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A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato. Samurai or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan.They were most prominent as aristocratic warriors during the country's feudal period from the 12th century to early 17th century, and thereafter as a top class in the social hierarchy of the Edo period until their abolishment in the ...
A list of samurai from the Sengoku Period (c.1467−c.1603), a sub-period of the Muromachi Period in feudal Japan. Samurai. A. Akai Naomasa; Akai Teruko; Akao Kiyotsuna;
However, even if 1568 is the end date of the Sengoku period, there are also various theories about the beginning and end dates of the following Azuchi-Momoyama period. The Azuchi-Momoyama period refers to the period when Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were in power. [19] They and Tokugawa Ieyasu are the three unifiers of Japan. [7]
Homininaeid Era – Period prior to the existence of Homininae; Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini; Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago).
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
The authority of both the shogunate and the Imperial Court had weakened, and provincial Governors and other local samurai leaders emerged as the daimyōs, who battled each other, religious factions (e.g. the Ikkō-ikki), and others for land and power for the next 150 years or so. The period has come to be called the Sengoku period, after the ...
Edo period samurai were in charge of internal security and would wear various types of kusari gusoku (chain armour) and shin and arm protection as well as forehead protectors . [ 26 ] Armour continued to be worn and used in Japan until the end of the samurai era ( Meiji era ) in the 1860s, with the last use of samurai armour happening in 1877 ...
Thirty-Eight Year War (774–811) Conquest by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (801) Last Conquest by Funya no Watamaro (811) Gangyō Rebellion (878) ja:元慶の乱; Kanbyō Silla pirate invasion (893) ja:新羅の入寇; Jōhei-Tengyō Rebellion (936–941) ja:承平天慶の乱; Fujiwara no Koresuke Rebellion (947) ja:藤原是助の乱; Toi invasion ...