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Lady Sanjō (三条の方, Sanjō no kata) (1521 – August 29, 1570) was a Japanese noblewoman who lived during the Sengoku period. She was the wife of the daimyo...

Sagara Yoshihi (相良義陽) (1544–1581) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, who ruled a region in southern Higo Province. In the Siege of Minamata Castle...

Princess Masako (昌子内親王, Masako Naishinnō, 950 – 10 January, 1000), was a princess and an Empress consort of Japan. She was the consort of her cousin Emperor...

Princess Tokushi (篤子内親王; 1060–1114) was a princess and an Empress consort of Japan. She was the consort of her nephew, Emperor Horikawa. She was the fourth...

Princess Kuniko (邦子内親王; 1209 – 26, September 1283), also known as Princess Hoshi and Ankamon-in, was an Empress as the Honorary Mother (准母) of her brother...

Princess Noriko (範子内親王; 4 December 1177 – 13 May 1210), also known as Hanshi, was an Empress of Japan. She was Empress as the Honorary Mother (准母) of her...

Princess Yukiko (幸子女王; 14 November 1680 – 18 March 1720) later known as Shōshūmon’in(承秋門院), was an Empress consort of Emperor Higashiyama of Japan. She...

The Gyokuyō Wakashū (玉葉和歌集, "Collection of Jeweled Leaves", a title which recollects the Kin'yō Wakashū) was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry...

Thirty-six families from Min (閩人三十六姓, Bin-jin Sanjūroku sei), also translated as 36 Clans of the Min-People or 36 Min families, was a general designation...

Ichijō Fusamichi (一条 房通, 1509 – December 1, 1556) was a Japanese court noble of the Muromachi period (1336–1573). The second son of the kampaku, Ichijō...

Kanako Otsuji (尾辻 かな子, Otsuji Kanako, born December 16, 1974, in Nara) is a Japanese LGBT rights activist, member of the House of Representatives for the...

Shibata Nagaatsu (新発田 長敦, 1538 – 1580), was a Japanese military commander who served under the warlord Uesugi Kenshin, one of the Twenty-Eight Generals...

Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前) (1138 – c. 1180), or Lady Tokiwa, was a Japanese noblewoman of the late Heian period and mother of the great samurai general Minamoto...

Ōtomo no Kanamura (大伴金村) was a Japanese warrior and statesman during the late Kofun period. Most of what is known of his life comes from the Kojiki and...

Yasuko Hatoyama (鳩山 安子, Hatoyama Yasuko, 11 September 1922 – 11 February 2013) was the wife of former Japanese Foreign Minister Iichirō Hatoyama and mother...

Takiko Mizunoe (水の江 瀧子, Mizunoe Takiko), born Umeko Miura (三浦 ウメ子, Miura Umeko, 20 February 1915 – 16 November 2009), was a Japanese actress, film producer...

Nakahara Nantenbō (中原 南天棒, April 3, 1839 – February 12, 1925), also known as Tōjū Zenchū , Tōshū Zenchū 鄧州全忠, and as Nantenbō Tōjū, was a Japanese Zen...

Princess Asuka (明日香皇女, Asuka no himemiko) (died 700) was a Japanese princess during the Asuka Period. She was a daughter of Emperor Tenji. Her mother was...

Vanesa Oshiro (大城 バネサ, Ōshiro Banesa, born November 26, 1981) is a Nikkei enka singer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She debuted in 2000 at the age of...

Yukika Sohma (相馬 雪香, Sōma Yukika, 1912 – November 8, 2008) was a Japanese peace activist and scholar who founded the Association for Aid and Relief. She...