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Shuhei Fujisawa (藤沢 周平, Fujisawa Shūhei) (26 December 1927 – 26 January 1997) was a Japanese author, whose real name was Tomeji Kosuge. (小菅留治). Over fifty of his books were published through the course of his lifetime, including both full-length novels and short story anthologies.
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]
Seigen was reputed as a master of the Chūjō-ryū style of sword fighting, excelling in the kodachi art. [1] It is thought that Toda Seigen was the teacher of the famous swordsman Sasaki Kojirō.
Samurai! is a 1957 autobiographical book on Saburo Sakai, ghostwritten by Martin Caidin based on interviews with Fred Saito. It describes the life and career of Sakai, a Japanese combat aviator who fought against American fighter pilots in the Pacific Theater of World War II , surviving the war as one of Japan 's leading flying aces .
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.
Iori was a vassal of Ogasawara Tadazane, a Japanese samurai daimyō of the early Edo period. Iori's rise under Ogasawara's service was exceptionally fast. Iori entered at age 15 as a page and soon after, he became an official vassal. By 1632, Iori received 2500 koku and became one of Ogasawara's principal vassals.
The Samurai's Tale, by Erik Christian Haugaard, is a fiction novel published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1984. The novel is about a boy named Taro, originally named Murakami. [ 1 ] He loses his parents when he is young and is then captured by Takeda Shingen , eventually becoming a servant of one of his generals, Lord Akiyama.
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