Samurai & Warlords

The portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu that hangs in the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya — not the famous Kanō Tan’yū […]

At three o’clock in the morning of 19 June 1560, at Kiyosu Castle in western Owari, a 26-year-old Oda Nobunaga,

By the numbers alone, Maeda Toshiie’s legacy is the largest single non-Tokugawa feudal holding in Japanese history. The Kaga domain

Honda Tadakatsu fought in at least 57 recorded battles over a 50-year military career, and, according to every surviving contemporary

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is the only man in the history of Japan’s ruling class who arrived at the top from genuine

Takeda Tsuneyasu is a man you can trace to Emperor Meiji in three generations. His grandmother was Princess Masako, Meiji’s

In the spring of 1564, a twenty-year-old samurai named Takenaka Shigeharu walked into Inabayama Castle, one of the most formidable

Hosokawa Tadaoki lived to eighty-three, which is a remarkable age for a Sengoku commander, and one of the reasons you

At around three o’clock in the afternoon of 21 October 1600, with the Battle of Sekigahara conclusively lost, Shimazu Yoshihiro

The most useful thing to know about Date Masamune is that he was ten years too young. If he had