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Everyone anticipated a huge battle from which either Lord Takeda Shingen or Oda Nobunaga would emerge as ruler of Japan. When Murakami was 18, Lord Takeda decided to go to war and Murakami was disappointed to find himself appointed aide to the officer in charge of food supplies. When a thief tried to steal some rice, Murakami showed both firmness and compassion by beating him, but not killing him. Murakami won a sword fight with a ronin bandit loyal to Lord Obu, but

Minamoto no Yoritomo was the first shogun. Throughout his time he had multiple achievements. His first major achievement was at the age of twelve, where he was appointed his first imperial court title, this was due to his imperial blood. But the 1159 civil war threw a bit of a curve ball for Yorimoto, as the new Emperor named Nijo was appointed head

of the samurai class. He left his homeland and became a noncitizen in the United States. After

Doing this could have resulted in the assassination of Ieyasu and the annihilation of the Tokugawa. Tokugawa took the Oda stronghold of Owari and then Hideyoshi responded by throwing his own army into Owari. This was the only time that any of the great shoguns in Japan fought each other. The battle was referred to as the Komaki Campaign. The campaign finally ended after everybody came to a peace agreement. The agreement was that Ieyasu’s second son was to become to adopted son of Hideyoshi. A few of Ieyasu’s supporters followed his son’s relocation to the Hideyoshi clan as

By the 900’s, the Japanese government began losing control over rural areas due to its weak ruler and the samurai warrior class stepped in to take control. This was due to a civil war called the “Hogen Rebellion” in 1156. This rebellion was due to conflicts regarding Imperial Japanese succession and unexpectedly laid the groundwork for the samurai clans to gain dominance. With both “would-be emperors” losing the Hogen Rebellion, the imperial government of Japan lost all of its remaining power. This led to the Heiji Rebellion in 1160 which was fought between two samurai clans, the Minamoto and Taira. With the victory of the Taira clan, the first samurai-led government (Shogunate) was formed. This type of government was controlled by the samurai clans, and the Emperor of Japan was only used as a figurehead to the government.

The death of emperor Hideyoshi and subsequent ascension to the throne of Hideyori in 1598 set into motion events that would alter the political landscape in Japan for the next two hundred and fifty years. Tokugawa Ieyasu, in his quest to become absolute ruler of Japan defeated Hideyori loyalists in the battle of Sekigahara and was appointed Shogun by Hideyori in 1603. This military “coup d’état” effectively gave Tokugawa complete control of Japan and reduced the emperor to little more than a figurehead in the governing of Japan. As history would show, the feudal system of government that Tokugawa created ultimately led to

Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo on December 30, 1884. Tojo was the eldest son in his family. Tojo entered military school in 1899. He ended up being forced to follow in the footsteps of his father. His father was a military man. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Sino-Japanese War and a major general in the Russo-Japanese War. Tojo and Katsuko Ito ended up getting married. Together they had seven children. He was born into a more respected family. Tojo's mother was the daughter of a Buddhist priest.

The warrior rule began in 1185 began as the previous emperor died and Minamoto no Yoritomo seii taishogun - "the barbarian-subduing great general" usually abbreviated as Shogun. Shogun was the highest rank a Warrior Class person could get and was the official head of the warrior government. The Shogun was the supreme military leader and held a great amount of control over the government such as appointing shugo or military agents in provincial regions and jito or military stewards on estates. The first person to become shogun was Minamoto no Yoritomo who established the Kamakura Shogunate after he consolidated land. He was given power over many military courts and was able to assign people to certain warrior class roles.

General Hideki Tojo or TÔJÔ HIDEKI was born on December 30, 1884, in Kōjimachi, Tokyo, Japan. He was born into a family of samurai descent. In 1899 as a child he went to to military school, as in following in the footsteps of his father. In his enrollment to military school, he went on to serve in the Latter War. Soon he would graduate from army war college with honors and later be sent abroad for study in Europe. When he returned in 1922 he served as a military science instructor at the war college.

He created the. shi-no-ko-sho, which rigidly separated the different social classes, warriors, farmers, artisans and merchants.

the position seeing as Yoshimasa had no heir to take his place and as said before had no intention to keep the position. Not long after speaking with his brother about this, Yoshimasa 's wife had a boy and gathered followers to support her son 's succession to the role of the shogun. Including one of the two families that were the most powerful in the country at that time, aside from the Ashikaga. These two being the Hatakeyama and the Yamana clans they rival the other took the side of the brother to become shogunate. In the year of 1467, a fight broke out between Yamana S. zen and Hosokawa Katsumata the twos brawl grew and the fight between the two rivals nearly destroyed Kyoto and splintered the country this is what led to the Onin war.

Feudal Japan gave birth to many great figures, one of which was Oda Nobunaga. He was a great warrior, and eventually became an influential and powerful shogun, paving the way for the unification of Japan. Even when he died, he had an influence on the next shogun. Nobunaga was the son of a government official, Oda Nobuhide, and was born in 1534(“Ebisawa”). His father died in 1551, and Nobunaga got right to work.

Japan in at the end of the nineteenth century was going through a change in government. The old system, the shogunate, had been toppled by a group of intellectual, Saigo included, and the power returned to the Emperor. Japan’s new government was becoming starting to go through a process of westernization, and the samurais were paying the price. In 1877 samurai stipends were eliminated and the carrying of weapons prohibited. Saigo believed that the samurai class represented the epitome of honor and self-valor, so he decided to confront the government over their actions and on September 24, 1887 he died in battle. Honor and courage were very important for Saigo, because of this he believed that a true warrior

Oda Nobunaga(織田 信長) is a hero because he used good tactics to start the unification of japan. He was a feared warlord and conquered many prefixes in japan. Oda had many allies to help him in his times. If it wasn’t for that he probably wouldn't of been able

War played a central part in the history of Japanese samurai. As regional clans gathered manpower, resources and struck alliances with each other, they formed a hierarchy centered around a toryo, or chief. This chief was typically a relative of the emperor