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上野国（現在の群馬県）生まれ。鎌倉時代の武将。後醍醐天皇に味方して鎌倉に侵攻し、鎌倉幕府を滅ぼした。

上野国（現在の群馬県）の安中藩士の子として生まれ、明治期に安中に居住している。明治時代の教育者で、同志社大学の創立者。

下野国（現在の栃木県）生まれ。平安時代末期の武将。源平合戦の屋島の戦いで、扇の的を弓矢で射貫く逸話が有名。

The first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate. He contributed to the Kenmu Restoration, in which Emperor Go-Daigo sought to return the imperial house to direct political power, but later switched sides and founded the Muromachi shogunate

One of the great ukiyo-e painters, responsible for the introduction of large-head portraits. ca. 1753-1806

A Buddhist monk of the Kamakura period who founded the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism in Japan 1173-1262

常陸水戸藩の第2代藩主。徳川家康の孫にあたる。『大日本史』を編纂し、水戸学の礎を築いた。

A Japanese explorer of the late Edo period who confirmed that Karafuto (Sakhalin) was an island and gave his name to the Mamiya Strait

江戸幕府第15代将軍。水戸藩主徳川斉昭の七男。少年期は水戸で過ごす。

幕末から明治中期の日本画家。写実性の高さと特異な画風で知られる。下総国古河石町（現在の茨城県古河市）の生まれ。

常陸国（現在の茨城県）出身。明治から昭和にかけて活躍した日本画の巨匠。

武蔵国熊谷郷（現在の埼玉県）出身。平安時代末期から鎌倉時代初期の武将。『敦盛』の作品に取り上げられたことで知られる。

Father of Japanese modern economy

安房国（現在の千葉県）出身。鎌倉時代の宗教家で、日蓮宗の開祖。

A painter who helped develop woodblock prints in their early days; most famous for his composition Beauty Looking Back d. 1694

A geographical surveyor of the Edo period who created the first map of Japan using surveying techniques

江戸幕府初代将軍。1590年、豊臣秀吉の領地替えにより、江戸へ移った。

A haiku poet of the early Edo period who established the Basho style and greatly influenced succeeding generations

Ichikawa Danjuro is the stage name passed down through a series of Kabuki actors who are skillful at playing brave characters. The name has remained in Kabuki from the Edo era to the present age.

A leader in Kyoto culture during the Genroku era who perfected the Rin-pa School of painting 1658-1716

A successful colored woodblock print artist noted for his prints of beautiful women 1725?-1770

Scholar of Dutch learning of the late Edo period and author of Japan’s first translation of a Western book on anatomy who contributed to the development of Dutch learning

A major publisher in the mid-Edo period who collaborated with writers and artists to produce many popular books

A mysterious ukiyo-e artist who drew unique pictures of actors in the late Edo period

A literary giant of the Edo period known for his kyoka (comic Japanese poetry) and sharebon (gay-quarter novelettes). In addition to "Nanpo," he also used "Shokusanjin" and "Yomo no Akara" as pen names. In addition, he was a capable official in the Edo shogunate

An outstanding popular-fiction author of the late Edo period who created such genres as yellow-cover books, gay-quarter novelettes, and Edo-period reading books 1761-1816

Edo-period author of popular stories who achieved sudden popularity with his Tokaidochu hizakurige (Hoofing It along the Tokaido Route)

An outstanding writer of popular fiction of the late Edo period; the author of Nanso Satomi hakken den 1767-1848

A leading expert in Kanto literati painting who had an eclectic, varied style 1763-1840

Founder of the Edo Rinpa School of painting, who drew inspiration from Sotatsu Tawaraya and Korin Ogata to revitalize the Rinpa style in Edo

A master of ukiyo-e prints in the late Edo period, known also for his eccentricities

A master painter of actor portraits who surpassed even Sharaku in popularity

An explorer of the Ezo region at the end of the Tokugawa period who placed a signpost for Japan naming Iturup Island as Etorofu

A scholar of Dutch learning of the late Edo period who criticized the bakufu's policy of national isolation; also, a painter influenced by Western art who went on to establish his own style 1793-1841

A ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period who influenced Vincent van Gogh

An ukiyo-e artist of the end of the Edo period known for his outlandish compositions and innovative painting style

A kabuki playwright active during the Bunka (1804-1818) and Bunsei (1818-1830) eras. He achieved great success by writing about commoners of the lower strata of Edo society

A late Edo and Meiji period statesman who successfully negotiated the bloodless surrender of Edo castle

A woodblock print artist of the Meiji period who gained popularity for his skillful depiction of light and shade in prints of Tokyo during its early Westernization

A kabuki playwright active from the final years of the Tokugawa period to the early Meiji period. He was extremely prolific, having written about 360 works

明治維新を経て、近代日本を治めた、わが国初の立憲君主。東京に皇居を置く。

An enlightenment thinker active from the end of the Edo period into the Meiji period who, on the basis of his experiences on three trips to Europe and the United States, stressed the importance of looking outside of Asia for knowledge, and who founded the Keio Gijuku School

Preeminent modern Japanese novelist who explored the plight of the modern intellectual in being self-aware

医学、文学・芸術、日本文化の見直しなど多様な領域で日本の近代化を推進した代表的知識人。東京の墨田区向島などに居を構えた。

A trailblazing haiku and tanka poet of the Meiji period, who, sadly, died young

Seiki Kuroda was a leading painter in Modern Japanese Art. He contributed to the western art development in Japan during the Meiji era.

A poet and painter representative of Taisho romanticism. With his Yumeji-style paintings of beautiful women and elegant graphic designs, he dominated the art of a whole generation

A legendary boy with great strength said to be raised in the remote mountainous region Ashigarayama and later to be the man named Sakata no Kintoki

A warlord who established military rule over all of Japan, founded the Kamakura shogunate, and served as its first shogun

A tragic military commander featured in a host of legends and associated with sympathetic treatment of inferiors

鎌倉時代初期に活躍した仏師。以後の日本の彫刻界に大きな影響を与えた。鎌倉で活動したとされる。

A U.S. Navy serviceman who came to Japan twice toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, pressing for the opening of the country, and who concluded the Convention of Peace and Amity between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan