Hokusai

male, deceased (1849)
Katsushika Hokusai, (1760-1849), was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time he was Japan's leading expert...
Date Masamune

Date Masamune

male, deceased (1636)
(1567–1636) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tohoku re...
Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson

male, deceased (1784)
Yosa Buson, or Yosa no Buson, was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered a...
Motoori Norinaga

Motoori Norinaga

male, deceased (1801)
Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku during the Edo period. He is probably the best known and most prominent of all scholars in this...
Ishida Mitsunari

Ishida Mitsunari

male, deceased (1600)
Ishida Mitsunari (1560 - November 6, 1600) was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period...

Matsuo Bashō

male, deceased (1694)
was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was renowned for his works in the collaborative "haikai no renga" f...
Ogata Kenzan

Ogata Kenzan

male, deceased (1743)
Ogata Kenzan, originally Ogata Shinsei, and also known by the pseudonym Shisui, was a Japanese potter and painter, the brother of Ogata Korin. He...
Shibata Zeshin

Shibata Zeshin

male, deceased (1891)
Shibata Zeshin was a famous and revolutionary Japanese painter and lacquerer of the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In Japan, he is ironically...

Tenkai

male
was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. He achieved the rank of "Daisōjō", the highest rank of the pr...
Arai Hakuseki

Arai Hakuseki

male, deceased (1725)
Arai Hakuseki was a Confucianist, poet and politician in Japan during the middle of Edo Period, who advised the Shogun, Ienobu. His personal name...