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• Miura Yoshimura
  ...o]] on a number of occasions, including contributing to the suppression of the [[1213]] [[Wada Conflict]]. ...e immediately after the assassination and sought to discuss with Yoshimura the process of how Kugyô would be named [[shogun]].
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• Honda Kinkichiro
  ...eiji period]] artist and cartoonist; he served as the first cartoonist for the influential newspaper ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]''. ...[Hiroshima]] run by [[Nomura Fumio]], who later invited him to join him on the ''Marumaru chinbun'', which Nomura founded in [[1877]].
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• Narahara Kizaemon
  ...e most responsible for the death of English merchant Charles Richardson in the [[1862]] [[Namamugi Incident]]. He was a master of the ''[[Yakumaru Jigen-ryu|Yakumaru jigen-ryû]]'' sword school.<ref>"Narahara
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• Shimazu Tadayoshi (Soshu)
  ...kami 相模守. Not to be confused with the Sôshû Shimazu family 総州島津家 from when the main, central, Shimazu lineage was split into Sôshû 総州家 and Ôshû ...imazu Yukihisa]], head of the Sôshû Shimazu, making Tadayoshi heir to both the Isaku and Sôshû Shimazu lines.
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• Tokugawa Iesato
  ...ollowing the fall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He served as president of the [[House of Peers]] from [[1903]] to 1933. ...came the 7th head of that family before becoming adopted as successor into the main line Tokugawa house.<ref>Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www
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• Naito Nobuchika
  Naitô Nobuchika was a [[Bakumatsu period]] member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. ...] from [[1850]]/9/1 until [[1851]]/12/21, after which he was reassigned to the post of ''Nishinomaru rôjû''; he was succeeded as Kyoto shoshidai by [[Wa
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• Shimazu Hisanaru
  ...ed. He then replaced Bungo as leading<!--首席--> ''karô'', and became one of the protectionist / national defense faction. When he refused to join or suppor [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nozoki Yoshimasa
  ...he dramatic reversal, for the better, of Yonezawa's financial situation in the 1790s. ...higesada]] before he and a group of like-minded domain officials, known as the Seigasha, convinced Shigesada to retire in [[1767]] in favor of [[Uesugi Ha
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• Morikawa Masakazu
  [[File:Morikawa-Masakazu.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Morikawa's tombstone at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...anese Army]] soldier in the [[Boshin War]] and Satsuma fighter who died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Kasamori Osen
  ...murai, on account of his swords, or a [[kabuki]] actor merely dressed as a samurai. ''[[Ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock print by [[Suzuki Harunobu]], c. 1768-69. Brookl ...artists of the time, [[Suzuki Harunobu]] first among them, who took her as the subject of their prints.
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• Manabe Akifusa
  ...ujiwara clan]]. Akifusa served Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferre [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Honda Tadamasa
  ...awa Hidetada]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and fought in the [[Osaka Campaign|Osaka castle]] sieges ([[1614]], [[1615]]). ...ain of [[Himeji han]] in [[Harima province]], and expanded [[Himeji castle|the castle]] considerably, including adding residences for his son [[Honda Tada
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• Hatakeyama Yoshinari
  Hatakeyama Yoshinari was the first head of the Tokyo Kaisei Academy (today, the [[University of Tokyo]]). ...ile in Europe, he studied military science. In [[1867]]/7, he relocated to the United States, where he studied law, politics, and social sciences at Rutge
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• Koremune clan
  The Koremune clan were a [[samurai]] clan originally from [[Sanuki province]] on [[Shikoku]]. ...onmyodo|onmyôdô]]''. From the medieval period onwards, the Koremune served the Imperial court.
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• Ii Naomasa
  ...s encroachment into Totomi but later accepted their rule. He was killed at the [[Battle of Okehazama]] along with his lord, [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]]. ...utoyo]] be assisted in quelling the erstwhile [[Chosokabe clan|Chosokabe]] samurai of [[Tosa province]], instead sending one of his retainers ([[Suzuki Hyoe]]
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• Yamaguchi Naoki
  ...n his historic trip to [[Kyoto]] (along with the [[Shinsengumi]]). During the same year, he was appointed administrator of Kanagawa. ...a cannon attack on an American ship in [[Choshu|Chôshû]], he investigated the incident along with [[Matsumae Takahiro]].
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• Kodai-in (1773-1844)
  Kôdai-in was the chief wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]]. .... In [[1776]], at the age of 4, she was engaged to Matsudaira Toyochiyo of the [[Hitotsubashi family]], who would later become Tokugawa Ienari. He became
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• Inoue Kiyonao
  ...hin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 142.</ref> He was then reassigned to the position of [[Machi bugyo|Kyoto machi bugyô]] later that same year.<ref>Is [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kuze Hirochika
  ...hika was lord of [[Sekiyado han]] and a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in the late 1840s to early 1850s. ...e being named ''[[jisha bugyo|jisha bugyô]]'' in [[1843]]. He was named to the ''nishinomaru rôjû'' in [[1848]], and to full ''rôjû'' status shortly a
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• Sakata Moroto
  ...ate behavior was based on unfounded rumors and accounts written long after the fact. ...[[Akizuki han]], and after the [[Meiji Restoration]] became an official in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] prior to his death in [[1875]].
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• Mori Takachika
  ...obumi]] and [[Hayashi Tomoyuki]]; a sixth statue was added in [[1906]], on the initiative of [[Katsura Taro|Katsura Tarô]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nakamura Josuke
  [[File:Nakamura-josuke.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Grave of Nakamura Josuke at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...ita prefecture]], who turned against the [[Meiji government]], and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Nakamura Goro
  Nakamura Goro joined the [[Shinsengumi]] in [[1865]]. He tried to join the [[Goryo Eji|Goryô Eji]] but was refused by [[Ito Kashitaro|Itô Kashitarô
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• Maeda Toshitomo
  ...田利保-->, stepped down as lord of Toyama due to illness in [[1846]], passing the position to Toshitomo. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hosokawa Yoshikuni
  Hosokawa Yoshikuni was the 13th [[Hosokawa clan]] lord of [[Kumamoto han]]. ...shogun's name, taking on the name Yoshiyuki. In [[1868]], he then took on the name Yoshikuni.
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• Ikki
  ...acts with one another to work together for common interests, and to defend the group's independence from warlords or others. ...ember would then drink, in a ritual called ''ichimi shinsui'' ("one sip of the gods' water").<ref>[[Eiko Ikegami]], ''Bonds of Civility'', Cambridge Unive
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• Hori Hideharu
  ...hough he was to play only a small role in the 'Eastern' campaign to defeat the [[Uesugi clan]]. He died at a young age, prompting some to question whether [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Maeda Gen'i
  ...f the ''[[odoi]]'' embankment surrounding the center of the city, and work the following year on [[Fushimi castle]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Nagai Motofusa
  ...found today, on the former site of Terumoto's residence in Hagi, alongside the graves of Terumoto and his wife. ...at-japan Paying my respects to the most loyal cat in Japan]," The Order of the Good Death, 27 June 2017.
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• Shimazu Hisayasu
  ...e adopted Hisayasu to be his heir. After the [[Shimazu clan]] submitted to the authority of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] in [[1587]], Hideyoshi granted Morokata Hisayasu then led Shimazu forces in the [[Odawara Campaign]] of [[1590]]. He accompanied his father in Hideyoshi's
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• Naito Nobuteru (1592-1665)
  ...City of New York by Tokyo's Taitô Ward in 1980, the lantern now stands in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.<ref>"[http://www.bbg.org/about/history A Brief Hi Naitô Nobuteru was the son of [[Naito Nobumasa|Naitô Nobumasa]], and first [[Edo period]] [[Naito
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• Akashi Motojiro
  ...-determination for all peoples were beginning to seep into many corners of the globe. ...tudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 1
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• Morishima Churyo
  ...nent writer and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the late 18th century, known as the writer of numerous popularly-published books on foreign cultures, as well a ...ery work on Ryûkyû published later in the Edo period drew extensively upon the ''Ryûkyû-banashi''. Chûryô seems to have planned a ''Chôsen-banashi''
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• Kiya Kyuzaemon
  ..., appearing in a number of secondary sources under the surname Kii, and/or the given name Kyûemon. ...in [[1619]]; it is therefore unclear just when he stepped down as head of the ''Nihonmachi'', returned to Japan, and/or died.
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• Takami Senseki
  ...nteractions or connections with other scholars, literati (''bunjin''), and the like. ...kan'') in Ibaraki City holds some 3,000 documents associated with Senseki; the collection as a whole has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]
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• Tomo Kaneyuki
  [[File:Tomo-kaneyuki.jpg|Right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tomo Kaneyuki at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...Shigakko|Shigakkô]] ([[Satsuma Army Cadet School]]) who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Tosen
  ...en-kogyo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A woodblock print of the climactic scene of the play, by [[Tsukioka Kogyo|Tsukioka Kôgyô]]]] ::''This is about the Noh play. For Chinese trading ships, see [[Chinese in Nagasaki]].''
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• Kaigai Iden
  ...衛-->, Japanese figures prominent in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam) and [[Taiwan]] in the early 17th century. ...ative of Foreign Travel of Modern Japanese Adventurers,” ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'', vol. VII (1879), 196-210.</ref>
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• Japanese Inn
  ...apanese-inn.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A copy of ''Japanese Inn'' on display at the Minaguchiya Gallery]] ...he inns that supported it were an important feature of the [[Edo Period]]. The book became a bestseller soon after its initial publication in 1961, and wa
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• Hirano Shosuke
  [[File:Hirano-shosuke.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Hirano's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] Hirano Shôsuke was a notable commander of Satsuma forces in the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Wada Nobunari
  ...r. In [[1590]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] armies invaded the Hôjô domain and Wada castle was captured. Nobunari fled and dropped out o [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• 1394
  *[[Seoul]] becomes the capital of [[Joseon]] dynasty [[Korea]]. ...tsu is named ''[[daijo daijin|daijô daijin]]'', becoming only the second [[samurai]] after [[Taira no Kiyomori]] to hold that title.
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• Mori Ranmaru
  * ''Distinction: One of the [[Vassals of Oda Nobunaga]]'' ...mura castle]] in Mino in [[1582]], he was at the side of Oda Nobunaga when the latter was attacked by [[Akechi clan|Akechi]] troops at [[Honnoji]] in Jun
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• Kochi
  ...efecture|Kôchi prefecture]], and was the [[jokamachi|castle town]] seat of the [[Yamauchi clan]] lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...er the remainder of the Edo period, however, the population of the rest of the domain roughly doubled.
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• So Yoshinobu
  Sô Yoshinobu was the 24th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]]. He became the sixth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]] in [[1718]]. Yoshinobu was the 7th son of [[So Yoshizane|Sô Yoshizane]]. He is known for austerity polici
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• Kimotsuki Kaneshige
  ...eshige was a prominent leader of the [[Kimotsuki clan]] during the wars of the [[Nanbokucho period|Nanboku-chô period]]. ...asted eight months, ending in Kaneshige's death, and the castle falling to the [[Shimazu clan]]. Kaneshige was buried at Jôkô-ji in Kimotsuki Town, [[Ka
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• Toyotomi Tsurumatsu
  ...ho was supposed to be Hideyoshi's heir but died when still quite young, at the age of three. ...omi Hideyori]], the one who would finally actually go on to become head of the [[Toyotomi clan]] after Hideyoshi's death.
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• Inoue Masamine
  Inoue Masamine served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1705]] to [[1722]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Yamauchi Toyomasa
  ...He was the grandson of the second lord, [[Yamauchi Tadayoshi]], and son of the third lord, [[Yamauchi Tadatoyo]]. ...bly higher than those of his predecessors, but they more than doubled over the course of only about five years, within his own period of lordship. Whereas
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• Matsuda Naoe
  ...an official at [[Kamigamo Shrine]], and eventually succeeded his father to the same position. He studied poetry under [[Kamo Suetaka]]. ...ntitled ''Mitsugi no hachijû sen'', is a valuable source for understanding the Ryukyuan missions.
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• Itakura Shigemune
  ...Shigemune served as [[Kyoto shoshidai]] (chief [[Kyoto]] city official for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]) from [[1619]]/9 until [[1654]]/12/6. ...ref>Jiang Wu, ''Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia'', Oxford University Press (2
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• Matsudaira Tadakata
  ...was dismissed from that position on [[1858]]/6/23 following the signing of the [[Harris Treaty]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937 [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kano Hisayoshi
  ...Hisayoshi in Kagoshima, with the former prefectural government offices in the background]] ...reviving its commercial production after the destruction and exhaustion of the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Maeda Nariyasu
  ...nds today, while the grounds of the mansion have become the main campus of the [[University of Tokyo]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshiaya
  ...myô'' of [[Tsushima han]] from [[1838]] to [[1842]]. His wife, Jihôin, was the daughter of a [[Mori clan|Môri clan]] ''daimyô'' of [[Choshu han|Chôshû [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Beppu Kagenaga
  [[File:Beppu-shinsuke.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Beppu Kagenaga at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima]] ...naga was a [[Satsuma han]] warrior perhaps best known for having served as the ''kaishakunin'' ("second") who beheaded [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]]
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• Maeno Nagayasu
  ...ess, he was forced to commit [[suicide]] along with his son as a result of the [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu|Hidetsugu]] affair. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Shirao Kunihashira
  ...strate of Records (''kiroku [[bugyo|bugyô]]'') and ''[[monogashira]]'' for the [[han|domain]]. In [[Edo]], he studied under [[Hanawa Hokiichi]] and [[Mura Shirao worked with [[So Senshun|Sô Senshun]], at the orders of ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Shigehide]], to produce a volume on agricul
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• Takahashi Shoun
  ...i and all of his men were killed, his resistance played a key role towards the Shimazu decision to give up on their efforts to push further into Ôtomo te After the [[Battle of Sekigahara]], the Takahashi clan would cease to exist. However, Shôun's bloodline did contin
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• Kabayama Hisataka
  ...t two [[Edo period]] lords of [[Satsuma han]], and was involved in many of the [[Shimazu clan]]'s major military campaigns of his time. ...ng the [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]] as the chief commander of the ''[[han]]'s'' forces in [[1609]].
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• Konando
  ...and to the lord's personal effects and private chambers, than most of even the highest-ranking retainers. ...ding the swords worn by the lord on a regular basis (other swords owned by the lord, such as treasured heirlooms, were typically overseen by a different o
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• Asano Nagamichi
  ...acter from the name of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] in [[1859]], he took on the name Mochinaga.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Asano Yoshiteru
  ...Hiroshima branch domain, who was then adopted into the main line to become the new ''daimyô''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Makara Naotaka
  ...t the [[1570]] [[battle of Anegawa]], engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the support of his son until he was cut down. ...e six years later, in [[1576]], by Yamada Jinpachirô Yoshihisa, a man from the nearby Kumano [[shoen|manor]] in Kasugai district, [[Owari province]].<ref>
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• Itakura Katsukiyo
  ...'[[roju|rôjû]]'', but was ousted from that position as well in [[1864]] as the result of political factionalism. While serving as ''rôjû'' in the early 1860s, he worked alongside [[Kido Takayoshi]], [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu K
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• Matsudaira Naonori
  ...is elder brother [[Matsudaira Naomune]]<!--直致-->, he inherited headship of the family in [[1884]]. ...e House of Lords, and board member or company director of Akashi Bank, and the Hakushika [[sake|saké]] company.
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• Tokugawa Mitsutomo
  Tokugawa Mitsutomo was the third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Owari han]]. A son of [[Tokugawa Yoshinao]], Mitsutomo was also the seventh generation master of the [[Yagyu Shinkage Ryu|Yagyû Shinkage ryû]] school of swordsmanship.
