One of many samurais and shoguns there was a samurai named Shimazu Yoshihiro. He was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa. He had an older brother, Shimazu Yoshihisa. He was born on August 21st, 1535 and died August 30th, 1619. His family believed in a tradition with all their male family members had the same first name, Shimazu. He was also a member and the 17th head of the Shimazu Clan. When he was the head of the clan it was believed that his brother, Yoshihisa, had the real power of the clan. Shimazu Yoshihiro grew up during the Sengoku period which is a period in Japanese history with social upheaval, political intrigue, and near-constant military conflict. From an early age Shimazu Yoshihiro displayed a great promise and served many of his brother’s, Yoshihisa’s, campaigns. At Kizakihara there was one and 300 men under Yoshiro’s command, defeated Ito Yoshisuke’s 3,000 men. The battle is known as the Okeehazama of Kyushu. He also fought at Takabaru, Mimigawa, Minamata, and Hetsugigawa. He had many victories because of his skill at being a great general of his army. He was titled daimyo after the submission of the Shimazu to Hideyoshi. …show more content…
At the start of this campaign there was a number of retainers and his brother, Toshihisa, was one of them. They were protesting against being called to come and serve in the campaign so Yoshihiro was compelled to punish them. During the Second Korean Campaign Yoshihiro fought in the battles of Namwon and Sacheon. In the battle of Sacheon, Yoshihiro defeated the Ming army with only 7,000 men and they had 37,000 men. The Mings’ translation of Yoshihiro’s soldiers was Oni-Shimazu, which meant Shimazu ogres or demons. During these two campaigns Yoshihiro’s role was to abduct Korean potters and bring them to Satsuma as war prisoners, which developed the spurring of Satsuma
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The samurai were the warriors of the Heian period. samurai means “a person who serves a noble” because the samurai weren’t related to the daimyo but they were payed by the daimyo to help them control their domains. Each samurai had to swear an oath of loyalty to his own daimyo. The samurai and the daimyo were a part of the warrior class along with the shogun (Military leader who ruled japan).
Now Minamoto Yoshitsune had a older brother named Minamoto Yoritoma(1147-1199) who sat out most of the war in Kamakura. In 1180 Yomitomo had established his power base
The fudai daimyo, descended from members of the original tokugawa vassal band or men who had been made daimyo by Ieyasu and his successors, identified most closely with the interests of bakufu. Their territories frequently abutted Tokugawa lands, protecting their flanks, and the bakufu’s highest officials were drawn from their ranks.
Throughout History, there have been many different groups or events that are still widely known today. Groups of people such as the Indians or Vikings are popular groups which are referenced constantly in today’s society. However, none of these groups is more known or referenced than the Japanese Samurai. Originating in 646 AD, these Japanese warriors developed from a loose organization of farmers to the dominant social class in Feudal Japan. Along with their dominant military and political standing, the samurai brought with them a unique code or moral belief that became the core of Samurai culture. Because of this, the Samurai and their principles still affect modern day Japanese society with social customs today deriving directly and indirectly from the beliefs of the Samurai.
In 1853 during the Tokugawa shogunate, Matthew Perry, an American commodore, arrived with an army at Edo Bay to coerce the Japanese government to allow the Americans to trade. In 1856, Japan signed a treaty opening two ports to the United States trade. Soon, other nations such as Britain, Russia, and Holland won similar rights. The opening of Japan to the West created opposition among its people and in the 1860s political crisis came into the open. In 1866, civil war broke out. The samurai armed with the surplus of weapons from the American Civil War defeated the shogunate force. The civil war ended, when the victorious reform group proclaimed Mutsuhito, often called the “Meiji” meaning enlightened one, emperor.
