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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.
Many samurai viewed women purely as child bearers; the concept of a woman being a fit companion for war was no longer conceivable. The relationship between a husband and wife could be correlated to that of a lord and his vassal. According to Ellis Amdur, "husbands and wives did not even customarily sleep together. The husband would visit his ...
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Generally, samurai (wakatō) could take family names, while some ashigaru could, and only samurai (wakatō) were considered samurai class. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Wakatō , like samurai, had different definitions in different periods, meaning a young bushi in the Muromachi period and a rank below kachi ( 徒士 ) and above ashigaru in the Edo period.
The commonly believed theory regarding Tsukiyama's execution is that Nobunaga was the one who ordered the execution. However, modern era Japanese historian Kuroda Motoki challenged this theory by stating several facts, that it was Ieyasu himself who ordered the execution, based on contemporary evidence from Ieyasu's personal letter and the Azuchi Nikki (安土日記).
Saigō Kokichi (西郷 小吉) was born in Kajiya, Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, the eldest son of samurai squire (koshōkumi) Saigō Kichibē and his wife Masa. [2] He had six siblings and his younger brother Ryūkō later became Marshal-Admiral Marquis Saigō Jūdō. His childhood name was Kokichi and he received the given name Takamori in ...
Lady Chaa was the daughter of Yamada Hachizaemon of the Yamada clan, a local samurai family who governed the area around the village of Kanaya in Tōtōmi Province. . There is a legend that, in her childhood, she learned calligraphy under the abbot of the Tōzen Temple and, in her later years, out of gratitude toward her master, she donated a bell to the
Kamehime was a prominent lady of the Sengoku period, born in the year 1560 in Sunpu.She held a significant position in the tumultuous times of feudal Japan. Kamehime was the eldest daughter of Matsudaira Motoyasu, who later became famous as Tokugawa Ieyasu, and his formal wife, Lady Tsukiyama.