Category
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Minamoto no Yorinobu
Samurai commander and member of the powerful Minamoto clan
Miyoshi Nagayoshi
Japanese samurai and daimyo who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period
Aizawa Seishisai
Japanese philosopher (1782-1863)

Toyotomi Hidenaga
Japanese warlord (1540–1591), half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Maeda Toshimasu
Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period
Serizawa Kamo
samurai (1826-1863)

Mōri Hidemoto
daimyo
Saigusa Moritomo
samurai
Tsuchiya Masatsugu
senior retainer beneath the clan of Takeda
Kobayakawa Takakage
samurai
Musō Gonnosuke
Japanese samurai
Yamamoto Kakuma
samurai (1828-1892)
Tanaka Shinbei
One of the four members of the hitokiri, elite samurai
Ikoma Kazumasa
samurai who served the Oda clan
Bessho Nagaharu
daimyo

Hori Hidemasa
samurai
Naitō Masatoyo
Japanese samurai
Nagao Tamekage
Japanese feudal lord
Ichijō Nobutatsu
Samurai and one of the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen
Takayuki Sasaki
Japanese noble (1830-1910)
Iizasa Ienao
samurai
Obata Masamori
Japanese samurai warrior
Tachibana Muneshige
samurai
Kiki Sukezane
Japanese actor
Suzuki Magoichi
Japanese samurai
Inoue Yoshika
Japanese admiral (1845-1929)
Sue Harukata
samurai
Takeda Nobuyoshi
son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. nominal successor of Takeda clan
Minamoto no Tsunemoto
Samurai and progenitor of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan
Shimazu Toyohisa
Samurai (1570-1600)
jizamurai
The were lower-ranking provincial samurai that emerged in 15th-century Japan Muromachi period. The definition was rather broad and the term jizamurai included landholding military aristocracy as well as independent peasant farmers. They alternated between warfare and using their relatively small plots of land for intensive and diversified forms of agriculture. They came from the powerful , who owned farmland and held leadership positions in their villages, and became vassals of and later .
Taira no Atsumori
Famous for his early death in single combat at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
Hara Toratane
Japanese samurai
Hosokawa Yoriyuki
Samurai of the Hosokawa clan

Obu Toramasa
Samurai who served Takeda clan
Terashima Munenori
Japanese politician and diplomat (1832-1893)
Shiba Gorō
Japanese general (1860-1945)
Yamao Yōzō
Japanese politician (1837-1917)
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
1899 book by Inazo Nitobe
Azai Sukemasa
daimyo of the Sengoku period
Maeda Toshinaga
Japanese daimyo (1562-1614)
Torii Suneemon
Famous for his bravery and incredible exploit at the battle of Nagashino.
Shinagawa Yajirō
Japanese politician (1843-1900)

Akizuki Tanenaga
daimyo
Hoshina Masamitsu
Japanese daimyo of the Edo period
Yamanaka Yukimori
samurai
Honda Shigetsugu
samurai
Hosokawa Takakuni
military commander under Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the twelfth shogun
Maeda Gen'i
daimyo

Asano Nagaakira
daimyo
Hosokawa Sumimoto
Japanese samurai
Minamoto no Yoshiyasu
samurai
Ōmura Yoshiaki
Japanese samurai
Honda Tadamasa
daimyo who ruled the Kuwana Domain and then the Himeji Domain
Hachisuka Iemasa
daimyo
Mori Nagayoshi
officer under the Oda clan following Japan's 16th-century Sengoku period
Horio Yoshiharu
Daimyo and first leader of the Matsue clan
Kobayakawa Hidekane
Japanese samurai
Tatsumi Naofumi
Japanese general
Yokota Takatoshi
Samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Takeda clan