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  2. Katagiri Katsumoto - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Last Samurai - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Katsumoto - Wikipedia

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    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: Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川 勝元, 1430–1473), deputy to the Shōgun; Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐 且元, 1556–1615), Japanese samurai; Fictional characters:

  5. Mark Ravina - Wikipedia

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    Ravina also served as a guest consultant in two documentary films about the samurai and Tokugawa Japan in 2003, following upon the success of the film The Last Samurai. The title and subject of his book on Saigō Takamori, upon whom the film's central character Lord Katsumoto was based, was purely coincidence. [3]

  6. Satsuma Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Mark Ravina, the author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, argued that "Satsuma Rebellion" is not the best name for the war because the English name does not well represent the war and its Japanese name. Ravina said that the war's scope was much farther than Satsuma, and he characterizes the event as being closer to a ...

  7. Ken Watanabe - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Japan players channel spirit of the samurai in 'do or die ...

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    For that reason, Japan’s players are channeling the spirit of the samurai — warriors recruited for military service by chieftains from around the 10th century — for their biggest game of the ...

  9. Hosokawa Katsumoto - Wikipedia

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    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.