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In the universe of Eastman and Laird 's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Foot Clan was founded in Feudal Japan by two men named Sato and Oshi. In Volume 1 Issue 47, the Turtles and Time Mistress Renet traveled to a time prior to the Foot's creation. There, Raphael met Sato and Oshi, and, not realising who they are, he taught them about Ninjutsu.
Ashigaru wearing armor and jingasa firing tanegashima (Japanese matchlocks). Ashigaru (足軽, "light of foot") were infantry employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan.The first known reference to ashigaru was in the 14th century, [1] but it was during the Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi period) that the use of ashigaru became prevalent by various warring factions.
History of Japan records that a military class and the Shōgun ruled Japan for 676 years - from 1192 until 1868. The Shōgun and the samurai warriors stood near the apex of the Japanese social structure - only the aristocratic nobility nominally outranked them. [1] The sakoku policy effectively closed Japan from foreign influences for 212 years ...
Antique Edo period Japanese (Samurai) sashimono. A battle flag worn on the back of a samurai armour as a means of identification. From the Return of the Samurai Exhibit, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2010. The banner hung from an L -shaped frame, which was attached to the chest armour dō or dou by a socket machi-uke or uketsubo near the ...
Meiji Gekken: 1874 (明治撃剣－1874－) is an original Japanese anime television series created by Tsukasa Sakurai and Naoki Tozuka and animated by Tsumugi Akita Animation Lab. It is directed by Jin Tamamura and written by Tozuka, with Naru Nishikori and Masayori Komine designing the characters and Shūji Katayama composing the music.
The battle is often cited as a turning point in Japanese warfare and as the first "modern" battle in Japan, as it was the battle in which Oda Nobunaga defeated the cavalry of the Takeda army with his powerful arquebusiers, using tanegashima. [7] [8]
Tachibana Dōsetsu. Tachibana Dōsetsu (立花 道雪, 22 April 1513 – 2 November 1585), born Betsugi Akitsura (戸次鑑連), also as Bekki Akitsura, and Bekki Dōsetsu, [1] was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Ōtomo clan. A member of Bekki clan, he was the father of Tachibana Ginchiyo and adopted father of Tachibana ...
Byakkotai. Statue of Byakkotai warriors at Iimori Hill, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The Byakkotai (白虎隊, " White Tiger Unit") was a group of around 305 [1] young teenage samurai of the Aizu Domain, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869) on the side of the Tokugawa shogunate.