Samurai

Japanese general (1837-1922)

Japanese noble (1838-1897)

Japanese swordsman (1844–1915)

Tsujigiri ( or , literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.

Japanese Daimyo

Japanese samurai

Japanese politician and admiral (1843-1902)

samurai and member of Oda clan, third son of Oda Nobunaga

Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period

Japanese admiral (1843-1914)

Japanese general (1844-1923)

daimyo

daimyo

Japanese politician (1840-1908)

Japanese engineer (1799–1881)

Japanese nobleman and warrior

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

Japanese samurai lord (1301–1338)

daimyo of the sengoku period; 11th head of Asakura clan (1533-1573)

Japanese samurai

eldest son of Oda Nobunaga; samurai who fought in many battles during the Sengoku period

Regent of the Fujiwara clan

Japanese empress. daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada

Dutch sailor

Japanese prince

Japanese daimyo (1546 – 1604)

thumb|upright|A 19th-century samurai with a The is a type of traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo period (1603–1868) and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers. It was originally a method of using hair to hold a samurai kabuto helmet steady atop the head in battle, and became a status symbol among Japanese society.

daimyo

daimyo who controlled the Province of Kai

Japanese samurai of the late Edo period (1834-1872)

daimyo

Japanese admiral

Japanese swordsman (1839–1915)

daimyo

Japanese samurai, Neo-Confucianism scholar and rebel leader in the late-Edo period

Daimyo of Shinano Province and one of Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen

daimyo

daimyo

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Japanese poet and samurai

Japanese samurai

samurai

Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period

the son of Oda Nobutada and lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in the late-16th century

Japanese samurai

Japanese samurai

Japanese admiral (1836-1904)

daimyo

Naval commander

or , baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century. After committing a murder in his home domain of Satsuma in southern Kyushu, he fled to Portuguese Malacca and he sought out Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552) and returned to Japan with him as an interpreter. Along with Xavier, Anjirō returned to Japan with two other Jesuits, two Japanese companions, and a Chinese companion who had been baptized to Catholicism to form the first Jesuit mission to Japan.

Japanese military leader and diplomat

Japanese samurai

samurai (1840–1868)

samurai in Japan's Sengoku period

Japanese samurai dinasty

Japanese general (1850–1926)

samurai who fought in the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156

daimyō

Japanese diplomat (1828-1905)

Japanese samurai