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Treatment of descendants of the Ashikaga Shogunate family
Hideyoshi granted territory in Shimotsuke Kitsuregawa (Tochigi Prefecture) and allowed the Ashikaga family, which originated from the...
Dec 3, 20233 min read


Yasukage Amano retired from Kokokuji Castle, and Tadayuki Oguri retired to Gonda Village.
Kokokuji Castle is famous as the castle where Soun Hojo came to front. I'm sure there are many castle enthusiasts who have visited...
Dec 3, 20233 min read


Poetry love triangle
The relationship between Nukatano okimi and two emperors (Tenchi and Tenmu) is said to be the oldest love triangle in Japanese history....
Dec 3, 20234 min read


Incest marriage and one lineage
It is well known that the Spanish Hupsburg family lost their descendants due to excessive incest, and the throne passed to the French...
Dec 1, 20233 min read


A story about taking care of an enemy general's child on the battlefield.
Before the final battle during the summer campaign in Osaka, Yukimura Sanada entrusted his beloved son and daughter to Shigenaga Kojuro...
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Daisen-ji and Erin-ji
Nobutora Takeda was the father of Shingen and was a famous general who unified the chaotic Kai region and created the foundation for the...
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Choyo no Jo(the beginning of childhood) and Komon-sama
It's been a while since Mito Komon aired. It is a long-running program that has been on the air for more than 40 years, having first...
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Minamoto no Yoshikuni's two breaths
Speaking of the Genji indigenous to the Kanto region, Hitachi Genji (Satake, Takeda), descended from Hachiman Taro Yoshiie's younger...
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Poet Mother and Child Hawk
Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu, the former is overwhelmingly famous as the author of The Tale of Genji, but the two have many things...
Nov 30, 20232 min read


Samurai's exploration of Hokkaido
Requests for security in Hokkaido increased in the 19th century due to Russia's policy of moving southward, and the shogunate responded...
Nov 30, 20233 min read


The tragic story of Yoshinaka Minamoto and Sanemori Saito
This story is told in The Tale of the Heike, and is a famous story that has been dramatized and performed in Kabuki, but no matter how...
Nov 29, 20233 min read


Okinawa's 100 Famous Castles August 2023
I think there are many people who collect stamps from the 100 Famous Castles tour. I think I've visited about half of them so far, but...
Nov 29, 20234 min read
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