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• Nanbu Toshinao
  Toshinao was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Morioka han]], in northern [[Tohoku|Tôhoku] ...]] and [[Date Masamune]] against the forces of [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]]. After the campaign was concluded, Toshinao was confirmed in his 100,000 ''[[koku]]''
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• Clothing
  ==The Kimono== ...rer, you'll become a laughingstock."<ref>Sato, Hiroaki. ''[[Legends of the Samurai]] Overlook pg. 251</ref>
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• Egawa Hidetatsu
  ...aikan]], overseeing [[Izu province]] and some of the surrounding areas, in the late 1840s until his death in [[1855]]. He played a prominent role in coast ...d on 1855/1/16 at his [[Edo]] residence. He was later posthumously granted the Senior Fourth Rank, and was succeeded as ''daikan'' and ''teppôkata'' by h
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• Nagayama Morihiro
  [[File:Nagayama-morihiro.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Nagayama Morihiro at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...sts in [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]) and a notable commander of Satsuma forces in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Yari no Gonza kasane katabira
  ...who end up deciding to die together since they cannot be together in life. The story was inspired by events which took place in [[Osaka]] earlier that yea ...with one of Ichinoshin's students, Gonza, a love which ultimately leads to the double-suicide.
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• Toma Juchin
  ...ukyuan royal court and who is known for his role in currency reform within the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. ...around this time, and stands as an example of the fluidity of identity at the time, in a handful of notable marginal cases at least.
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• Ishiko Masahira
  ...in [[1854]]. In 1855, he was reassigned to become a ''[[karo|karô]]'' for the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan|Hitotsubashi family]]. ...rô'' to the position of ''[[sobashu|sobashû]]''. In [[1858]]/7, as part of the [[Ansei Purge]], he was dismissed from his position and sentenced to house
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• Matsudaira Tadaaki
  ...ttsu]] and [[Kawachi province|Kawachi provinces]] worth 100,000 ''koku''), the central town of which he set about rebuilding. He was transferred to [[Yama [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Sakakibara Masaharu
  ...:Sakakibara-masaharu.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Sakakibara Masaharu at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...Shigakko|Shigakkô]] ([[Satsuma Army Cadet School]]) who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Ie
  ...traditional Japanese arts also bears a strong connection to the concept of the ''ie''. ...ndividual, wealth or power. This was the case for myriad decisions made by the head of household, including decisions regarding marriage prospects for the
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• Yae-hime
  ...[[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], and wife of [[Tokugawa Yoshizane]] of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]]. Born the daughter of [[Takatsukasa Sukenobu]], she was later adopted by ''[[Kanpaku]
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• Kinoshita Toshifusa
  ...hi]] in fighting against [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] in [[1600]], but went to join the Tokugawa attack on [[Osaka castle]], for which he was awarded his father's In [[1633]], following the death of his aunt [[Kodai-in (d. 1624)|Kitamandokoro Nene]] in [[1624]], he
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1828-1886)
  Matsudaira Chikayoshi was the 10th [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Funai han]] in [[Bungo province]]. ...in [[Ise province]], Chikayoshi was adopted by [[Matsudaira Chikanobu]] of the [[Matsudaira clan (Ogyu)|Ogyû Matsudaira clan]] and succeeded him, becomin
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• Art-name
  ...ame more popular, the use of ''gô'' expanded dramatically, with commoners, samurai, and others alike taking on names they would then use in ''[[haikai]]'' or ...ng akin to "enclave publics," comprising between them a "public sphere" in the Tokugawa period.
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• Kodama brothers
  [[File:Kodama-bros.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Gravestone for Kodama Sanenao at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Rebellion]], mostly in and around [[Kumamoto]]. All are buried together in the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]].
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• Nyui Mitsugi
  ...osaki castle]] kitchen staff (''zenban'') in 1744, valet (''konandoyaku'') the following year, personal secretary (''kinju koshô'') in [[1749]], and fina ...s to ensure that necessities flowed without scarcity or abundance, without the price fluctuations caused by supply and demand; as an example, he often cit
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• Sanjo Munechika
  ...which he is assisted by a [[kitsune|fox spirit]] in producing a sword for the emperor.<ref name=pitelka138>Pitelka, 138-140.</ref> ...be used today) to top the ''naginata-hoko'' ("Halberd Float") which leads the procession in Kyoto's ancient [[Gion Matsuri]].
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• Hojo Takatoki
  ...in [[1333]] (''Hôjô Takatoki Harakiri [[Yagura]]''), a short distance from the grave of [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], in [[Kamakura]].]] ...ô clan regents]] (''[[shikken]]''). He was forced to commit suicide during the [[1333]] [[Siege of Kamakura|fall of Kamakura]] to pro-Imperial forces led
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• Go Shiken
  ...its of the kings (''[[ogo-e]]'') and paintings to be presented as gifts to samurai elites, among other sorts of works.
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• Tanuma Mototomo
  Tanuma Mototomo was a prominent shogunate official, and the son of [[Tairo|Tairô]] [[Tanuma Okitsugu]]. ...-kami and Master of Shogunal Ceremony, being elevated to Yamashiro-no-kami the following year. In [[1783]], he was named a ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'', with a s
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• Taira no Yukimori
  [[File:Yukimori-jinja.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall at Yukimori Shrine on [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]]] ...r who fought in the [[Genpei Wars]] and is believed to have likely died in the [[Battle of Dan no Ura]] in [[1185]].
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• Saito Tatsuoki
  ...|Asakura]] of [[Echizen province|Echizen]]. He was killed at Tonezaka when the Oda invaded Echizen in [[1573]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• So Yoshishige (1717-1775)
  Sô Yoshishige was the 27th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and the ninth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. ...hiyuki|Sô Yoshiyuki]] died, in [[1752]] he succeeded him to become lord of the domain.
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• Emperor Go-Daigo
  ...emmu Restoration]], which for a brief time in the 1330s brought a break in samurai (shogunate) rule over Japan. ...akura]], that year, marking the fall of the shogunate and the beginning of the Kemmu Restoration.
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• Saito Toshimitsu
  ...June 2010.</ref>. Another theory has that he killed himself the day after the battle. ...s said that his close friends, the painter [[Kaiho Yusho|Kaihô Yûshô]] and the tea master [[Toyobo Chosei|Tôyôbô Chôsei]], took his head to [[Shinnyod
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• Toda Ujiyoshi (Uraga bugyo)
  ...rhaps best known for his efforts as ''[[Uraga bugyo|Uraga bugyô]]'' during the visits of [[Commodore Matthew Perry]] to Japan in [[1853]]-[[1854]]. ...the construction of the ''[[Soshunmaru|Sôshun-maru]]'' and other ships for the shogunate, among other tasks.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要,
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• Chikamatsu Shigenori
  ...and an amateur [[tea ceremony|tea]] enthusiast, known for his writings on the subject. ...republished in [[1816]], in response to popular demand. The text speaks of the values of tea as articulated by [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]], with emphas
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• Sakai Tadanori
  [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakuma Nobumori
  ...hiyama Honganji]] from [[1575]] until [[1580]]. Following the surrender of the Honganji, Nobunaga wrote a scathing letter to Sakuma, accusing him of both [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadahiro
  Shimazu Tadahiro was the final lord of [[Sadowara han]]. ...]] at the young age of 12, when his father died suddenly at [[Kusatsu]] on the way to [[Edo]].
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• Nagasawa Kanae
  ...ut of the country in [[1865]] to study in Europe. He eventually settled in the United States and started a vineyard. ...a Hikosuke, he took on the name Nagasawa Kanae, and is more known today by the latter.
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• Shimazu Kameju
  ...r of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]], 16th head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and wife to the 18th clan head, [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu Iehisa]]. ...uthority, Kameju was taken as a hostage. She later married Shimazu Iehisa, the eldest son of her uncle [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]].
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• Oyama Tsunayoshi
  [[File:Oyamatsunayoshi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Ôyama's grave at the Nanshû Cemetery in Kagoshima]] Ôyama Tsunayoshi was the first governor of [[Kagoshima prefecture]].
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• Inaba Masakatsu
  Born the son of [[Inaba Masanari|Inaba Sado-no-kami Masanari]] and Kasuga no Tsubone [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Inoue Genzaburo
  Inoue Genzaburo was born into a family of [[Hachioji Sennin Doshin]] as the third son of [[Inoue Tozaemon]]. He became a pupil of [[Tennen Rishin Ryu]] He effectively supported [[Kondo Isami]] in the [[Shinsengumi]], they had great trust in each other.
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• Chiyohime
  ...was the wife of [[Tokugawa Mitsutomo]] (third lord of [[Owari han]]), and the daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] & his concubine [[Ofuri-no-kata (d. ...nal Japanese count]]).<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''M
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• Tsukegaro
  ...awa seasonal observances|seasonal occasions]] such as New Year's alongside the ''daimyô''; such requests were regularly denied.
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• Kodai-in (d. 1624)
  ...nun, retiring in [[1601]] to the [[Kodai-ji|Kôdaiji]] in [[Kyoto]] (where the tombs of Hideyoshi, his mother, and, later, [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] came to r ...[[1605]], and Kôdai-in and [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi]] were buried in the temple.
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• Tokugawa Yorifusa
  ...awa Ieyasu]], and was the first head of the [[Mito Tokugawa clan]], one of the ''[[gosanke]]''. ...the third of the ''gosanke'', a lineage which two centuries later provided the 15th and final Tokugawa [[shogun|shôgun]], [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]].
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• Minamoto no Yoshiie
  ...fact described as ebisu, a somewhat generic term which was also applied to the Ainu. ...ven for Yoshiie and Yoriyoshi. Yet the Minamoto cause was much assisted by the enlistment of [[Kiyowara Noritake]], a locally powerful figure whose rugged
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• Kabukimono
  ...e Screen]]'', an image often used to represent the attitude and fashion of the ''kabukimono''.]] ...t mean, essentially, one (者) who leans (傾) [away from normal, or away from the norm] and is unusual (奇).
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• Shoni Sukeyoshi
  [[File:Shoni-graves.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Shôni Sukeyoshi and his father [[Muto Sukeyori|Mutô Sukeyori]], Shôni Sukeyoshi was the son of [[Muto Sukeyori|Mutô Sukeyori]], and served as [[Dazaifu shoni|Daza
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• Satake Yoshinobu
  ...d to have been a sad one, as his first wife evidently committed suicide at the age of 24 and his principal concubine also died young due to illness. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Toyama Sokukun
  Tôyama Sokukun was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official active during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...ji bugyô]]''. In [[1857]], he was reassigned to ''[[ometsuke|ômetsuke]]''. The following year he was named ''[[dochu bugyo|dôchû bugyô]]''. In [[1860]]
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• Tagaya family
  ...sea-lords or pirates based in [[Kamagari]] and the surrounding islands in the [[Inland Sea]]. ...ds both locally within their local section of the Inland Sea as well as to the Kyoto/Osaka region.
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• Sakai Tadazane
  Sakai Tadazane was the second [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]]. The eldest son of [[Sakai Tadamochi]] (heir to [[Sakai Tadazumi]], first Sakai [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Shimazu Tadahisa
  [[Image:Morishimazuyagura.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The graves of Shimazu Tadahisa and [[Mori Suemitsu|Môri Suemitsu]] in [[Kamaku *''Titles: ''[[shugo]]'' of Satsuma; "Lord of the Twelve Southern Islands"''
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• Saito Hajime
  He joined the [[Mibu Roshigumi]] in Kyoto in [[1863]]. In [[1865]], he became captain of the 3rd unit of the [[Shinsengumi]].
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• Shimazu Tsunataka
  Shimazu Tsunataka was the third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]. He was the eldest son of [[Shimazu Tsunahisa]].
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• So Yoshitada
  Sô Yoshitada was the 30th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and 13th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. ...in [[1813]]. Prior to that, he served as proxy for his father in receiving the [[1811]] [[Korean embassy to Edo|Korean embassy to Japan]], when Yoshikatsu
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• Saigo Kohei
  [[File:Saigo-kohei.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Saigô Kohei's gravestone at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...and [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]]. He was killed in battle during the [[Satsuma Rebellion]] in [[1877]].
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• Abe Masatomo
  ...fourth [[Abe clan]] lord of [[Fukuyama han]]. Though appointed a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1787]]/3, he resigned less than a year later, in [ ...to his position as a ''rôjû''), he returned to the domain in [[1790]] for the first time in some time, and initiated a series of administrative reforms.
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• Tateishi Tokujuro
  ...the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]]. ...Dutch-language translator, translating books provided to the shogunate by the [[Dutch East India Company]], he was ordered in [[1859]] to begin studying
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• Honda Masashige
  ...himôsa province]] but retired in 1616 and went to [[Kyoto]], where he died the following year. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• So Yoshiyuki
  Sô Yoshishige was the 26th head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]] and the eighth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. The eldest son of [[So Yoshinobu|Sô Yoshinobu]], he became lord of Tsushima in
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• Yamada Kiyoyasu
  A retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]], he studied poetry under [[Kagawa Kageki]], and classical ...hat year (Jan [[1850]] on the Western calendar). He is buried just outside the Shimazu clan family cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshinori
  Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shogun]]. He succeeded [[Ashikaga Yoshi In [[1433]], Yoshinori sent the first [[tribute]] mission to China in several decades (since [[1410]]), and
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• Goten jochu
  ...from well-to-do commoner families or low-ranking samurai families who, in the [[Edo period]], served as ladies-in-waiting in ''daimyô'' households. ...l standing of her own family. In order to obtain such a position, however, the young woman had to go through expensive training, proving her artistic and
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• Watanabe Yusai
  ...n the castle, as they prepared for and then received formal audiences with the shogun. ...ord of [[Izushi han]], was the senior member of the ''daimyô'' assigned to the ''Yanagi-no-ma'', and Yûsai visited him to relay requests or questions fro
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• Nagoya Sagenta
  ...s, in which numerous domain retainers and others who backed one faction or the other were exiled or punished otherwise. ...Historiographical Institute ([[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]]) as part of the ''[[Shimazu-ke monjo]]'' (Shimazu Family Documents).
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• Yokoyama Yasutake
  ...de the gates to the [[National Diet]] House of Representatives on a day in the seventh month, [[1870]]. ...a monument to Yokoyama was erected by [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]] Ci
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• Tokugawa Akitake
  ..., before the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]]. A son of former lord of the domain [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], he was a younger brother to Nariaki's successo ...he domain, arriving in Japan shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Toda Mosui
  Toda Mosui was a prominent ''[[tanka]]'' poet and literary critic of the [[Genroku period]]. ...[[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer based at [[Sunpu castle]], he took on the name Toda when adopted by his uncle, Toda Masatsugu, following his father's
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• Jinbaori
  ...more elaborate garments, decorated with various motifs as an expression of the wearer's wealth, power, and aesthetic taste. ...a great convenience for wintry or inclement weather.<ref>Gallery labels, "Samurai Class Men's Winter Formal Surcoat," LACMA, January 2015.</ref>
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• Inoue Katsunosuke
  Inoue Katsunosuke was an official in the [[Meiji government]], and the son of [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs|Foreign Minister]] [[Inoue Kaoru]]. ...1886]] and taking into account Katsunosuke's recommendations, arranged for the Japanese in Hawaii to be provided with doctors, interpreters, and inspector
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• Tokugawa Ieharu
  Tokugawa Ieharu was the 10th [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. The third son of [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], he became shogunal heir as a result of h
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• Gannenmono
  ...rom Japan and/or arrival in Hawaii in 1868, the first year (''gannen'') of the [[Meiji period]]. ...r-old heavy drinker named Ichigorô and nicknamed Mamushi-no-Ichi, or "Ichi the Viper."
