in the service of the lords of Tosa.
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  • ...usa]] district of [[Edo]]. A small shrine dedicated to him can be found at the temple today. ...e for some reason it came to be worshipped as a deity for a good marriage. The hall was destroyed in 1945, and rebuilt in 1978.
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  • The ''Senzai-shû'' ("Collection from a Thousand Years") is a ''[[waka]]'' poet *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • ...n in [[1601]], and simultaneously to the position of magistrate overseeing the entire [[Kanto|Kantô]] region. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ts, as the lover of [[Okuni|Izumo no Okuni]], the woman often described as the founder of [[kabuki]]. A member of the samurai class, his father was [[Nagoya Takahisa]], governor (''kami'') of [[Inaba p
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  • ...Takanobu|Ryûzôji Takanobu]] in [[1554]] and fled to [[Chikugo province]]. The following year he clashed with Takanobu and was killed. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/12/1. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • The ''kazoku'' was a Western-style peerage or aristocracy created by the [[Meiji government]] in [[1869]]/6 as part of a broader restructuring of so ...[[Tokushima han|Tokushima]], petitioned the Emperor for the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]].
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  • ...red the 15th head of the [[Hosokawa clan]] (counting from the beginning of the [[Edo period]]). [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...be Motochika's]] daughters but was later killed after he attempted to defy the will of his father-in-law. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...lan|Tokugawa]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and served at the [[Siege of Ueda]] castle. Toshishige afterwards served shôgun [[Tokugawa H ...from ''Sengoku Biographical Dictionary'' ([http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com]) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...itated and called back into government service where he eventually rose to the post of ''[[genro|genrô-in]]''. *Hillsborough, Romulus. ''[[Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps]]'', Tuttle Publishing, 2005
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  • ...n Shigetoshi]], married an elder sister of [[Shimazu Yukihisa]] and served the Shimazu loyally. He died without an heir and was succeeded by [[Iriki-in Sh [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Tayasu Kojirô was the young son of [[Tayasu Munetake]], who in turn was a son of [[Shogun]] [[Tok [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Akimoto Takatomo was one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1699]] to [[1707]]. He was named Tajima-no-kami [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Honda Masanaga was named ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1705]]. He adopted the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], [[Honda Masatake]], in [[1693]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...Masanobu was said to have been at the center of the scandal that disgraced the [[Okubo clan|Okubo]] family ([[1614]]) and some scholars believe that Masan * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • ...s dedication to Bashô was such that after the master's death, Hattori took the tonsure and became a monk.
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  • ...njoyable pastime in itself, the falcon also came to be associated with the samurai class itself - highly trained and dangerous, but restrained, controlled, an Signalling batons called ''zai'' (麾), and similar to the ''[[saihai]]'' used in battle, were used in falconry.<ref>"[http://kotobank
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  • Tadamasa was the son of [[Mizuno Kiyotada]] (also known as [[Mizuno Nobumasa]]) and held [[K [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Hino Nariko was the wife of [[Shogun]] [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]]. ...n Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., ''Japan in the Muromachi Age'', University of California Press (1977), 198.
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  • Arai Tadao joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1864]], and left for [[Goryo Eji]] in [[1867]]. He fought against the Tokugawa [[Bakufu]] in the [[Boshin War]].
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  • ...ity College London (UCL), he returned to Japan to become the first head of the Osaka mint. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...nt of the area that would be granted to Americans for free movement within the port city. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • He was appointed to the position of ''Gaikoku bugyô'' on 1860/11/8. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...he [[Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima]], he afterwards entered the service of the Ogasawara. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • The ''Shokugozenshû'' (Continued Later Collection of Poems) is a collection of *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • Ogata Shuntarô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in early [[1863]]. He went missing during the [[Battle of Aizu]], and was never seen again. It is not known if he deserte
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  • ...became an associate of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and committed suicide after the latter's downfall in 1595. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Akizuki Taneshige was the 7th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Takanabe han]]. He was an elder brother to [[U [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...was the 13th head of the [[Kikuchi clan]], and a notable warrior figure in the late [[Kamakura period]] and [[Nanbokucho period|Nanbokuchô period]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • The ''Shinchokusen'' ("New Collection On Imperial Orders") is a collection of ' *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • Tetsugorô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1864]]. He was killed during the [[Battle of Aizu]].
