Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga

male, deceased (1582)
Warlord, Seppuku, Owari Province, Daimyo, Sengoku period, Japanesehistory
Oda Nobunaga (', June 23, 1534-June 21, 1582) was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. He was the son of Oda Nobuhide, a...
Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi

male, 67 years old
Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea, Japan Post, from Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan Self-Defense Forces, Liberal Democratic Party, Japanesehistory
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party...
Ashikaga Yoshimasa

Ashikaga Yoshimasa

male, deceased (1490)
Samurai, zen, shogun, Buddhism, sado, Japanese tea master…japanese drama, Japanese tea ceremony, Japanesehistory
was the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the sixth...
Taira No Masakado

Taira No Masakado

male, deceased (940)
Shimousa, Japanese, Japanesehistory, emperor, taira, fujiwara
Taira no Masakado was a member of the Kammu Taira clan of Japan. He was the son of Taira no Yoshimasa, "Chinjufu-shogun". His childhood name was...
Abe No Seimei

Abe No Seimei

male, deceased (1005)
Abe-no-bashi, Astrologist, magic, heian period, Japanese, Japanese mythology…Japanese folklore, Japanesehistory
(921?-1005?) was an "onmyōji", a leading specialist of "onmyōdō" during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. In addition to his prominence in...
Uesugi Kagekatsu

Uesugi Kagekatsu

male, deceased (1623)
Tairō, Daimyo, Edo period, Sengoku period, Japanesehistory, Japanese invasions of Korea
Uesugi Kagekatsu was a daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history. The son of Nagao Masakage (the head of the Ueda Nagao...
Hugh Cortazzi

Hugh Cortazzi

male
British, Japan and Back, and places elsewhere, Anglo-Japanese relations, Japan Times, British diplomat in East Asia, Japanesehistory…Japanese-English translator
Sir Hugh Cortazzi GCMG retired after four years' service as British ambassador to Japan in 1984, but has since been a leading scholar and promoter...
Minamoto No Yoshinaka

Minamoto No Yoshinaka

male, deceased (1184)
minamoto, Samurai, kamakura, kyoto, taira, Minamoto clan…Japanesehistory
"'"'(1154-1184) was a general of the late Heian Period of Japanese history. A member of the Minamoto samurai clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his...
Senhime

Senhime

female, deceased (1666)
Tokugawa clan, Sengoku period, tokugawa, gregorian calendar, tokugawa shogunate, Japanese nobility…Japanesehistory
Senhime or Princess Sen (千姫; April 11 (May 26 in Gregorian calendar), 1597 - February 6 (March 11), 1666) was the eldest daughter of the shogun Toku...

Charles S. Terry

male, deceased (1982)
Columbia University, Duke University, World War II, Columbia University alumni, Duke University alumni, Japanese literature…Japanese art, Chinese history, Japanesehistory
Charles S. Terry (1926-1982) was an American translator and academic in the fields of Japanese history, art, and literature. Born in Mississippi in...