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• Wakashu
  ...yet. The term can also refer more specifically to the younger partner in a samurai pederastic relationship (''[[shudo|shûdô]]''), or to young male actors in ...ref>Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal On
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• Hosokawa Tadaoki
  ...Hosokawa]] for help. Tadaoki replied by preparing to send his wife back to the Akechi and both he and Fujitaka refused to provide their erstwhile comrade
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• Mori Heiemon
  ...domain in [[1760]], he spearheaded a number of policies aimed at improving the domain's financial well-being, before being assassinated by his political o ...ineered the removal of some of the domain's most influential families from the domain government, and had appointed his own allies.
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• Ii Naonaka
  ...of the [[Ii clan]] and lord of [[Hikone han]]. He is perhaps most known as the father of ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' [[Ii Naosuke]]. ...ience with the shogun, in conjunction with being officially recognized (by the shogunate) as Ii Naohide's heir.
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• Hirayama Yoshitada
  Hirayama Yoshitada was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official who, while holding the post of ''kachi-metsuke'' in [[1854]], participated in receptions and meeti ...erry again, this time to negotiate policies governing American activity in the port of Hakodate.
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• Jeremias van Vliet
  ...liet was a [[Dutch East India Company]] ''opperhoofd'' (factor) who headed the Company's operations in [[Ayutthaya]] (in Siam) from [[1633]] to [[1641]]. ...and on the history of the [[Nihonmachi|Japantown]] which thrived there in the 1590s-1630s.
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• Hasegawa Seifuku
  ...a number of years in the 1850s as ''kinritsuki'' (an official attached to the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial court]]) and in other positions. ...ment with the United States (i.e. by responding to [[Commodore Perry]]) to the shogunate.
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• Katsu Kokichi
  Katsu Kokichi was the father of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], and author of the autobiographical ''[[Musui's Story]]'' (''Musui dokugen'', 夢酔独言). ...istrator. Kokichi's other half-brother, Otani Saburôemon, was adopted into the [[Matsusaka family]], and also served as a district administrator. Their fa
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• Rusuiyaku
  ...facilitating the domain's involvement in political and economic matters in the major metropolises. ...tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo Shoseki (2008), 93.</ref> and communicating with the ''rusuiyaku'' of other domains, as intermediaries in arranging various poli
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• Shimazu Shoso
  Shimazu Shôsô Hisanori was a late [[Edo period]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Shimazu clan]] lords of [[Kagoshima han]]. ...s formally named ''karô'' and served for part or most of that year in Edo. The following year, however, after Narioki's death and Nariakira's succession,
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• Arima Harunobu
  ...mazu Yoshihisa suggested the Arima renounce Christianity but did not press the issue when Harunobu declined. ...Western side in the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) but did not suffer the loss of any land as a result.
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• Midaidokoro
  ...s above all other consorts or concubines, and was the ''de facto'' head of the [[Ooku|Ôoku]]. ...y|Nijô]], [[Kujo family|Kujô]], and [[Takatsukasa family|Takatsukasa]]) or the [[Fushimi family|Fushimi]] or [[Arisugawa family|Arisugawa families]].
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• Date Tadamune
  Date Tadamune was the second son of [[Date Masamune]], and succeeded his father as lord of [[Send ...a concubine and thus less eligible to become heir. Hidemune became lord of the smaller branch [[han|domain]] of [[Uwajima han]], while Tadamune went on to
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• Katsura Hisatake
  [[File:Katsura-hisatake.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Katsura Hisatake at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima.]] ...e was a prominent [[Satsuma han]] official in the [[Bakumatsu period]] and the subsequent [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Odano Naotake
  ...Shozan]] of [[Akita han]]. Along with his lord, he was a major painter in the short-lived [[Akita ranga|Akita ''ranga'']] school. ...irst such essays to be written in Japan - as well as numerous paintings in the Western style.
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• Shimazu Tadatoki
  Shimazu Tadatoki was the second head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and second Shimazu ''[[jito|jitô]]'' & ''[[shugo]]'' of ...o Yoshitoki|Hôjô Yoshitoki]], against the forces of [[Emperor Go-Toba]] in the [[Jokyu War|Jôkyû War]] of [[1221]].
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• Usami Sadayuki
  ...against the [[Usami clan|Usami]] for this, and when he assumed command of the Uesugi in [[1579]], compelled Sadayuki's son [[Usami Katsuyuki|Katsuyuki]] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Matsudaira Yasuyoshi
  ...ai]] for a time, before being named to the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', remaining in the latter position from [[1763]] to [[1788]]. In [[1759]], the shogunate ordered that Hamada be given to the [[Honda clan]]; Yasuyoshi became lord of [[Koga han]] in [[Shimousa provinc
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• 1807
  ...ru clan]], and [[Nanbu clan]] samurai encounter a few Russian soldiers, in the [[Kurile Islands]], and are routed. *[[Ichikawa Ebizo V|Ichikawa Ebizô V]] takes on the name Ichikawa Danjûrô VII.
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• Matsudaira Chikayoshi (1810-1891)
  Matsudaira Chikayoshi was the 9th [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Kitsuki han]] in [[Bungo province]]. ...accompanied Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] to [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]] the following year.<ref>''[[Ryuei bunin|Ryûei bunin]]'' 柳営補任, vol. 1,
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• Togawa Anchin
  ...notable role in coastal defense and related matters in the first years of the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...no Nagatoshi]] and others, he was one of a number of officials who pressed the shogunate in [[1853]] to allow [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], former lord of [[Mito
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• Wakisaka Yasuori
  ...; he remained in the latter post until [[1857]]/8/11, when he was named to the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Hair
  Trends in hairstyles and facial hair changed dramatically over the centuries, and were often markers of status, cultural refinement, or identi ...most solid appearance. Interestingly, these styles were not uncommon among the lower classes.
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• Namamugi Incident
  [[Image:Namamugi Marker.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Marker at the site of the incident.]] ...Namamugi Incident itself has come to be counted among the major events of the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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• Sakai Tadatomi
  Sakai Tadatomi was a late [[Edo period]] head of the [[Sakai clan]] and sixth Sakai clan lord of [[Himeji han]]. Adopted into the Sakai clan, he was married to [[Kiso-hime]], a daughter of [[Sakai Tadanori
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• Tawara Chikakata
  Tawara Chikakata was a retainer to the [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo clan]] in the mid-to-late 16th century. ...n of his uncle [[Takita Akio]], he was able to become a close confidant to the young [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Sôrin]].
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• Shimazu Munehisa
  [[File:Morohisa-munehisa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Shimazu Munehisa (right) and his brother [[Shimazu Morohisa]] (le ...isa was the second son of [[Shimazu Sadahisa]], and a prominent warrior of the [[Nanboku-cho|Nanboku-chô period]].
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• So Yoshizane
  ...o clan|Sô clan]] and third [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. He was the eldest son of [[So Yoshinari|Sô Yoshinari]] and succeeded his father in [[ ...own]] of Tsushima Fuchû (today, Izuhara-chô), and establishment of much of the basic layout of that castle-town.<ref name=bansho>Explanatory plaques, Bans
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• Shinmon Tatsugoro
  ...Shrine]] for recovery from a serious illness, and enjoyed a full recovery. The 1855 structure survives today. ...r the prince's travels between Asakusa and Ueno. Though originally bearing the surname Machida, Tatsugorô then came to be known as Shinmon (lit. "new gat
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• Vasily Golovnin
  ...the islands around [[Kunashiri]] and [[Iturup]], and was captured there by samurai forces, along with seven other members of his party. While imprisoned in [[ ...lume entitled "Navigation in Japanese coastal waters and negotiations with the Japanese government" as a supplement to Golovnin's account.
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• Ichijo Kanesada
  ...st of [[Iyo province]] (Kojima). Motochika allowed him to stay there after the Chosokabe took Iyo, but is thought to have had a hand in his death in 1585. [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Christians]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tsuchiya Masanao
  ...served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' for over thirty years, through the reigns of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], [[Tokugawa Ienobu|Ienobu]], a ...to shoshidai]] from [[1685]]/9/23 to [[1687]]/10/13, before being named to the ''rôjû'' in 1687.
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• Munakata Shrine
  ...nto Hetsu-miya in Tashima (on the mainland of [[Kyushu]]), Nakatsu-miya on the island of Ôshima, and Okitsu-miya on [[Oki Island]] (''Oki no shima''). The three enshrine three daughters of [[Amaterasu]], Ichikishima-hime no kami,
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• Taira no Takakiyo
  ...was the last male descendant of [[Taira no Kiyomori]] to be hunted down by the forces of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]]. ...the ''Kanjô no maki'', but is still considered to be the final chapter, as the ''Kanjô no maki'' appears to have been added later.</ref>
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• Iwami Ginzan
  ...uries. Located in what is today [[Shimane prefecture]], the former site of the mine was designated a UNESCO [[World Heritage Site]] in 2007.<ref>[http://w ...ons of silver each year in the 16th-17th centuries.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Shimazu Tadayoshi
  [[File:Shimazu-tadayoshi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze statue of Tadayoshi at the [[Tanshoen|Tanshôen]] gardens in [[Kagoshima]], designed by [[Asakura Fumi ::''This article is about the Bakumatsu/Meiji era daimyô. For others by the same name, see [[Shimazu Tadayoshi (disambig)]].''
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• Toko-en
  Tôko-en was the private retreat of [[Ikeda Tadakatsu]] (1602-1632), the second [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' of [[Okayama han]]. Located in [[Okayama] ...enery]]), incorporating the vision of Mt. Misaoyama into the aesthetics of the garden.
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• Hotta Masanari
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masanari, [[Hotta Masasuke]], and [[Hotta Masatora]] at [[Ji ...gyô]]'', ''[[Osaka jodai|Osaka jôdai]]'', and ''[[Kyoto shoshidai]]'' over the course of his career.
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• Thomas Glover
  ...e American [[Eugene Van Reed]], a merchant with the [[Yokohama]] branch of the [[Canton]]-based [[Augustine Heard & Company]], for privileged status in tr ...mulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
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• Ishin Suden
  ...s a result, he played a notable role in those spheres in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. ...u in [[1608]] to serve as a foreign policy advisor.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Kayama Eizaemon
  ...nstead travel to [[Nagasaki]]; ultimately, however, Kayama and the rest of the ''Uraga bugyôsho'' were forced to give in. ...anagawa-juku]], ultimately succeeding in convincing the Americans to leave the inner harbor of [[Edo Bay]].
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• Date Yoshikuni
  ...lord of [[Matsumae han]] [[Matsumae Takahiro]], Yoshikuni was assigned by the shogunate in [[1855]] to take on guard duties in certain areas of [[Ezo]].< [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Saito Kakuki
  [[File:Saito-kakuki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Kakuki's grave at the [[Somei Cemetery]] in Tokyo]] ...kuki was a prominent [[Confucianism|Confucian]] scholar and topographer of the [[Edo period]].
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• Sakai Tadayoshi
  ...ar. After serving as Kyoto shoshidai from 1843 to [[1850]], he returned to the same post from [[1858]] to [[1862]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Sakai Tadahiro
  Sakai Tadahiro was the third [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]], ruling as such from [[1790]] t ...Ming music to himself and to others in his court. In the first decades of the 1800s, Tadahiro had Ming music performed at gatherings at his [[daimyo yash
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• Oda Nobushige
  ...tached to the Yanagi-no-ma of [[Edo castle]], who helped guide him through the process. ...the [[Oda clan]] to be granted "castle holder" (''shironushi'') status by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Oei Invasion
  The Ôei Invasion was an attack on the island of [[Tsushima]] launched in [[1419]] by [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea. ...erceived threat of Sôda in particular was a notable factor contributing to the Korean decision to attack Tsushima at this time.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Marit
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• Miyazaki Toten
  ...for reform, and in particular believed that effecting reform in China was the best way to inspire changes in Japan. ...onnected up with Sun Yat-Sen, he remained in service to Sun's movement for the rest of his life.
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• Toda Ujiyasu
  ...gaki Shinden han]] (a branch domain of [[Ogaki han|Ôgaki han]]) and served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] as ''Ôban gashira'' for a time, and then as ''[[soj ...s succeeded by [[Toda Ujiyoshi (daimyo)|Toda Ujiyoshi]]<!--氏良-->, a son of the lord of Ôgaki, [[Toda Ujimasa]].
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• Osawa Noriaki
  ...ved as ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' beginning in [[1852]]. He was the lead figure who interacted with Russian naval captain [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich ...eassigned again, this time to serve as ''[[karo|karô]]'' (House Elder) for the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要
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• Taira no Masakado
  ==The Life of Taira no Masakado== ...nki|Shômonki]]''.<ref>''Shômon'' being the Chinese-style or ''on-yomi'' of the characters for "Masakado."</ref>
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• Hosokawa Narimori
  ...tsu]], and succeeded Naritatsu to becoming the 12th [[Edo period]] head of the [[Hosokawa clan]]. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Taira no Tadamori
  ...damori was a prominent [[shoen|estate]]-holder of the 12th century. He was the father of [[Taira no Kiyomori]], and grandfather of [[Emperor Antoku]], [[T ...icular Chinese trading ship, resisting the involvement of the [[Dazaifu]] (the Imperial Court's branch office in [[Kyushu]] which ostensibly oversaw ''all
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• Cornelis van Nijenroode
  ...nelia]]. She went on to have an active life in the Dutch East Indies. With the other woman, Tokeshio, he had a daughter named [[Esther van Nijenroode|Esth ...Nijenroode spent some time in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam).<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• 1658
  *1658/7/23 The [[Eiroku era]] begins. ...r firefighting squads, covering all of [[Edo]], and consisting entirely of samurai.
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• Saigo Tanomo
  The Saigô family held the post of ''[[karo|karô]]'' to the [[Aizu-Matsudaira clan]] hereditarily, from generation to generation. In [[1862]], Lord [[Matsudaira Katamori]] was appointed the [[Kyoto Shugo Shoku]](Military Commissioner of Kyoto).
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• Petro Kibe
  ...saki]]. Kibe arrived in Nagasaki in [[1630]], and was formally executed by the shogunate, for his religion, in Edo in [[1639]]. *Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Yoshida Shoin
  Yoshida Shôin was a prominent ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activist of the 1850s. Strongly influenced by [[Mitogaku|Mito thought]], ideas of ''[[bushi ...having studied books of military science, Confucianism, and ''bushidô'' in the tradition of [[Yamaga Soko|Yamaga Sokô]] before journeying to Tôhoku, una
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• Yatabe Kumohachi
  ...Mito han]] retainer known for his involvement in factional politics within the domain, and for efforts to weaken and seize control from lord [[Tokugawa Yo In [[1855]], Yatabe, alongside a number of others who favored the politics of imprisoned former [[Mito Tokugawa clan]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' [[Y
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• Arao Shigemasa
  ...er positions, Arao was assigned in [[1853]] to remain on-duty in Nagasaki; the following year he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official overseeing coastal In 1859, he was reassigned from the position of ''Nagasaki bugyô'' to that of ''[[Kobushin bugyo|Kobushin bugy
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• So Yoshiyori
  ...nce his fief; the Sô retained power in the domain until the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]].
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• 1648
  *1648/2 The shogunate issues a series of laws regulating [[chonin|commoners']] behavior *1648/2/15 The [[Keian era]] begins.
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• 1824
  ...i Ôtsu, demands fresh water, food, and other supplies. Crew is captured by samurai of [[Mito han]]. ...d seize two cattle, killing one. In the skirmish which ensues, a member of the crew is killed by a [[Shimazu clan]] retainer; his body is preserved in sal
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• Ogasawara Sadayasu
  ...asawara Tadahiro]] as lord of Chizuka in 1854 when Tadahiro became heir to the lord of Kokura domain.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 ( [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Daikan
  ...t administrator," was called ''daikan'' in Japanese. They were overseen by the Bureau of Finance (''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjôsho]]'').<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, Davi ...to 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', and maintained residences both in [[Edo]] and in the territory to which he was assigned. Within that territory, he was responsib
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• Tsuzuki Mineshige
  ...d played a role in organizing the exchange of ratification instruments for the [[Convention of Kanagawa]], which took place on [[1855]]/1/5.
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• Isawa Masayoshi
  ...Convention of Kanagawa]] (which Isawa and three others signed on behalf of the shogunate), which opened [[Shimoda]] to American ships and sailors. ...o|fushin bugyô]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 100.</ref> The following year, he was named ''[[metsuke]]'' and assigned to oversee matter
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• Otomo Chikaie
  Chikaie was the 2nd son of [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Yoshishige (Sôrin)]]. ...y]], however, in part on the advice of Sôrin's wife, a woman known only by the Jesuits' epithet for her - [[Otomo Nata Jezebel|Jezebel]] - and of other el
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• Shinohara Kunimoto
  [[File:Shinohara.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shinohara's grave at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Shigakkô]], he is often considered one of the most prominent commanders in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]], along with [[Kirino Toshiaki]].
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• Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)
  ...atsura domain). The assault failed after another Portuguese vessel came to the Ship's aid. He retired in [[1568]] in favor of his son [[Matsura Shigenobu] [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Mizuno Tadakuni
  ::''For the 18th century official, see [[Mizuno Tadakuni (kanjo bugyo)]].'' ...ntial ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' of the [[Edo period]], serving in that position in the 1840s and effecting a number of controversial policies.
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• Matsura Shigenobu
  Matsura Shigenobu was the son of [[Matsura Takanobu (1529-1599)|Matsura Takanobu]], and was a [[Sengo ...ign]] and did not suffer the loss of any lands as a result; he came aboard the English ship ''Clove'' in [[1613]], an event recorded by [[John Saris]].
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• Otomo Yoshiaki
  ...orked to secure [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] influence over Bungo and clashed with the [[Ouchi clan|Ôuchi]] and [[Shoni clan|Shôni]]. He inherited a troubled re [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Umezu Masakage
  ...est advisors, and soon afterwards was named in [[1612]] administrator over the domain's mines. ...e for the lord's use, as well as women (prostitutes, ''baijo'') to work in the mining towns.<ref>Stanley, 32-33.</ref>
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• Asano Nagayoshi
  ...-style ship ''[[Soshunmaru|Sôshunmaru]]'', and engaged in discussions with the central shogunate court regarding matters of coastal defense. ...shin bugyô. The following year, he was dismissed from that position amidst the dismissal and (in some cases) house confinement of a number of prominent fi
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• Nabeshima Naomasa
  Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of [[Saga han|Saga domain]]. ..., receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.<ref>Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at [[Sakuragicho Station|Sakuragichô Station
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• Sumptuary regulations
  ...histication of particular techniques; ''[[yuzen|yûzen]]'' dyeing was among the techniques which benefited greatly from this, as people forbidden from usin ...of Tokugawa power and control, and as aimed at ensuring the maintenance of samurai legitimacy and authority.
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• Sengoku Hisatoshi
  Sengoku Hisatoshi was the last [[Edo period]] ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Izushi han]] in [[Tajima pr ...alf its ''kokudaka''; for the remainder of the Edo period, the domain (and the ''daimyô'') were recognized as being only of 30,000 ''koku'' rank.
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• Katagiri Katsumoto
  ...n: [[Toyotomi clan|Toyotomi]], [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] retainer, one of the [[Seven Spears of Shizugatake]]'' ...ed neutral during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]], but was nevertheless one of the first warlords to be granted a larger domain by Ieyasu following Sekigahara
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• Kasuga no Tsubone
  ...ayment for her husband's hand in convincing [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] to join the Eastern army at [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]]. ...widely accepted as having played a pivotal role in him being appointed to the position over his younger brother [[Tokugawa Tadanaga|Tadanaga]].
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• Toiyaba
  ...ers or others carrying packages or luggage along the highway would stop at the ''toiyaba'' in each town to change horses. This relay system was known as ' ...''toiya'' or ''[[tonya]]'', officially authorized wholesalers who managed the trade in a given good. When a post-town had multiple ''tonya'', there was t
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• Chobunsai Eishi
  ...e, using the character ''sai'' (斎) in its meaning of "studio," much as did the artists [[Hokusai]], [[Isoda Koryusai|Kôryûsai]], [[Keisai Eisen]] and [[ ...maro and Kiyonaga, and they bear a refinement and grace rarely exceeded by the figures in ''[[bijinga]]'' by other artists.
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• Yamagata Masakage
  ...n]]'s 'Twenty-Four Generals', Yamagata Masakage was one of the fiercest of the Takeda warriors. Masakage's elder brother [[Obu Toramasa]] was charged with ...amagata's troops the nickname 'Red Regiment', or 'Red (Fire) Unit', though the phrase may have been coined later.
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• Shakuhachi
  ...uhachi'' (right), compared with a ''[[hitoyogiri]]'' (left), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ...mon traditional wind instrument seen in Japan today. Its name derives from the flute being typically one ''shaku'' and eight ''sun'' in length (see [[Japa
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• Kenzanya
  ...regularly gave them to the ''kenzanya'', to be purchased and presented by the ''daimyô'' once again. ...acquered wooden ceremonial swords came to dominate, and the institution of the ''kenzanya'' grew in importance.
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• Hachisuka Narihiro
  Hachisuka Narihiro was the penultimate lord of [[Tokushima han]]. The 22nd child of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]], Narihiro was adopted into the [[Hachisuka clan]] in [[1827]], and became lord of Tokushima in [[1843]].
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• Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu
  ...wearing reproductions of traditional Ryukyuan court costume, on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...ra]] dominated the highest positions in the central government, those from the aristocratic families of [[Naha]] and [[Tomari]] occupied other positions.
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• Honda Tadakatsu
  ...dakatsu commanded troops in the left wing of Ieyasu's army and fought with the warriors of [[Naito Masatoyo]]. ...o outnumbered Honda perhaps 50 or 60 to 1) was said to have been struck by the bravery of this warrior, and ordered that no harm come to him, his men, or
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• Shimazu Mitsuhisa
  Shimazu Mitsuhisa was the second [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]]. He succeeded [[Shimazu Ta ...h Rank at court, before being elevated to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank and the title of Minor Captain (少将, ''shôshô'') in [[1651]], and then Middle
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• Shimazu Tsunahisa
  ...bassy to Edo]] and engaging in various formal ceremonial interactions with the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] in conjunction with that embassy on behalf
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• Godai Hidetaka
  ...to resist Western ships militarily, and thus had no choice but to approach the situation diplomatically. ...trade, in order to help guard against having to open any ports in Satsuma. The ''daimyô'', advised additionally by [[Zusho Shozaemon|Zusho Shôzaemon]],
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• Kuroda Yoshitaka
  ...that [[Akamatsu Yoshisuke]] was essentially living under the protection of the Kodera at Himeji. ...e Oda forces would force the Kodera to follow suit, as well as, of course, the Akamatsu. After Yoshitaka’s father had been convinced, this was just what
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• Mori Yoshiki
  Mori Yoshiki was a prominent late 18th century retainer of the [[Yamauchi clan]], lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...Hirotake's part to restore the family to Hirosada's direct lineage, or as the result of pressure from Yoshiki's mother is unclear. In either case, seven-
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• Kido Takayoshi
  ...chose not show up for the loyalist meeting on that fateful night. He spent the next few days hiding incognito as a beggar. ...to continue to serve as lead intermediary for relations with Korea, under the new Meiji government.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard
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• Yoshida Kiyonari
  ...Japanese ambassadors to the United States, serving in that position during the administration of President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. ...me Nagai Iosuke. He studied naval surveying, and in [[1867]]/7 traveled to the United States, where he studied political economy at Rutgers University.
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• Albert M. Craig
  ...yoto University and the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1988. ...including ''[[Musui's Story]]'', the autobiography of late [[Edo period]] samurai [[Katsu Kokichi]].
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• Tokugawa Narikatsu
  Tokugawa Narikatsu was a late [[Edo period]] lord of [[Wakayama han]], and the adoptive father of [[Tokugawa Iemochi|Tokugawa Yoshitomi]], who would later ...ef> and adopted Nariyuki's illegitimate son Tokugawa Yoshitomi as his heir the following year.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937),
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• Ofuri-no-kata (d. 1640)
  [[File:Jishoin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Jishô-in Mausoleum at the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum]] ...ka Shigemasa]], a retainer to [[Gamo Hideyuki|Gamô Hideyuki]], and entered the [[Ooku|Ôoku]] in [[1626]]. In [[1637]], she gave birth to [[Chiyohime]].
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• Aloeswood
  ...a: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia'', Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project (1999), 103n1 ...and other tropical products.<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region'', 1000-1800, Hong Kong University Press (2
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• Ekathotsarot
  Ekathotsarot was king of the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]] from [[1605]] to [[1610]]. ...owder were ever actually sent also remains unclear.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Nanbu Toshiyuki
  [[File:Nanbu-toshiyuki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Nanbu Toshiyuki and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] i ...f [[Iwashiro Shiraishi han|Iwashiro Shiraishi]]. The following year, under the new [[Meiji government]], he returned to Morioka, and was granted a salary
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• Miyahara Yoshinao
  ...period]] ''[[koke|kôke]]'' who performed a number of ceremonial roles for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He was a son of ''kôke'' [[Miyahara Yoshichika]]. ...fficial shogunal envoy to Kyoto again the following year in celebration of the confirmation of a new empress (''kôtaigô'').
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• Hojo Ujinao
  ...Hojo Ujimasa|Hôjô Ujimasa]], and succeeded him to become the fifth head of the [[Go-Hojo clan|Hôjô clan]]. ...ed Kyôto, Kuniomaru was born as the first son of Hôjô Ujimasa and Ôbai-in (the eldest daughter of [[Takeda Shingen]]). In his coming of age ceremony, his
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• 1811
  ...]]'' department for the translation of foreign books is established within the shogunate, with ''[[Tenmon gata]]'' [[Takahashi Kageyasu]] as its head. ..., along with 7 others of his party, are captured on [[Kunashir Island]] by samurai of [[Matsumae han]]. Golovnin is held for two years.
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• Masuyama Sessai
  ...a clan's]] [[bodaiji|family temple]], the stone is now located in front of the main hall of [[Kan'ei-ji]].]] ...flora and fauna); he went by a number of [[art-name]]s, of which Sessai is the one by which he is most known.
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• Satsuma biwa
  ...Satsuma biwa (left), compared with a [[Heike biwa]] (right), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ''Satsuma biwa'' is a style or genre of narrative storytelling in which the storyteller accompanies him or herself on a lute-like musical instrument ca
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• Matsumoto Kokujitsu
  ...hogunate]] official involved in engagement with Western representatives in the 1850s. ...of a [[Korean embassy to Edo]], though that embassy never materialized. In the course of this work, he was frequently dispatched to Uraga and [[Shimoda]],
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• Sakai Tadazumi
  Sakai Tadazumi was the first [[Sakai clan]] lord of [[Himeji han]]. ...adazumi's death in [[1772]], Ming music continued to be passed down within the Sakai family, but was never again studied and practiced in such a lively ma
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• Terashima Munenori
  ...assistant instructors at the newly-established ''[[Bansho Shirabesho]]'' (the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate's]] institute for Western learning).<ref>Ish After spending two years in England as a student sponsored by the Tokugawa shogunate, he returned to England in [[1865]], at age 34, to serve
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• Shibuya clan
  ...to the [[Shimazu clan]] in [[1569]], and remained Shimazu vassals through the [[Edo period]]. ...ed the Iriki-in, Ketôin, Tôgô, Tsuruta, and Takajô families, also known as the "Shibuya five families" (''Shibuya goke'').
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• Innai
  ...tions or in the town otherwise largely came originally from other parts of the realm. ...e preyed on the community, and where samurai authorities were able to gain the upper hand, they did so only through violence.
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• Chosokabe Morichika
  ...with the preparation of the Chôsokabe-shi okitegaki ([[100-Article Code of the Chosokabe]]) in 1596 Sons: Moritaka (d.1615), Morinobu (d.1615), Moriyasu ( [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Matsumae Takahiro
  Matsumae Takahiro was the 12th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Matsumae han]]. ...1844-1869)|Matsumae Norihiro]] was still too young to take over as head of the clan. Takahiro later adopted Norihiro, and was succeeded by him on his deat
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• Takigawa Toshikatsu
  ...ult had his lands taken away by the victorious [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]]. The following year ([[1601]]), [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] relented somewhat and bestow [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tokugawa Mitsukuni
  ...is strongly associated with the [[Mitogaku]] intellectual movement. He was the son of [[Tokugawa Yorifusa]], and grandson of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. ...s in [[Edo]], begun by his father. For both of these projects, he enlisted the help of [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] loyalist [[Zhu Shunsui]].
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• Ijichi Sadaka
  ...kyû Kingdom]] and its new administration under the [[Meiji government]] in the 1870s. ...administration of the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]] with the heads of the royal government there.
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• Terasaka Kichiemon
  ...ce of [[Yoshida Chuzaemon|Yoshida Chûzaemon]], he was also the only one of the 47 ronin to not be a vassal of [[Asano Naganori]] of [[Ako province|Akô]]. ...'s]] mansion. According to some accounts, Terasaka fled the mansion during the raid.
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• Hikeshi
  ...the Hikeshi only worked for protecting [[Edo castle]], Daimyô mansions and Samurai houses. ...rom which winds blew which were the most dangerous for spreading a fire to the castle).<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo
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• Tokugawa Tadateru
  ...her was [[Ocha no Tsubone]]. Despite being only a child, he was married to the daughter of [[Date Masamune]] in [[1599]]. He was later adopted by [[Matsud ...l social audiences surrounding the appointment of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] to the position of Shogun. Since Hideyori could not pay a formal visit to Hidetada
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• Iki (aesthetic)
  ''Iki'' was one of the dominant aesthetics in popular fashion in the city of [[Edo]]. Though notoriously difficult to define, ''iki'' has been c ...n overrobe, or hints of color woven into the gray or brown, became some of the key ways in which people demonstrated restrained, refined, fashion sense. S
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• Kanazawa
  [[File:Tsuzumimon.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Tsuzumimon, in [[lacquer]]ed wood, at Kanazawa Station.]] [[File:Chayagai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main street of the [[Higashi Chayagai]] [[geisha]] district.]]
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• Peechin
  ...The title was always associated with an individual's fief - combined with the placename of his fief, an official might therefore be known as [[Gima peech ...ld by officials in certain government posts.<ref>Andreas Quast, ''Okinawan Samurai: Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son'', Baden-Württemberg, Ge
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• Tsuchiya Toranao
  ...s appointed his replacement as [[Osaka jodai|Osaka jôdai]]. He was also at the same time appointed to help oversee preparations for an upcoming [[Korean e ...i'', he made efforts to relieve the poverty and suffering of the people of the city.
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• Taira no Kagekiyo
  ...t the [[Minamoto clan]] in the [[Genpei War]] of [[1180]]-[[1185]]. He was the second son of [[Taira no Tadakiyo]]. ...famed for a particular encounter with [[Mionoya Juro|Mionoya Jûrô]] during the [[battle of Yashima]].<ref>Royall Tyler, ''Japanese Nô Dramas'', Penguin B
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• Emishi
  ...tionship with the court. Many famous families of later periods, including the [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara family]] appear to have originated as local Emishi ...f use, and were replaced with 蝦夷 as the most common characters to refer to the Emishi.
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• Lagoda
  ...rican [[whaling]] vessel from which fifteen crewmembers abandoned ship off the [[Tsugaru Strait]] in [[1848]], and were ultimately confined in [[Nagasaki] ...ed to escape their confinement, and in despair at his imprisonment, one of the Hawaiians killed himself.
