Samurai

• Abe Masakatsu
  Abe Masakatsu
  was a Japanese samurai of the Abe clan of Mikawa who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. The son of Abe Masanobu, Masakatsu served Ieyasu from a young age, first accompanying him to Sunpu as a hostage. In 1590, Ieyasu gave him Ichihara in Izu Province, and Hatogaya, in Musashi Province, which brought...
  
  
• Adachi Yasumori
• Adachi Kagemori
  Adachi Kagemori
  Adachi Kagemori was a Japanese warrior of the Adachi family and was a son of Morinaga. He served with Minamoto no Yoriie but became a monk when Minamoto no Sanetomo died. This did not stop him from joining the cause of the Hōjō family for the Jōkyū War of 1221, however.Hōjō Tsunetoki and Hōjō...
  
  
• William Adams
  William Adams (sailor)
  William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country...
  
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• Aiou Mototsuna
• Marise Kagekatsu
• Ayame Kagekatsu
• Koreto (Akechi) Hyuga no Kami (Jubei) Mitsuhide
  Akechi Mitsuhide
  , nicknamed Jūbei or called from his clan name and title, was a samurai who lived during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan.Mitsuhide was a general under daimyo Oda Nobunaga, although he became infamous for his betrayal in 1582, which led to Nobunaga's death at Honno-ji...
  
  
• Akao Kiyotsuna
  Akao Kiyotsuna
  was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period, a senior retainer of the Azai clan of Ōmi Province. Together with Kaihō Tsunachika and Amemori Yahei, Kiyotsuna was known as one of the . Kiyotsuna served three generations of the Azai lords: Sukemasa, Hisamasa, and Nagamasa...
  
  
• Amago Haruhisa
  Amago Haruhisa
  was a powerful warlord in Chūgoku region, Japan. He is the second son of Amago Masahisa. Initially named Akihisa , he changed his name to Haruhisa in 1541 after Ashikaga Yoshiharu offered to let him use a kanji from his name....
  
  
• Amago Yoshihisa
  Amago Yoshihisa
  was a daimyō of Izumo Province.He was the eldest son of Haruhisa and he and was given the childhood name of . After his father's sudden death on 1560, he became the head of the clan to continue the fight against the Mōri clan. While besieged in Toda Castle, Yoshihisa had a retainer, Moriyama...
  
  
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    Amago clan
    The , descended from the Emperor Uda by the Sasaki clan .Sasaki Takahisa in the 14th century, having lost his parents at the age of three years, he was brought up by a nun...
    
    
• Ankokuji Ekei
  Ankokuji Ekei
  was a diplomat of Mōri clan, a powerful feudal clan in the Chūgoku region, Japan, as well as a Rinzai Buddhist monk following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 16th century. He went with Toyotomi Hideyoshi on his invasion of Korea, was named abbot of Tōfuku-ji in Kyoto Prefecture, and was given a...
  
  
• Aochi Shigetsuna
  Aochi Shigetsuna
  was a retainer beneath the clan of Oda throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Shigetsuna was the legitimate second son of Gamō Sadahide and was later adopted by Aochi Nagatsuna, a daimyo who held residence in the Kurita District of Omi province. Around the year of 1569 Shigetsuna...
  
  
• Aokage Takaakira
• Aoki Kazushige
• Akahori Chohichi
• Arai Hakuseki
  Arai Hakuseki
  was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo Period, who advised the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi . Hakuseki was his pen name...
  
  
• Araki Motokiyo
• Araki Murashige
  Araki Murashige
  was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, and daimyō of Itami Castle during the late Sengoku period of the 16th century in Japanese history, in what is now Itami city in Hyōgo Prefecture....
  
  
• Araki Muratsugu
• Arima Kihei
• Asakura Yoshikage
  Asakura Yoshikage
  ) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who ruled a part of Echizen Province.Born in Ichijodani Echizen, Yoshikage ascended to the head of the Asakura clan in 1548. He proved to be adept at political and diplomatic management, markedly demonstrated by the Asakura negotiations with the...
  
  
• Azai Hisamasa
  Azai Hisamasa
  was a son of Azai Sukemasa and the second head of the Azai clan.Hisamasa became the head of the clan in 1542 after his father died, but unlike his father, he was never a strong leader. Losing domains against Rokkaku clan, he instead became a Rokkaku retainer...
  
  
• Azai Nagamasa
  Azai Nagamasa
  was a Daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japan. His clan, the Azai, were located in northern Ōmi Province, east of Lake Biwa. He was both the brother-in-law of Oda Nobunaga, starting in 1564, and one of Nobunaga's enemies from 1570-1573. Nagamasa and his clan were utterly destroyed by Oda...
  
  
• Azai Sukemasa
  Azai Sukemasa
  built Odani Castle for the Azai clan, including his son Azai Hisamasa, to rule.Sukemasa was a former Samurai under the Kyōgoku clan, but he gradually increased his power under an internal struggle within the clan. He managed to become daimyo, a powerful feudal ruler, but became engaged in a...
  
  

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• Chosokabe Morichika
  Chosokabe Morichika
  was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Once the ruler of Tosa Province, his fief was revoked by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara....
  
  
• Chosokabe Kunichika
  Chosokabe Kunichika
  was a powerful warlord in Tosa Province, Japan. He is the son of Chōsokabe Kanetsugu. His childhood name was Senyumaru .His father was killed by the Motoyama clan in 1508. Therefore, Kunichika was raised by the aristocrat Ichijō Husaie in Tosa Province. Kunichika was reconciled with the Motoya clan...
  
  
• Chosokabe Motochika
  Chosokabe Motochika
  was a Sengoku period daimyo in Japan. He was the 21st chief of the Chōsokabe clan of Tosa Province . He was the son and heir of Chōsokabe Kunichika and his mother was a daughter of the Saitō clan of Mino Province....
  
  
• Chosokabe Nobuchika
  Chosokabe Nobuchika
  was the eldest son of samurai lord Chōsokabe Motochika, and lived during the late Sengoku Period of Japanese history. After the subjugation of Shikoku by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Nobuchika and his father followed the Toyotomi into Kyushu. Nobuchika was caught in an ambush during the campaign against the...
  
  
• Eugene Collache
  Eugène Collache
  Eugène Collache was an officer of the French Navy in the 19th century. Based on the ship Minerva of the French Oriental Fleet, he deserted when the ship was anchored at Yokohama harbour, with his friend Henri Nicol to rally other French officers, led by Jules Brunet, who had embraced the cause of...
  
