People of the Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama period (95 people)

Figures who lived in the Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama period, in order of birth. Choose a name to follow that life event by event.

Hōjō Sōun (Ise Sōzui) Sengoku daimyō, founder of the Later Hōjō / 1456–1519 (about 63 years)
Amago Tsunehisa Sengoku daimyo of Izumo / 1458–1541 (about 83 years)
Hojo Ujitsuna 2nd head of the Later Hojo / 1487–1541 (about 54 years)
Saitō Dōsan Sengoku daimyō of Mino / 1494–1556 (about 62 years)
Taigen Sessai Monk-strategist who served Imagawa Yoshimoto / 1496–1555 (about 59 years)
Mōri Motonari Sengoku daimyō of the Chūgoku region / 1497–1571 (about 74 years)
Francis Xavier Missionary / 1506–1552 (about 46 years)
Ōuchi Yoshitaka Suo daimyo, Taineiji Incident / 1507–1551 (about 44 years)
Matsunaga Hisahide Sengoku commander of Yamato / 1508–1577 (about 69 years)
Hōjō Ujiyasu Sengoku daimyō of the Kantō / 1515–1571 (about 56 years)
Imagawa Yoshimoto Sengoku daimyō of Suruga and Tōtōmi / 1519–1560 (about 41 years)
Imai Sōkyū Sakai merchant and tea master / 1520–1593 (about 73 years)
Takeda Shingen Warlord of Kai / 1521–1573 (about 52 years)
Sue Harukata (Takafusa) Senior Ōuchi retainer who overthrew his lord and seized power / 1521–1555 (about 34 years)
Sen no Rikyū Tea master / 1522–1591 (about 69 years)
Shibata Katsuie Senior Oda retainer / 1522–1583 (about 61 years)
Miyoshi Nagayoshi Sengoku daimyō, ruler of the Kinai / 1522–1564 (about 42 years)
Takigawa Kazumasu Senior Oda retainer entrusted with the Kantō region / 1525–1586 (about 61 years)
Hachisuka Masakatsu Close aide of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and founder of the Hachisuka house of Tokushima / 1526–1586 (about 60 years)
Sakai Tadatsugu First of Tokugawa's Four Heavenly Kings / 1527–1596 (about 69 years)
Akechi Mitsuhide Military commander / 1528–1582 (about 54 years)
Ryuzoji Takanobu Kyushu warlord called the Bear of Hizen / 1529–1584 (about 55 years)
Uesugi Kenshin Warlord of Echigo / 1530–1578 (about 48 years)
Ōtomo Sōrin Sengoku daimyō of Bungo, Christian lord / 1530–1587 (about 57 years)
Kikkawa Motoharu Valiant general who, as one of Mōri's "two rivers," led the San'in front / 1530–1586 (about 56 years)
Luís Fróis Portuguese missionary / 1532–1597 (about 65 years)
Kobayakawa Takakage Sengoku commander of the Mōri / 1533–1597 (about 64 years)
Asakura Yoshikage Sengoku daimyō of Echizen / 1533–1573 (about 40 years)
Shimazu Yoshihisa Sengoku daimyō of Satsuma / 1533–1611 (about 78 years)
Ōmura Sumitada Japan's first Kirishitan daimyō, who opened Nagasaki / 1533–1587 (about 54 years)
Oda Nobunaga Warlord (sengoku daimyō) / 1534–1582 (about 48 years)
Hosokawa Yūsai (Fujitaka) Warlord and poet / 1534–1610 (about 76 years)
Shimazu Yoshihiro Commander of Satsuma / 1535–1619 (about 84 years)
Niwa Nagahide Senior retainer of the Oda / 1535–1585 (about 50 years)
Ashikaga Yoshiteru 13th Muromachi shogun, the sword shogun / 1536–1565 (about 29 years)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Unifier of Japan (Kanpaku) / 1537–1598 (about 61 years)
Ashikaga Yoshiaki 15th Muromachi shogun / 1537–1597 (about 60 years)
Maeda Toshiie Commander, founder of the Kaga domain / 1538–1599 (about 61 years)
Hōjō Ujimasa Sengoku daimyō of Sagami / 1538–1590 (about 52 years)
Ashikaga Yoshihide 14th Muromachi shogun / 1538–1568 (about 30 years)
Imagawa Ujizane Head of the Imagawa and poet / 1538–1615 (about 77 years)
Nabeshima Naoshige Commander who served the Ryuzoji and founded Saga domain / 1538–1618 (about 80 years)
Honda Masanobu Close adviser called Ieyasu's brain trust / 1538–1616 (about 78 years)
