Deified Japanese men

founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)

samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)

Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)

1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)

, born posthumously called , was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled to China, where he studied Tangmi (Chinese Vajrayana Buddhism) under the monk Huiguo. Upon returning to Japan, he founded Shingon—the Japanese branch of Vajrayana Buddhism. With the blessing of several Emperors, Kūkai was able to preach Shingon teachings and found Shingon temples. Like other influential monks, Kūkai oversaw public works and constructions. Mount Kōya was chosen by him as a holy site, and he spent his later years there until his deat

Zheng Chenggong (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), born Zheng Sen () and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century and expelled the Dutch from Taiwan, founding the Kingdom of Tungning.

one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan (1830-1878)

semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)

Japanese politician (1849-1940)

daimyo of the Sengoku period to early-Edo period; 1st lord of Sendai

Japanese daimyo

samurai of the late Heian and early Kamakura period

poet and court noble (1162–1241)

Japanese poet

Japanese poet

Japanese samurai (1118–1181)

Japanese writer

first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1305–1358)

16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)

Japanese general (1849-1912)

Japanese politician (1830-1859)

Japanese samurai of the Mito Domain and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1833-1877)

Japanese politician (1837-1891)

3rd shogun of Kamakura shogunate and poet

samurai

Japanese statesman and poet of the Nara period

12th century samurai

a prominent daimyō in the west Chūgoku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century

Japanese noble (614-669)

Japanese prince

Japanese writer, courtier and waka poet

Japanese noble

general of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period

Japanese poet

daimyo

General and shogun

Japanese onmyōji

samurai (1839-1867)

[島津義弘] samurai of the Sengoku period

daimyo (1548-1610)

Japanese prince (1902-1953)

Japanese prince in the Nanbokucho period

samurai of the late Heian period; the head of the Minamoto clan

[松平定信] Daimyo and Roju (1759-1829)

daimyo of the late Edo period; 9th lord of Aizu (1836-1893)

Japanese politician (1811-1864)

9th head of the Yonezawa domain

daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods

samurai who led one of the largest insurgent forces in the Heian period against the central government in Kyoto

Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period

Compliled the Japanese text Kojiki in 712

Japanese surveyor and cartographer (1745-1818)

daimyo of the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Mito (1628-1701)

Japanese court noble, samurai and poet

Japanese politician and admiral (1843-1902)

Japanese samurai

conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion