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  • Tokugawa IeyasuOn the 26th day of the twelfth month in the eleventh year of Tenbun, which corresponds to the 31st of January 1543, a boy named Matsudaira Takechiyo was born…
  • Toyotomi HideyoshiOn the 16th of February 1537, a boy named Kinoshita Tōichirō was born in Nakamura, Owari Province. His father Kinoshita Yaemon served as an ashigaru, a…
  • SamuraiIn 792, the imperial court issued an edict ending most conscription and dissolving the gundan, except for those in outlying regions like Mutsu and Dewa…