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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.
[2] [3] The clan would expand their power in Bungo Province along with the Shiga clan, founded by Yoshinao's eighth son Shiga Yoshisato, [4] [2] that had settled there earlier. As the Ōtomo were one of the major clans of Kyūshū, along with the Shōni and the Shimazu , they had a central role in organizing efforts against the Mongol invasions ...
The old clans mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged in their place. After the Heian period, the samurai warrior clans gradually increased in importance and power until they came to dominate the country after the founding of the first ...
Women who inherited the leadership of a samurai clan. A woman who was named commander of the castle by a Daimyo. Due to the death of a male owner, his wife or daughter formally inherit the leadership of the castle. The list does not include: Women who had great political power but were not formally clan or castle leaders. Reigning Empresses or ...
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, although it is debated when they became a class. [1]
Name (birth–death) Shogun from Shogun until 1 Kose no Maro: 709 2 Tajihi no Agatamori: 720 721 3 Ōtomo no Yakamochi (c. 718–785) 784 785 4 Ki no Kosami: 788 789 5 Ōtomo no Otomaro (731–809) 793 794 6 Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758–811) 797 808 7 Funya no Watamaro (765–823) 811 816 8 Fujiwara no Tadabumi (873–947) 940 9 Minamoto no ...
The story centres on the coming together of two ambitious men from very different worlds, along with a mysterious female samurai. John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) is an English sailor who ends up ...
Hosokawa Gracia, the wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki, was one of the most famous samurai converts to Christianity; she was also the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide. The Hosokawa sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu against Ishida Mitsunari during the decisive Sekigahara Campaign, and thus were made fudai (inside) daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate.