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
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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
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Minamoto no Yoritomo
The founding shogun who built warrior government as a system that lasted six and a half centuries
Genpei WarKamakura Bakufu
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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
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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
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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
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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
I
SA-0054 / JPN
Ii Naotora
The female lord who kept the Ii house alive at Ii-no-ya and raised the young Naomasa
SengokuTōtōmi
T
SA-0055 / JPN
Tachibana Ginchiyo
The Sengoku-era female lord who inherited the Tachibana house at seven; wife of Tachibana Muneshige
SengokuBungo
K
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
A
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
H
SA-0058 / JPN
Hōjō Tokiyori
The fifth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, who established tokusō politics and planted Zen in Kamakura
KamakuraHōjō
H
SA-0059 / JPN
Hongan-ji Kennyo
The supreme leader of the Hongan-ji organization who fought Nobunaga for ten years at Ishiyama
SengokuJōdo Shinshū
T
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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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
I
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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-0001 / JPN
Oda Nobunaga
The revolutionary who paved the path to a unified Japan
Oda clanSengoku
SA-0002 / JPN
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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Tomoe Gozen
The woman warrior of the Genpei War whose existence historians cannot quite confirm or deny
Genpei WarOnna-musha
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Hōjō Tokimune
The young regent who held off the Mongols twice — and broke the Kamakura Bakufu doing it
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The general whose betrayal at Honnō-ji rerouted Japanese history
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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
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Takeda Katsuyori
The last lord of Takeda — and the man who lost the cavalry at Nagashino
Takeda clanSengoku
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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
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Yoshida Shōin
The Shōka Sonjuku teacher whose two-and-a-half-year school drove the Meiji Restoration
Shōka SonjukuBakumatsu
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Takasugi Shinsaku
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
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Ōtani Yoshitsugu
The strategist who joined his friend Mitsunari at Sekigahara knowing they would probably lose
Toyotomi clanSekigahara
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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
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Honda Tadakatsu
The spear master of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, said to have come through fifty-seven battles without a wound
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Mōri Motonari
The minor lord who became, in a single generation, the master of ten provinces — the supreme strategist of the Sengoku
SengokuChūgoku region
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Ii Naomasa
The youngest of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings, commander of the 'Ii Red Devils' and founder of the Hikone domain
Sengokuearly Edo
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The Genji general who destroyed the Taira at Dannoura, then was killed by his own brother Yoritomo
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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
Genpei Warlate Heian
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Kiso Yoshinaka
The 'Rising-Sun Shogun' who broke the Taira at Kurikara Pass and reached Kyoto first
Genpei Warlate Heian
I
SA-0054 / JPN
Ii Naotora
The female lord who kept the Ii house alive at Ii-no-ya and raised the young Naomasa
SengokuTōtōmi
T
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Tachibana Ginchiyo
The Sengoku-era female lord who inherited the Tachibana house at seven; wife of Tachibana Muneshige
SengokuBungo
K
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
A
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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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H
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Hōjō Tokiyori
The fifth shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, who established tokusō politics and planted Zen in Kamakura
KamakuraHōjō
H
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Hongan-ji Kennyo
The supreme leader of the Hongan-ji organization who fought Nobunaga for ten years at Ishiyama
SengokuJōdo Shinshū
T
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The first samurai-style rebel in Japanese history, who declared himself 'New Emperor' and aimed at Kantō independence
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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
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
The patient warlord whose dynasty ruled Japan for 250 years
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The One-Eyed Dragon who built Sendai
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The Tiger of Kai whose cavalry shook the realm
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The Dragon of Echigo, sword-saint of the north
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Miyamoto Musashi
The undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings
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The low-rank samurai who engineered the fall of the shogunate
TosaBakumatsu
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Sanada Yukimura
The greatest warrior of the Sengoku, dying a legend at Osaka
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The Iga master who guarded the founder of the Tokugawa peace
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The mountain strategist who defeated the Tokugawa twice from a single small castle
Sanada clanUeda
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Tachibana Muneshige
The Western Invincible — a daimyō who lost everything and won it back
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Musashibō Benkei
The warrior monk whose loyalty became Japan's most quoted legend
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The strategist who held off the Kamakura shogunate with rocks and trickery
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The Christian noblewoman whose death preserved her husband's place in the new order
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The seven-spears warrior who built the castle that survived four hundred years
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The young lord who saved a bankrupt domain through thirty years of austere reform
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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
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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
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The Tairō who signed the unequal treaties — and was assassinated for it at the gates of Edo Castle
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The woman warrior of the Genpei War whose existence historians cannot quite confirm or deny
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The Uesugi strategist who wore the character for 'love' on his helmet
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First-captain of the Shinsengumi — and the tubercular swordsman who never fought the Boshin War
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