  

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• Harada Naomasa
  Harada Naomasa
  was a samurai retainer of the Oda clan. He was also called and was referred by the title of . Initially he had the family name of , but on 1575 received the name of a respected clan, Harada which he took as his own....
  
  
• Hasekura Tsunenaga
  Hasekura Tsunenaga
  Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga or was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of Sendai....
  
  
• Hattori Hanzo
  Hattori Hanzo
  , also known as , was a famous samurai and ninja master of the Sengoku era, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan. Today, he is often a subject of modern popular culture.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hatano Hideharu
  Hatano Hideharu
  Hatano Hideharu is the eldest son of Hatano Harumichi and the head of Hatano clan.He was a son of Harumichi but for some unknown reason, he was adopted as a son by Hatano Motohide...
  
  
• Hasegawa Eishin
• Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu
• Hirate Masahide
  Hirate Masahide
  was a Japanese samurai who served the Oda clan for two generations. His original name was .Masahide first served Oda Nobuhide.He was talented not only as a samurai but also in various arts like sado and waka, and this helped him to act as a skilled diplomat, dealing with Ashikaga shogunate and...
  
  
• Hitotsubashi Keiki
• Hōjō Masako
  Hojo Masako
  was the eldest child of Hōjō Tokimasa by his wife Hōjō no Maki, the first shikken, or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate. She was the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki, and was married to Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura period...
  
  
• Hōjō Tokimune
  Hojo Tokimune
  of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate , known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism and by extension Bushido among the warrior class.- Life :Born as the eldest son of the regent and Tokuso Tokiyori of the...
  
  
• Hōjō Ujiyasu
  Hojo Ujiyasu
  was the son of Hōjō Ujitsuna and a daimyō of the Odawara Hōjō clan.Upon his father's death in 1541, a number of the Hōjō's enemies sought to take advantage of the opportunity to seize major Hōjō strongholds...
  
  
• Hojo Ujimasa
  Hojo Ujimasa
  was the fourth head of the late Hōjō clan, and daimyo of Odawara.Ujimasa commanded in many battles, consolidating his clan's position, and retired in 1590. His son Hōjō Ujinao became head of the clan and lord of Odawara, but later that year they failed to hold Odawara against the forces of Toyotomi...
  
  
• Honda Tadakatsu
  Honda Tadakatsu
  , also called Honda Heihachirō , was a Japanese general of the late Sengoku through early Edo period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Honda Tadakatsu was one of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings along with Ii Naomasa, Sakakibara Yasumasa and Sakai Tadatsugu. - Biography :A native of Mikawa Province in...
  
  
• Honda Tadakatsu
  Honda Tadakatsu
  , also called Honda Heihachirō , was a Japanese general of the late Sengoku through early Edo period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Honda Tadakatsu was one of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings along with Ii Naomasa, Sakakibara Yasumasa and Sakai Tadatsugu. - Biography :A native of Mikawa Province in...
  
  
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• Hosokawa Fujitaka
  Hosokawa Fujitaka
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. Also known as '. Fujitaka was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns. When he joined the Oda, Oda Nobunaga rewarded him with the fief of Tango. His son, Hosokawa Tadaoki, went on to become one of the Oda clan's senior generals.After the...
  
  
• Hosokawa Gracia
  Hosokawa Gracia
  ', usually referred to as ', was a Christian convert, a daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide and the wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki....
  
  
• Hosokawa Tadaoki
  Hosokawa Tadaoki
  was the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. He fought in his first battle at the age of 15. In that battle, he was in the service of Oda Nobunaga. He was given the Province of Tango in 1580. Soon after that, he married Hosokawa Gracia, the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide. In 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide...
  
  
• Hotta Masatoshi
  Hotta Masatoshi
  was a daimyō in Shimousa Province, and top government advisor and official in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He served as rōjū to Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna from 1679–80, and as Tairō under Tokugawa Tsunayoshi from the 12th day of the 11th lunar month of 1681 until his death on 7 October...
  
  

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• Ichi
  Ichi
  Ichi may refer to;*Ichi , Japanese film* Ichi , facial scarring traditionally used by the Igbo people of West Africa* Lady Oichi , a Japanese woman, sister-in-law of Nohime...
  
  
• Ii Naoaki
• Ii Naomasa
  Ii Naomasa
  was a general under the Sengoku period Daimyo, and later Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. He is regarded as one of the Four Guardians of the Tokugawa along with Honda Tadakatsu, Sakakibara Yasumasa and Sakai Tadatsugu.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ii Naomori
  Ii Naomori
  a retainer of the Japanese clan of Imagawa in the Sengoku period of the 16th century. During the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, Naomori was killed while trying to protect his lord, Imagawa Yoshimoto following the rain mist strategy attack led by Oda Nobunaga...
  
  
• Ii Naonaka
• Ii Naosuke
  Ii Naosuke
  was daimyo of Hikone and also Tairō of Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858 until his death on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and...
  
  
• Ii Naotaka
  Ii Naotaka
  was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period who served under the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of the famous Tokugawa general Ii Naomasa.Naotaka served in the Siege of Osaka in his brother Naokatsu's stead, where he would gain tremendous favor for his exploits at Tennoji. After the battle,...
  
  
• Ii Naoyuki
• Ii Naozumi
• Iizasa Ienao
  Iizasa Ienao
  was the founder of Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū which is a traditional Japanese martial art. His Buddhist posthumous name is Taiganin-den-Taira-no-Ason-Iga-no-Kami-Raiodo-Hon-Daikoji....
  
  
• Ijuin Tada'aki
  Ijuin Tadaaki
  Ijuin Tada'aki a retainer of the Japanese clan of Shimazu following the Sengoku period of the 16th century of Japan. Under Tada'aki, Ijuin clan would rise to the prominence as one of the most important retainer in the Shimazu clan....
  
  
• Imagawa Yoshimoto
  Imagawa Yoshimoto
  was one of the leading daimyo in the Sengoku period Japan. Based in Suruga Province, he was one of the three daimyo that dominated the Tōkaidō region. He was one of the dominant daimyo in Japan for a time, until his death in 1560....
  
