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Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐 且元, 1556 – June 24, 1615) was a Japanese warlord of Ibaraki, in the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. In his youth he was famed as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake , during the Battle of Shizugatake in May 1583.
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.
Katsumoto (且元 or 勝元) is both a Japanese surname and a masculine Japanese given name meaning "victorious". Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Hosokawa Katsumoto ( 細川 勝元 , 1430–1473) , deputy to the Shōgun
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 ...
Katsumoto proposed that Yodo-dono be sent to Edo as a hostage with the desire to avoid hostilities, which she flatly refused. Suspecting him of trying to betray the Toyotomi clan, Yodo-dono banished Katsumoto and several other servants accused of treason from Osaka castle, sending them to the service of the Tokugawa clan.
Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese actor, best known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
A conflict between Hosokawa Katsumoto, the fifth Kanrei, and his father-in-law Yamana Sōzen, over the shogunate's succession, sparked the Ōnin War, which led to the fall of the shogunate and a period of 150 years of chaos and war, known as the Sengoku period. Following the fall of the Ashikaga shogunate, which was based in Kyoto, control of ...
Hosokawa Katsumoto. Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川 勝元, 1430 – June 6, 1473) was one of the Kanrei, the deputies to the Shōgun, during Japan's Muromachi period.He is famous for his involvement in the creation of Ryōan-ji, a temple famous for its rock garden, and for his involvement in the Ōnin War, which sparked the 130-year Sengoku period.