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  • Kuze Shigeyuki was an official in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], who served for a time as ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'', and [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...a time as ''Ryûkyû shuei'', inspecting and overseeing security concerns in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Tadazumi was the third son of [[Honda Masanobu]]. In [[1605]] he was given a 10,000-koku dom [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ame a leader in the Môri navy, seeing service in various campaigns against the Amako and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...fourth son of [[Matsura Seizan]], lord of [[Hirado han]], and was himself the lord of a Hirado branch domain. He retired in [[1850]] and was succeeded by [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • He was a cousin of the [[Itakura clan]], lords of [[Bitchu Matsuyama han|Bitchû Matsuyama domain] [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...mi]] army besieging [[Odawara castle]] in [[1590]] but died in camp during the campaign. * Initial text from [http://www.samurai-archives.com Samurai-Archives.com] FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
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  • Asahi-no-kata was one of the chief wives (''midaidokoro'') of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], marrying him in [[158 ...med Chikuami. She was a half-sister of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]; the two had the same mother.
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  • Masanari was the son of [[Inaba Ittetsu]] and like his father served [[Oda Nobunaga]] and th [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Matsui Tameyuki was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 7th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...[[Shimazu Takahisa]], who he assisted on a number of occasions, including the [[Siege of Kajiki castle]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...[1853]] to help oversee reforms in domain governance at [[Tosa Edo mansion|the domain's Edo mansion]], he had a notable influence on other upcoming Tosa l By remaining loyal to the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Bakufu]], Yoshida drew the wrath of [[Takechi Zuizan]] and his [[Tosa Loyalist Party]], and as a resul
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  • ...hoshu han|Chôshû han]] was an enemy of the Imperial court, was placed near the [[Sanjo Ohashi|Sanjô bridge]]. ...satsu'' was pulled down and trashed on the side of [[Kamo River]]. On 9/2, the ''seisatsu'' was replaced, however it was gone again in three days.
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  • ...the most significant events in Japanese history, it marks the beginning of the [[Meiji period]], which saw dramatic changes and developments throughout ne ...word "restoration," which has become very much the standard translation of the term.
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  • ...ere the highest-ranking [[chonin|townsmen]] (non-[[samurai]] commoners) in the city's official administrative ranks. ...) of areas within [[Edo]] answered to the ''machi doshiyori'', and oversaw the ''[[goningumi]]'' (five-person collective responsibility groups), and guard
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  • ...re-adopted by [[Kakizaki Sueshige]]. Some sources say he was originally of the [[Minabe clan]]. ...to have been adopted, not a true blood relative, and became estranged from the family.
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  • ''Genpuku'' was the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for members of the samurai class. ...hiefly involved a change of clothes and hairstyle, and in certain periods, the young man would receive his first ''[[eboshi]]'' court cap, sword, and suit
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  • Matsui Toyoyuki was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Hosokawa clan]], and the 6th [[Edo period]] castellan of [[Yatsushiro castle]] in [[Higo province]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Matsudaira Tadayoshi was one of the ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' beginning in [[1685]]. He was named ''[[soba yonin|so [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ..., building an economy based on trade, and taking possession of [[Ezo]] and the [[Kurile Islands]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Akitame was a long-time retainer of the Satake and served three generations of that family - [[Satake Yoshiaki|Yosh [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...daimyo|daimyô]]'' or being ''daimyô'' themselves, were direct retainers of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. ...from the smallest ''daimyô'' was that ''daimyô'', unlike ''hatamoto'', had the right to sentence their subjects to death.<ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and
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  • ...urging the shogun to resign peacefully and cede political control back to the throne, which he did. ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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  • Ôkôchi Terutoshi was a [[Bakumatsu]] era lord of [[Takasaki han]]. He served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] for many years as ''[[sojaban|sôjaban]]'' and as '' [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...attle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] ([[1575]]). He was known for his skill with the spear and was nicknamed "Spear Hanzo". [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...[Yamagata han]] in [[1685]], before being transferred to [[Fukushima han]] the following year. Alongside [[Abe Masatake]], he co-edited the ''[[Butoku taiseiki]]'' in [[1683]].
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  • ...[[1716]], during which time he oversaw the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]] alongside [[Mats [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Kotarô joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in Edo in [[1864]]. He participated in the [[Sanjo Seisatsu Incident]]. He was killed in the [[Battle of Toba-Fushimi]], but some sources say he returned to [[Edo]].
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  • ...amount known as ''[[kokudaka]]''. This, in turn, would indirectly dictate the number of men such a lord could be expected to field, if necessary. ...samurai relying on stipends paid in rice less and less wealthy relative to the [[chonin|merchant class]], who earned their incomes in gold and silver.
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  • ...nzo-grave.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hattori Hanzô at Sainen-ji in the Yotsuya neighborhood of Tokyo]] ...ngth, Tokugawa and his band returned to [[Mikawa province|Mikawa]] safely. The same could not be said for [[Anayama Beisetsu]], a recent Tokugawa addition
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  • ...d "Hitokiri Kuwajiro" because of his involvement in many assassinations by the [[Shinsengumi]]. In March [[1868]], he fled the Shinsengumi and tried to join [[Satsuma han]] troops.
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  • Manabe Akihira was the younger brother of [[Manabe Akifusa]]. From [[1710]], he had 500 ''[[koku]] [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...became Minister of Industry, and established an art school and schools for the blind & deaf. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...orked with [[Charles Comte de Montblanc]] to plan the Satsuma pavilion for the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...a month. At each such ''orei sanga'' event, guests were obliged to present the shogun with a sword, and early on, with a horse as well. ...it became quite standard for ''kuge'' to present swords to the shogun, to the [[Emperor]] or [[Retired Emperor]], and to one another.
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  • Honda Masatake was the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], and was adopted by [[Honda Masanaga] [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...of [[Chosokabe Nobuchika]], killed by the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] during the [[Battle of Hetsugigawa]] ([[1587]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Diplomats]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...r congratulations to [[King Cheoljong]] of [[Joseon]] on his succession to the throne. In [[1868]], he was serving as ''[[rusui]]'' for the domain in Kyoto.
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  • ...eft the [[Shinsengumi]] after the [[Battle of Koshu-Katsunuma]] and joined the [[Seikyotai]] but surrendered to [[Satsuma han]]. He became a wealthy merchant in Hokkaido after the [[Meiji Restoration]].
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  • ...l by Odagiri depicting the ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' procession of the ''daimyô'' of [[Owari han]]. [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]]]] ...he [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] lords of [[Owari han]] ([[Nagoya]]) in the late [[Edo period|Edo]] and early [[Meiji period]]s.
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  • Chikasada was of the [[Honda clan (Satsuma)|Satsuma Honda clan]], and one of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...he ''hitsuke tôzoku aratame kata'' (火付盗賊改方), the chief official overseeing the apprehension of arsonists, thieves, and gamblers. Heizô is the protagonist of a novel by [[Ikenami Shotaro|Ikenami Shôtarô]].
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  • ...a han]], he was adopted by [[Abe Masatane]], lord of Sanuki, and succeeded the latter. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...aka castle|Mabusezaka]] and [[Takatenjin castle|Takatenjin]] castles. When the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] and Imagawa went to war after [[1568]], he sided [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ori silver mines and gained much prestige for this. He went on to fight at the [[Battle of Miyajima]] in [[1555]] and [[Battle of Moji|Moji]] in [[1561]]. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...'' (Japantown) in the Siamese city of [[Ayutthaya]]. He may have been from the [[Arima family]] of merchants, who held a [[shuinsen|red seal license]] for Sugihiro was succeeded as head of the community by [[Kiya Kyuzaemon|Kiya Kyûzaemon]], in [[1610]].
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  • ...[Takeda clan|Takeda]], Masakuni came to serve the latter. He was killed at the [[Battle of Nagashino]] and was succeeded by his younger brother [[Yashiro [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...eji han]]. Born in [[1756]], he died at the age of five, and was buried at the temple of [[Keifuku-ji]] in [[Himeji]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Mutô Nobuyoshi was a prominent military officer and official of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. ...attached to the Russian Legation, and as head of the secret service during the [[Siberian Intervention]].
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  • ...as ''[[Jisha bugyo|Jisha bugyô]]'' in the early 1850s, and as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1858]] to [[1859]].
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  • .... The ''[[Shokugozenshu|Shokugozenshû]]'', compiled in [[1251]], was among the famous compilations accredited to him. *Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: The Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ger
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  • ...ima]] in [[1811]] (not traveling to [[Edo]]), Tadakata served as proxy for the shogun in formal audiences with them.<ref>Miyake Hidetoshi 三宅英利, "R [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...in 1498 and forced him to commit suicide. Some older sources give 1491 as the year Chachamaru was driven from Izu. * Nagahara, K. ''The Great History of Japan'' Japan, 1975
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  • ...ess warrior and at the [[Battle of Okitanawate]] he was killed fighting in the rear guard. He is sometimes ranked as one of Takanobu's ''shi-tenno''. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • [[File:Ikeda-seihin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Ikeda Shigeaki and his relatives at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji ...ing at times on the board of directors of [[Mitsui Bank]], as president of the [[Bank of Japan]], and as [[Ministry of Finance|Minister of Finance]] and [
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  • ...民撰議院設立建白書-->, submitted to the government; the memorial was also signed by the likes of [[Soejima Taneomi]], [[Goto Shojiro|Gotô Shôjirô]], [[Eto Shinp ...helped found the [[Liberal Party]], Japan's first modern political party. The following year, he survived an assassination attempt by a right-winger.<ref
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  • ...Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]], the final such visit by any shogun prior to the [[Meiji Restoration]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • The ''San Buena Ventura'' was the first ship built in Japan to cross the Pacific Ocean, doing so in [[1610]]. ...p the ''[[Liefde]]''. The shogunate's ship was then piloted in 1610 across the Pacific, to New Spain, by Iberian navigators.
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  • ...ce]]. His diary of the invasion, ''Ryûkyû tokai nichinichi ki'', is one of the chief surviving firsthand accounts of those events. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...|right|thumb|320px|Monzaemon as seen in a [[Meiji period]] print depicting the seven legends of ''[[bunraku]]'']] ...helping establish or create art forms which would go on to become some of the most prominent and distinctive of Japan's traditional arts.
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  • ...tsu]]. In her infancy, she was betrothed to [[Date Tadamune]], but died at the age of two. *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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  • ...(letters or other documents) which have survived and give us insight into the European view of Japan. * Medina, Jean Ruiz de, trans. John Bridges, ''The Catholic Church in Korea: Its origins 1566-1784'' Istituto Storico S.I. - R
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  • ...e of garment often worn by samurai women in certain ceremonial contexts in the [[Edo period]]. ...tubes, which held it up creating a rectangular or wing-like effect behind the wearer.
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  • ...as the third son of [[Hotta Masatoshi]], and founder of a junior branch of the [[Hotta clan]]. The son of Masatoshi by a concubine, he was later given 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' and
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  • ...ator, herbalist and physician, attributed with revitalizing or reinventing the genre of travel writing.<ref>Yonemoto, Marcia. ''Mapping Early Modern Japan He was the fifth son of [[Kaibara Kansai]]<!--貝原寛斎-->, a samurai in the service of [[Kuroda Mitsuyuki]], lord of [[Fukuoka han]]. Ekiken traveled t
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  • Uesugi Kagetora was the seventh son of [[Hojo Ujiyasu|Hôjô Ujiyasu]] and was adopted by [[Uesugi [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ov]] arrives at [[Nagasaki]] seeking to trade. He is refused and sent away the following year. ...hreatening, and issues permission to troops from [[Fukuoka han]], guarding the harbor, to return to their home province.
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  • ...minally cooperated in the invasion of the [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] domain in the Spring of [[1582]], Ujimasa distrusted Nobunaga's intentions and was roused ...though damaged in the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923, were repaired again the following year.<ref>Plaques at gravesite.</ref>
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  • ...hosomichi'') and many of his poems remain well-known in Japan - and around the world.
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  • ...tainers in [[1578]]. He acted as a hostage to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] after the latter invaded [[Kyushu]] in [[1587]]. He was afterwards installed at Miyan [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...uctions in this mode are called ''[[jidaigeki]]'' (時代劇), and share much of the same basic features. ...d heroic sacrifices was still something of a romanticized escape for these samurai, just as historical dramas are for us today.
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  • Hizen Tadayoshi was the name taken in succession by a line of prominent [[Edo period]] swordsmiths. Though formal samurai exchanges of swords as gifts typically took the form of older (pre-Edo) swords, when Edo period swords (''shin-tô'', lit.
