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Japan’s Terraced Senmaida, The One Thousand Rice Paddies

ByJapan World March 28, 2024

Senmaida. It means “One Thousand Rice Paddies”, and refers to the terraced paddies of all shapes and sizes cut into…

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About Japan | Samurai

Date Masamune

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

One of the easiest to recognize of all the samurai thanks to his distinctive armour, and most distinctive maedate, is…

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About Japan

The Dog Shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

The fifth Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, was brought up as a scholar instead of a warrior, as it was feared…

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History | Samurai

Battle of Nagashino

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Siege and Battle, 28 June 1575, Mikawa (Aichi Prefecture) Takeda Katsuyori (12,000) 
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Oda Nobunaga (30,000) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (8,000)…

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Battle of Komaki Nagakute

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

On the outskirts of Nagoya is one of the major battlefields of the Samurai era, Nagakute. Like many of the…

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About Japan

Sassa Narimasa

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Sassa Narimasa was born in Hira Castle (Currently the site of Kotsuji Temple, Nishi-Ku, Nagoya) in 1536. He became a…

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Japanese Floor Mats, Tatami

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

The image of a traditional Japanese room includes the shoji, paper-covered wooden frame windows called shoji, fusuma, being sliding doors…

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Japan’s Three Sacred Treasures, Symbols of Imperial Rule

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

According to the Kojiki, (the Record of Ancient matters, a collection of myths concerning the origins of Japan) the Three…

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History | Samurai

Samurai Signatures, Kao (花押)

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Kao (花押) were stylised identification signatures used on important papers by the lords and nobility of Japan since the Heian…

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About Japan

The Viper of Mino, Saito Dosan

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Saito Dosan (born 1494) was known as the Viper of Mino due to his ruthlessness both on the battlefield and…

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Shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

The 6th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienobu Was Born On June 11, 1662. In 1709 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi died heirless. This left the…

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About Japan | Gifu | Samurai

Gifu Castle

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Gifu Castle was mostly destroyed in one of the many inflammatory lead up battles culminating in the Battle of Sekigahara…

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History | Samurai

Shimazu Yoshihiro

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Shimazu Yoshihiro(August 21, 1535 – August 30, 1619) Yoshihiro was a brave and skilled general who contributed greatly to the…

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Great Battles | Samurai

The Battle of Sekigahara. The biggest, bloodiest battle of the Samurai

ByJapan World March 11, 2024

Sekigahara was the biggest, the bloodiest, the most violent and most important of all samurai battles, fought between the factions…

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