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  2. Sakura Sōgorō - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Jōkyō uprising - Wikipedia

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    And one of the seventeen clustered bodies had a larger pelvis and slender bones. Taking these into consideration, historical and medical researchers of the time concluded that it was highly possible that the seventeen clustered bodies were those of the executed farmers of the Jōkyō Uprising. [20] (The one with a larger pelvis must be Oshyun's ...

  4. Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Edo period police - Wikipedia

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    Edo period wood block print showing police wearing chain armour under their kimono, and using jitte, sasumata, sodegarami, and tsukubo to capture criminals on a roof top. In feudal Japan, individual military and citizens groups were primarily responsible for self-defense until the unification of Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603.

  6. List of massacres in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Two of the three - Yang Ning and Wang Liang – fled to China where they were arrested. Yang was executed and Wang sentenced to life imprisonment. The third, Wei Wei, was arrested in Japan and was held on death row until finally executed in December 2019. 18 - 20 September 2004 Ōmuta murders: Omuta, Fukuoka: Kitamura-gumi 4

  7. How ‘Shōgun’ brought the feudal epic into the 21st century

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    Yet the recent FX/Hulu retelling of James Clavell’s epic novel set in feudal Japan brought the story into the 21st century with a production that improved on it in fundamental ways, while ...

  8. Edo society - Wikipedia

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    Ieyasu founded the Tokugawa Shogunate as a new feudal government of Japan with himself as the shōgun. However, Ieyasu was especially wary of social mobility given that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of his peers and a kampaku (Imperial Regent) whom he replaced, was born into a low caste and rose to become Japan's most powerful political figure of the ...

  9. 'Honest' Farmer Remembered for Saving Crops of Japanese ... - AOL

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