Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi

male, deceased (1645)
(c.1584–June 13 "<small>(Japanese calendar: May 19)</small>", 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Nit...
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

male, deceased (1616)
was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

male, deceased (1598)
February 2, 1536 or March 26, 1537 – September 18, 1598) was a sengoku daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege, Oda Nobunaga, and br...
Nobuhiro Watsuki

Nobuhiro Watsuki

male, 39 years old
is a Japanese mangaka, best known for his samurai-themed series "Rurouni Kenshin". He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi...
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

male, deceased (1719)
Yamamoto Tsunetomo(山本常朝), also read Yamamoto Jōchō(June 11 1659 - November 30) 1719) was a samurai of the Saga domain in Hizen Province under his...
Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima

male, 77 years old
Nagisa Oshima, born March 31, 1932 in Kyoto, is a famous Japanese film director. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku...
Stan Sakai

Stan Sakai

male, 56 years old
Stan has been asked to contribute a story for Marvel's mini-series, Marvel Underground . The story will star The Hulk in Feudal Japan as an oni...

Stephen Turnbull

male
Dr Stephen Richard Turnbull is an historian specialising in eastern military history, especially the Samurai of Japan. He attended Cambridge...
Sanada Yukimura

Sanada Yukimura

male, deceased (1615)
was a Japanese samurai, second son of the Sengoku period daimyo Sanada Masayuki (真田昌幸). His proper name was Sanada Nobushige (真田信繁),...
Akechi Mitsuhide

Akechi Mitsuhide

male, deceased (1582)
nicknamed Jūbei, was a samurai who lived during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. Mitsuhide was a general under daimyo Oda Nobunaga, although he l...