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• Uji
  ::''For the city near Kyoto, see [[Uji (city)]].'' ...he [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu family]], claimed descent from and membership in the [[Minamoto clan]], or ''uji''.
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• Kosaka Masanobu
  ...ng the Takeda since the rise of Shingen, although the bulk (if not all) of the text was probably written by [[Obata Kagenori]] years later. [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Kishomon
  ...alty to their lord, and inviting the wrath of the gods should they violate the oath. These oaths were not only signed by name, in ink, but also in blood, ...eities which would exact retribution against the speaker should he violate the oath. ''Daimyô'' required similar oaths of their retainers, in turn.<ref>[
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• Mito Tokugawa clan
  ...Tokugawa Yorifusa]]. The last shogun, [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] was born into the Mito house before becoming shogun; his father, [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], lord o ...mansions in Edo]] were located at Komagome and at Koishikawa; the site of the latter is today [[Koishikawa Korakuen|Koishikawa Kôrakuen Gardens]].<ref>"
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• Kenshoin
  Kenshô-in, also known as Iyo-hime, was the first wife of [[Shimazu Narioki]], and mother to four sons, including [[Shi ...reat knowledge of the Buddhist canon. She is also known for her mastery of the ''[[naginata]]''.
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• Tokutomi Roka
  ...ed to Zushi in December [[1905]], completing his novel ''Omoide no ki'' in the intervening time.]] Tokutomi Roka was a prominent novelist of the [[Meiji period]], and younger brother to writer and politician [[Tokutomi S
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• Fukuoka han
  [[File:Fukuoka-castle.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A portion of the ruins of Fukuoka castle]] ...villages which were [[tenryo|directly controlled by the shogunate]].</ref> the Kuroda were among only about ten or so ''daimyô'' clans to claim ''[[kunim
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• 1629
  *1629/3 Bakufu sets [[Tsujiban]] (''tsuji ban'ya'') guardhouses in samurai districts in Edo. *1629/10/10 [[Tokugawa Iemistu|Iemitsu's]] wetnurse Ofuku receives the title [[Kasuga no Tsubone]] from [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]]
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• Niiro Tadamoto
  ...rmy preparing to drive on [[Satsuma province|Kagoshima]]. In the course of the bitter battle he fought a personal duel with [[Kato Kiyomasa]]. He was unho ...kills as a warrior, Tadamoto was a man of cultural acuity and was adept in the composition of [[waka]] (31-syllable poetry) and [[tanka]].
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• Moriyama Einosuke
  ...]] official who played a notable role in foreign relations interactions in the mid-1850s, especially in terms of foreign language translation and interpre ...International House of Japan (2006), 174.</ref> During this time, he held the post of ''fushin yaku''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2
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• Roman Nishi
  ...s a Japanese [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] active in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam) in the 1620s. ...rpreter and intermediary in interactions with [[Yamada Nagamasa]], head of the city's [[Nihonmachi|Japanese community]].
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• So Yoshikatsu (Isaburo)
  ...y the childhood name Isaburô until succeeding his father to become lord of the domain in [[1778]]. ...ushima]]), they are today separately considered the 11th and 12th lords of the domain.
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• Tomoe Gozen
  ...oned whether she truly lived, or was merely a fictional figure invented in the ''[[Heike Monogatari]]''. While countless other women were at times forced ...s wetnurse), and sister to [[Imai Kanehira]], alongside whom she fights at the [[battle of Awazu]].<ref name=kotobank>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B7%B4%
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• Kato Kiyomasa
  ...roverbial eating of bark) until for months until a relief operation lifted the siege. ...as awarded the other half of Higo (formerly owned by Konishi - executed in the wake of Sekigahara), bringing his income to nearly 500,000 koku.
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• Maeda Toshinaga
  Toshinaga was the eldest son of [[Maeda Toshiie]], and the first [[Edo period]] [[Maeda clan]] lord of [[Kaga han]]. ...ory, Toshinaga received Toshimasa's lands. He was one of the first (if not the first) [[Daimyo|daimyô]] to build a private mansion in [[Edo]], a gesture
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• So Yoshimichi
  ...in the early years of the 18th century. He is considered the 23rd head of the [[So clan|Sô clan]].<ref>Plaques on-site at Sô family cemetery, Banshô-i ...nobu]] becoming shogun two years prior. As lord of Tsushima, he also added the 1,560 ''[[koku]]'' territory of Tashiro in [[Hizen province]] to his domain
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• User:Bethetsu/sandbox
  * ''Distinction: considered one of the most skilled samurai commanders of the later Sengoku Period; sometimes considered one of [[Takeda Shingen's 24 Gen ...d in [[1575]] at [[Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]], and he became head of the Sanada.
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• Subinfeudation
  ...system, under [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'', and within the [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' [[han|domains]]. ...em, [[Mark Ravina]] argues that both should be seen equally as elements of the early modern system, two different ways in which ''daimyô'' could manifest
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• Tokugawa Ietsugu
  [[File:Ietsugu-tomb.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The gates to Ietsugu's mausoleum at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]], in an 1880s photogra ...gawa Ienobu]], but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern Ch
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• Ranald MacDonald
  Ranald MacDonald was among the first Americans to enter Japan, and later served as an English teacher and ...MacDonald was imprisoned in Nagasaki alongside a number of deserters from the whaling ship ''[[Lagoda]]''; while there, he became a teacher to fourteen J
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• Sunpu castle
  ...ing himself in [[Edo]]. He also retired to Sunpu in [[1606]] after passing the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] to his son, [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. ...okamachi|castle-town]], with some 12,000 residents.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• The 47 Ronin
  ...i. This was perhaps all the more so because it occurred at a time when the samurai class was struggling to maintain a sense of itself - warriors with no war, ...ano ''Takumi no kami'' Naganori]] ([[1667]]-[[1701]]), who led a branch of the powerful [[Asano clan|Asano family]].
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• Iriki-in Shigetomo
  ...motosugi castle]], which at present was actually in the hands of Sanehisa. The following year, Katsuhisa further awarded Iriki-In with [[Koriyama castle]] ...naged to restore favor with the Shimazu and the Iriki-In would fight under the Shimazu banners in Yoshihisa's efforts to conquer Kyushu, abroad in [[Korea
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• Jana Teido
  ...hich contributed to exacerbating Shimazu frustrations and desire to invade the kingdom.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press ...名事典. Naha: Okinawa Bunka-sha, 2002. p36.</ref> A letter from Jana informed the [[Ming Dynasty|Ming court]] in [[1591]] of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hi
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• Tokonami Takejiro
  Tokonami Takejirô was a notable government official of the [[Meiji period]], originally from [[Satsuma han]]. ...he [[Home Ministry]], and then Vice Home Minister, before becoming head of the Railways Department.
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• Soshaban
  ...sudaira clan]] branch families, or other ''fudai daimyô'' families such as the [[Hotta clan]]. ...diaries in passing objects between the shogun, other shogunate elites, and the guests. Officials known as ''[[koke|kôke]]'' served similar functions.
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• Makino Tadamasa
  ...]] from [[1840]]/1/13 to [[1843]]/11/3, and as of [[1853]] was a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. On [[1857]]/9/10, he was relieved of his position as one of the Rôjû; he was praised for his diligence, promoted to ''[[Edo_castle#Omote|
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• Iwase Tadanari
  ...okugawa shogunate]] official who played a role in foreign relations during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...shinomaru of [[Edo castle]] in [[1851]], Iwase was honored at that time by the shogunate along with several other officials for their work as literary and
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• Yuki Hideyasu
  ...castle when he died in [[1607]], and some have suggested his affinity for the [[Toyotomi clan|Toyotomi]] house in which he had been raised contributed to [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Watanabe Kazan
  ...a prominent ''[[Rangaku]]'' & [[bunjinga|literati]] scholar and painter of the early 19th century. ...ial circles of his time, networking with many other significant figures of the time. Encouraged by [[Tani Buncho|Tani Bunchô]], Kazan occasionally hosted
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• Hiki Yoshikazu
  ...s, Yoshikazu took part in traveling to the western provinces to help fight the [[Taira clan]]. Yoshikazu was a close and loyal retainer to Yoritomo, and m ...riie. This ended, however, in Yoshikazu's death, and in the destruction of the Hiki clan, as they were hunted down by Tokimasa's men.
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• Sanada Masayuki
  * ''Distinction: considered one of the most skilled samurai commanders of the later Sengoku Period; sometimes considered one of [[Takeda Shingen's 24 Gen ...d in [[1575]] at [[Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]], and he became head of the Sanada.
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• Hojo Ujiyasu
  ...awahara|Ozawahara]]) and 15 years later won one of the great encounters of the 16th Century. ...following years the Ogigayatsu-Uesugi would be effectively eliminated, and the Yamaouchi-Uesugi driven into [[Kozuke province|Kozuke]].
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• Kirino Toshiaki
  ...le:Kirino-toshiaki-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Kirino Toshiaki at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in Kagoshima]] ...his involvement in both events surrounding the [[Meiji Restoration]], and the [[Satsuma Rebellion]] of [[1877]].
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• Shimazu Hisataka
  ...emon|Zusho Shôzaemon]] in [[1848]]/12, and thus came to oversee affairs at the [[Ryukyu-kan|Ryûkyû-kan]] in Kagoshima.<ref>"Shiryôhen kaidai shiryô ho In early [[1853]], he was appointed by Shimazu Nariakira to oversee the construction of a Ryukyu-style gunship.<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新
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• Shibosi
  ...], and [[Ningbo]]. They oversaw the licensing of overseas trade, including the [[kango boeki|tally trade]]. ...he ''shìbósī''. The ''shìbósī'' were supported by local taxes, and oversaw the formal registration of cargoes, ships, and sailors & traders.
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• Matsudaira Fumai
  Matsudaira Fumai was the seventh [[Matsudaira clan (Echizen)|Matsudaira clan]] ''daimyô'' of [[Mats He took his pseudonym Fumai from a phrase "''furaku fumai''" which appears in the ''Mumonkan hyakujô yako''.
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• Hojo Masako
  * ''Nickname: The nun-shôgun'' ...ous designs), publicly declared his support for Sanetomo, and according to the Azumi Kagami Tokimasa felt it wise to step down and retire.
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• Saito Dosan
  ...agai Nagahiro, and quickly rose through the Nagai ranks, eventually taking the surname of Nagai himself. ...d adopted the name Saitô, former shugodai of Mino overcome by the Nagai in the 1520s.
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• Ichiki Kazuhiko
  Ichiki Kazuhiko was the first Japanese to graduate from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. ...ing for tuition, and so traveled to the United States in [[1867]]/7, where the cost of living was cheaper.
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• Tokugawa Ieshige
  [[File:Ieshige.JPG|right|thumb|400px|The grave of Tokugawa Ieshige at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]]]] ...Ieharu officially became shogun some months later, on 9/2.</ref>, and died the following year.
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• Naito Julia
  ...eir families. She spent the remainder of her life in Manila, where she and the other Japanese nuns lived a conventual life. She passed away away March 28, [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Women]][[Category:Religious Figures]][[Category:Christians]][[C
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• Sato Takanaka
  [[File:Sato-takanaka.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Monument to Satô Takanaka at the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]]]] ...Takanaka was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar, medical expert, and second head of the [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] [[Juntendo|Juntendô]].
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• 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States
  ...ork newspaper illustration, reproduced in a gallery label at the Museum of the City of New York.]] The first Japanese embassy to the [[United States]] took place in [[1860]]. The ambassadors traveled to [[San Francisco]] by steamship from [[Yokohama]], s
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• 1591
  *[[Gamo clan|Gamô clan]] given [[Aizu]] as their domain, under the [[Uesugi clan]]. ...lǔ]]<!--趙參魯--> tells the Ministry of War, which conveys the information to the [[Joseon]] court.
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• Hara Tadayuki
  ...r the [[Nabeshima clan]] of [[Kashima han]], and later an administrator in the government of [[Okinawa prefecture]], under [[Nabeshima Naoyoshi]]. ...myô'' Nabeshima Naoyoshi; the following year, he was granted a post within the domain government, as Nabeshima's private tutor. In [[1866]], he was named
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• Kamisaka Sekka
  Kamisaka Sekka was a late [[Rinpa school]] artist of the [[Meiji period]], known both for his paintings and for his work in [[lacque ...allery label, "Fishermen at Dawn," LACMA, M.2009.102.</ref> He traveled to the Glasgow World's Exposition in [[1910]], where he was exposed to [[Art Nouve
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• 1655
  * 1655/4/13 The [[Meireki era]] begins. * 1655/10/13 The shogunate issues the ''[[Edo machiju sadamegaki|Edo machijû sadamegaki]]'', a set of codes rega
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• Hirosaki han
  ...ice."<ref>「御国の物産は米より他にこれなき。」, Ravina, 119.</ref> Even as late as [[1877]], the entirety of Mutsu province's exports were 80% rice.<ref>Ravina, 119.</ref> ..., and Ajigasawa, Fukaura, and Jûsan, ports facing the [[Sea of Japan]], on the [[Western Circuit]].<ref>Ravina, 115.</ref>
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• Fujita Toranosuke
  ...a Toranosuke was a notable [[Mito han]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' (House Elder) of the [[Bakumatsu period]]. He was placed under house arrest by the shogunate along with former lord of Mito [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] and fellow ''
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• Mizuno Tadanori
  ...Kanjô bugyô]]'' on [[1854]]/12/24, and given responsibility for overseeing the administration of [[Uraga]], [[Shimoda]], [[Nagasaki]], and [[Ezo]].<ref>'' ...as granting [[most favored nation status]] and several other provisions to the [[United Kingdom]].
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• Tanaka Kensuke
  ...aka's grave at [[Daikoku-ji]] in [[Fushimi]], alongside other "martyrs" of the [[Teradaya Incident]]]] ...r who was involved in the ''[[sonno|sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' movement, and in the [[Teradaya Incident]] of [[1862]].
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• Oyako
  ...various officials in the [[government of the Ryukyu Kingdom|government of the Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Often functioning in a deputy role, ''ôyako'' included ...who served as deputies under the ''[[Naha satunushi]]'' (head official of the port-town of [[Naha]]
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• Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
  ...the [[Kinkaku-ji]], and trade relations with [[Ming Dynasty]] China under the title "King of Japan." ...[[1380]]. He was named [[Naidaijin]] the following year, and [[Sadaijin]] the year after that ([[1382]]).
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• Minamoto no Yoriie
  Minamoto no Yoriie was the second shogun of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. ...namoto no Kugyo|Minamoto no Kugyô]], Senjûmaru, and Zengyô. By a wife from the [[Hiki clan]], [[Wakasa no Tsubone]], he had a son, [[Minamoto Ichiman]], a
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• Sugimura Naoki
  ...and petitions to the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] which helped rescue the domain's dire financial situation at that time. ...er the course of the 1740s-1750s, the domain received loans or grants from the shogunate on a number of occasions, but these were not lasting, and in many
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• Emperor Seiwa
  ...ji]], the most prominent, powerful, and historically significant branch of the [[Minamoto clan]]. ..., and granted the title of ''Hôin Yamato jôi'' ("Yamato Upper Rank Seal of the Law") to [[Kukai|Kûkai]].<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Ta
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• Shimazu Hisatsune
  Shimazu Hisatsune was the third head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and third Shimazu ''[[jito|jitô]]'' & ''[[shugo]]'' of [ Hisatsune succeeded his father, [[Shimazu Tadatoki]], as head of the clan upon Tadatoki's death in [[1272]].
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• 1869
  ...dai|enters]] the Imperial Court as primary imperial consort (''nyôgo'') to the [[Meiji Emperor]]. ...[[Tosa han|Tosa]], [[Higo han|Higo]] petition to return of domain lands to the state.
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• USS Powhatan
  ...tan.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The ''Powhatan'' as rendered in stained glass at the [[Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall]]]] ...ssy crossed the isthmus by rail, and continued on to Washington DC onboard the [[USS Roanoke|USS ''Roanoke'']].
