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  2. Category:16th-century Japanese women - Wikipedia

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    16th-century Japanese women writers (5 P) Pages in category "16th-century Japanese women" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total.

  3. Category:16th-century Japanese people - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:16th-century Japanese LGBTQ people and Category:16th-century Japanese women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  4. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    The Sengoku period, also known as Sengoku Jidai (Japanese: 戦国時代, Hepburn: Sengoku Jidai, lit. ' Warring States period '), is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  5. Category:Japanese feminine given names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  6. Onna-musha - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, there were combat units consisting only of women, as was the case of Ikeda Sen, who led 200 women musketeers in the Battle of Shizugatake and Battle of Komaki-Nagakute. [23] Otazu no kata fought alongside 18 armed maids against Tokugawa Ieyasu's troops. [24]

  7. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century in Malacca, Portuguese traders first heard from Malay and Indonesian the names Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun. [7] In 1577 it was first recorded in English, spelled Giapan . [ 7 ] At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to coastal islands of Japan and created brief grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese ...

  8. Kaihime - Wikipedia

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    Lady Kai (甲斐姫) ("hime" means lady, princess, woman of noble family), speculated to have been born in 1572, was a Japanese female warrior, onna-musha from the Sengoku Period. She was a daughter of Narita Ujinaga [ ja ] and granddaughter of Akai Teruko , retainers of the Later Hōjō clan in the Kantō region .

  9. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...