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The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by name. Some have used multiple names, and are listed by their final name. Note that this list is not complete or comprehensive; the total number of persons who belonged to the samurai-class of Japanese society, during the time that such a social category existed, would be in the millions.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. A list of samurai from the Sengoku Period (c.1467−c ... Text is available under the Creative ...
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
This article is part of a mini-project to produce and organize lists of samurai of lesser notability, or about whom little is known. For information and lists of samurai by clan, see Japanese clans .
Samurai normally used only a small part of their total name. For example, the full name of Oda Nobunaga was "Oda Kazusanosuke Saburo Nobunaga" (織田上総介三郎信長), in which "Oda" is a clan or family name, "Kazusanosuke" is a title of vice-governor of Kazusa province, "Saburo" is a formal nickname , and "Nobunaga" is an adult name ...
This is a list of foreign-born people who became samurai in Japan. During the Edo period (1603–1868), some foreigners in Japan were granted privileges associated with samurai, including fiefs or stipends and the right to carry two swords.
In the mid-1600s, a monk called Kyūan completed a text called O Uma Jirushi, a comprehensive illustrated survey of the heraldry of his time. This text describes the heraldry of most, if not all, of the major samurai families of the battles of the Sengoku period. The text still survives today, and remains one of the chief sources of heraldic ...
Masashige (written: 正成, 正重, 政重 or 政繁) is a masculine Japanese given name.Notable people with the name include: Hattori Masashige (服部 正重) (1580–1652), Japanese samurai