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Life of an Expert Swordsman (Japanese: 或る剣豪の生涯, Hepburn: Aru kengo no shōgai) is a 1959 samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its story is an adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac , and its basic plot faithfully follows that of the play.
English: On Friday, May 9, 1980, Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California, three academic buildings were named in honor of three Nisei Yankee Samurai who sacrificed their lives in defense of America during World War II. Sergeant Frank Hachiya, Hood River Valley, Oregon; Technical Sgt Terry Mizutari, Hilo, Hawaii; Sergeant ...
Musashi (Japanese: 宮本武蔵, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi), also listed as Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era, is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. The book follows Shinmen Takezō starting after the Battle of Sekigahara.
Asano Yoshinaga. Asano Yoshinaga (浅野 幸長, 1576 – October 9, 1613) was a Japanese samurai and feudal lord of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.His father served as one of the Go-Bugyō in the late Azuchi–Momoyama period.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo was born 11 June 1659 to Yamamoto Jin'emon, then aged 71, and a woman whose maiden name was Maeda. He was the last born to the family, and regarded by his father as a superfluous addition who was intended to be given away to a salt merchant. [3]
It has been translated into English by Arthur Lindsay Sadler as The Code of the Samurai (1941; 1988), William Scott Wilson as Budoshoshinshu: The Warrior's Primer [1] and by Thomas Cleary. [ 2 ] Yūzan was the son of Daidōji Shigehisa (大道寺繁久), the grandson of Daidōji Naoshige ( 大道寺直繁 ) and the great-grandson of Daidōji ...
Taira no Masakado (平将門, died March 25, 940) was a Heian period provincial magnate and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded uprising against the central government in Kyōto. [1]
To avoid financial insolvency, the Sugi house controlled two additional samurai lineages-the Tamaki and the Yoshida lineages. The oldest male became the Sugi heir and the younger Sugi sons were adopted by the Tamaki and Yoshida lines as their heirs-to ensure the Sugi succession was protected, this required the head of the house in the Yoshida ...