SA-0001 / JPN
Oda Nobunaga
The revolutionary who paved the path to a unified Japan
Oda clanSengoku
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The peasant who rose to rule all Japan
Toyotomi clanSengoku
SA-0003 / JPN
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The patient warlord whose dynasty ruled Japan for 250 years
Tokugawa clanSengoku
SA-0004 / JPN
Date Masamune
The One-Eyed Dragon who built Sendai
Date clanSengoku
SA-0005 / JPN
Takeda Shingen
The Tiger of Kai whose cavalry shook the realm
Takeda clanSengoku
SA-0006 / JPN
Uesugi Kenshin
The Dragon of Echigo, sword-saint of the north
Uesugi clanSengoku
SA-0007 / JPN
Miyamoto Musashi
The undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings
RoninNiten Ichi-ryū
SA-0008 / JPN
Sakamoto Ryōma
The low-rank samurai who engineered the fall of the shogunate
TosaBakumatsu
SA-0009 / JPN
Sanada Yukimura
The greatest warrior of the Sengoku, dying a legend at Osaka
Sanada clanOsaka
SA-0010 / JPN
Hattori Hanzō
The Iga master who guarded the founder of the Tokugawa peace
IgaNinja
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Kuroda Kanbei
The strategist Hideyoshi feared more than any enemy
Kuroda clanStrategist
SA-0012 / JPN
Ishida Mitsunari
The administrator who fought Tokugawa for the Toyotomi succession — and lost
Toyotomi loyalistSekigahara
SA-0013 / JPN
Sanada Masayuki
The mountain strategist who defeated the Tokugawa twice from a single small castle
Sanada clanUeda
SA-0014 / JPN
Tachibana Muneshige
The Western Invincible — a daimyō who lost everything and won it back
Tachibana clanKyūshū
SA-0015 / JPN
Musashibō Benkei
The warrior monk whose loyalty became Japan's most quoted legend
SōheiHeian–Kamakura
SA-0016 / JPN
Kusunoki Masashige
The strategist who held off the Kamakura shogunate with rocks and trickery
Genkō WarImperial loyalist
SA-0017 / JPN
Hosokawa Gracia
The Christian noblewoman whose death preserved her husband's place in the new order
ChristianAkechi clan
SA-0018 / JPN
Katō Kiyomasa
The seven-spears warrior who built the castle that survived four hundred years
Toyotomi seven spearsKumamoto
SA-0019 / JPN
Uesugi Yōzan
The young lord who saved a bankrupt domain through thirty years of austere reform
Edo reformYonezawa
SA-0020 / JPN
Sanada Nobuyuki
The eastern brother who outlived Yukimura by forty-three years and built a domain that lasted to Meiji
SanadaMatsushiro
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Saigō Takamori
The architect of the Meiji Restoration who died fighting against the Meiji government he had built
SatsumaMeiji Restoration
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
The last shogun who chose to surrender power rather than fight a civil war he believed Japan could not afford
TokugawaBakumatsu
SA-0023 / JPN
Minamoto no Yoritomo
The founding shogun who built warrior government as a system that lasted six and a half centuries
Genpei WarKamakura Bakufu
SA-0024 / JPN
Hōjō Masako
The widow who became the first real ruler of the Kamakura Bakufu
Hōjō clanKamakura
SA-0025 / JPN
Ashikaga Takauji
The founding shogun who left Japan with two emperors and a sixty-year civil war
AshikagaMuromachi Bakufu
SA-0026 / JPN
Ōkubo Toshimichi
The architect of the Meiji state who outmaneuvered Saigō and was assassinated nine months later
SatsumaMeiji oligarchy
SA-0027 / JPN
Ii Naosuke
The Tairō who signed the unequal treaties — and was assassinated for it at the gates of Edo Castle
HikoneBakumatsu
SA-0028 / JPN
Tomoe Gozen
The woman warrior of the Genpei War whose existence historians cannot quite confirm or deny
Genpei WarOnna-musha
SA-0029 / JPN
Hōjō Tokimune
The young regent who held off the Mongols twice — and broke the Kamakura Bakufu doing it
Hōjō regencyMongol invasions
SA-0030 / JPN
Akechi Mitsuhide
The general whose betrayal at Honnō-ji rerouted Japanese history
Akechi clanSengoku
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Hijikata Toshizō
Vice-commander of the Shinsengumi who fought the shogunate's losing war to its very last day
ShinsengumiBakumatsu
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Ōishi Yoshio
The chief retainer of the Forty-Seven Rōnin — Japan's archetype of loyalty
Akō domainEdo
SA-0033 / JPN
Takeda Katsuyori
The last lord of Takeda — and the man who lost the cavalry at Nagashino
Takeda clanSengoku
SA-0034 / JPN
Naoe Kanetsugu
The Uesugi strategist who wore the character for 'love' on his helmet
Uesugi clanSengoku
SA-0035 / JPN
Okita Sōji
First-captain of the Shinsengumi — and the tubercular swordsman who never fought the Boshin War
ShinsengumiBakumatsu
SA-0036 / JPN
Yoshida Shōin
The Shōka Sonjuku teacher whose two-and-a-half-year school drove the Meiji Restoration
Shōka SonjukuBakumatsu
SA-0037 / JPN
Takasugi Shinsaku
The Shōka Sonjuku graduate whose Kiheitai militia and Kōzanji coup drove Chōshū to topple the bakufu
KiheitaiBakumatsu
SA-0038 / JPN
Kido Takayoshi
The Chōshū statesman behind the Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance and the Five Charter Oath
ChōshūSatchō Alliance
SA-0039 / JPN
Ōtani Yoshitsugu
The strategist who joined his friend Mitsunari at Sekigahara knowing they would probably lose
Toyotomi clanSekigahara
SA-0040 / JPN
Kobayakawa Hideaki
The young defector at Matsuo Mountain whose decision ended the Sengoku era
Kobayakawa clanSekigahara
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Gotō Matabei
The Ōsaka rōnin who died at Dōmyōji one day before Yukimura died at Tennōji
rōninSieges of Osaka
SA-0042 / JPN
Tsukahara Bokuden
The Sengoku sword saint who is said to have never lost a serious match
Kashima Shintō-ryūSengoku
SA-0043 / JPN
Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
Founder of the Shinkage-ryū and teacher of the Sengoku 'sword-saint shogun'
Shinkage-ryūSengoku
SA-0044 / JPN
Yagyū Munenori
The Yagyū Shinkage-ryū inheritor who turned the sword into the state's official way
Yagyū Shinkage-ryūEdo
SA-0045 / JPN
Katsu Kaishū
The last navy minister of the shogunate who delivered the bloodless surrender of Edo and was Sakamoto Ryōma's master
Bakumatsushogunal retainer
SA-0046 / JPN
Yamaoka Tesshū
One of the 'Three Boats' of the Bakumatsu who opened the road to the bloodless surrender of Edo and founded the Mutō-ryū
BakumatsuMeiji
SA-0047 / JPN
Itō Hirobumi
The first prime minister of Japan and chief drafter of the Meiji Constitution — Shōin's last and youngest student
Meijiprime minister
SA-0049 / JPN
Honda Tadakatsu
The spear master of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, said to have come through fifty-seven battles without a wound
Sengokuearly Edo
SA-0050 / JPN
Mōri Motonari
The minor lord who became, in a single generation, the master of ten provinces — the supreme strategist of the Sengoku
SengokuChūgoku region
SA-0048 / JPN
Ii Naomasa
The youngest of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, commander of the 'Ii Red Devils' and founder of the Hikone domain
Sengokuearly Edo
T
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune
The Genji general who destroyed the Taira at Dannoura, then was killed by his own brother Yoritomo
Genpei Warlate Heian
SA-0052 / JPN
Taira no Kiyomori
The first warrior to become Chancellor of the Realm, who built the Taira ascendancy and laid the ground for warrior government
Genpei Warlate Heian
SA-0053 / JPN
Kiso Yoshinaka
The 'Rising-Sun Shogun' who broke the Taira at Kurikara Pass and reached Kyoto first
Genpei Warlate Heian
SA-0054 / JPN
Ii Naotora
The female lord who kept the Ii house alive at Ii-no-ya and raised the young Naomasa
SengokuTōtōmi
SA-0055 / JPN
Tachibana Ginchiyo
The Sengoku-era female lord who inherited the Tachibana house at seven; wife of Tachibana Muneshige
SengokuBungo
SA-0056 / JPN
Kaihime
The twenty-year-old female warrior who held out against Hideyoshi's water attack at Oshi Castle; later Hideyoshi's consort
SengokuMusashi
SA-0057 / JPN
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
The third Muromachi shōgun who unified the Northern and Southern Courts, built the Golden Pavilion, and was called 'King of Japan' by the Ming emperor
MuromachiNanboku-chō unification
SA-0058 / JPN
Hōjō Tokiyori
The fifth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, who established tokusō politics and planted Zen in Kamakura
KamakuraHōjō
SA-0059 / JPN
Hongan-ji Kennyo
The supreme leader of the Hongan-ji organization who fought Nobunaga for ten years at Ishiyama
SengokuJōdo Shinshū
SA-0060 / JPN
Taira no Masakado
The first samurai-style rebel in Japanese history, who declared himself 'New Emperor' and aimed at Kantō independence
mid-HeianJōhei-Tengyō rebellion
T
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SA-0061 / GBR
William Adams (Miura Anjin)
The English navigator who became Tokugawa Ieyasu's foreign policy adviser — the first foreign samurai in Japanese history
early Edoforeign adviser
SA-0062 / JPN
Ishikawa Goemon
The semi-legendary figure whose attempted assassination of Hideyoshi and cauldron-boiling execution shaped the ninja-thief image of Japanese popular culture
late Sengokuthief
SA-0063 / JPN
Oichi
Sister of Oda Nobunaga, wife of Azai Nagamasa, then of Shibata Katsuie — the emblem of tragedy for women of the Sengoku period
SengokuOda
SA-0064 / JPN
Fukushima Masanori
The foremost of the 'Seven Spears of Shizugatake,' vanguard of the Eastern Army at Sekigahara, and the Hideyoshi-raised general who was stripped of his fief for repairing a castle without permission
late Sengokuearly Edo
SA-0065 / JPN
Amakusa Shirō
The young Christian who at sixteen became the commander-in-chief of the Shimabara Rebellion and the direct trigger for the completion of national seclusion
early EdoShimabara Rebellion
SA-0066 / JPN
Shimazu Yoshihiro
The Satsuma general feared by the Ming army as the 'Devil Shimazu' in Korea, who broke through the enemy center at Sekigahara in the 'Sutegamari' retreat
late SengokuSatsuma
SA-0067 / JPN
Takechi Hanpeita
The shishi who led the Tosa Loyalist Party and directed the Bakumatsu 'tenchū' politics, and took his own life under Yamauchi Yōdō's suppression
BakumatsuTosa
SA-0068 / JPN
Nakano Takeko
The twenty-one-year-old female warrior who led a naginata women's corps at the Aizu Boshin War and fell in battle
BakumatsuAizu War
SA-0069 / JPN
Kusunoki Masanori
The third son who inherited his father Kusunoki Masashige's ideal and staked his life on the Nanboku-chō reconciliation
Nanboku-chōKusunoki
SA-0070 / JPN
Hōjō Tokimasa
Founder of the Hōjō, father-in-law of Yoritomo who supported the founding of the Kamakura shogunate and became the first shikken
KamakuraHōjō
H
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SA-0071 / JPN
Ogata Kōan
The rangaku (Dutch learning) scholar who trained Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ōmura Masujirō at Tekijuku, and built the foundation of modern Japanese medicine and Western learning
Bakumatsurangaku
SA-0072 / JPN
Imagawa Yoshimoto
The Tōkai daimyō called 'the finest bowman of the coastal road,' who ruled Suruga, Tōtōmi, and Mikawa and fell at Okehazama
SengokuImagawa
SA-0073 / JPN
Hōjō Yoshitoki
The second shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, who defeated the imperial court in the Jōkyū War and decided the supremacy of warrior government
KamakuraHōjō
SA-0074 / JPN
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
The renowned early-Heian general who pacified the Emishi and embodied the title 'Sei-i Taishōgun' that later warrior governments took as their model
HeianSei-i Taishōgun
SA-0075 / JPN
Nitta Yoshisada
The Southern Court general who toppled the Kamakura shogunate from Inamuragasaki and fell in the muddy fields of Fujishima in Echizen
Nanboku-chōFall of Kamakura
SA-0076 / JPN
Maeda Toshiie
The kabukimono called 'Mataza of the spear' who built the foundation of the million-koku Kaga domain and supported the Toyotomi government as one of the Five Elders
SengokuMaeda
SA-0077 / JPN
Shizuka Gozen
The finest shirabyōshi of the capital, beloved of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, the tragic woman who danced her longing for Yoshitsune before Yoritomo at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū
late Heianshirabyōshi
S
SA-0078 / JPN
Saitō Dōsan
The gekokujō schemer who seized Mino in a single generation, saw through the greatness of his son-in-law Nobunaga, and was killed by his own son — 'the Viper of Mino'
Sengokugekokujō
C
SA-0079 / JPN
Chōsokabe Motochika
The hero of Tosa who rose from a youth mocked as 'the little princess-boy' to unify Shikoku, and was cast into darkness by the death of his beloved son
SengokuShikoku
H
SA-0080 / JPN
Hino Tomiko
The woman of power in the Muromachi who moved the Ōnin War and sought to make her son shōgun — the shōgunal consort who bore the disgrace of a wicked woman
MuromachiŌnin War
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The revolutionary who paved the path to a unified Japan
Oda clanSengoku
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The peasant who rose to rule all Japan
Toyotomi clanSengoku
SA-0003 / JPN
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The patient warlord whose dynasty ruled Japan for 250 years
Tokugawa clanSengoku
SA-0004 / JPN
Date Masamune
The One-Eyed Dragon who built Sendai
Date clanSengoku
SA-0005 / JPN
Takeda Shingen
The Tiger of Kai whose cavalry shook the realm
Takeda clanSengoku
SA-0006 / JPN
Uesugi Kenshin
The Dragon of Echigo, sword-saint of the north
Uesugi clanSengoku
SA-0007 / JPN
Miyamoto Musashi
The undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings
RoninNiten Ichi-ryū
SA-0008 / JPN
Sakamoto Ryōma
The low-rank samurai who engineered the fall of the shogunate
TosaBakumatsu
SA-0009 / JPN
Sanada Yukimura
The greatest warrior of the Sengoku, dying a legend at Osaka
Sanada clanOsaka
SA-0010 / JPN
Hattori Hanzō
The Iga master who guarded the founder of the Tokugawa peace
IgaNinja
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Kuroda Kanbei
The strategist Hideyoshi feared more than any enemy
Kuroda clanStrategist
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The administrator who fought Tokugawa for the Toyotomi succession — and lost
Toyotomi loyalistSekigahara
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Sanada Masayuki
The mountain strategist who defeated the Tokugawa twice from a single small castle
Sanada clanUeda
SA-0014 / JPN
Tachibana Muneshige
The Western Invincible — a daimyō who lost everything and won it back
Tachibana clanKyūshū
SA-0015 / JPN
Musashibō Benkei
The warrior monk whose loyalty became Japan's most quoted legend
SōheiHeian–Kamakura
SA-0016 / JPN
Kusunoki Masashige
The strategist who held off the Kamakura shogunate with rocks and trickery
Genkō WarImperial loyalist
SA-0017 / JPN
Hosokawa Gracia
The Christian noblewoman whose death preserved her husband's place in the new order
ChristianAkechi clan
SA-0018 / JPN
Katō Kiyomasa
The seven-spears warrior who built the castle that survived four hundred years
Toyotomi seven spearsKumamoto
SA-0019 / JPN
Uesugi Yōzan
The young lord who saved a bankrupt domain through thirty years of austere reform
Edo reformYonezawa
SA-0020 / JPN
Sanada Nobuyuki
The eastern brother who outlived Yukimura by forty-three years and built a domain that lasted to Meiji
SanadaMatsushiro
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Saigō Takamori
The architect of the Meiji Restoration who died fighting against the Meiji government he had built
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The last shogun who chose to surrender power rather than fight a civil war he believed Japan could not afford
TokugawaBakumatsu
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The founding shogun who built warrior government as a system that lasted six and a half centuries
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The widow who became the first real ruler of the Kamakura Bakufu
Hōjō clanKamakura
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Ashikaga Takauji
The founding shogun who left Japan with two emperors and a sixty-year civil war
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The architect of the Meiji state who outmaneuvered Saigō and was assassinated nine months later
SatsumaMeiji oligarchy
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Ii Naosuke
The Tairō who signed the unequal treaties — and was assassinated for it at the gates of Edo Castle
HikoneBakumatsu
SA-0028 / JPN
Tomoe Gozen
The woman warrior of the Genpei War whose existence historians cannot quite confirm or deny
Genpei WarOnna-musha
SA-0029 / JPN
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The young regent who held off the Mongols twice — and broke the Kamakura Bakufu doing it
Hōjō regencyMongol invasions
SA-0030 / JPN
Akechi Mitsuhide
The general whose betrayal at Honnō-ji rerouted Japanese history
Akechi clanSengoku
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Vice-commander of the Shinsengumi who fought the shogunate's losing war to its very last day
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Ōishi Yoshio
The chief retainer of the Forty-Seven Rōnin — Japan's archetype of loyalty
Akō domainEdo
SA-0033 / JPN
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The last lord of Takeda — and the man who lost the cavalry at Nagashino
Takeda clanSengoku
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The Uesugi strategist who wore the character for 'love' on his helmet
Uesugi clanSengoku
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First-captain of the Shinsengumi — and the tubercular swordsman who never fought the Boshin War
ShinsengumiBakumatsu
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The Shōka Sonjuku teacher whose two-and-a-half-year school drove the Meiji Restoration
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The Shōka Sonjuku graduate whose Kiheitai militia and Kōzanji coup drove Chōshū to topple the bakufu
KiheitaiBakumatsu
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Kido Takayoshi
The Chōshū statesman behind the Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance and the Five Charter Oath
ChōshūSatchō Alliance
SA-0039 / JPN
Ōtani Yoshitsugu
The strategist who joined his friend Mitsunari at Sekigahara knowing they would probably lose
Toyotomi clanSekigahara
SA-0040 / JPN
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The young defector at Matsuo Mountain whose decision ended the Sengoku era
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The Ōsaka rōnin who died at Dōmyōji one day before Yukimura died at Tennōji
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The Sengoku sword saint who is said to have never lost a serious match
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Shinkage-ryūSengoku
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The Yagyū Shinkage-ryū inheritor who turned the sword into the state's official way
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One of the 'Three Boats' of the Bakumatsu who opened the road to the bloodless surrender of Edo and founded the Mutō-ryū
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The first prime minister of Japan and chief drafter of the Meiji Constitution — Shōin's last and youngest student
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SA-0049 / JPN
Honda Tadakatsu
The spear master of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, said to have come through fifty-seven battles without a wound
Sengokuearly Edo
SA-0050 / JPN
Mōri Motonari
The minor lord who became, in a single generation, the master of ten provinces — the supreme strategist of the Sengoku
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SA-0048 / JPN
Ii Naomasa
The youngest of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, commander of the 'Ii Red Devils' and founder of the Hikone domain
Sengokuearly Edo
T
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The first warrior to become Chancellor of the Realm, who built the Taira ascendancy and laid the ground for warrior government
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SA-0053 / JPN
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The 'Rising-Sun Shogun' who broke the Taira at Kurikara Pass and reached Kyoto first
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SA-0054 / JPN
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The female lord who kept the Ii house alive at Ii-no-ya and raised the young Naomasa
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SA-0055 / JPN
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The Sengoku-era female lord who inherited the Tachibana house at seven; wife of Tachibana Muneshige
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The twenty-year-old female warrior who held out against Hideyoshi's water attack at Oshi Castle; later Hideyoshi's consort
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Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
The third Muromachi shōgun who unified the Northern and Southern Courts, built the Golden Pavilion, and was called 'King of Japan' by the Ming emperor
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SA-0058 / JPN
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The fifth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, who established tokusō politics and planted Zen in Kamakura
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SA-0059 / JPN
Hongan-ji Kennyo
The supreme leader of the Hongan-ji organization who fought Nobunaga for ten years at Ishiyama
SengokuJōdo Shinshū
SA-0060 / JPN
Taira no Masakado
The first samurai-style rebel in Japanese history, who declared himself 'New Emperor' and aimed at Kantō independence
mid-HeianJōhei-Tengyō rebellion
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The Satsuma general feared by the Ming army as the 'Devil Shimazu' in Korea, who broke through the enemy center at Sekigahara in the 'Sutegamari' retreat
late SengokuSatsuma
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