  
• Imai Kanehira
  Imai Kanehira
  Imai Kanehira was the milk brother of Minamoto no Yoshinaka. He became joint commander of Yoshinaka's faction during the Genpei War after Yoshinaka met up with him at Seta. He fought with the forces of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who wanted to bring an end to Yoshinaka's tyranny. Imai commanded...
  
  
• Inugami Nagayasu
• Ishida Mitsunari
  Ishida Mitsunari
  Ishida Mitsunari was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century. Also known by his court title, Jibunoshō...
  
  
• Isshiki Fujinaga
• Itagaki Nobukata
  Itagaki Nobukata
  was a retainer of the Takeda family. His name is also seen with different kanji as 信形.Nobukata served under both Takeda Nobutora and Takeda Shingen and also was tasked with young Shingen...
  
  
• Ito Hirobumi
  Ito Hirobumi
  Prince was a samurai of Chōshū domain, Japanese statesman, four time Prime Minister of Japan , genrō and Resident-General of Korea. Itō was assassinated by An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist who was against the annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire...
  
  
• Iwanari Tomomichi
  Iwanari Tomomichi
  was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century. Also known as Ishinari Tomomichi , he was a retainer of the Miyoshi clan, and held the title of Chikara-no-suke...
  
  

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• Jinbo Kiyoshige
  Jinbo Kiyoshige
  , was the grandson and only surviving descendant of Jinbō Nagakiyo. Unlike his grandfather, who was executed for betraying the Jinbō clan, Kiyoshige was a valuable asset to the Jinbō, and a general and advisor to Jinbō Nagamoto. Kiyoshige was fearless on the battlefield, often leading charges and...
  
  
• Jinbo Nagakiyo
  Jinbo Nagakiyo
  , was the younger brother of Jinbo Nagatsuna. Reputed to be both a playboy and an alcoholic, he was known to hold raucous parties at his estate in Etchū Province after battle campaigns to celebrate victories. He conspired with Nagao Tamekage against his cousin Jinbō Yoshimune, and is reputed to...
  
  
• Jinbo Nagamoto
  Jinbo Nagamoto
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who was the last lord of the Jinbō clan. He is most remembered for almost constant warfare with Shiina Yasutane, and their rivalry has been compared to that of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. Much like Shingen and Kenshin, they met once in personal...
  
  
• Jinbo Nagatsuna
  Jinbo Nagatsuna
  ,Jinbō Nagatsuna was a samurai of Japan's Sengoku period, and was a cousin of Jinbō Yoshimune of Etchu. Nagatsuna fought in a number of battles against the Nagao clan of Echigo in support of his cousin Yoshimune. However, in 1510, Nagatsuna and his brother Jinbō Nagakiyo conspired with Nagao...
  
  
• Jinbo Yoshikata
  Jinbo Yoshikata
  ,was a vassal of Uesugi Kenshin. He was the lord of Yoita Castle in the Mishima district of Echigo Province for a time until it was given to Naoe Nobutsuna. After Kenshin's death, Yoshikata fought for Uesugi Kagekatsu, however in 1581 he was killed alongside Naoe Nobutsuna at Kasuga...
  
  

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• Kaneko Ietada
  Kaneko Ietada
  a famed samurai following the Heian period of the 12th century of Japan. Ietada served under Minamoto no Yoshitomo during the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156. Throughout this rebellion, Ietada personally fought against two certain brothers known as the Takama brothers...
  
  
• Katagiri Katsumoto
  Katagiri Katsumoto
  was a Japanese war lord Daimyo of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period who in his youth was famed as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake. ....
  
  
• Kataoka Mitsumasa
• Kato Kiyomasa
  Kato Kiyomasa
  was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period.-Origins and early career:Kiyomasa was born in Owari Province to Katō Kiyotada. Kiyotada's wife, Ito, was a cousin of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mother. Kiyotada died while his son was still young...
  
  
• Kawakami Gensai
  Kawakami Gensai
  was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. Gensai's high-speed sword discipline was in the Shiranui-ryū.- Birth and Early Life :...
  
  
• Kido Takayoshi
  Kido Takayoshi
  , also referred as Kido Kōin was a Japanese statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. He used the alias when he worked against the Shogun.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kikkawa Hiroie
  Kikkawa Hiroie
  ' was a Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period.Hiroie's father was Kikkawa Motoharu and his mother was a daughter of Kumagai Nobunao. He initially was named Tsunenobu and made his debut on the battle field on 1570 against Amago Katsuhisa with his father...
  
  
• Kimotsuki Kanetsugu
  Kimotsuki Kanetsugu
  was the sixteenth head of the Kimotsuki family and the son of Kimotsuki Kaneoki. Kanetsugu was a skilled and smart leader but his domain happened to be next to that of the most powerful clan in Kyūshū, Shimazu clan and Kimotsuki family would be crushed by them....
  
  
• Kobayakawa Hideaki
  Kobayakawa Hideaki
  Kobayakawa Hideaki was fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.He was adopted by Hideyoshi and called himself Hashiba Hidetoshi and Shusen . He was then again adopted by Kobayakawa Takakage and renamed himself Hideaki...
  
  
• Kobayakawa Hidekane
  Kobayakawa Hidekane
  was a Japanese samurai, the ninth son of Mōri Motonari....
  
  
• Kobayakawa Takakage
  Kobayakawa Takakage
  was a samurai retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during Japan's Sengoku period, and the son of Mōri Motonari. Adopted by the head of the Kobayakawa clan, Takakage took his name, and succeeded his adoptive father to become head of the Kobayakawa clan following his death in 1545.As head of the Kobayakawa...
  
  
• Kuroda Kanbei Don Sim(e)on Josui Yoshitaka
• Kuroda Kiyotaka
  Kuroda Kiyotaka
  , also known as , was a Japanese politician of the Meiji era. He was the second Prime Minister of Japan from 30 April 1888 to 25 October 1889.-As a Satsuma samurai:...
  
  
• Kusunoki Masashige
  Kusunoki Masashige
  was a 14th century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in his attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura shogunate and is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty.-Tactician:...
  
  
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• Kumagai Naozane
  Kumagai Naozane
  was a famous soldier who served the Genji Clan during the Heian period of Japanese history. Kumagai is particularly known for his exploits during the Genpei War, specifically for killing the young warrior Taira no Atsumori at the battle of Ichi-no-tani in 1184...
  
