Flashcards: Seppuku

Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長 , June 23, 1534 – June 21, 1582) was a powerful daimyo of Japan in the late 16th century who attempted to unify Japan during the late Sengoku period.

Kusunoki Masashige (楠木 正成, 1294 – July 4, 1336) was a 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genko War, the attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura shogunate and is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty.

Shibata Katsuie (柴田 勝家, 1522 – June 14, 1583) or Gonroku (権六) was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku Period.

Asakura Yoshikage (朝倉 義景, October 12, 1533 – September 16, 1573) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period (1467–1573) who ruled a part of Echizen Province in present-day Fukui Prefecture.

Minamoto no Tametomo (源 為朝, 1139 – April 23, 1170) (also known as Chinzei Hachirō Tametomo (鎮西 八郎 為朝)) was a samurai who fought in the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156.

Minamoto no Yorimasa (源 頼政) (1106–1180) was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies.

Akamatsu Mitsusuke (赤松 満祐, 1381 - September 25, 1441) was a Japanese samurai of the Akamatsu clan during the Sengoku Period.

Ōuchi Yoshitaka (大内 義隆, December 18, 1507 – September 30, 1551) was the daimyo of Suō Province and the 30th head of the Ōuchi clan, succeeding Ōuchi Yoshioki.

Azai Nagamasa (浅井 長政, 1545 – August 28, 1573) was a daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japan.

Sassa Narimasa (佐々 成政, February 6, 1536 – July 7, 1588), also known as Kura-no-suke (内蔵助), was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama period.

Uesugi Kagetora (上杉 景虎, 1552 – April 19, 1579) was the seventh son of Hōjō Ujiyasu; he was adopted by Uesugi Kenshin, and was meant to be Kenshin's heir.

Toyotomi Hidetsugu (豊臣 秀次, 1568 – July 15, 1595) was a nephew and retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi who lived during the Sengoku period of the 16th century of Japan.

Seigō Nakano (中野 正剛 Nakano Seigō) (12 February 1886 – 27 October 1943) was a Japanese political leader who advocated a fascist Japan to complete the Meiji Restoration.

Tokugawa Tadanaga (徳川 忠長, 1606 – January 5, 1634) was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経, 1159 – June 15, 1189) was a nobleman and military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods.

Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣 秀頼, born September 8, 1593, precise time and place of death debated) was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan.

Takeda Katsuyori (武田 勝頼, 1546 – 3 April 1582) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen.

The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of East Asian cultures—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history and Joseon Korea.

Shimizu Muneharu (清水 宗治, 1537 – June 23, 1582), also known as Shimizu Chōzaemon (清水 長左衛門), was a military commander during the Sengoku period.

Maki Yasuomi (真木 保臣, April 7, 1813 – August 22, 1864) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served as a retainer of the Arima clan of Kurume in northern Kyūshū.

Hōjō Ujiteru (北条 氏照)(1540? – August 10, 1590) was a Japanese samurai, who was the son of Hōjō Ujiyasu and lord of Hachiōji Castle in what is now Tokyo.

Zusho Hirosato (調所 広郷, March 24, 1776 – January 13, 1849) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served as karō of the Satsuma Domain.

Junshi (殉死) (following the lord in death, sometimes translated as "suicide through fidelity") refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing seppuku (ritual suicide) upon the death of their lord.

Nishina Morinobu (仁科盛信, 1557 – March 25, 1582) was a retainer of the Japanese samurai clan of Takeda during the closing years of the Sengoku period.

Yui Shōsetsu (由井正雪 1605 – September 10, 1651) was a military strategist, and leader of the unsuccessful 1651 Keian Uprising.

Asano Naganori (浅野 長矩, September 28, 1667 – April 21, 1701) was the daimyo of the Akō Domain in Japan (1675 - 1701).

Bessho Nagaharu (別所 長治, 1558 – February 2, 1580) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period.

Saigō Takamori (Takanaga) (西郷 隆盛 (隆永), January 23, 1828 – September 24, 1877) was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history, living during the late Edo Period and early Meiji Era.

Watanabe Kazan (渡辺 崋山, October 20, 1793 – November 23, 1841) was a Japanese painter, scholar and statesman member of the samurai class.

Ōishi Yoshio (大石 良雄, April 24, 1659 – March 20, 1703) was the chamberlain (karō) of the Akō Domain in Harima Province (now Hyōgo Prefecture), Japan (1679 - 1701).

Torii Mototada (鳥居 元忠, 1539 – September 8, 1600) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through late Azuchi–Momoyama period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu.