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  2. Onna-musha - Wikipedia

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    A group of girls celebrating the women army in Aizu Parade. The image of samurai women continues to be impactful in martial arts, historical novels, books, and popular culture in general. [40] Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series.

  3. Tanegashima (gun) - Wikipedia

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    Japanese ashigaru firing hinawajū.Night-shooting practice, using ropes to maintain proper firing elevation. Tanegashima (), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured [1] arquebus [2] firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. [3]

  4. William Adams (samurai) - Wikipedia

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    William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu, 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.

  5. List of The Elusive Samurai characters - Wikipedia

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    Tomomitsu is a samurai serving the Fukashi Magistrate, who is Yorishige's ally. Tokoiwa Muneie (常岩 宗家) Tokoiwa is a samurai serving the Kitajo Magistrate, who is Yorishige's ally. Miura Hachirō (三浦 八郎) Hachirō is a young and loyal member of the Miura clan, vassal of the Hōjō clan. Miura Tokiaki (三浦 時明)

  6. How Hiroyuki Sanada plays his own hero in 'Shōgun' - AOL

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  7. Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting

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    The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues ...

  8. 13 Assassins (2010 film) - Wikipedia

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    13 Assassins (Japanese: 十三人の刺客, Hepburn: Jūsannin no Shikaku) is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki.

  9. Get to Know the Cast and Characters of ‘Three Women’ - AOL

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    Get to know the cast and characters of Starz's TV adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times best-selling nonfiction book, Three Women