  

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• Maeda Keiji
• Maeda Nagatane
  Maeda Nagatane
  was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. He served the Maeda clan of Kaga as one of its senior retainers.His court title was Tsushima no kami.-References:...
  
  
• Maeda Toshiie
  Maeda Toshiie
  was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. His father was Maeda Toshimasa. He was the fourth of seven brothers. His childhood name was "Inuchiyo" . His preferred weapon was a yari and he was known as...
  
  
• Maeda Toshinaga
  Maeda Toshinaga
  ' was a Japanese daimyo who was the second head of the Kaga Domain. He was the eldest son of Maeda Toshiie and married one of Oda Nobunaga's daughters, Ei-hime....
  
  
• Maeda Toshitsune
  Maeda Toshitsune
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who ruled the Kaga Domain. Toshitsune was a brother of Maeda Toshinaga and a son of Toshiie. Adopted as his heir, he became the wealthiest daimyo outside the Tokugawa. He controlled Etchū, Kaga, and Noto provinces....
  
  
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• Manabe Akifusa
  Manabe Akifusa
  was a feudal lord in Japan, and Ienobu's attendant.-Biography:Akifusa Manabe was born in Edo, Japan on June 18, 1666 as a son of actor on the Japanese traditional play. Later, he served to the Edo Bakufu's 6th Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu. He was Sobayonin in the Edo Bakufu. He beacame Daimyo in...
  
  
• Matsudaira Nobutsuna
  Matsudaira Nobutsuna
  was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, who ruled the Kawagoe Domain. First serving Tokugawa Iemitsu as a page, Nobutsuna was renowned for his sagacity. He was named a rōjū in 1633. Nobutsuna led the shogunal forces to their final victory over the rebellion at Shimabara...
  
  
• Matsudaira Higo no Kami Katamori
  Matsudaira Katamori
  was a samurai who lived in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period. He was the 9th daimyo of the Aizu han and the Military Commissioner of Kyoto during the Bakumatsu period. During the Boshin War, Katamori and the Aizu han fought against the Meiji Government armies, but...
  
  
• Matsudaira Sadanobu
  Matsudaira Sadanobu
  Japanese daimyo of the mid-Edo period, famous for his financial reforms which saved the Shirakawa Domain, and the similar reforms he undertook during his tenure as chief senior councilor of the Tokugawa Shogunate, from 1787 to 1793....
  
  
• Matsudaira Teru
  Matsudaira Teru
  Matsudaira Teru , or Teruhime , was an aristocrat in Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods...
  
  
• Matsunaga Hisahide
  Matsunaga Hisahide
  Matsunaga Hisahide was a daimyo of Japan following the Sengoku period of the 16th century.A companion of Miyoshi Chokei, he was a retainer of Miyoshi Masanaga from the 1540s. He directed the conquest of the province of Yamato in the 1560s and by 1564 had built a sufficient power-base to be...
  
  
• Matsunaga Hisamichi
• Matsuo Bashō
  Matsuo Basho
  , born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku...
  
  
• Matsudaira Motoyasu
  Tokugawa Ieyasu
   was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but...
  
  
• Minamoto no Mitsunaka
  Minamoto no Mitsunaka
  , son of Minamoto no Tsunemoto, was a samurai and Court official of Japan's Heian period. Mitsunaka belonged to the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan, which traced its ancestry to Emperor Seiwa. He loyally served several successive Fujiwara regents beginning with Fujiwara no Morotada...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoshiie
  Minamoto no Yoshiie
  Minamoto no Yoshiie , also known as Hachimantarō, was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period, and Chinjufu shogun...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
  Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
  , son of Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, was a Minamoto clan samurai during Japan's Heian Period. His brother was the famous Minamoto no Yoshiie. Minamoto no Yoshimitsu is credited as the ancient progenitor of the Japanese martial art, Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoshinaka
  Minamoto no Yoshinaka
  was a general of the late Heian Period of Japanese history. A member of the Minamoto samurai clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans....
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoshitomo
  Minamoto no Yoshitomo
  was the head of the Minamoto clan and a general of the late Heian period of Japanese history. His son Minamoto no Yoritomo became shogun and founded the Kamakura Shogunate, the first shogunate in the history of Japan.-Hōgen Rebellion:...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoshitsune
  Minamoto no Yoshitsune
  was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura period. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, and the third and final son and child that Yoshitomo would father with Tokiwa Gozen. Yoshitsune's older brother Minamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura...
  
  
• Minamoto no Tameyoshi
  Minamoto no Tameyoshi
  was head of the Minamoto samurai clan during his lifetime, and grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie; he led the Minamoto in the Hōgen Rebellion. Tameyoshi is also known as ....
  
  
• Minamoto no Yorimasa
  Minamoto no Yorimasa
  ' was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies. He served eight different emperors in his long career, holding posts such as hyōgo no kami...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu
  Minamoto no Yorimitsu
  , also known as Minamoto no Raikō, served the regents of the Fujiwara clan along with his brother Yorinobu, taking the violent measures the Fujiwara were themselves unable to take...
  
  
• Minamoto no Yoritomo
  Minamoto no Yoritomo
  was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan. He ruled from 1192 until 1199.-Early life and exile :Yoritomo was the third son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, heir of the Minamoto clan, and his official wife, a daughter of Fujiwara no Suenori, who was a member of the...
  
  
• Minamoto no Noriyori
  Minamoto no Noriyori
  was a late Heian period general, who fought alongside his brothers Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune at a number of battles of the Genpei War. The sixth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, he was spared along with his brothers in 1160 by Taira no Kiyomori following Yoshitomo's death.He...
  
  
• Minoro Takashi
• Miura Anjin
  William Adams (sailor)
  William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country...
  
  
• Miura Yoshimoto
• Miyamoto Musashi
  Miyamoto Musashi
  , also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman and rōnin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age...
  
  
• Miyoshi Chokei
  Miyoshi Chokei
  , eldest son of Miyoshi Motonaga, was a Japanese samurai and daimyo who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period. Nagayoshi held the court titles of Shūri-dayū and Chikuzen no Kami , and was also known by the more Sinic reading of his name: Chōkei...
  
  
• Miyoshi Kazuhide
• Miyoshi Masaga
• Miyoshi Masayasu
• Miyoshi Moriyata
• Miyoshi Nagayuki
• Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
  Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
  , adopted son of Nagayoshi, was a samurai of the Sengoku period who was practically the last head of Miyoshi clan, daimyo of Kawachi province of Japan....
  
