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The victory gives Ieyasu ultimate control of Japan, and in 1603 is bestowed the title of Shogun, beginning the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1615, a grown Hideyori leads an army against the Tokugawa to claim leadership of Japan. The Tokugawa and its allies defeat the Toyotomi coalition at the Siege of Osaka, resulting in Hideyori's death. Ieyasu ...
Shogun's Samurai, known in Japan as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Japanese: 柳生一族の陰謀, Hepburn: Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. [1]
Tokugawa Ieyasu, for his part, casually goes through multiple kagemusha who are set up to be assassinated/killed as he moves around and escapes from his enemies. Interweaved in the story are the attempts of peasant Naniwa Mosuke to rise among the ranks of the samurai from thief to ashigaru --not unlike Hideyoshi once did (even as it leads him ...
Indeed, Clavell once revealed that his hugely successful novel had been inspired by a single line he read in his daughter’s textbook: “In 1600, an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.”
In feudal Japan, old master Jiji and a survivor of the Tokugawa shogunate converse after surviving a brutal battle, with Jiji asked by the Tokugawa Shogunate to raise a band of assassins. Their task is to finish off Toyotomi Hideyoshi 's three allies: Nagamasa Asano , Kiyomasa Kato and Masayuki Sanada , to prevent an outbreak of a new civil war.
Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 [1] – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), [2] was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.
After his first high-level assassination, he was elevated to samurai status despite the traditional samurai disdain towards peasants. Shinbei was involved in the assassination of Ii Naosuke , the head of the Edo Council of Elders who was the head of administration for the Tokugawa shogunate in 1860.
All hatamoto can be divided into two categories, the kuramaitori, who took their incomes straight from Tokugawa granaries, and the jikatatori, who held land scattered throughout Japan. [7] Another level of status distinction amongst the hatamoto was the class of kōtai-yoriai , men who were heads of hatamoto families and held provincial fiefs ...