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The jitō, Lord Shimura, and his nephew Jin Sakai lead an effort by the five great families of the island (Clan Shimura, Clan Sakai, Clan Adachi, Clan Nagao and Clan Kikuchi) to repel the invaders as they land at Komoda Beach. However, the battle ends in disaster, with the samurai killed by the superior weapons of the Mongols, Shimura captured ...
In 2020, he was the voice actor and face of the protagonist Jin Sakai in the action-adventure game Ghost of Tsushima. [6] [7] He was the Crown Prince in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019) on Amazon Prime.
The Sakai clan (Japanese: 酒井氏, Hepburn: Sakai-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Nitta branch of the Minamoto clan, who were in turn descendants of Emperor Seiwa. Serata (Nitta) Arichika, a samurai of the 14th century, was the common ancestor of both the Sakai clan and the Matsudaira clan , which the Sakai ...
Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada (島田勘兵衛, Shimada Kambei), a war-weary but honorable and strategic rōnin, and the leader of the seven Yoshio Inaba as Gorōbei Katayama ( 片山五郎兵衛 , Katayama Gorōbei ) , a skilled archer, who acts as Kambei's second-in-command and helps create the master-plan for the village's defense
The 2020 video game Ghost of Tsushima features many rōnin as part of the story, including Ryuzo , the childhood friend of the protagonist Jin Sakai. In the 2020 video game Genshin Impact , the first playable character from the nation of Inazuma, Kaedehara Kazuha, became a rōnin not too long before the game's events.
Torii Mototada (鳥居 元忠, 1539 – September 8, 1600) was a Japanese samurai and daimyo of the Sengoku-through late-Azuchi–Momoyama periods, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615.
It was a common practice in feudal Japan for a higher-ranking samurai to bestow a character from his own name to his inferiors as a symbol of recognition. From the local lord's perspective, it was an honour to receive a character from the shogunate, although the authority of the latter had greatly degenerated in the mid-16th century.