Japanese nobility

Jakuren (寂蓮) (also known as Fujiwara no Sadanaga (藤原定長) before becoming a monk) (1139–1202) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and poet.

(In this Japanese name, the family name is Ariwara.) Ariwara no Narihira (在原 業平, 825–880) was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period.

The kuge (公家) was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto.

The Kazoku (華族, literally "Magnificent/Exalted lineage") was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947.

The prince was born on 20 October 1897 at Deoksu Palace in Seoul as the seventh son of Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor.

Takashina no Takako (高階貴子, sometimes read Takashina no Kishi; died 996), also known as the mother of the Honorary Grand Minister (儀同参司母 Gidōsanshi no haha) or as Kō no Naishi (高内侍), was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

Nakayama Tadachika (中山 忠親, 1131 – April 23, 1195) was a Japanese court noble and writer during the late Heian and early Kamakura period and a member of the influential Fujiwara family.

(In this Japanese name, the family name is Hosokawa.) Hosokawa Tama (細川玉), usually referred to as Hosokawa Garasha (細川ガラシャ), (1563 – 25 August 1600) was a Japanese samurai woman.

Colonel Prince Yi Geon (October 28, 1909 – December 21, 1990), also Ri Ken and Kenichi Momoyama (桃山 虔一 Momoyama Ken'ichi), was a Korean prince and a cavalry officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Prince Imperial Heung (Hangul: 흥친왕; hanja: 興親王; RR: Heungchinwang; MR: Heungchinwang, 30 July 1845 – 9 September 1912) was a prince of the Joseon Dynasty and of the Korean Empire.

Lady Saigō (西郷の局 or 西郷局 Saigō-no-Tsubone) (1552 – 1 July 1589), also known as Oai, was the first consort and trusted confidante of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and then ruled as Shogun.

Oda Ujiharu (小田 氏治) (1534–1602) was a warlord of the Japanese province of Hitachi during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century.

Fujiwara no Sanekata (藤原実方, died 998) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

Ōe no Otondo (大江音人, also known as Gōshō-kō; 811—877) was a Japanese courtier, Confucian scholar and kanshi poet of the early Heian period.

Senhime or Lady Sen (千姫) (May 26, 1597 – March 11, 1666) was the eldest daughter of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo.

Fujiwara no Yoshitaka (藤原義孝, 954-974) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

Ariwara no Motokata (在原元方, dates unknown, fl. late 800s – 900s CE) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period.

The Southern Court (南朝 Nanchō) were a set of four emperors (Emperor Go-Daigo and his line) whose claims to sovereignty during the Nanboku-chō period spanning from 1336 through 1392 were usurped by the Northern Court.

Fujiwara no Michinobu (藤原道信, 972–994) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

Fujiwara no Shunzei no Musume (藤原俊成女, "Fujiwara no Shunzei's daughter"; also occasionally called 藤原俊成卿女, 皇(太)后宮大夫俊成(卿)女 or 越部禅尼), 1171? – 1252?, was a Japanese poet; she was probably the greatest female poet of her day, ranked with Princess Shikishi.

Ōmi no Mifune (淡海三船, 722—785) was a Japanese scholar and writer of kanshi (poetry in Classical Chinese) and kanbun (prose in Classical Chinese), who lived in the Nara period of Japanese history.

Colonel Yi Wu (15 November 1912 – 7 August 1945) was the 4th head of Unhyeon Palace, a member of the imperial family of Korea, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.