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Kiuchi Sōgorō (木内 惣五郎), also known as Sakura Sōgorō (佐倉 惣五郎) (1605 – September 1653) was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shōgun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain.
Farmers would often kill their second or third sons. Daughters were usually spared, as they could be married off, sold off as servants or prostitutes, or sent off to become geishas. [91] Mabiki persisted in the 19th century and early 20th century. [92] According to one estimate, at least 97% of homicide victims in Japan in 1900 were newborns. [93]
Another notable one was located at Suzugamori in Shinagawa. Both sites are still sparsely commemorated in situ with memorial plaques and tombstones. [citation needed] The shogunate executed criminals in various ways: Boiling to death [1] Execution by burning [2] Crucifixion for killing a parent, husband etc. [citation needed]
The twenty-two Japanese workers, their two wives and three Japanese-American children were forced out, along with the four Filipino workers and a Korean worker, by a mob of over 200 Toledo residents on 12 July 1925. [2] [1] [3] The workers and their families were transported in trucks and cars by the townsfolk to a train station in Corvallis ...
Some 5,500 Issei men arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor were already in Justice Department or Army custody, [1] and 5,000 were able to "voluntarily" relocate outside the exclusion zone; [2] the remaining Japanese Americans were "evacuated" from their homes and placed in isolated concentration camps over the spring of 1942. Two ...
The surviving jizamurai were given the option to join loyal samurai retinues in the cities and castles, or forsake their samurai status and become peasant farmers. Despite their defeat, the ninjitsu tradition was secretly preserved by the jizamurai and their descendants, allowing it to survive up to present-day.
In 1860, Ii Naosuke was the most influential advisor to the shogunate. Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties ...
Entrance to the village of Namamugi, circa 1862. Poetic monument of Namamugi Incident in Yokohama.Inscribed is a Chinese-style poem by Prince Yamashina Akira.The Namamugi Incident caused a new political crisis in Japan during the Bakumatsu, the period after the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate had ended its historic isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and allowed the entry of foreigners.