Shogun's Ruling Order Explained (With Ranks In Descending Order) The highest ranking member in the early episodes of ShÅ gun is the TaikÅ , who is depicted on his death bed in a flashback scene ...

Nakano Takeko was a 21-year-old female samurai who came to lead a battalion of women against the Emperor of Japan’s Imperial Army, 150 years ago. We talk about her story in the latest “Shoot ...

Although Takauji chose a new emperor to serve under his control, GoDaigo set up a government-in-exile known as the Southern Court that provided legitimacy to anti- bakufu armies. If a powerful samurai ...

Algren dons extremely cool samurai armormore colorful and less clunky than Europe’s knights in shining armorand the rebels bravely ride off to certain death against the emperor’s more numerous ...

For more than 1,300 years, the crowning of each new Japanese emperor has brought with it a new age. Here’s why the Reiwa era will be very different from its predecessors.

Emperor in the familyGo-Mizunoo reigned as emperor from 1611 to 1629. He had close ties to the shogunate through his wife, Ieyasu’s granddaughter, Masako. Alamy/ACI ...

That mission is assigned, by the emperor himself, to an especially skillful samurai. His name is Minamoto no Yorimitsu. People call him Raiko. Raiko actually lived: He was born in 948, founded a ...

It was on that date that a group of mid-level samurai and imperial courtiers announced the formation of a new government to be ruled by the 16-year old Meiji emperor, thus ending two-and-a-half ...

Nakano Takeko was a 21-year-old female samurai who came to lead a battalion of women against the Emperor of Japan’s Imperial Army, 150 years ago. We talk about her story in the latest “Shoot ...