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The old clans mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged in their place. After the Heian period, the samurai warrior clans gradually increased in importance and power until they came to dominate the country after the founding of the first ...
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto - an anime series centered around the Boshin War, with some supernatural/fantasy elements; Basilisk; Blade of the Immortal; Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran; Gintama - a manga and anime series which takes place in an alternate Edo period where Edo is overrun by aliens called the Amanto. Hakuoki
List of Meiji-era Japanese nobility (accessed 15 August 2008). Japanese "Imabari-han" on Edo 300 HTML (accessed 24 August 2008). "Iyo-Matsuyama han" on Edo 300 HTML (accessed 24 August 2008). "Kuwana-han" on Edo 300 HTML (accessed 24 August 2008). "Tokugawa Shōgun-ke to Matsudaira Ichizoku", Rekishi Dokuhon magazine, January 2006.
The Edo clan (Japanese: 江戸氏, Edo-shi) was a Japanese samurai family who first fortified the settlement known as Edo, which would later become Tokyo. The Imperial Palace now stands at this location. [1] [2] The clan was a branch of the Taira clan. During the Azuchi–Momoyama period, the clan was renamed the Kitami clan.
In the Edo period, Tōzen-ji was considered the family temple of various clans, including the Date clan of Sendai. Other clans considering Tōzen-ji to have been a clan temple were the Ikeda clan of Ōmi Province , the Inaba clan of Usuki Domain in Bungo Province , the Suwa clan of Shinshū , the Tamura of Ichinoseki , and the Mōri clan of ...
A number of other clans which were not retainers of the Tokugawa before the Azuchi–Momoyama period also came to be counted as fudai, such as the Ogasawara and the Doi. Honda Tadakatsu, Sakakibara Yasumasa, Sakai Tadatsugu, and Ii Naomasa — Tokugawa Ieyasu's "Four Great Generals" — were all pre-Edo period fudai who went on to become fudai ...
Category:Edo period 1603-1868 Succeeded by:Meiji period Category:Empire of Japan 1868-1945 Subcategories. This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 ...
The Edo Period would also have a lasting impact on modern art and culture. The Edo Period lives on in plays, books, anime, and especially jidaigeki (historical period dramas), such as the classic samurai films of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's films would influence Spaghetti Westerns, and even Star Wars. [77]