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  2. List of samurai - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by name. Some have used multiple names, and are listed by their final name. Note that this list is not complete or comprehensive; the total number of persons who belonged to the samurai-class of Japanese society, during the time that such a social category existed, would be in the millions.

  3. Onna-musha - Wikipedia

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    In the West, the onna-musha gained popularity when the historical documentary Samurai Warrior Queens aired on the Smithsonian Channel. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Several other channels reprised the documentary. The 56th NHK taiga drama , Naotora: The Lady Warlord , was the first NHK drama where the female protagonist is the head of a samurai clan. [ 43 ]

  4. Rashomon - Wikipedia

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    The wife flees, and Tajōmaru steals the samurai's sword and limps away. The woodcutter, the priest, and the commoner are interrupted by the sound of a crying baby. They find a child abandoned in a basket along with a kimono and an amulet; the commoner steals the items, for which the woodcutter rebukes him.

  5. Utamaro and His Five Women - Wikipedia

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    During a parade of samurai and their families and concubines, Seinosuke Koide, a samurai and artist affiliated to a Kanō school master, visits a print shop where he sees a woodcut print by Utamaro that boasts the superiority of his ukiyo-e style over the prevailing Chinese style. Enraged, he goes searching for Utamaro, announcing to teach him ...

  6. List of fictional dogs in live-action film - Wikipedia

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    About a military service dog returning from service in Afghanistan. Max Mixed-Breed [2] How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) The canine companion to the Grinch: Live action adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Maya Siberian Husky: Eight Below: The only female dog of Jerry Shepherd's dogs Melba Poodle (toy) Five Golden Hours

  7. Nōhime - Wikipedia

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    Nōhime, Nohime (濃姫, lit. ' Lady Nō '), also known as Kichō (帰蝶) was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period.She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.

  8. Date Masamune - Wikipedia

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    Date Masamune (伊達 政宗, DAH-tay; September 5, 1567 – June 27, 1636) was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period.Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai.

  9. Samurai cinema - Wikipedia

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    Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the Engetsu ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom the "fallen" priest had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after ...