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Yasuke is an original net animation (ONA) series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, an African warrior who served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period of samurai conflict in 16th century Japan.
Sanada Masayuki is a major character in the 2005 movie Azumi 2: Death or Love. Masayuki, played by Masao Kusakari, is also a major character in the 55th NHK Taiga Drama Sanada Maru. He is also a non-playable character in the Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi video game series. He becomes playable in Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada.
The Oda clan (Japanese: 織田氏, Hepburn: Oda-shi) is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they reached the peak of their power under Oda Nobunaga and fell soon after, several branches of the family continued as daimyo houses until the Meiji ...
Yasuke is the first known African to appear in Japanese historical records. Much of what is known about him is found in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l ...
Oda Nobunaga leads his clan on a campaign to unify Japan, controlling the central territories of Japan, including the Imperial capital of Kyoto. This includes eliminating the strong influence of the Buddha religion, specifically the Ikkō-ikki , a resistance movement based on the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism.
Shinchō Kōki is an indispensable historical book when talking about Oda Nobunaga. The life of Nobunaga, one of the most well-known figures in Japanese history, has been adapted into novels, manga, TV dramas, films, and video games many times in the past, and most of his life and episodes depicted in them are based on this book. [1] [2]
When Oda forces under Shibata Katsuie and Sassa Narimasa laid siege to Uozu castle in Etchu, in the course of which a number of important Uesugi retainers were killed, Kagekatsu's fortunes appeared bleak. Kagekatsu sent a letter to Satake Yoshishige, his allies. It was like a suicide note. [2] Please don't worry about us. I was born in a good era.
Hyouge Mono (Japanese: へうげもの, lit. "Jocular Fellow") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada [].It was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Weekly Morning from 2005 to 2017 and collected into 25 tankōbon volumes by publisher Kodansha.