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• Shimazu Tadamune
  Shimazu Tadamune was the fourth head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and fourth Shimazu ''[[jito|jitô]]'' & ''[[shugo]]'' of ...Kamakura]] and take up permanent residence in [[Kagoshima]]. From then on, the Shimazu would administer their territory relatively directly, rather than a
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• Shimazu Tadaharu
  Shimazu Tadaharu was the 12th head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. ...Hyûga provinces]]. Tadaharu sent missions to King [[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]] of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] seeking friendly relations and trade, a
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• So Yoshinari
  ...cond [[Edo period]] lord of [[Tsushima han]]. He is perhaps most known for the [[Yanagawa Affair]], which took place during his time as lord. He also esco Yoshinari was the second son of [[So Yoshitoshi|Sô Yoshitoshi]], who he succeeded as lord of
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• Children's Day
  ...ated with the coming of age of boys; it coincides, too, with festivals for the [[iris]], a summer flower. ...f of carp climbing a waterfall is very commonly seen in paintings as well. The associations with young boys (as well as girls) working hard, striving, in
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• Hirado
  ...o early 17th centuries, and was the location of [[Hirado castle]], seat of the [[Matsura clan]] lords of [[Hirado han]]. ...3th century, when a detachment of samurai were sent specifically to defend the port from potential [[Mongol invasions|Mongol attacks]].
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• Hotta Masatomo
  ...Hotta-masatomo-grave.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masatomo, at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery at [[Jindai-ji]] in Sakura, Chiba.]] ...]] in [[Shimousa province]] (today, [[Chiba prefecture]]). He is known for the lavish traditional-style [[Hotta mansion|mansion]] he constructed in Sakura
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• Seoul
  ...g|right|thumb|400px|[[Namdaemun]], historically, the main southern gate of the city.]] ...ea), and was previously the royal capital of the [[Joseon Dynasty]] and of the [[Korean Empire]].
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• Shimazu Hisatoyo
  Shimazu Hisatoyo was the eighth head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. ...rned to [[Kagoshima]] to become Motohisa's heir, succeeding him as head of the clan.
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• Ashikaga Yoshimochi
  Ashikaga Yoshimochi was the fourth shogun of the [[Ashikaga Bakufu]], serving as shogun from [[1394]] to [[1423]], and again .... The [[Yongle Emperor]] sent missions in [[1417]] and [[1419]] requesting the restoration of relations, but was rebuffed both times.
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• Hotta Masasuke
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masasuke, [[Hotta Masanari]], and [[Hotta Masatora]], at [[J ...'' over the course of his career. He was also known as a [[tea master]] of the [[Kobori Enshu|Enshû]] school, and collector of famous tea implements.
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• Okuma Shigenobu
  ...the [[Meiji period]], one of the ''[[genro|genrô]]'', and is also known as the founder of [[Waseda University]]. ...arly years of the Meiji period between support for the dominant faction in the [[Meiji government]], and progressive opposition to it. He resigned from go
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• Asano Naganori
  ...naka]] and his subsequent execution, after which a group of his retainers (the [[47 Ronin]]) sought revenge against Kira for provoking him. ...Tree Corridor) in the Honmaru Palace of [[Edo castle]], and was sentenced the same day to commit ''[[seppuku]]''.
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• Oyama Iwao
  Ôyama Iwao was a prominent military commander and government official of the [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]]s. ...Takamori]], and commanded [[Imperial Japanese Army]] troops in suppressing the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
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• Nitta Yoshisada
  ...hrow his sword into the sea as an offering so that the gods will roll back the tide and let his army pass.]] ...erthrow Go-Daigo (after first helping him to regain the throne), Nitta led the resistance against him. Yoshisada was considered an ineffectual military le
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• Toyotomi clan
  [[Image:Toyotomi_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Toyotomi kamon.]] ...[[Toyotomi Hideyori|Hideyori]] was destroyed by [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] during the [[Osaka Campaign]].
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• Tofukumon-in
  ...as a particularly prominent and influential figure in the early decades of the [[Edo period]], particularly in terms of Imperial-shogunate ties and relati ..."Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 5.</re
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• Oda Nobutaka
  ...when he learned that [[Shibata Katsuie]] had taken his own life following the [[Battle of Shizugatake]]. *Lamers, Jerden ''Japonius Tyrannus:The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered'' Leiden:Hotei Publishing, 2000
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• Shimazu Tadataka
  Shimazu Tadataka was the 13th head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. ...a]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Hyuga province|Hyûga provinces]] upon the death of his older brother [[Shimazu Tadaharu]] in [[1515]].
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• Ashikaga Yoshimasa
  ...], paintings, and other art objects; and constructed the [[Ginkaku-ji]] in the Higashiyama area of [[Kyoto]]. ...5/12/19 (7 Jan [[1474]]), and was succeeded by his son Yoshihisa, even as the "rebellion" of Yoshimi and his supporters continued to rage.
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• 1650
  *''[[Chuzan Seikan|Chûzan Seikan]]'' (Mirror of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]]), the first history of Okinawa, is compiled by [[Sho Shoken|Shô Shôken]]. ...en a [[Christianity|Christian]] samurai into his service without following the proper procedures.
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• Konoe Nobutada
  [[File:Konoe-nobutada.JPG|right|thumb|157px|''[[Tenjin]] Crossing the Ocean to China'']] ...ink drawings of [[Tenjin]], being considered one of the "three brushes of the Kan'ei era" (1624-1644).
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• Hosokawa Fujitaka
  ...e graves of the heads of the [[Hosokawa clan]] from Fujitaka (first one on the left) to [[Hosokawa Narimori]] (1804-1860), at [[Koto-in|Kôtô-in]], a [[t ...hi]] and acted as something of a cultural assistant, advising Hideyoshi in the ways of etiquette and verse.
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• Ito Hirobumi
  In his youth, prior to the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]], Itô was a follower or student of ''[[sonno|sonnô]] ...e Lower House of the [[National Diet]] was largely restricted to approving the national budget, wielding little influence on policy decisions.<ref>David L
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• Eta
  ...irty and dangerous positions. Roughly 2% of the early modern population of the archipelago were ''eta'' or some other sort of outcaste.<ref>Conrad Schirok In the [[Kanto|Kantô]] region, from [[1720]] onward, all ''eta'' were united in a
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• Shimazu Tatsuhisa
  ...zu-tatsuhisa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Tatsuhisa and his wife at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...Tatsuhisa was the second son of [[Shimazu Tadakuni]], and the 10th head of the [[Shimazu clan]].
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• Kumamoto castle
  ...in [[1587]]. Before that, it had been the headquarters of families such as the [[Izuta clan|Izuta]], [[Kanokogi clan|Kanokogi]], and [[Jo clan|Jo]]. ...e [[ninomaru]] and [[sannomaru]]. The [[ishigaki]] at Kumamoto are some of the most impressive in Japan, featuring ‘open fan’ highly curved corners.
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• Nonoyama Kanehiro
  Nonoyama Kanehiro served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] as magistrate for foreign affairs, succeeding [[Ogur ...nth, but was unsuccessful. By the time Nonoyama arrived in the 10th month, the captain had finally been convinced to depart.
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• Shimazu Tadamasa (1463-1508)
  ...mazu-tadamasa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Tadamasa and his wife at the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...ited [[Keian Genju]] to come to [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] to lecture on the subject in [[1478]].
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• Niwa Nagashige
  ...nkin kôtai'', Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 192.</ref> Niwa was named to the post of ''sangi'' (councilor) in [[1632]], and as a result was sometimes re [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Ogasawara Tadahiro
  In 1856, he succeeded Tadaakira as lord of Kokura and took on the name Tadahiro. He ruled Kokura until his own death in [[1860]], and was suc [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Tomo bugyo
  The ''Tomo bugyô'', or Tomo Magistrate, was the chief official in the [[Edo period]] port-town of [[Tomonoura]] (today part of Fukuyama City, [[H ..., it was from then on referred to as a "mansion" (''yashiki''), and not as the castle.
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• Yonezawa han
  ...ings were considered significant enough that the clan was considered among the ''taishin [[kunimochi]]'' ("great country holder") ''daimyô''.<ref>Ravina, ...status and conceptions of statehood and identity in the feudal domains of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868).
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• Komatsu Tatewaki
  ...ance|Sat-Chô Alliance]] (between Satsuma and [[Choshu han|Chôshû han]]) in the 1860s. ...Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]], among others, to important positions within the domain's government.
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• Myochin school
  ...successive heads of the Myôchin line remained prominent and famed through the [[Edo period]], and retain a succession and a sizable collection of notable ...and favor of [[Emperor Konoe]] (r. [[1141]]-[[1155]], Munesuke was granted the honorific [[art-name]] (''gô'') "Myôchin," which he then passed on to his
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• Maeda Toshiie
  ...i Hideyori]] came of age. He was also named as Hideyori's guardian, a task the dying Hideyoshi pleaded with him to uphold. He honored this show of trust b ...nazawa castle]] compound.<ref>[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. Universi
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• Zoshikan
  ...|thumb|400px|Stele in Kagoshima's Central Park, marking the former site of the Zôshikan and [[Enbukan]]]] The ''Zôshikan'' was a [[han school|domain school]] established in [[Kagoshima
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• Oda Nobutada
  Oda Nobutada was the eldest son of [[Oda Nobunaga]]. He fought in many of his father's campaigns ...would take pains in [[1615]] to (re)gain as many of them as he could from the ruins of [[Osaka castle]].<ref name=name112/>
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• Taira clan
  ...rominence again, but many prominent [[samurai]] clans claimed descent from the Taira, whether legitimately, or in order to claim more elite ancestry, and ...nd mercury.<ref>Richard von Glahn, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal o
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• Sakai Tadatsugu
  ...e Oda - no friend of Nobuyasu himself, Tadatsugu made no attempt to refute the charges (and Nobuyasu was later made to commit suicide). Ieyasu afterwards [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Tsugaru Yukitsugu
  ...hs his junior, to be his heir in [[1839]]. Yukitsugu succeeded Nobuyuki in the fifth month that same year, changing his name from Yukinori to Yukitsugu. ...five-year plan, which began with dramatically reducing the expenditures of the lord's own household. Not only did this bring significant alleviation of fi
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• Tenjiku Tokubei
  ...turers who journeyed in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, prior to the imposition of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]]. ...contain numerous exaggerations and inconsistencies.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seven
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• Kishu Tokugawa clan
  ...Yoshimune]], and the 14th shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], were both heads of the Kishû family and lords of Wakayama before becoming shogun. ...[[Joseon]]. The [[Akasaka Detached Palace]] was constructed on the site of the latter mansion.
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• Saito Yoshitatsu
  ...e following year he and his father met in [[Battle of Nagaragawa|battle at the Nagara River]]. Yoshitatsu emerged triumphant after a stiff fight, and took [[Category:Samurai]]
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• Higashionna Kanjun
  Higashionna Kanjun was one of the pioneers of the field of Okinawan Studies. ...ndia and Southeast Asia; while in Thailand, he participated in research on the ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) in [[Ayutthaya]].
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• Sasu Iori
  ...responsibility for the flailing and endangered island domain, transferring the [[So clan|Sô clan]] to another fief. ...though others in succeeding years earned additional financial support for the domain.
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• Shimazu Yoshitaka
  Shimazu Yoshitaka was the fourth [[Edo period]] daimyô of [[Satsuma han]]. ...Even so, this was the second highest rank any Shimazu lord achieved during the Edo period; Yoshitaka was matched only by [[Shimazu Narioki]], and exceeded
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• Kuroda Seiki
  Born into a prominent samurai family in [[Kagoshima]] in [[1866]], he was adopted in [[1871]] at around a ...orks in a more impressionistic style. In addition to receiving training in the basics of proper (highly realistic) Academic-style oil painting, Seiki was
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• Tanegashima Tokitaka
  ...in [[1543]]. Tokitaka is known for his role in effecting the production of the first [[teppo|European-style firearms]] in Japan. ...anism, and also in sealing the barrel sufficiently to contain the force of the [[gunpowder]] explosion.
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• Kano Tanyu
  Kanô Tan'yû was among the most prominent painters of the early [[Edo period]]. ...ed himself in Edo beginning in [[1621]]. He was provided samurai status by the shogunate, along with a 200 ''[[koku]]'' [[stipend]] and a mansion at Kajib
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• So clan
  [[Image:So_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The S&ocirc; kamon.]] ...sent regular [[tribute]] missions, receiving 8,300 ''koku'' each year from the mid-17th century onwards, along with various Korean and Chinese goods, in e
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• Machida Hisanari
  [[File:Machida-hisanari.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Bust of Machida at the Tokyo National Museum]] Machida Hisanari was the first director of the [[Tokyo National Museum]].
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• Ukita Hideie
  ...(''[[Go-Tairo|Go-Tairô]]'') appointed by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] to ensure the continuation of [[Toyotomi clan]] rule after Hideyoshi's death. ...ile, and Hideie died in exile on [[Hachijô Island]] - possibly the last of the Toyotomi-era ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' to die.
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• Inaba Masanari
  ...e battle, Hideaki did indeed defect to the Tokugawa side, possibly winning the battle for Ieyasu. ...ino province,<ref>Some sources state that he was forced into retirement by the death of his lord</ref> possibly in order to escape any "responsibility" fo
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• Okita Soji
  Okita Sôji was born the son of a lower [[Shirakawa han]] Samurai. He was raised by his oldest sister Mitsu and her husband after his father ...d 10, he became a pupil of [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondo Shusuke's]] [[Shieikan]], the [[Tennen Rishin Ryu]] dojo.
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• Matsura Seizan
  ..., perhaps more well-known by his [[art-name]] (''gô'') Matsura Seizan, was the 9th lord of [[Hirado han]] (61,500 ''[[koku]]''<ref>Fukai Masaumi 深井雅 ...were Junior Lower Fifth Rank, Iki-no-kami. Facing chronic difficulties in the domain finances, Kiyoshi undertook numerous structural and economic reforms
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• Hino Tomiko
  ...xiled to Oki island on lake Biwa (Imamairi no Tsubone committed suicide on the way). ...aul. ''The Onin War''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967</ref> and the [[Onin War]] began.
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• Nanbu Toshitada
  Nanbu Toshitada was the 12th lord of [[Morioka han]]. ...a 9-year-old who assumed Toshimochi's identity. Luke Roberts. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. Universi
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• Kawaji Toshiakira
  ...eign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in [[1868]] as the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] fell. ...35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref> and discussions and preparations pertaining to the visit of US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] to Edo in [[1857]].<ref>Ishi
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• Dojima Rice Exchange
  ...organized in [[1868]], and dissolved entirely in 1939, being absorbed into the Government Rice Agency (日本米穀株式会社). ...grasp on the rice trade, determining prices not only within Osaka, but in the entire [[Kinai]] (Home Provinces) area, and indirectly having a great effec
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• Hanaogi
  [[Image:Hanaogi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The courtesan Hanaôgi, depicted in an 1830s ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock print by ...nherited in succession by courtesans of a given teahouse.</ref>, nor about the precise chronology of their retirement and succession.
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• Shimazu Hisamitsu
  [[File:Hisamitsu-grave.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Shimazu Hisamitsu's grave at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in Kagoshima]] ...domain, and acted prominently on the national level, as if he were himself the ''daimyô''.
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• Shimazu Sanehisa
  ...responsible for a prominent succession dispute within the Shimazu clan in the 1520s. ...lowers.<ref>This refers to the three provinces traditionally controlled by the Shimazu: Satsuma, Ôsumi, and Hyûga.</ref> Katsuhisa, however, meanwhile,
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• Sakura castle
  ...a-entrance.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The road leading up from the main gate of the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]. These stone walls are probably mod ...ta clan]], relocated to Sakura from [[Yamagata han]]; for the remainder of the Edo period, they enjoyed a rank/income of 110,000 ''[[koku]]''.