  
• Mizuno Tadakuni
  Mizuno Tadakuni
  was a daimyō during late-Edo period Japan, who later served as chief senior councilor in service to the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is remembered for having instituted the Tenpo Reform.-Biography:...
  
  
• Moniwa Yoshinao
• Mori Motonari
  Mori Motonari
  was a prominent daimyō in the west Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century.-Early years:Mōri Motonari was born under the name Shojumaru in a small domain of Aki province in 1497. He is said to have been born at Suzuo Castle, his mother's homeland...
  
  
• Mori Nagasada
• Mori Nagayoshi
  Mori Nagayoshi
  was an officer under the Oda clan following Japan's 16th-century Sengoku period, and the older brother of the famous Mori Ranmaru.Nagayoshi was known to have such a bad temper and to be particularly ruthless in battle that he came to be known as the "Devil." Nagayoshi's efforts for Toyotomi...
  
  
• Mori Okimoto
  Mori Okimoto
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who ruled the Mōri clan....
  
  
• Mori Ranmaru
  Mori Ranmaru
  , born Mori Nagasada , was the son of Mori Yoshinari, and had 5 brothers in total, from the province of Mino. He was a member of the Mori Clan, descendants of the Seiwa Genji....
  
  
• Mori Takamoto
  Mori Takamoto
  was a daimyo of Aki Province during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the eldest legitimate son of Mōri Motonari.-Life:Born in Tajihi, Aki province, Takamoto was sent at the age of 14 to Suo province as a hostage of Ōuchi Yoshitaka. This was done to ensure his father's loyalties to Ōuchi...
  
  
• Mori Tadamasa
• Mori Terumoto
  Mori Terumoto
  Mōri Terumoto , son of Mōri Takamoto and grandson and successor of the great warlord Mōri Motonari, fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi but was eventually overcome, participated in the Kyūshū campaign on Hideyoshi's side and built Hiroshima Castle, thus essentially founding Hiroshima.Terumoto was a...
  
  
• Mori Yoshinari
  Mori Yoshinari
  was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period and the head of the Mori family, who served the Saitō clan. The Saitō were the lords of the Mino province. When the Saitō clan were overthrown by the Oda clan Yoshinari and his family became retainers of Oda Nobunaga....
  
  

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• Nagakura Shinpachi
  Nagakura Shinpachi
  was the captain of the 2nd troop of the Shinsengumi.-Background:Nagakura Shinpachi Noriyuki, known as Eikichi or Eiji during his childhood, was born in the Matsumae clan's "kami-yashiki" in Edo on the 11th day of the fourth month of Tenpō 10 His father, Nagakura Kanji, was a retainer of the...
  
  
• Nagao Harukage
  Nagao Harukage
  was Uesugi Kenshin's older brother, and successor to his father Nagao Tamekage in 1536. Harukage, being weak willed and sickly, was leader in name only. The real power was held by his chief advisor, Chiba Torataka, who organized Tamekage's former vassals behind him, apparently with the intention...
  
  
• Nagao Kagenobu
• Nagao Masakage
  Nagao Masakage
  was the head of the Ueda Nagao clan following the Sengoku period of the 16th century of Japan. Masakage was the brother-in-law of the famous Uesugi Kenshin, the "Dragon of Echigo". Masakage was the father of Uesugi Kagekatsu....
  
  
• Nagao Tamekage
  Nagao Tamekage
  was a retainer of Japanese feudal lord Uesugi Fusayoshi, and a daimyo in his own right, during Japan's Sengoku period. According to some scholars, such as George Bailey Sansom, Nagao Tamekage's career makes him representative of the emergence of the daimyo, and the shift of regional power from the...
  
  
• Naoe Kanetsugu
  Naoe Kanetsugu
  was a Japanese samurai of the 16th-17th centuries. The eldest son of Higuchi Kanetoyo, Kanetsugu was famed for his service to two generations of the Uesugi daimyo. He was also known by his court title, Yamashiro no Kami or his childhood/adolescent name, Higuchi Kanetsugu .Kanetsugu served first as...
  
  
• Nakagawa Kiyohide
  Nakagawa Kiyohide
  Nakagawa Kiyohide was a daimyo in Azuchi-Momoyama period.His childhood name was Nakagawa Toranosuke...
  
  
• Nakajima Bungo
• Nanbu Yasunobu
• Naoe Kagetsuna
  Naoe Kagetsuna
  was an officer under the Uesugi clan.Kagetsuna served as a very close confidante to Uesugi Kenshin. In both domestic and external affairs, Kagetsuna left his mark on Kenshin's regime...
  
  
• Naoe Kanetsugu
  Naoe Kanetsugu
  was a Japanese samurai of the 16th-17th centuries. The eldest son of Higuchi Kanetoyo, Kanetsugu was famed for his service to two generations of the Uesugi daimyo. He was also known by his court title, Yamashiro no Kami or his childhood/adolescent name, Higuchi Kanetsugu .Kanetsugu served first as...
  
  
• Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
• Niimi Nishiki
  Niimi Nishiki
  was born in Mito-han . He was a master of the Shintomunen-ryu swordsmanship style. He was one of the original thirteen members of the Shinsengumi, together with Serizawa Kamo and Kondō Isami...
  
  
• Niiro Tadamoto
  Niiro Tadamoto
  was a retainer of Satsuma daimyo Shimazu Yoshihisa. Jiroshirō is one of his other names....
  
  
• Niwa Nagahide
  Niwa Nagahide
  , also known as Gorōzaemon , was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama periods of the 16th century. He served as a retainer to the Oda clan, and was eventually a daimyo in his own right....
  
  
• Niwa Nagashige
  Niwa Nagashige
  was a Japanese daimyo who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and married an adopted daughter of Oda Nobunaga. He took part in his first campaign in 1583, assisting his father in the battles against Shibata Katsuie...
  
  

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• Oda Hiroyoshi
• Oda Nobuhide
  Oda Nobuhide
  was a warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province during the Sengoku period of Japan. His father was Oda Nobusada and Nobuhide was the father of Oda Nobunaga.-Ruling the clan:...
  
  
• Oda Nobukata
• Oda Nobukiyo
• Oda Nobunaga
  Oda Nobunaga
  was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century, which ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was also a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. His opus was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi...
  