Tokugawa Ieyasu born in 1542 as Takechiyo Matsudaira, the son of the lord of Mikawa. At the age of four, he was sent to the neighboring clan of Imagawa to help ensure an alliance for his family, and there he was raised and received a noble's education. After the death of his father, he changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu and began to consolidate power for himself. In 1561, Ieyasu allied with the powerful neighboring warlord Oda Nobunaga, who, during the final decades of the Sengoku period, had become one of the primary powers thought by the people of Japan to be capable of bringing about unification. Ieyasu continued to spend the next two decades expanding his influence and wealth, simultaneously gaining a powerful military reputation. After
During the relatively peaceful Tokugawa period, the samurai were not as occupied with waging war as they had been in the past, and as such they had begun devoting their time to other things. The samurai spent more time in intellectual and artistic pursuits, and thanks in part to Tsunetomo himself, the culture of Bushido flourished. Bushido became a formal ideology and was pieced together by the samurai at the time (including Tsunetomo) similar to how Chivalry had been formalized in Europe. Ironically, Tsunetomo had done exactly what he had admonished. While he despaired at the fate of the samurai, becoming more involved in scholarly and artistic activities, he himself was spending time philosophizing on the Way of the Samurai.
Written in the middle of the thirteenth century, The Tales of Heike was a warrior tale (gunki monogatari) about the tragic fall of the Taira clan. During the Genpei war(1180-1185) two families battle for control over the capital, the Taira/Heike clan and the Genji/Minamoto clan. Although the majority of the tale highlights the defeats of the Heike clan, there are numerous tales of the downfalls of various warriors in the Minamoto clan. In book nine, chapter four titled “The Death of Lord Kiso” the reader is introduced to Lord Kiso or Minamoto Yoshinaka, a member of the Minamoto clan who was attacked and killed by his own family. Lord Kiso and what was left of his army met and together took a final stand against their enemies. His remaining warriors were of the strongest and most powerful of his army, warriors with strength that could not be compared with regular men.
The Japanese warrior, known as the samurai, has played a significant role in Japan's history and culture throughout the centuries. Their ancestors can be traced back to as far as can be remembered. Some stories have become mysterious legends handed down over the centuries. In this report you will learn who the samurai were, their origins as we know them, how they lived and fought and their evolution to today. It will be clear why the samurai stand out as one of the most famous group of warriors of all times.
Samurai have played a big part in Japans history. There have been supreme samurai or Shoguns whose rule shaped Japan in early times. These shoguns ruled in different eras or periods. There are three main periods concerning the samurai usage. They are the Kamakura, Ashikaga and the Tokugawa period. The samurai were introduced as a part of the government in the Kamakura period.
Takashi Murakami is an incredible, talented Japanese artist whose modern artwork has attracted even the biggest names in the industry for collaborations, such as Kanye West and Louis Vuitton. Although Murakami does not think of his artwork as Pop Art, his work does have a Pop Art feel to it. To people without the knowledge of history behind his work, they will think that his work is happy and colorful, but behind the bright colors and the happy caricatures, Murakami tells a story that was inspired by the struggles of discriminated people.
Around 1600, Japan had been caught up in a civil war for the last hundred years. However, Tokugawa, one of Japan’s greatest warlords, came into power and reunited the country. After his victory, he followed tradition and decided to leave the emperor in charge, but deemed himself shogun. During this period, the emperor was merely a façade for the people, and the shoguns were the ones who held all the power. Tokugawa created his own dynasty in which Edo was the
Miyamoto Musashi was born in 1584, in a Japan struggling to recover from more than four centuries of internal strife. The traditional rule of the emperors had been overthrown in the twelfth century, and although each successive emperor remained the figurehead of Japan, his powers were very much reduced. Since that time, Japan had seen almost continuous civil war between the provincial lords, warrior monks and brigands, all fighting each other for land and power. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the lords, called daimyo, built huge stone castles to protect themselves and their lords and castle towns outside the walls began to grow up. These wars naturally restricted the growth of trade and impoverished the whole country.
There are many historical aspects of the Japanese, but the most interesting is the history of the Samurai. In Japans history war played a large role in the country. Controlling clans fought for parts of the land and overall control of the country. These clans were powerful families that resided in the country and who all wanted power and control of Japan for themselves. The families that would be in control were known as Shoguns. These shoguns would have warriors that fought for them if any of the other clan families would try to attack him in order to overthrow him and take his power from him. The Samurai followed a code that developed from Chinese beliefs when in battle. The Samurais code was known as the Bushido. This code was also known as “The Way of The Warrior” which was the main belief s...