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Shoguns, Samurai & Daimyos - Part 1
Shoguns, Samurai & Daimyos - Part 2

Shoguns, Samurai & Daimyos - Part 2

Tokuso - head of the Hojo clan
Shogun - ruler of Japan before the Meiji Era
Shugo - official named by Shogun to oversee a province
Siege of Osaka - Tokugawa Ieyasu's attack
Siege of Otsu - Tachibana Muneshige and Tsukushi Hirokado's attack
Siege of Takamatsu - Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attack
Sieges of Nagashima - series of battles from 1571 - 1574
Rensho - assistant of shikken of Kamakura shogunate
Rokuhara Tandai - name for chiefs of the Kamakura shogunate
Ronin - name given to masterless samurai during the feudal period of Japan
Saigo Takamori - influential samurai in Japanese history
Saito Dosan - epitome of the daimyo
Saito Tatsuoki - daimyo in Mino province during the Sengoku period
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro - general and shogun of the early Heian Period
Sakuma Morimasa - retainer of Shibata Katsuie
Sakuma Shozan - politican and scholar of the Edo era
Samurai - term for warrior in pre-industrial Japan
Samurai-dokoro - office of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates
Sanada Masayuki - served the Takeda and fought against Tokugawa Ieyasu
Sanada Yukimura - fought against the Tokugawa at the Battle of Sekigahara
Shibata Katsuie - Japanese military commander during the Sengoku Period
Shikken - regent of the shogun in the Kamakura shogunate
Takeda Katsuyori - son of Takeda Shingen and father of Takeda Nobukatsu
Takeda Shingen - daimyo who fought for control of Japan during Sengoku
Tanuma Okitsugu - roju of the Tokugawa shogunate
Uesugi Kenshin - samurai who ruled Echigo in the Sengoku Period
Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi - famous samurai in Japan's feudal era
Tokugawa Chikauji - father of Yasuchika and Sakai Tadahiro
Tokugawa Hidetada - 2nd Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ieharu - tenth Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Iemitsu - 3rd Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Iemochi - 14th Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ienari - eleventh Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ienobu - sixth Tokugawa Shogun
Tokugawa Iesada - 13th Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ieshige - 9th Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ietsugu - seventh Tokugawa Shogun
Tokugawa Ietsuna - fourth Tokugawa shogun
Tokugawa Ieyasu - founder of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa Ieyoshi - twelveth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa Mitsukuni - prominent daimyo in the Mito domain
Tokugawa Nariaki - prominent daimyo in the Mito domain
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi - fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa Yorifusa - founder of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa family
Tokugawa Yorinobu - founder of the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family
Tokugawa Yoshimune - eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa Yoshinao - founder of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family
Tokugawa Yoshinobu - seventh son of Tokugawa Nariaki

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