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  • Nitta Yoshishige was a grandson of [[Minamoto no Yoshiie]], and ancestor of the [[Nitta clan]]. ...t ranks|Lower Junior Fifth Rank]], Yoshishige was posthumously elevated to the Junior Second Rank in [[1850]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要
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  • ...ayoshi was a [[Bakumatsu]] era lord of [[Anji han|Anji domain]]. Following the death of lord of [[Kokura han|Kokura domain]] [[Ogasawara Tadahiro]] in [[1 [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ois]] an audience with [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] in [[1569]]. He supported the [[Takayama clan]] and was later killed fighting with [[Araki Murashige]] in [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Naitô Nobuteru was the third son of [[Naito Nobuyoshi|Naitô Nobuyoshi]]. Adopted by his brother-i [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Matsura Terasu was the second-to-last lord of [[Hirado han]]. He was a son of [[Matsura Hiromu]], [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ce]]. He commanded naval ships for Michinao and was considered a pillar of the Kôno house. He died in 1567 of illness. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...ularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku. ...y (2011), 94.</ref> He is also known for his scholarly writings, including the preface to [[Goto Godoan|Gotô Godôan's]] ''[[Oranda banashi]]''<!--紅毛
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  • ...ard narrative of the Edo period emphasizes it as a period of the "rise" of the commoner class, as ''chônin'' became wealthier (more economically dominant ...ssociated, ''chônin'' can also be defined as "townspeople," in contrast to the ''hyakushô'' ("peasants" or "villagers") who lived in rural areas.
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  • ...571]]. He held [[Takatsuki]] in [[Settsu province]]. He planned to destroy the [[Takayama clan|Takayama]] but that clan learned of his intentions and in A [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ts]] from [[Satsuma han]] who traveled to Europe for study in [[1865]], at the age of 21. ...s upon military (army) science in particular. He returned to Japan late in the 8th month, [[1866]].
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  • ...and in [[1608]] was made a commander of [[ashigaru]]. He served notably at the [[Osaka Campaign|Sieges of Osaka Castle]] and in [[1640]] was made a [[daim [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...his fief. He adopted [[Shimazu Tadachika (1569-1587)|Shimazu Tadachika]], the 2nd son of [[Shimazu Yoshitora]], as his heir and married his eldest daught ...yoshi at all. When Hideyoshi passed through Toshihisa's territory, Satsuma samurai loosed arrows into Hideyoshi's palanquin.
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  • ...]] (1868-1912) when the term became properly entrenched through its use in the [[Meiji education|public education]] curriculum.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, Luke ...yûei'' in reference to that camp. The term can also refer to the person of the shogun himself, or to his family.<ref>"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9F%B3%
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  • ...ork newspaper illustration, reproduced in a gallery label at the Museum of the City of New York.]] ...became a favorite of the US media. He was often mistakenly referred to in the American newspapers as "Jateishi Osojero" or by various other misspellings
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  • ...]] in quelling the difficult elements of [[Tosa province]] and was awarded the 20,000 ''[[koku]]'' branch domain of [[Nakamura han (Tosa)|Nakamura]]. Afte [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • .... He committed suicide when he lost Daishôji to [[Maeda Toshinaga]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] (September [[1600]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ry from [[Saga]] (on the island of Kyushu) to Tsushima Fuchû (Izuhara), on the island of [[Tsushima]].<ref>Plaque at Sadakuni's grave, Banshô-in.[https:/ [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...f Rites [[Kamei Koremi]], he was among the chief officials responsible for the ''[[shinbutsu bunri]]'' ("separation of Buddhism and Shinto") policies. He was an adherent of the ''[[kokugaku]]'' (Nativist) teachings of [[Okuni Takamasa]].
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  • Sakai Tadateru was a late [[Edo period]] head of the [[Sakai clan]] and lord of [[Himeji han]]. ...'s death in [[1853]], Tadateru succeeded him as lord of Himeji and head of the house.
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  • ...[[Shimazu Yoshihisa|Shimazu Yoshihisa's]] campaigns and battles, including the [[1578]] [[battle of Mimigawa]]. ...]]. He fought for the Shimazu in the conquest of [[Higo province]], and in the [[1584]] [[battle of Okitanawate]].
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  • ...of [[Asano Nagamasa]] and after serving the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] at the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] had his fief of [[Toyooka]] in [[Tajima province] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...ransferred to [[Yodo han]] in [[1723]].<ref name=yodojo>Plaques on-site at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/456525 [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...i Shimazu house]], and succeeded his adoptive father to become the head of the family. He then married a relative of that family, with whom he had a daugh [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Okitsura was a son of [[Sugi Okifusa]]. He served the Ôuchi and acted as the ''[[shugodai]]'' of [[Chikuzen province]]. In [[1530]] he was tasked with l [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...[[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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  • ...n [[1854]], however, at the age of [[Age Calculation|five or six]], before the betrothal was formalized. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • [[File:Ijuin-suma.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Ijûin Suma at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...eath, she was enshrined or deified as Warei-tokuju-hime, and was buried at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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  • ...Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' in [[1850]] and then being reassigned to the position of ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' (finance magistrate) a few mo [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...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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  • ...iner of [[Oda Nobutaka]] though he supported [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] during the [[Shizugatake Campaign]] ([[1583]]). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...nvoy to the imperial court and on similar missions on several occasions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...o Kyoto in [[1854]]/4 to officially inquire (on the shogun's behalf) as to the emperor's health and wellbeing.
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  • ...placing [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], who was forced into retirement as part of the [[Ansei Purge]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...his family to death. He was an important commander in the campaign against the [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]] in 1600 but was dispossessed in 1607 for illegal act [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...-hime was an adoptive daughter of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. Born the daughter of [[Tokugawa Tsunanari]], she was later adopted by Shogun Tsunayo *Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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  • ...the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. He was 19 at the time. One of the other students was his 15-year-old younger brother, [[Machida Seijiro|Machi Sanetsumi returned to Japan the following year, in the 8th month.
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  • ...gent watching over [[Shimazu Shigehide]], daimyô of [[Satsuma han]], until the latter was of age. Hisamoto accompanied the young ''daimyô'' to [[Edo]] on a number of occasions, most notably in [[17
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  • ...|gôshi]]'', wealthy rural peasants or commoners who enjoyed some degree of samurai privileges. *[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge
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  • ...perial court with gifts, on behalf of the shogun, in the wake of a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...province|Mikawa]] after [[1561]]. While the young Ieyasu was a hostage of the [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]], Tadakazu worked effectively to help keep his clan [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Toda Tadahisa was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Mito Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa clan]] of [[Mito han]]. ...severe damage in the [[Ansei Earthquake]]. He was posthumously elevated to the Senior Fourth Rank.
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  • ...d, originally, to the Dutch.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2 ...s, along with a Japanese manuscript translation of an original letter from the Ruan family to Araki.
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  • ''Kote'' are a piece of Japanese armor which protects the lower arm. ...andard to wear protection on both arms, and this remained standard through the [[Edo period]], and into martial arts practices today.
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  • ...u at [[Totsuka]] [[shukuba|post-station]] on [[1853]]/11/22 in revenge for the death of their father, Sudô Kyûemon. ...the case on [[1854]]/2/6 and acquitted the brothers. On 5/29 of that year, the brothers were honored by their lord, [[Matsudaira Tsunenori]], for their su
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  • ...of [[Shimazu Yoshitora]]. He was adopted into first the [[Ei clan]], then the [[Iriki-In clan|Iriki-In]], where he succeeded [[Iriki-in Shigetoki]], who [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • 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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...is a [[Shinto shrine]] in [[Kagawa prefecture]], likely the most famous on the entire island of [[Shikoku]]. ...s today dedicated to the deity [[Omononushi|Ômononushi no mikoto]], and to the spirit of [[Emperor Sutoku]].
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  • ...Period"<ref>Berry. p234.</ref> was the first compilation of genealogies of the daimyô and ''[[hatamoto]]'' families. ...n [[1643]], the ''Kan'ei shoka keizuden'' covered the genealogies of 1,419 samurai families in two sets of 186 volumes (one set in Japanese, one in Chinese).
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  • ...inance commissioner, and later military commissioner, in the last years of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. ...the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]] in [[1860]].
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  • ...Iwami Hisachika was a late [[Edo period]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' in service to the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Kagoshima han]]. He led the [[1850]] [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] on their [[1
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  • ...he latter. Takatomo's second son [[Yuki Harutomo|Harutomo]] was adopted by the former's brother Masakatsu. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • Hashiguchi Denzô was a [[Satsuma han]] retainer involved in the [[1862]] [[Teradaya Incident]]. ...o put an end to the plot. Hashiguchi was killed by [[Narahara Shigeru]] in the resulting fight.
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  • Kawamura Zuiken was an [[Edo period]] timber merchant who rose to samurai status. ...courier, he amassed a fortune through dealings in timber futures following the [[Meireki Fire]] of [[1657]]. He also became involved in public works proje
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  • ...toshi]]. He was the 16th head of his family and was at first a retainer of the [[Kimotsuki clan|Kimotsuki]] of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]] (Shigetake's [[Ne [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...gekiyo'' is a [[Noh]] play by [[Zeami]], centering on the [[Taira clan]] [[samurai]] [[Taira no Kagekiyo]]. ...ow comes around looking for him, and finds him living as a blind beggar in the countryside.
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  • ...son of Kyôraishi Nobuyasu (教来石信保) and eventually succeeded Baba Torasada, the latter having been killed by [[Takeda Nobutora]]. He was at first known as ...ho'' (侍大将) and at this time changed his name to Baba Nobufusa and recieved the title of ''Minbu no shô''.
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  • ...taka was the 2nd [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau]]. ...of the Hokuriku Pacification Supervisory Division (北陸鎮撫総監府), and fought in the [[Battle of Hakodate]].
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  • ==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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 was the second [[Ashikaga Bakufu|Ashikaga shogun]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...is was seen chiefly in the mid-[[Heian period]], an era often described as the "Insei Period" for that reason, though some later retired emperors were qui ...himself, naming those loyal to him to those positions, while also reducing the power of those positions.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...]], 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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  • Satô Masayoshi served as an assistant to [[Inoue Masaru]], in directing the first [[railroad]] construction in Japan. ...gunnery, and surveying at [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû's]] ''juku'', and at the [[Nagasaki Naval Training Center]] (''Nagasaki Kaigun Denshū-jo''), before
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  • ...]]'' domain, in [[1612]]. Three years later, at the age of 8, he served in the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]]. He was also named Minbu-no-shô in [[1621]], but [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...loyal to Yoshitaka when [[Sue Harukata]] rebelled in [[1551]] and assisted the former in committing suicide, after which he killed himself. He was a poet [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...s with the [[Ryuzoji clan|Ryûzôji]] and [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] and fought in the first of [[Korean Invasions|Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea]] ([[1592]]-93). [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...e]] - including textiles, [[tiger]] skins, and [[ginseng]] - by pirates in the [[Inland Sea]]. ...e among Koxinga’s Japanese Pirate Ancestors,” in ''Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai'', ed. by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang. UH Press (2016), 43-44.
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  • ...Nanshû Cemetery]] for Masuda and the 21 other men from Nakatsu who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]]] ...at group, 22 died in battle, with Masuda himself being killed at age 28 in the battle of Komekura (in [[Kagoshima]] City) on Sept 4, [[1877]].
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  • Itô Sukeyuki was an early leader of the [[Satsuma han]] navy. ...cked Kagoshima]] in response to that incident, Itô was among those manning the coastal defenses at Gionnosu.
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  • ...ead of the [[Iriki-in clan]], retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] and lord of the Iriki [[sub-fief]] within [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...umatsu period]] lord of [[Jozai han|Jôzai han]] ([[Kazusa province]]), and the last ''[[Fushimi bugyo|Fushimi bugyô]]'' ([[Fushimi]] Magistrate). He was ...position of Fushimi ''bugyô'' was abolished, and its duties transferred to the [[Kyoto]] ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.
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  • Ôkubo Tadataka was the 8th son of [[Okubo Tadakazu|Ôkubo Tadakazu]]. From [[1576]] he served his ...temple he established. The temple was relocated to its current location in the Takanawa neighborhood of [[Edo]]/[[Tokyo]] in [[1668]].
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  • ...f>The reading "Tachikuni" is only a guess; though the ''kanji'' are known, the reading is unclear.</ref> ...d of Kumamoto), and Hori Heitazaemon (a [[bugyo|magistrate]] in service to the Hosokawa). Ariyoshi was sentenced to house arrest, indefinitely.
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  • ...signed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]].<p>An inscription on the back of the stone base reads "Field Marshal Admiral Marquis [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô T ...in [[1857]]. In [[1862]]/12, Shinagawa was involved in the destruction of the British legation in [[Yokohama]].
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  • ...sakurayakata.jpg|right|thumb|500px|A scale model of the Asakura yakata, at the National Museum of Japanese History]] ...zed in [[1575]]. It is said that after [[Asakura Yoshikage]] fled for Ôno, the fortress burned for three days.
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  • ...riod]]. He is particularly known for his extremely lengthy personal diary, the ''Ômurôchûki'' 鸚鵡籠中記, which he kept for 34 years. ...venteen in [[1684]], until one year before his death, as a grandfather, at the age of 45.
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  • ...imasa|Hôjô Ujimasa's]] 2nd son [[Hojo Ujiteru|Ujiteru]]. After the fall of the Hôjô, his sons [[Oishi Yoshinaka|Yoshinaka]] and [[Oishi Sadakatsu|Sadaka [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...o Shunzei]] and [[Fujiwara no Tokushi|Bifukumon-in no Kaga]], he was among the most prominent nobles of his time. ...on imperial orders, he compiled a ''[[waka]]'' poetry collection known as the ''[[Shinchokusen]]''.
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  • ...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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  • ...a han]] retainer active in the ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' movement in the 1860s. He was involved in a number of loyalist activities, including plotting to see the [[Fall of Seven Nobles Incident|former exiled nobles]] [[Sanjo Sanetomi|San
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  • Nanbu Shigenao was a son of [[Nanbu Toshinao]], and lord of the 130,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Morioka han|Morioka]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...court physician who contributed to the translation of Western materials in the mid-1850s.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 97.</ In [[1856]], he was appointed organizer of the Fukui [[domain school]] [[Meidokan|Meidôkan]], and led classes for domain
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  • ...g to [[Kagoshima prefecture]] in answer to a call for aid from the rebels, the Fukuoka warriors never managed to join up with their Satsuma brethren befor ...Shiroyama]], on September 24, [[1877]], at the age of 26. He is buried at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.
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  • ...eteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who snuck out of the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. ...the [[Meiji Restoration]], and contributed to agricultural development of the territory.
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  • Morimoto Sôsetsu was a [[Satsuma han]] official, the younger brother of court physician [[Morimoto Koken|Morimoto Kôken]]. He was one of several tens of officials exiled in the [[1808]] [[Kinshirokukuzure Incident]], in which [[Shimazu Shigehide]] rail
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  • ...Hitachi]] as a son of [[Shizuku han]] Samurai. His family was expeled from the han when he was little. He married to dojo master's daughter and inherited the dojo.
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  • ...ul against Fujitaka but was defeated when [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] arrived and the [[Nuta clan]] betrayed him after his castle fell in [[1579]]. Yoshimichi co [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • Inoue Masaru was the first Japanese head of the [[railroads]] (''tetsudô-no-kami''). ...udied coal mining and railroads. Upon returning to Japan, he helped direct the establishment of railroads there.
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  • ...ame is sometimes rendered alternatively as Yamanouchi instead of Yamauchi; the given name, similarly, is alternatively Kazutoyo or Katsutoyo.</ref> ...ding troops in several of the most major battles of the closing decades of the [[Sengoku period]].
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  • ...of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]]. ...[[Edo]] known as the Kyûkyodô, and was subsequently appointed to teach at the [[Bansho shirabesho]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (
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  • Ikeda Terumasa was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Himeji castle]]. ...ook steps to reduce the alarming power of the Ikeda and eventually reduced the family to Tottori (Inaba) and Okayama (Bizen).
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  • Yamano Yasohachi joined the [[shinsengumi]] in [[1863]] with [[Shimada Kai]] and [[Ogata Shuntaro]]. It seemed he left the Shinsengumi in Hakodate before surrendered.
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  • ...'[[karo|karô]]'' and chief military strategist for the [[Shimazu clan]] in the 16th century. ...onda clan|Honda]] and [[Ichiki clan]]s, and aided [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] in the [[1554]] [[siege of Iwatsurugi]].
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  • ...], 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, 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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ..., 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...ger sister, [[Yasu-hime]]. Nori-hime was married to [[Shimazu Uzuhiko]] of the Echizen [[Shimazu clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • Sagara Yorimoto was the last [[Edo period]] lord of [[Hitoyoshi han]] in [[Higo province]]. He succ [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...[[Tanaka Yoshimasa]] and [[Kuroda Nagamasa]]. Whether or not he survived the battle is unknown. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...[[Narahara Kizaemon]] attempted unsuccessfully to seize control of one of the British vessels. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...or hierarchical power relative to the other; after the exchange of drinks, the plates would be broken.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • .... 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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  • ...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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ::''For the samurai clan, see [[Sakai clan]].'' ...derable degree of independence from [[samurai]] control throughout much of the [[Sengoku period]].
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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...[[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ::''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 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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  • ::''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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • *1617/3 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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • ...|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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  • ...as killed alongside [[Oda Nobutada]] at Nijô following Nobunaga's death at the hands of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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  • ...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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  • ...the inspiration for Ikyû, the chief antagonist in ''[[Sukeroku]]'', one of the most popular kabuki plays of all time.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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 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 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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  • [[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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...'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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  • ...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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  • .... 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ==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 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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