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• Sanada Nobuyuki
  ...use that. However two documents of 1608, are signed 信幸. This "yuki" 幸 is the same as that of his father Masayuki 昌幸.</ref> ...eldest son of of [[Sanada Masayuki]] and his wife (Kanshô-in　寒松院); he was the older brother of Sanada Nobushige ([[Sanada Yukimura|Yukimura]]).
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• Abe Masahiro
  ...s]] policy of [[maritime restrictions]] and "opening" Japan to the West in the 1850s. ...decision-making power (and, the appearance of competency and strength) of the shogunate.
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• Yakusha Rongo
  ...even if they were not published in such a fashion, since their creation in the early 18th century. ...d Analects are either incomplete versions, or evolved, revised versions of the original works.
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• Nagai Naoyuki
  ...ugawa shogunate]] official who played a notable role in coastal defense in the early 1850s. ...tsuke]]'' in [[1853]], Nagai was assigned to the guard stations at Edo Bay the following year. On [[1854]]/1/22, he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official
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• Kawagoe Shigeyori
  ...land to the forces of rival brother [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] shortly after the latter became [[shogun]] in [[1185]]. ...Website]. 2008. Accessed 28 November 2009.</ref>. Thus, he became tied to the [[Minamoto clan]] through marriage to Yoritomo's wet nurse, with whom he ha
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• Yanagisawa Nobutoki
  ...yô'' of [[Koriyama han|Kôriyama han]], known for his love and patronage of the [[kabuki]] theater. ...n of some thirteen years, and includes mention of as many as 119 visits to the Kabuki theater.
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• Emperor Nijo
  [[File:Emp-nijo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Emperor Nijô in Kyoto]] ...ed from [[1158]]-[[1165]]. He was the son of [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]], and the father of [[Emperor Rokujo|Emperor Rokujô]]. [[Fujiwara no Tsunezane]] was
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• 1825
  *''[[Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan|Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan]]'' premieres at the [[Nakamura-za]]. *1825/3/6 [[Matsushima Gozo|Matsushima Gôzô]], samurai of [[Choshu han|Chôshû]], born (d. [[1865]]).
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• Date Munenari
  ...pg|right|thumb|320px|Date Munenari, in a photo from the 1942 reprinting of the ''[[Tokugawa reiten roku]]'']] ...wajima han]], known for his prominent involvement in a number of events of the [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]]s.
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• Mizuno Katsushige
  ...]''. He capped his unusual career with participation in the suppression of the [[Shimabara Rebellion]] and was succeeded by an adopted son, [[Mizuno Katsu [[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
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• Kudo Heisuke
  ...s a physician in the service of [[Sendai han]], known for his memorials to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] on matters of foreign policy and trade. ...s directly, though similar measures were undertaken for other goods around the same time (see ''[[za]]'', ''[[kabunakama]]'').<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defin
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• Tani Buncho
  Tani Bunchô was a prominent [[bunjinga|literati painter]] of the mid-[[Edo period]]. ...calligraphy and painting, sometimes meeting in public, in restaurants and the like, where he and his compatriots would produce pieces for onlookers, for
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• Charter Oath
  ...ecessor to a [[Meiji Constitution]], and constituted the basic policies of the new [[Meiji government]] in five points, announced on [[1868]]/3/14. The document was based on a draft by [[Kido Koin|Kido Kôin]], who composed it
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• Matsudaira Hirotada
  Hirotada was the son of [[Matsudaira Kiyoyasu]], and father of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. ...he [[second Battle of Azukizaka]] in [[1548]] but Hirotada died of illness the following year. In [[1612]] his son Ieyasu, now a retired [[Shogun|shôgun]
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• Ryukyu-gakari
  ..."), a samurai official charged with overseeing the Ryûkyû-kan on behalf of the daimyô. ...ving as an intermediary for conveying communications between Kagoshima and the embassy.<ref>Yano, 43n9.</ref>
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• Serizawa Kamo
  The Serizawa family were [[Goshi|Gôshi]] of Seizawa village in [[Hitachi provi Serizawa Mitsumoto was adopted into the Shimomura family and his name was changed to Shimomura Tsuguji.
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• Satake Shozan
  ..., and a significant ''[[ranga]]'' painter and theorist. He was the head of the important but short-lived [[Akita ranga|Akita ''ranga'']] school of paintin ...the domain's [[copper]] mines. Akita was the primary provider of copper to the archipelago in this period, much of which was also shipped abroad. Though G
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• Furutaka Shuntaro
  [[Image:Furutaka.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Stele marking the former site of Furutaka's residence in Kyoto, and identifying him as ''kin' ...oyalist / anti-shogunate rebel (''[[shishi]]'') active in [[Kyoto]] during the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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• Tachibana Muneshige
  Tachibana Muneshige was the son of [[Takahashi Shigetane]] and was adopted by [[Tachibana Dosetsu]]. ...ll, Muneshige sallied forth from the castle, and inflicted heavy losses on the Shimazu clan.
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• Gunpowder
  ...ntury, it came to be used throughout many parts of East Asia and Europe by the late 15th century. ...ay have been significantly influenced by cultural influence from China via the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref>Gallery labels, Royal Ontario Museum.[https://www.fl
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• Eight Banners
  ...the Qing Dynasty (renamed from the Later Jin Dynasty), the system predated the Manchu conquest of [[China proper|China]]. ...ivil service exams]] from those Han Chinese civilians sat for, and enjoyed the advantages of a quota system which placed Manchu and Mongol officials in nu
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• Ichikawa Ebizo V
  ...VII) at [[Narita-san Shinsho-ji|Narita-san Shinshô-ji]], family temple of the [[Ichikawa family]]]] ...iban|Kabuki Jûhachiban]]'', a collection of the eighteen greatest plays in the repertoire.
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• Tokugawa Ietsuna
  [[File:Ietsuna-kaneiji.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The gate to Ietsuna's tomb at [[Kan'ei-ji]]]] ...unate]], ruling from [[1651]]/8/18 until his death on [[1680]]/5/8. He was the eldest son of third shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]].
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• Uesugi Harunori
  ...ncial situation of his [[han|domain]] for the better, and for his views on the ''daimyô's'' obligations towards his domain and his people. .... Though coming from a different domain & household, Harunori was actually the son of one of Shigesada's cousins,<ref>Harunori's maternal grandmother was
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• Shimazu Tadayuki (Sadowara)
  Born in [[1797]] the eldest son of [[Shimazu Tadamochi]], he became lord of Sadowara following h ...Kusatsu, though the ''honjin's'' internal ''daifukuchô'' records describe the reality in detail.
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• Oeyo
  [[File:Hidetada-oeyo.JPG|right|thumb|400px|The grave of Oeyo and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]] O-eyo was the wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. She is also often referred to by
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• So Yoshikatsu (Tomiju)
  ...The sixth son of [[So Yoshinaga|Sô Yoshinaga]], he was originally known by the childhood name Tomiju. ...cial support from the shogunate to have Tomiju, then 13 years old, take on the name Yoshikatsu and take over as his brother.
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• Watanabe Zenemon
  ...y studies, [[ikebana]], the history of [[Sakura]] City, [[elephants]], and the [[1748]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo|Ryukyuan]] and [[Korean embassies to Edo ...nherited his own sub-fief or [[stipend]] of 150 ''[[koku]]''. In [[1723]], the Inaba were transferred from Sakura to Yodo domain, based at [[Fushimi]], an
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• Hoshina Masayuki
  ...wa Hidetada]], half-brother to [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], and uncle to the young shogun Ietsuna. ...e [[Hoshina clan]]. His adoptive father was [[Hoshina Masamitsu]], lord of the 30,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[han|domain]] of [[Takato han|Takatô]] in [[Shinano p
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• Shimazu Morohisa
  [[File:Morohisa-munehisa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Morohisa (left) and his brother [[Shimazu Munehisa]] (right) at [ ...was reunited after their deaths, with Ujihisa's descendants continuing as the main trunk lineage.
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• Shimazu Korehisa
  ...e Ôshû branch, are both considered the 7th heads of the central lineage of the clan as a whole. ...usuke]]. As a result of turning against the [[Ashikaga Takauji|Ashikaga]], the [[Muromachi shogunate|shogunate]] stripped Korehisa of his position as ''sh
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• Oichi
  ...behalf of the Asakura family. The fighting continued for three years until the Asakura were destroyed and Nagamasa's [[Odani castle|Odani Castle]] was sur ...d not been present at the battle) shut himself up in Kitanoshō castle with the intention of committing suicide. He begged Oichi to take her daughters and
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• Shimazu Shigetoshi
  ...he gravesite of Shimazu Shigetoshi, near that of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery in [[Kagoshima]]]] ...toshi was the 7th [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]], and 24th head of the [[Shimazu clan]].
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• Emperor Sutoku
  ...riod]], known in particular for his involvement, during his retirement, in the [[Hogen Rebellion|Hôgen Rebellion]] of [[1156]]. ...s regent throughout Sutoku's reign, and would continue to do so throughout the reign of Sutoku's successor, his half-brother [[Emperor Konoe]]. His chief
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• Shimazu Tsugutoyo
  Shimazu Tsugutoyo was the 22nd head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and the fifth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]. ..., also at Yoshimune's orders. After she was formally adopted by Yoshimune, the two were married.
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• Mizuno Tadaakira
  ...x in maintaining these defenses, leading to its rather unprepared state in the 1850s. ...ional governments hesitant to bother engaging in wars fully halfway around the planet.
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• Choshu han
  ...ozama]]'' [[han|domains]] in [[Edo period]] Japan. The domain was ruled by the [[Mori clan (Aki)|Môri clan]], who controlled much of [[Nagato province|Na ...rom Chôshû went on to play prominent roles in government and business into the [[Meiji period]].
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• Hori Toshitada
  ...gunate regarding whether or not to exchange formal diplomatic letters with the United States. ...an encampment the previous year) and conducted a survey of the area around the 50th parallel.
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• Goto school
  ...) through the late [[Edo period]], the school's distinctive style features the use of painterly designs in high relief, done chiefly in lacquerware and '' ...onto the back of the works, connecting into a culture of samurai pride in the provenance of their possessions.
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• Petition box
  ...egardless of their status, to have their comments and suggestions heard by the lord. ...gn of [[Empress Wu]], whose system, implemented in [[686]], continued into the [[Song Dynasty]].
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• 1808
  *1808/6 Sakhalin is confirmed to be an island, and not a peninsula of the Asian mainland. ...e ''Phaeton'' eventually leaves after receiving supplies and learning that the Dutch ships would not be arriving that year.
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• Keishoin
  Keishôin was a member of the ''[[ooku|Ôoku]]'' of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], and mother of [[Toku ...self. After Tsunayoshi became Shogun in [[1680]], she took up residence in the ''san-no-maru'' (third bailey) of [[Edo castle]], and came to be known as S
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• Owari Tokugawa clan
  ...in]] of [[Owari han|Owari]] with [[Nagoya castle|Nagoya]] as their castle, the Owari Tokugawa were descended from .... ...mansion), and one at Ichigaya. The grounds of the latter is today home to the [[Ministry of Defense]].
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• Hosokawa Gracia
  [[Image:HosokawaToro.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A stone lantern marking the grave of Hosokawa Gracia and her husband [[Hosokawa Tadaoki]], at [[Koto-in ...kawa Tadaoki]] (Sansai), and is famous as a prominent Christian convert of the late [[Sengoku period]].
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• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  ...s granted use of the character ''yoshi'' from Tsunayoshi's name, taking on the name Yoshiyasu. ...ref> In [[1701]], Tsunayoshi granted Yoshiyasu the privilege of the use of the surname [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]].<ref name=clements605>Clements, 605.
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• Ito Yoshisuke
  ...as the [[Kimotsuki clan|Kimotsuki]]. Yoshisuke managed to gain control of the port of [[Shibushi]], in Hyûga, and gained some prominence in overseas tra ...f the [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]]. He eventually retired to Kyoto after wandering the [[Inland Sea]], and died in [[Sakai]] on [[1585]]/8/29.
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• Minamoto no Yoritomo
  [[Image:Yoritomo Grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The grave of Minamoto no Yoritomo in [[Kamakura]].]] ...one of the major figures in Japanese history. He established the first of the three shogunates (bakufu), that is, military governments, in Japanese histo
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• Adachi Yasumori
  ...his capacity, he granted a hearing to [[Takezaki Suenaga]], the creator of the [[Mongol Invasion Scroll]]. ...by all of his family and many of his supporters. Among them were men from the [[Banno clan|Banno]], [[Osone clan|Osone]], [[Ogasawara clan|Ogasawara]], [
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• 1876
  *1876/3/28 [[Haito edict|Haitô edict]] - The wearing of swords is banned except for military and police officers. *1876/8 ''[[The Mikado's Empire]]'', a history of Japan by [[William Griffis]], is publishe
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• Katsui Gohachiro
  ...who is known for leading a coup in [[1864]] to oust a rival faction within the domain leadership. ...red from the shogunate, with Chôshû's help, also disappeared as Chôshû and the shogunate came to blows in 1864.
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• 1646
  ..., requesting aid in pushing out the [[Qing Dynasty|Manchus]] and restoring the [[Ming Dynasty]]. Nothing comes of it. ...le to Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], receives a request for aid in restoring the Ming.
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• Yamanaka Shikanosuke
  The Yamanaka were retainers of the Amako who had assisted the Amako in regaining [[Gassan-Toda castle]] in [[1486]]. ...prior to the events of [[1566]] allegedly thought of himself as a child of the moon.
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• Rice broker
  ...heck, which the merchant could then take to a rice broker and exchange for the actual value in gold, silver, or rice. ...a Saikaku]], in his [[1688]] publication ''[[Nihon eitaigura]]'' lists off the brokerage firms of Osaka's Nakanoshima district as follows: Yodoya, Tsukagu
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• Tokugawa Nariaki
  ...His son, [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], went on to become the last [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. ...] named [[Princess Yoshiko (Arisugawa no miya)|Yoshiko]], born in [[1804]] the twelfth daughter of [[Imperial Prince Orihito]] (Arisugawa no miya).
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• Hojo Tokimasa
  ...clan|Hôjô]], led by Tokimasa and the influential Masako, had become one of the most powerful families in Kamakura when Yoritomo was named Shogun in [[1192 ...t to live at the Shuzenji in Izu and was murdered a year later-probably on the order of Tokimasa.
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• Hojo Ujitsuna
  ...as Ise Shinkuro or Sozui. He assumed formal leadership of the family with the death of his father in [[1519]]. ...t no evidence exists to support that claim. In any event, [[1523]] is when the name Hôjô first appears in records.
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• Hirata Oe
  ...tion within shogunate leadership in [[1863]]-[[1864]], and the strength of the Westerners, and so fell in line with supporting his close friend Katsui Goh ...uoka]], [[Hirado han|Hirado]], and [[Omura han|Ômura domains]], as well as the support of [[kuge|court noble]] [[Sanjo Sanetomi|Sanjô Sanetomi]], to topp
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• Kagoshima
  ...G|right|thumb|320px|[[Sakurajima]] and the city of Kagoshima, as seen from the observatory point atop Shiroyama]] ...stle town]] of [[Satsuma han]], home to [[Kagoshima castle]], and is today the capital of [[Kagoshima prefecture]].
