Samurai

Japanese samurai

Japanese samurai

Japanese noble (1822-1902)

Japanese noble (1832–1899)

daimyō

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thumb|The were a group that dressed in a peculiar style and spoke in a vernacular which matched their often outrageous behaviour. or were gangs of samurai in feudal Japan. First appearing in the Azuchi–Momoyama period (between the end of the Muromachi period in 1573 and the beginning of the Edo period in 1603) as the turbulent Sengoku period drew to a close, were either , wandering samurai, or men who had once worked for samurai families who, during times of peace, formed street gangs. Some, however, were also members of more prominent clans—most notably Oda Nobunaga and Maeda Toshiie.

Japanese samurai

Japanese general (1850-1926)

Samurai; famous for 47 Ronin stories

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The was a social class in Japan composed of former samurai after the Meiji Restoration from 1869 to 1947. Shizoku was a distinct class between the kazoku (a merger of the former kuge and daimyō classes) and heimin (commoners) with no special class privileges, and the title was solely on the register. The Shizoku were abolished in the revised civil code in 1947 after the Japanese defeat in World War II.

samurai of the Bakumatsu period (1836–1888)

brother-in-law of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

daimyō of the Sengoku period

samurai (1540-1600)

Japanese general (1848–1899)

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samurai

Samurai commander of the late Sengoku period (1529-1582)

samurai (1579-1655)

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Japanese historian (1839-1931)

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Japanese samurai

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Japanese samurai

Japanese military personnel

Japanese politician (1844-1892)

Samurai; the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin

daimyo (1513-1585)

Japanese samurai who was the fourth son of the famed feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga and was adopted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at a young age

Japanese linguist and lexicographer (1847–1928)

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Japanese educator (1832-1891)

the son of Oda Nobuhide and younger brother of Oda Nobunaga, who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan

Japanese politician

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Samurai and Court official of Japan's Heian period

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Japanese samurai

samurai in Bakumatsu period Japan (1836–1867)

Japanese politician (1847–1912)

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Japanese samurai of the late-Edo period

Samurai and an Imperial Japanese Army general

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Japanese samurai

Japanese samurai

Japanese warrior

military commander

daimyo

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One of the commanders of the Minamoto forces in the Genpei War

Japanese warlord (1540–1591), half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese philosopher (1782-1863)

Japanese samurai