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Die legendären Krieger Japans und ihre geschätzten Schwerter
Die Schwertkultur der großen Festungen Japans
Legendäre Klingen, die Geschichte schrieben
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Oda Nobutaka
Oda Clan General
Oda Nobutaka (1558-1583) was the third son of Oda Nobunaga, adopted in 1568 into the Kanbe clan of I...
Yoshida Shōin
Head of Shōka Sonjuku, Teacher of Bakumatsu Patriots
Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859) was a bakumatsu shishi (activist), thinker and educator, born into a lower...
Maeda Toshitsune
Second lord of Kaga domain, famed for feigning foolishness to protect the million-koku domain
## Origins and Succession Maeda Toshitsune (1594–1658) was born on 16 January 1594 (Bunroku 2, 11th...
Matsudaira Katamori
Kyoto Shugoshoku (Protector of Kyoto) · Aizu Domain Lord · Tragic General of the Boshin War
Matsudaira Katamori (1836-1893) was a late Edo-period daimyō who served as the 9th lord of the Aizu ...
Yagyū Toshitoshi
Yagyū Hyōgonosuke, third-generation head of Shinkage-ryū and founder of the Owari Yagyū line
## Origins Yagyū Toshitoshi (1579-1650) was a swordsman active from the Azuchi-Momoyama period into...
Susukida Kanesuke
Toyotomi horse-guard captain who died at Dōmyōji, later linked in legend to the swordsman Iwami Jūtarō
## Origins and Early Life Susukida Kanesuke's birth year is unknown, and almost nothing is recorded...
Takayanagi Matashirō
The Silent Blade — Master Swordsman of the Nakanishi Dojo
Takayanagi Matashirō (born Bunka 5 (1808); date of death unknown) was a swordsman of the late Edo pe...
Watanabe Kazuma
The avenger at the center of the Kagiya-no-Tsuji Duel, one of Japan's "Three Great Vendettas"
Watanabe Kazuma (c. 1608-c. 1643) was a samurai of the early Edo period, known as the central figure...
Iba Hachirō
The one-armed Shingyōtō-ryū swordsman known as the "Little Tengu of Iba," fallen at Hakodate
## Origins and Shingyōtō-ryū Iba Hachirō (1844-1869) was a shogunal retainer and swordsman of the l...
Maeda Gen'i
From monk to one of Hideyoshi's Five Commissioners — the Kyoto shoshidai who managed the court and the temples
## Origins Maeda Gen'i (1539-1602) was from Mino Province, and is said to have been a monk in his y...
Ōkubo Tadayo
One of the Sixteen Divine Generals of Tokugawa — a Mikawa warrior of both valor and administrative skill, entrusted with governing the former Later Hōjō domain
Ōkubo Tadayo was born in Tenbun 1 (1532) in Kamiwada, Hekikai District, Mikawa Province (present-day...
Wife of Tomita Nobutaka
The Woman Warrior Who Saved Her Husband at the Siege of Anotsu Castle
Tomita Nobutaka, lord of Anotsu Castle in Ise Province, is recorded as having had both a principal w...