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The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by name. Some have used multiple names, and are listed by their final name. Note that this list is not complete or comprehensive; the total number of persons who belonged to the samurai-class of Japanese society, during the time that such a social category existed, would be in the millions.
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.
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 originally provincial warriors who served the Kuge and imperial court in the late 12th century, and eventually came to play a major political role until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era.
Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) Japan's greatest director; Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578) daimyō; Marie Curie (1867–1934) physicist and chemist, First woman to win a Nobel Prize; Satō Eisaku (1901–1975) Prime Minister of Japan; Sanada Yukimura (1567–1615) Samurai warrior of the Sengoku period
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, ... The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado. John Wiley and Sons.
[citation needed] Whether these individuals were members of the warrior class (bushi) is a subject of debate among historians. [1] The word samurai has had a variety of meanings historically, and could vary from region to region. Here it is taken to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility".
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経, c. 1159 – June 15, 1189) was a commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. During the Genpei War, he led a series of battles that toppled the Ise-Heishi branch of the Taira clan, helping his half-brother Yoritomo consolidate power.
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;
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