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...
Alex Kerr

Alex Kerr

male, 57 years old
Alex Kerr (b. 1952) is an American writer and Japanologist. Originally from Bethesda, Maryland, his father, a naval officer, was posted in Yokohama...
Angela Aki

Angela Aki

female, 32 years old
Angela Aki, born on 15 September, 1977 in Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan, to a Japanese father and an Italian-American mother, is a...
Niwa Nagahide

Niwa Nagahide

male, deceased (1585)
Niwa Nagahide was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama periods of the 16th century. He served as a retainer to the Oda clan,...
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...
Oda Nobutaka

Oda Nobutaka

male, deceased (1583)
Oda Nobutaka was a samurai and member of Oda clan. He was adopted as the head of Kanbe clan that ruled the middle region of Ise Province and was...
Minamoto No Noriyori

Minamoto No Noriyori

male, deceased (1193)
(1156-1193) was a late Heian period general, who fought alongside his brothers Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune at a number of...
Kobayakawa Takakage

Kobayakawa Takakage

male, deceased (1597)
Kobayakawa Takakage was a samurai retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during Japan's Sengoku period, and the son of Mōri Motonari. Adopted by the head o...
Koushun Takami

Koushun Takami

male, 40 years old
is best-known as the author of the novel "Battle Royale", originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and...

Chōsokabe Motochika

male, deceased (1599)
(1538–July 11, 1599) was a "sengoku" daimyo in Japan. He was the 21st head of the Chōsokabe clan of Tosa Province (present-day Kōchi Pref...