Shinran

Shinran

male, deceased (1262)
Shinran(親鸞) (1173-1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the close of the Heian Period and live...
Unkei

Unkei

male, deceased (1223)
Unkei (運慶, 1151 – 1223) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He specialized in statues of the Buddha...
Minamoto No Yoshitsune

Minamoto No Yoshitsune

male, deceased (1189)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - June 15,1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura period. Yoshitsune...

Kaikei

male
Kaikei (快慶) was a Japanese Busshi (sculptor of Buddha statue) of Kamakura period, known alongside Unkei. Because many busshi of the school have a na...
Fujiwara No Teika

Fujiwara No Teika

male, deceased (1241)
Fujiwara no Teika, also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, (1162-September 26 1241) was a Japanese waka poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist,...
Tankei

Tankei

male, deceased (1256)
Tankei (湛慶 1173 – June 13, 1256) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and so...
Anthony J. Bryant

Anthony J. Bryant

male, 48 years old
Anthony J. Bryant (b. 1961) is the author of four books for Osprey Military Publishing on samurai history. He is an amateur historian of Japan...

Myōe

male, deceased (1232)
Myōe (1173-1232), was a Japanese Buddhist monk active during the Kamakura period who also went by the name "Kōben". He was originally ordained in th...
Kōkei

Kōkei

male, deceased (1049)
Kōkei (康慶, active 1175 – 1200) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kamakura period. He headed the Kei school during the reconstructions of Tōdai-j...

Saigyō Hōshi

male
Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.