People from Kyoto

Emperor of Japan from 1846 to 1867

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Japanese politician (1825-1883)

was a key Japanese Buddhist figure of the Kamakura Period who is regarded as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū school of Japanese Buddhism. A pupil of Hōnen, the founder of the Japanese Pure Land movement, Shinran articulated a distinctive Pure Land vision that emphasized faith and absolute reliance on Amida Buddha’s other-power.

Japanese video game designer (1941–1997)

4th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate

Japanese politician

Japanese anime director

Japanese concubine (1836-1907)

Japanese Geisha

Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist

anime director

Japanese painter and calligrapher; (1558-1637)

Japanese politician (1882-1919)

Japanese actor and film director

go player, founder of the prestigious Hon'inbō school

Rennyo (, 1415–1499) was a descendant of Shinran and the 8th head priest of the Hongan-ji branch of Jōdo Shinshū, a major Japanese Buddhist tradition. He is known for his tireless preaching of the Shin teaching and is credited with transforming the Honganji into a major religious organization. According to Dobbins, during Rennyo's tenure, Hongan-ji temple "emerged as the premier institution of the school, and the Shinshū itself burgeoned into one of Japan's largest and most powerful schools of Buddhism." Shinshū Buddhists often refer to him as the restorer of the sect ( in Japanese). He was al

Japanese mangaka and animator (1932–1977)

Japanese actor and director (1908-1993)

Japanese World War II submarine commander (1909–2000)

Japanese politician

Japanese philosopher (1619–1691)

Japanese musician

anthropologist

South Korean clergy (1941–2014)

Empress consort of Japan

Japanese Buddhist

(1915-1956)

Active in political affairs

Japanese princess and empress consort in 10th century

Japanese politician, Mayor of Kyoto

Japanese courtier and peer (1809-1888)

tea master from Japan (1923–2025)

Japanese chef

sound editor

Japanese film producer

Japanese epidemiologist and physician (1923-1995)

Japanese nobleman and statesman

Japanese linguist

Japanese samurai

son of Minamoto no Yoriie

Korean professional wrestler

American anthropologist

Japanese DJ

Japanese businessperson, educator, and social activist (1849-1919)

Japanese Esperantist

Japanese general (1895–1945)

politician from Japan

Japanese actor

Japanese Buddhist monk

Japanese politician

Japanese serial killer (1889–1926)

Japanese admiral

Catholic Bishop (1927–2021)

Japanese film director

Businessperson and film producer (1862-1949)

(1845-1864)

Jukei-ni (寿桂尼, 1490 - 11 April 1568) was a Japanese noble lady who acted as the power behind the throne or de facto daimyo of the Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period. She was born in the aristocrat Nakamikado Family of Kyoto. Jukei-ni was the wife of Imagawa Ujichika and mother of Imagawa Ujiteru, Imagawa Yoshimoto and Zukei-ni. She acted as guardian and advisor for Ujichika, Ujiteru, Yoshimoto and her grandson Imagawa Ujizane. Jukei-ni is also known as Onna Daimyo and "Amamidai", once proclaimed that she would "protect Imagawa to her grave".

Japanese lawyer