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Katsumoto's anguish after the fall of the Toyotomi clan was later dramatised in kabuki theatre where Katsumoto cut a tragic figure in Hamlet's mould. In Tsubouchi Shōyō's play Kiri-hitoha, which describes the fall of the house of Toyotomi, Katsumoto, the main character, is a faithful servant with good intentions and keen sense of reality but rendered powerless caught in the whirlwind of ...
Katagiri Katsumoto. During the Sengoku period, the head of the Katagiri clan, Katagiri Katsumoto, became a retainer of the Azai clan, the feudal lords of northern Ōmi.. After the fall of the Asai clan, Katsumoto's son, Katagiri Sadataka, served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi as one of the "Seven Spears of Shizugatake" and gained favor, receiving 50,000 koku (a unit of measure for rice, representing ...
The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615.
Katsumoto proposed that Yodo-dono be sent to Edo as a hostage, hoping to avoid hostilities. However, she either flatly refused or ultimately accepted but was denied by Hideyori. Suspecting Katsumoto of trying to betray the Toyotomi clan, Yodo-dono finally banished him from Osaka Castle, along with Oda Urakusai and several other servants accused ...
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Katagiri Sadaatsu, final daimyo of Koizumi Domain Koizumi Domain (小泉藩, Koizumi-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was centered around Koizumi jin'ya in what is now the city of Yamatokōriyama, Nara and was ruled by the tozama daimyō Katagiri clan for all of its history.
Katsumoto, mortally wounded, commits seppuku with Algren's help as the soldiers kneel in respect. Later, as trade negotiations conclude, the injured Algren interrupts the proceedings. He presents the emperor with Katsumoto's sword and asks him to remember the traditions for which Katsumoto and his fellow samurai fought and died.
The name ma (魔 – devil) suggests that they are meant to threaten human existence or defy the gods, while -zoku (族 – tribe, clan, family) indicates that they are a family. [3] Maō (魔王) is a term derived from mazoku, suggesting a king (王 Ō – king, ruler) that rules the mazoku. [2]