  
• Oda Nobutada
  Oda Nobutada
  was the eldest son of Oda Nobunaga, and a samurai who fought in many battles during the Sengoku period. He commanded armies under his father in battles against Matsunaga Hisahide and against the Takeda clan....
  
  
• Oda Nobutomo
  Oda Nobutomo
  was a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period. He was head of the Iwakura Oda faction of the Oda clan, and ruled the four southern districts of Owari Province as shugodai...
  
  
• Oda Nobukatsu
  Oda Nobukatsu
  was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He was the second son of Oda Nobunaga. He survived the decline of the Oda clan from political prominence, becoming a daimyo in the early Edo period.-Kitabatake clan:...
  
  
• Oda Nobuyasu
• Ogasawara Shosai
• Oishi Kuranosuke
• Judge Ooka
  Ooka Tadasuke
  was a Japanese samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate. During the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, as a magistrate of Edo, his roles included chief of police, judge and jury, and Yamada Magistrate prior to his tenure as South Magistrate of Edo...
  
  
• Ōtomo Sōrin
  Otomo Sorin
  , also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige and Ōtomo Yoshishige , was a Japanese feudal lord of the Ōtomo clan, one of the few to have converted to Christianity. The eldest son of Ōtomo Yoshiaki, he inherited the domain of Funai, on Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, from his father...
  
  
• Okita Soji
  Okita Soji
  , was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. He was one of the best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi, along with Saito Hajime and Nagakura Shinpachi....
  
  
• Okubo Toshimichi
  Okubo Toshimichi
  , was a Japanese statesman, a samurai of Satsuma, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. He is regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan.-Early life:...
  
  
• Okunomiya Masaie
• Ōuchi Yoshitaka
  Ouchi Yoshitaka
  was a daimyo of Suo province and a son of Ōuchi Yoshioki.In 1522, he fought the Amago clan along with his father, Yoshioki, to win the control of Aki province. Upon Yoshioki's death in 1528, Yoshitaka became the head of Ōuchi clan. In the 1530s, he led a military actions in the northern Kyūshū,...
  
  

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• Reizei Takatoyo
• Rokkaku Sadayori
• Rokkaku Yoshiharu
  Rokkaku Yoshiharu
  the eldest son of Rokkaku Yoshikata. During the year 1559, Yoshiharu became the official head of the Rokkaku clan, though he and his father ruled jointly. Both were at the Battle of Norada in 1560, where they were defeated by Azai Nagamasa. Yoshiharu along with his father abandoned Kannōnji Castle...
  
  
• Rokkaku Yoshitaka
• Rusu Masakage
  Rusu Masakage
  was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Served as a retainer of the Date clan Masakage was the uncle of the famous Date Masamune....
  
  
• Ryuzoji Takanobu
  Ryuzoji Takanobu
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who ruled a region in northern Kyūshū. He was the eldest son of Ryūzōji Chikaie, and upon headship, became the 19th head of the Ryūzōji clan. Takanobu's son, Masaie, would become the last head of the Ryūzōji....
  
  
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    Ryuzoji clan
    The was a Japanese clan which claimed descent from Fujiwara Hidesato. It came to prominence in the Sengoku period, in the fighting in northern Kyūshū. Their descendants became retainers of the Matsudaira clan of Aizu, and remained there until the Meiji Restoration...
    
    

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• Sagara Taketo
  Sagara Taketo
  was a samurai and retainer of the Ōuchi clan and a son of Sagara Masato.Originally from Higo province, he served the Ōuchi clan as his father had become a retainer of the clan. From around 1543 with the support of Ōuchi Yoshitaka, he led a faction of retainers who preached a softer approach, as...
  
  
• Saigō Takamori
  Saigo Takamori
  was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history, living during the late Edo Period and early Meiji Era. He has been dubbed the last true samurai.-Early life:...
  
  
• Saitō Dōsan
  Saito Dosan
  was a daimyo who dramatically rose and also fell from power in Sengoku period Japan. He was also known as the for his ruthless tactics.-Life:Originally a wealthy merchant from Yamashiro Province , he entered the service of Nagai Nagahiro of Mino Province , assuming the name Nishimura Kankurô.He...
  
  
• Saito Hajime
  Saito Hajime
  was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who most famously served as the captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi. He was one of the few core members who survived the numerous wars of the Bakumatsu period.-Early years:...
  
  
• Saito Musashibo Benkei
  Saito Musashibo Benkei
  , popularly called Benkei, was a Japanese warrior monk who served Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is commonly depicted as a man of great strength and loyalty, and a popular subject of Japanese folklore.-Biography:...
  
  
• Saito Yoshitatsu
  Saito Yoshitatsu
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. He was the second generation lord of the Saitō clan.-Early life:Yoshiatsu was born in Mino Province in 1527, the eldest son of Saitō Dōsan. Some theorize that Yoshitatsu was in fact the son of Toki Yorinari, the former ruler of Mino...
  
  
• Sakai Tadakiyo
  Sakai Tadakiyo
  , also known as Uta-no-kami, was a daimyō in Kōzuke Province, and a high-ranking government advisor and official in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan....
  
  
• Sakai Tadashige
• Sakai Tadayo
  Sakai Tadayo
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, and high ranking government advisor, holding the title of Rōjū, and later Tairō.The son of Sakai Shigetada, Tadayo was born in Nishio, Mikawa Province; his childhood name was Manchiyo. He became a trusted elder in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's government,...
  
  
• Sakamoto Ryoma
  Sakamoto Ryoma
  was a leader of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Ryōma used the alias .- Early life :Ryōma was born in Kōchi, of Tosa han . By the Japanese calendar, this was the sixth year of Tenpō...
  
  
• Sakuma Morimasa
  Sakuma Morimasa
  was the son of Sakuma Moritsugu, cousin of Sakuma Nobumori, a prominent Oda retainer to Oda Nobuhide and Oda Nobunaga. He was a retainer of Shibata Katsuie and one of his top generals in many of his campaigns...
  
  
• Sakuma Nobumori
  Sakuma Nobumori
  was a retainer for the Oda clan. Nobumori's banishment by Oda Nobunaga to Mount Koyasan has widely been regarded as symbolic of Nobunaga's ruthlessness against even his longest-serving retainers, highlighting the leader's shortcomings as a military commander....
  
  
• Sanada Masayuki
  Sanada Masayuki
  was a Japanese Sengoku period daimyo. He was the third son of Sanada Yukitaka, a vassal daimyo to the Takeda family in Shinano province. He is known as a master strategist. Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Yukimura were his sons.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sanada Nobuyuki
  Sanada Nobuyuki
  was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He was the son of daimyo Sanada Masayuki and the older brother of Sanada Yukimura.-Biography:At an early age, Nobuyuki's father served under the daimyo Takeda Shingen and sent Nobuyuki as a hostage to prove the Sanada clan's loyalty to the Takeda clan...
  
  
• Sanada Yukimura
  Sanada Yukimura
  was a Japanese samurai, second son of the Sengoku period daimyo Sanada Masayuki . His proper name was Sanada Nobushige , named after Takeda Shingen's younger brother Takeda Nobushige, who was a brave and respected warrior. He and his father were known as being excellent military tacticians...
  
  
• Sasaki Kojiro
  Sasaki Kojiro
  was a prominent Japanese swordsman widely considered as a Kensei, born in Fukui Prefecture. He lived during the Sengoku and early Edo periods and is most remembered for his death while battling Miyamoto Musashi in 1612.-History:...
  
  
• Serizawa Kamo
  Serizawa Kamo
  Serizawa Kamo was a samurai known for being the original lead commander of the Shinsengumi. He trained in and received a licence in the Shindō Munen-ryū. "Kamo" means goose or duck in Japanese which was an odd name to call oneself at the time...
  
  
• Shibata Katsuie
  Shibata Katsuie
  or was a Japanese military commander during the Sengoku Period who served Oda Nobunaga.-Biography:Katsuie was born in the Shibata family, a branch of the Shiba clan . Note the differences between , , and the .Katsuie was the retainer of Oda Nobukatsu...
  
  
• Shima Sakon
  Shima Sakon
  , also known as , was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period. Shima eventually left the service of the Tsutsui, and eventually joined Ishida Mitsunari under the banner of the Uesugi Clan...
  
  
• Shimada Ichiro
  Shimada Ichiro
  was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period through early Meiji period. The son of an ashigaru of the Kaga domain, he was famous as the lead assassin of the powerful politician Ōkubo Toshimichi on May 14, 1878. Following the assassination, he and the other assassins turned themselves in and all...
  
  
• Shimazu Katsuhisa
  Shimazu Katsuhisa
  was the fourteenth head of the Shimazu clan and the third son of Shimazu Tadamasa following the Sengoku or Warring States period of 16th century Japan....
  
  
• Shimazu Tadahisa
  Shimazu Tadahisa
  was the founder of the Shimazu samurai clan.According to a record of his life, he was reportedly born in Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka. He was initially Koremune Tadayoshi but after being given the territory of Shimazu, Hyūga Province to rule from by Minamoto no Yoritomo, he took the name of...
  
  
• Shimazu Tadatsune
  Shimazu Tadatsune
  was a tozama daimyo of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom...
  
  
• Shimazu Tadayoshi
  Shimazu Tadayoshi
  was a daimyo of Satsuma Province during Japan's Sengoku period.He was born to a branch family of the Shimazu clan, the Mimasaka Shimazu family but after his father Shimazu Yoshihisa died, his mother married Shimazu Unkyu of another branch family, the Soshū...
  
  
• Shimazu Takahisa
  Shimazu Takahisa
  , the son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyo during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan.On 1526, Takahisa was adopted as the successor to Shimazu Katsuhisa and became head of the clan. He launched a series of campaigns to reclaim three provinces: Satsuma, Osumi,...
  
  
• Shimazu Yoshihiro
  Shimazu Yoshihiro
  was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. It had traditionally been believed that he became the seventeenth head of the Shimazu clan after Yoshihisa, but it is currently believed that he let Yoshihisa keep his position....
  
  
• Shimazu Yoshihisa
  Shimazu Yoshihisa
  was a daimyo of Satsuma Province and the eldest son of Shimazu Takahisa. His mother was a daughter of Nyurai'in Shigesato , Yukimado . Shimazu Yoshihiro and Shimazu Toshihisa are his brothers....
  
  
• Shindou Hiroshii
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    Shimazu clan
    The were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.The Shimazu were identified as one of the tozama or outsider daimyō clans in contrast with the fudai or insider clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa clan,The Shimazu were...
    
    
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• Tachibana Muneshige
  Tachibana Muneshige
  , known in his youth as Senkumaru and alternatively called Tachibana Munetora , was a samurai during the Azuchi–Momoyama period and a Edo Period daimyo. He was the eldest biological son of Takahashi Shigetane, a retainer of Ōtomo clan...
  
  
• Tachibana Dosetsu
  Tachibana Dosetsu
  , born Hetsugi Akitsura, was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Ōtomo clan. He was the father of Tachibana Ginchiyo and adopted father of Tachibana Muneshige.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tachibana Ginchiyo
  Tachibana Ginchiyo
  was the head of the Japanese clan of Tachibana during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Ginchiyo was the daughter of Tachibana Dōsetsu, retainer of the Ōtomo . Because Dosetsu had no sons, he requested that Ginchiyo be made family head after his death...
  
  
• Taigen Sessai
• Taira no Kiyomori
  Taira no Kiyomori
  was a general of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan.After the death of his father Taira no Tadamori in 1153, Kiyomori assumed control of the Taira clan and ambitiously entered the political realm in which he...
  
  
• Taira Masakado
• Takahashi Shigetane
  Takahashi Shigetane
  also known as was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Otomo throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Shigetane was additionally known by the name of Takahashi Shoun during the earlier years of his life, he would began his service beneath the Otomo of Bungo Province around this...
  
  
• Takenaka Shigeharu
  Takenaka Shigeharu
  , who was also known as Hanbei , was a Japanese samurai during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. He initially served the Saitō clan of Mino province, but later plotted an uprising and took over the Saitō clan's castle at Mount Inaba. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so impressed by this tactic that he...
  
  
• Takasugi Shinsaku
  Takasugi Shinsaku
  was a samurai from the Chōshū Domain of Japan who contributed significantly to the Meiji Restoration.He used the alias to hide his activities from the shogunate.-Early life:...
  
  
• Takayama Justo
• Takayama Ukon
• Takeda Katsuyori
  Takeda Katsuyori
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku Period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen. He was the son of Shingen by the , the daughter of Suwa Yorishige...
  
  
• Takeda Nobukatsu
• Takeda Nobushige
  Takeda Nobushige
  was a samurai of Japan's Sengoku period, and younger brother of Takeda Shingen. Takeda Nobushige held the favor of their father, and was meant to inherit the Takeda lands, wealth and power, becoming head of the clan. However, Shingen rebelled against their father and seized the lands and power for...
  
  
• Takeda Shingen
  Takeda Shingen
  , of Kai Province, was a preeminent daimyo in feudal Japan with exceptional military prestige in the late stage of the Sengoku period.-Name:Shingen was called "Tarō" or "Katsuchiyo" during his childhood...
  
  
• Tani Tadasumi
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• Toki Yorinari
  Toki Yorinari
  was a son of Toki Masafusa and final ruling head of the Toki clan during the latter years of the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. As daimyo of Mino Province, he had hired Saito Dosan as his retainer in the 1520s, but was overthrown and expelled from the province by Dosan in a coup d'état in 1542...
  
  
• Tokugawa Ieyasu
  Tokugawa Ieyasu
   was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but...
  
  
• Tokugawa Hidetada
  Tokugawa Hidetada
  was the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.-Early life :...
  
  
• Tokugawa Nariaki
  Tokugawa Nariaki
  Tokugawa Nariaki was a prominent Japanese daimyo who ruled the Mito domain and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji restoration.- Clan leader :...
  
  
• Tokugawa Yoshinobu
  Tokugawa Yoshinobu
  was the 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful...
  
  
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  was a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period. He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, named after Hideyoshi's castle...
  
  
• Toyotomi Hideyori
  Toyotomi Hideyori
  was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga....
  
  
• Tsukahara Bokuden
  Tsukahara Bokuden
  was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period. He was widely regarded as a kensei . He was the founder of a new Kashima style of fencing, and served as an instructor of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ise provincial governor Tomonori Kitabatake....
  
  

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• Uesugi Kagekatsu
  Uesugi Kagekatsu
  was a daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history. The son of Nagao Masakage and husband of Uesugi Kenshin's elder sister, Aya-Gozen. After his father died, he was adopted by Kenshin....
  
  
• Uesugi Kagetora
  Uesugi Kagetora
  was the seventh son of Hōjō Ujiyasu; he was adopted by Uesugi Kenshin, and was meant to be Kenshin's heir. However, in 1578, he was attacked in his castle at Ōtate by Uesugi Kagekatsu--Kagetora's respective brother-in-law—and was subsequently defeated. Kagetora committed suicide the following...
  
  
• Uesugi Kenshin
  Uesugi Kenshin
  was a daimyo who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku period of Japan.He was one of the most powerful lords of the Sengoku period. While chiefly remembered for his prowess on the battlefield, Kenshin is also regarded as an extremely skillful administrator who fostered the growth of local industries...
  
  
• Ujiie Naomoto
• Ukita Naoie
  Ukita Naoie
  was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. He was born in Bizen Province, to Ukita Okiie, a local samurai leader. After the assassination of Naoie's grandfather Yoshiie in 1534, he was left homeless along with his father, but both were soon taken in by Murakami Munekage, the lord of Tenjinzan...
  
  
• Ukita Okiie
• Umezawa Michiharu
  Umezawa Michiharu
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• Usami Sadamitsu
  Usami Sadamitsu
  ' also known as Usami Sadayuki was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Uesugi clan of Echigo Province....
  
  
• Uyama Hisanobu

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• Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
  Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
  Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi is one of the most famous and romanticized of the samurai in Japan's feudal era.Very little is known about the actual life of Yagyū Mitsuyoshi as the official records of his life are very sparse. Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi grew up in his family's ancestral lands, Yagyū no Sato,...
  
  
• Yasuke
  Yasuke
  Yasuke is a Japanese name used to refer to a black slave who for a short time was in the service of the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga...
  
  
• Yamada Arinaga
  Yamada Arinaga
  ' was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through the early Edo period, who served the Shimazu clan of Satsuma. He was the eldest son of Yamada Arinobu....
  
  
• Yamada Arinobu
  Yamada Arinobu
  was a retainer of the Shimazu clan during the Edo period.He served under Shimazu Takahisa and then under Shimazu Yoshihisa. On 1568, he became a karo for his services....
  
  
• Yamada Nagamasa
  Yamada Nagamasa
  was a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Ayutthaya kingdom at the beginning of the 17th century and became the governor of the Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand....
  
  
• Yamagata Masakage
  Yamagata Masakage
  was one of the 24 generals of the Takeda clan. He was famous for his red armour and skill in battlefield, and was a personal friend of Takeda Shingen. He was the younger brother of Obu Toramasa who was also a retainer of Shingen leading the famous "red fire unit"...
  
  
• Yamanami Keisuke
  Yamanami Keisuke
  was a Japanese samurai. He was the General Secretary of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late Edo period.-Background:...
  
  
• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period He was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate and he was a favorite of the fifth shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi....
  
  
• Yonekura Shigetsugu
  Yonekura Shigetsugu
  YONEKURA ShigetsuguTakeda retainerd.1575Tango no kamiShigetsugu was a retainer of Takeda Shingen and served Amari Haruyoshi. He was killed at the Battle of Nagashino....
  
  
• Yagyu Munenori
  Yagyu Munenori
  was a Japanese swordsman, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyū "Sekishusai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa Shogunate...
  
  
• Yamauchi Kazutoyo
  Yamauchi Kazutoyo
  ' also spelled Yamanouchi , was born the son of Yamanouchi Moritoyo in Owari Province at the end of the Sengoku period of Japan. Kazutoyo held the title of Tosa no kami....
  
  

See also

• Ashikaga shogunate
  Ashikaga shogunate
  The , also known as the , was a Japanese feudal military regime, ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga clan.This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from Muromachi Street of Kyoto where the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence...
  
  
• Kamakura shogunate
  Kamakura shogunate
  The Kamakura shogunate was a military dictatorship in Japan headed by the shoguns from 1185 to 1333. It was based in Kamakura. The Kamakura period draws its name from the capital of the shogunate...
  
  
• Tokugawa shogunate
  Tokugawa shogunate
  The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the , was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city, Edo, which is now called Tokyo, after the name was...
  
  
• Japanese clans
  Japanese clans
  This is a list of Japanese clans. The ancient clans mentioned in the Nihonshoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period. Instead of gozoku, new aristocracies, Kuge families emerged in the period...