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• Tsutsui Masanori
  ...moda]], along with [[Kawaji Toshiakira]] and [[Koga Masaru]], on behalf of the shogunate. ...ies on behalf of the shogunate. In [[1852]], he was formally recognized by the shogunate along with [[Hayashi Akira]] and several others for their efforts
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• Buke Shohatto
  ...ad to be obeyed. By appealing to notions of morality and honor, therefore, the shogunate was able to see its strictures followed despite its inability to ...nd attitudes of the time.<ref>[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. Universi
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• Shimazu Munenobu
  [[File:Shimazu-munenobu.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Munenobu's grave at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in [[Kagoshima]]]] Shimazu Munenobu was the 23rd head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and the sixth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]].
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• Kitabatake Chikafusa
  ...a was an early nationalist/nativist Japanese scholar, known especially for the ''[[Jinno Shotoki|Jinnô Shôtôki]]'', which he wrote between [[1339]]-[[1 ...father of [[Kitabatake Akiyoshi]] and Akiie. Akiie was killed in battle in the summer of [[1338]]. Chikafusa was assisted in his endeavors by a younger br
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• Hojo Ujimasa
  ...t war with in 1570. This angered [[Uesugi Kenshin]], who proceeded to raid the Hôjô's northern holdings. In [[1572]] Ujimasa dispatched 2,000 troops to ...Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] ([[1575]]), leaving Ujimasa to consolidate the Hôjô's domain without further outside interference.
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• Yukatchu
  ...he scholars of classical Chinese studies living in [[Kumemura]], they held the majority of government positions. ...nd with it the aristocratic and intellectual culture of Ryûkyû as a whole. The best and brightest of Ryûkyû were invited to settle in Kumemura, pursue C
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• Murakami Yoshikiyo
  ...Kunikiyo]] served the Uesugi as a retainer and in 1582 was able to recover the Murakami's Shinano lands. Yoshikiyo had been married to the daughter of [[Ogasawara Nagamune]].
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• Japan Punch
  ...onthly serials published in Japan in the European mode, closely related to the European tradition of newspapers and political cartoons, and thus represent ...Wirgman and his colleagues free reign in their critiques of, and jokes at the expense of, those authorities.
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• Daikoku-ji
  ...okuji.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of nine ''resshi'' ("martyrs") from the [[Teradaya Incident]] at Daikoku-ji.]] Daikoku-ji is a [[Shingon]] temple in [[Fushimi]] dedicated to the worship of [[Daikokuten]], and closely associated with [[Satsuma han]].
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• 1862
  ...]] - ''[[Roju|Rôjû]]'' [[Ando Nobumasa|Andô Nobumasa]] is attacked outside the Sakashita Gate of [[Edo Castle]] by six ''ronin'' of [[Mito han]]. ...[Kabuki]] play "[[Benten Kozo|Aoto Zôshi Hana no Nishiki-e]]" premieres at the [[Ichimura-za]] in [[Edo]].
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• Kira Yoshinaka
  ...Ronin]], as the killer of their lord [[Asano Naganori]] and the target of the ronin's vengeance. While Kira's personal name has traditionally been given ...n account of evil-doing that people attributed to Kira, it still left open the question of whether this view of Kira was indeed supported by fact".
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• Taira no Kiyomori
  ...er, that of his clan, is the chief theme of the great epic ''[[The Tale of the Heike]]'' (''Heike monogatari''). ...or Shirakawa|Shirakawa]] and [[Emperor Toba|Toba]]. As a result, even from the young age of 12, Kiyomori already began to receive special preference in co
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• Battle of Mimigawa
  * [[Tawara Chikataka]] (under the command of [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Sôrin]]) (50,000+) vs. [[Shimazu Yoshihisa ...ands in [[Hyuga province|Hyûga province]] taken by the [[Shimazu clan]] in the early stages of Shimazu efforts to conquer all of [[Kyushu]].
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• Kunashiri-Menashi Rebellion
  ...s which took place in [[1789]], in [[Ezo]] ([[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]). It was the largest conflict between Ainu and Japanese to take place after [[Shakushain ...nging alliances, and so forth were not suppressed, but rather were used by the Matsumae.
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• Udono Nagatoshi
  ...became a head of the [[Roshigumi|Rôshigumi]], but lost that position after the assassination of [[Kiyokawa Hachiro|Kiyokawa Hachirô]]. ...number of officials, alongside [[Togawa Anchin]], who worked to encourage the shogunate to allow former lord of [[Mito han]] [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] to play
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• Saigo Tsugumichi
  ...ichi and his brother Takamori had a strong [[Seikanron|disagreement]] over the proposed invasion of Korea (Takamori argued for invasion, whereas Tsugumich ...on of 1874]]), securing a treaty with [[Qing Dynasty]] China by the end of the following month.
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• Mori Arinori
  ...'s [[Meiji period]] [[Meiji education|"modern" education system]], and was the first to serve as [[Ministry of Education|Minister of Education]].<ref name ...f general private ownership of swords, and resigned his official post over the associated controversy. He then returned to Kagoshima, and opened an Englis
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• Muromachi Period
  ...of [[Kyoto|Kyôto]]. Eventually, the two lineages were reconciled, ending the civil war. ...ide devolved into chaos, culminating in the [[Onin War|Ônin War]], opening the [[Sengoku Period]].
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• Katsu Kaishu
  Katsu Kaishû is considered the "father" of the modern [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. ...classes in [[rangaku|Western studies]] and then studied naval science from the Dutch naval detachment in [[Nagasaki]].
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• Raku family
  ...ks continue to be based closely on the forms of famous individual works of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. ...e in producing tea wares for many of the top elites in the tea world, both samurai and commoner.
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• 1593
  At the opening of the year, Japanese armies are in [[Korean Invasions|Korea]] * Tenshô 20/12/8 (10 Jan 1593) - The ''[[nengo|era name]]'' is changed to [[Bunroku]].
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• Castletowns
  ...Nagoya-castle-model.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A model of [[Nagoya castle]] and the surrounding ''jôkamachi''.]] ...ed as a daimyô's "seat," the political center of a ''[[han]]'' (domain) in the [[Edo period]].
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• Ishida Mitsunari
  ...as Inspector of Forces. In the course of carrying out his duties he earned the hatred of both [[Kuroda Yoshitaka]] and [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]], whom Ishida ...assassination of Ieyasu in [[1599]], and narrowly avoided his own death at the hands of several Tokugawa loyalists (thanks, ironically and mysteriously, t
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• Sengoku Period
  ...the [[Osaka Campaigns]]), as marking the end of war, and the beginning of the ''Pax Tokugawa''. ...of chaos overlaps with the late Muromachi period, and with the entirety of the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]].
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• Seiseifu
  ...Court]]. In particular, in the 1360s-1380s, the Seiseifu (and by extension the island of Kyushu) was ruled by [[Prince Kanenaga]] (aka Kaneyoshi) and his ...former site of the [[Dazaifu]]. It then moved to a site called Kikuchi, in the mountains of [[Higo province]] until [[1381]], after which it relocated to
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• Japanese flag
  [[File:Hinomaru.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Japanese national flag]] ...asu]], and the sun itself, a symbol used by the Imperial Court and various samurai clans for many centuries.
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• Uetsuki Gyokei
  ...clan]] of [[Uwajima han|Uwajima domain]]. He is known for his paintings of the [[1850]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] and related subjects, owned today by K ...ukinobu retired in [[1832]] at the orders of the lord, passing headship of the household to Gyôkei on 12/2 of that year.
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• Tokugawa Hidetada
  [[File:Hidetada-oeyo.JPG|right|thumb|400px|The grave of Hidetada and his wife [[Oeyo]] (Ogô) at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in ...Go-Mizunoo]]; a product of this marriage assumed the throne in [[1629]] as the [[Empress Meisho|Empress Meishô]]. Hidetada was married to [[Oeyo]], a dau
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• 1844
  *1844/5 The ''Honmaru'' and ''Ninomaru'' of [[Edo castle]] burn down. *China signs Treaties of Amity and Commerce with the United States ([[Treaty of Wangxia]]) and France ([[Treaty of Whampoa]]).
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• Tawara Chikatsura
  ...ead Christian materials, and was eventually baptized in [[1577]] and given the name Simão. ...ura's resoluteness in remaining (openly) Christian, Sôrin stopped pursuing the issue.
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• Makino Yasutoshi
  ...sanjo]] (Historiographical Institute) at the [[University of Tokyo]] under the title ''Makino Tôtômi-no-kami ki'' (牧野遠江守記); all but a hundre ...ief efforts for the poor, river management and flood control projects, and the promotion of local agricultural and artisan production, among other activit
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• Uwai Satokane
  ...oshihisa's]] top councilors. Parts of his diary survives as a glimpse into the court of a 16th Century [[daimyo|daimyô]]. ...ki castle]]. Uwai was active in campaigns in [[Higo province]] and against the [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo clan]], but was also active in appreciation of ''[[waka
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• Kurokawa Kahei
  ...] official who played a role in interactions with foreign embassies during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. ...n several occasions with American chief of staff [[Henry A. Adams]] aboard the US warships anchored in [[Edo Bay]], eventually convincing Adams that forma
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• 1714
  ...ima-Ikushima Affair]] - A power struggle over control of Ejima, a woman in the [[Ooku|shogunal harem]], comes to a climax and spills over into a larger af ...Ejima-Ikushima Affair, the shogunate forces the [[Yamamura-za]] to close. The building is destroyed, and all its assets seized. All other Edo theatres ar
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• Yamaoka Tesshu
  [[File:Tesshu-grave.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Tesshû's grave at Zenshô-an, in the Yanaka area of Tokyo]] ...ned [[Hokushin Itto Ryu]] from [[Chiba Shusaku]] in [[Kobusho]] and became the Kobusho Kenjutsu Sewayaku.
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• Hijikata Toshizo
  ...pupil of [[Tennen Rishin Ryu]] in [[1851]] and was officially enrolled at the school in [[1859]]. His skill of the [[ryu-ha]] was just [[Mokuroku]], however his name
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• Asai Nagamasa
  ...nd compelled him to step down in favor of Nagamasa. Hisamasa acquiesced to the elevation of his 15 year-old son and afterwards lived quietly in Odani. ...rovince, an alliance was arranged between the two warlords and sealed with the marriage of Nobunaga's sister [[Oichi]] (formerly Shibata Katsuie's wife) t
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• Shishido Tamaki
  ...imu fukusôsai'') in [[1883]], as well as holding many other positions over the course of his career. ...figures such as [[Arima Shinshichi]] and [[Ijichi Sadaka]] to plot against the shogunate.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3., 81.</ref>
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• Miyake clan
  ...n the honored syllable "yasu" to succeeding generations through the end of the [[Edo period]]. ...in Mikawa, and the Miyake remained the lords of Tahara through the end of the Edo period.
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• Otomo Yoshimune
  ...was the anti-[[Christianity|Christian]] wife of Sôrin, known today only by the [[Jesuit|Jesuits']] epithet for her, [[Otomo Nata Jezebel|Jezebel]].<ref>Ha ...ne had been baptized in 1574 as Constantinho but was not as sympathetic to the missionaries as his father had been.
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• Corvee
  ...hich villages, towns, and [[han|domains]] paid their feudal obligations to the shogunate, alongside tax payments in [[currency]] or in goods. ...oner boatmen, who were obliged to use their boats to help escort or unload samurai vessels, among other similar tasks.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in
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• Matsudaira Shungaku
  ...thumb|320px|Matsudaira Shungaku, as seen in a photo in the 1942 reprint of the ''[[Tokugawa reiten roku]]'']] Matsudaira Shungaku was the last ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Echizen han]], and played a prominent role
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• Shimazu Sadahisa
  Shimazu Sadahisa was the fifth head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. ...i]] and [[Hyuga province|Hyûga provinces]], restoring Shimazu control over the full range of territory [[Shimazu Tadahisa]] held 120 years earlier.
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• Sakamoto Ryoma
  ...ovember 15 in Tosa as the second son into the [[Goshi|Gôshi]] (low ranking samurai) household of Sakamoto Hachihei Naotari ...Started studying swordsmanship at the local dôjô and quickly became one of the dôjô’s most gifted students.
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• Arimura Yusuke
  ...hima domain]] retainer (and later [[ronin]]) who played a part in plotting the [[1860]] assassination of [[Ii Naosuke]] ([[Incident at Sakuradamon]]) and ...etsunosuke, this time at the [[Nihonbashi]] restaurant Yamazakirô, to plan the attack which would take place two days later.
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• King Injo
  ...tes and the Search for Sovereignty in Sinocentric Asia: Japan and Korea in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Anthony Reid & Zheng Yangwen (eds.), ''Negotia ...re]], in order to help ensure Joseon's aid in defending Ming China against the Manchus.<ref>Ji-Young Lee, “Diplomatic Ritual as a Power Resource," ''Jou
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• Furukawa Koshoken
  ...s life as a commoner, he was granted samurai status and a small stipend at the age of 69. ..."house of the old pine," from an old pine tree in his family's garden. In the autobiographical ''Koshôken zakki'', he characterizes himself as a rebelli
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• Shimazu Ujihisa
  ...n, was reunited after their death with Ujihisa's descendants continuing as the main trunk lineage. ...of Kagoshima as the Shimazu seat; the city would remain the clan seat for the next five hundred years.
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• Kawamura Nagataka
  ...ransformation of Niigata into a key site of national coastal defense along the [[Sea of Japan]] coast. ...the trip with his wife and family and about eighty retainers, taking over the administration of a city which [[Nagaoka han]] had previously managed with
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• Nitobe Inazo
  ...one of the chief sources for much of the modern misconceptions about the [[samurai]]. Nitobe was also an avid writer on colonization and colonialism, particul ...ô'' as a system of warrior values authentically, genuinely, dating back to the medieval era.
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• Dai Nihon Shi
  ...with the ancient origins of the imperial line, and ending with the end of the [[Southern Court]] in [[1392]]. ...ory centered around the emperor as the chief ever-present element, and the samurai as only temporary; this was later used to justify an expansionist, imperial
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• Yamauchi Tadayoshi
  ...Yamauchi Kazutoyo|Kazutoyo]] as ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Tosa han]] when the latter died childless. ...that they had difficulty finding Edo or Osaka merchants willing to lend to the domain.
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• Taiwan Expedition of 1874
  ...t was felt that the Japanese had a responsibility to exact retribution for the killing of their people. ...i]]. Japanese troops first landed on Taiwan on May 2nd, and fighting ended the following month.
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• 1180
  ...twenty-ninth day..." (A.L. Sadler. ''The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike''. Charles E. Tuttle Company, printing/year unknown. p3.)</ref> * 1180/6/2 The seat of Imperial power is moved to [[Fukuhara]], as the result of pressure by Taira no Kiyomori.
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• Tsushima
  ...generally administered as part of Kyushu (e.g. coming under the purview of the ''[[Chinzei bugyo|Chinzei bugyô]]'' in premodern times), and is today part ...ion, indicates that Japanese ([[Yamato state]]) agents extended control to the island at least that early.
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• 1838
  ...enin|Kanô Seisen'in]] is placed in charge of overseeing the replacement of the ''[[fusuma]]'' and other interior paintings. *The ''[[Buke shohatto]]'' are re-promulgated.
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• Hirata Yukie
  ...yukie.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Statue of Hirata at Hirata Park, Kagoshima, on the former site of Hirata's home]] ...rdered by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to help prevent destructive floods of the [[Kiso River]].
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• Kawai Suno
  ...ther Names'': 川合道臣 ''(Kawai Michiomi)''<ref>Kawai changed his surname from the 川合 used by his father to 河合, used by his earlier ancestors, in [[18 ...n'ô was a [[Sakai clan]] ''[[karo|karô]]'' and ''[[sonno|kin'ô]]'' ("serve the emperor") adherent. He is known for his roughly 30 years of service to [[Hi
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• Nanbu Toshihisa
  [[File:Nanbu-toshihisa.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Nanbu Toshihisa and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] i Nanbu Toshihisa was the 40th head of the [[Nanbu clan]], and second-to-last ''daimyô'' of [[Morioka han]]. He is al
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