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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 Nobuhide
Tiger of Owari, Father of Oda Nobunaga, the Outstanding Warrior Who Rose in the Tumultuous Sengoku Era
Oda Nobuhide (1508-1551) was a Sengoku-period warlord of Owari Province (present-day western Aichi P...
Maeda Keiji
Eccentric Warrior of the Sengoku Era, Master of the Spear
Maeda Keiji (c. 1533–c. 1612) was a samurai general active from the Sengoku period into the Azuchi-M...
Uesugi Norimasa
Uesugi Norimasa (1523-1579) was a military commander and daimyo of the Sengoku period who served as ...
Satomi Yoshiyasu
Reduced in Fief for Violating the Sōmuji Edict, Enlarged After Sekigahara and Ranked Among the Kunimochi Daimyō — First Lord of Tateyama Domain
Satomi Yoshiyasu (1573 – December 18, 1603 [16th day of the 11th month of Keichō 8]) was a daimyo sp...
Itō Hirobumi
First Prime Minister of Japan, Architect of the Meiji Constitutional System
Itō Hirobumi (1841–1909) was a late-Tokugawa shishi and Meiji statesman from Chōshū domain (present-...
Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
Sword Saint—the supreme swordmaster of the Sengoku period who founded Shinkage-ryū and elevated swordsmanship from the art of killing to the art of preserving life
## Birth of a Sword Saint Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, said to have been born around Eishō 5 (1508) in Kamii...
Mōri Katsunaga
Outstanding General of the Osaka Campaigns — Fierce Warrior Who Supported the Toyotomi Forces Alongside Sanada Yukimura and Shook the Tokugawa Forces at the Battle of Tennōji
Mōri Katsunaga (1578-1615) was a warrior said to have been born in Owari Province. He was the eldest...
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Mito Kōmon—The Treasure of the Mito Tokugawa Family, Who Began Compiling the Dai Nihon-shi
## A Lord of Learning Born in Kan'ei 5 (1628) as the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa, lord of the Mit...
Takuan Sōhō
The Rinzai Master Who Fused Zen and the Sword — Author of the Fudōchi Shinmyōroku
Takuan Sōhō (1573-1646) was a Rinzai Zen priest of the early Edo period. Through his writings linkin...
Uesugi Tomosada
Head of the Ōgigayatsu Uesugi
## Overview Uesugi Tomosada was a Sengoku-period warrior and the last head of the Ōgigayatsu branch...
Ogasawara Nagahide
The Shinano Governor Undone at Ōtō — Head of a House of Mounted Archery
Ogasawara Nagahide (1366-1424) was a Muromachi-period military figure, head of the Ogasawara clan — ...
Ōuchi Yoshioki
Supreme warlord of western Japan who escorted a shogun to Kyoto
Ōuchi Yoshioki (1477-1529) was a daimyō of the early Sengoku period who embodied the zenith of the Ō...