Chōsokabe Motochika Sengoku daimyō of Tosa / 1539–1599 (about 60 years)
Hasegawa Tōhaku Painter / 1539–1610 (about 71 years)
Toyotomi Hidenaga Warlord, younger brother of Hideyoshi / 1540–1591 (about 51 years)
Kuki Yoshitaka Naval commander for Nobunaga and Hideyoshi / 1542–1600 (about 58 years)
Tokugawa Ieyasu Founder of the Edo shogunate / 1543–1616 (about 73 years)
Kanō Eitoku Painter of the Kanō school / 1543–1590 (about 47 years)
Furuta Oribe Commander and tea master / 1543–1615 (about 72 years)
Takenaka Shigeharu (Hanbei) Commander, Hideyoshi's strategist / 1544–1579 (about 35 years)
Azai Nagamasa Sengoku daimyō of northern Ōmi / 1545–1573 (about 28 years)
Kuroda Yoshitaka (Kanbei) Commander, Hideyoshi's strategist / 1546–1604 (about 58 years)
Takeda Katsuyori Sengoku daimyō of Kai / 1546–1582 (about 36 years)
Mogami Yoshiaki Sengoku daimyō of Yamagata in Dewa / 1546–1614 (about 68 years)
Oichi Sister of Oda Nobunaga / 1547–1583 (about 36 years)
Sanada Masayuki Sengoku commander, lord of Ueda / 1547–1611 (about 64 years)
Asano Nagamasa Hideyoshi's brother-in-law and one of the Five Magistrates of the Toyotomi government / 1547–1611 (about 64 years)
Satake Yoshishige Hitachi lord who fought the Hōjō and Date Masamune and brought the Satake to their peak / 1547–1612 (about 65 years)
Oda Nagamasu (Urakusai) Nobunaga's brother, a tea-master lord who left the teahouse Joan / 1547–1622 (about 75 years)
Honda Tadakatsu Retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu / 1548–1610 (about 62 years)
Nene (Kōdai-in) Wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Kita no Mandokoro) / 1548–1624 (about 76 years)
Sakakibara Yasumasa One of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings / 1548–1606 (about 58 years)
Takayama Ukon Christian daimyō / 1552–1615 (about 63 years)
Mōri Terumoto Sengoku daimyō, one of the Five Elders / 1553–1625 (about 72 years)
Hori Hidemasa Commander trusted by Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, called the "master Kyūtarō" / 1553–1590 (about 37 years)
Suminokura Ryōi Kyoto merchant and river engineer / 1554–1614 (about 60 years)
Gamō Ujisato Commander, daimyō of Aizu / 1556–1595 (about 39 years)
Tōdō Takatora Commander and master castle builder / 1556–1630 (about 74 years)
Uesugi Kagekatsu Sengoku daimyō, one of the Five Elders / 1556–1623 (about 67 years)
Oda Nobutada Nobunaga's heir and head of the Oda / 1557–1582 (about 25 years)
Katakura Kagetsuna Date Masamune's right-hand man, lord of Shiroishi / 1557–1615 (about 58 years)
Ishida Mitsunari Administrator under Hideyoshi / 1560–1600 (about 40 years)
Naoe Kanetsugu Chief retainer of the Uesugi / 1560–1620 (about 60 years)
Ii Naomasa Retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu / 1561–1602 (about 41 years)
Fukushima Masanori Commander, daimyō of Hiroshima / 1561–1624 (about 63 years)
Katō Kiyomasa Commander, lord of Kumamoto / 1562–1611 (about 49 years)
Maeda Toshinaga First lord of Kaga who succeeded Maeda Toshiie and secured the great Kaga domain / 1562–1614 (about 52 years)
Hosokawa Gracia Wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki, Christian / 1563–1600 (about 37 years)
Katō Yoshiaki One of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, daimyō who built Matsuyama Castle / 1563–1631 (about 68 years)
Hosokawa Tadaoki First lord of the Kokura domain and one of the Seven Disciples of Rikyū / 1563–1646 (about 83 years)
William Adams (Miura Anjin) English navigator, adviser to Ieyasu / 1564–1620 (about 56 years)
Ikeda Terumasa The "Shogun of the West" who built Himeji Castle as it stands today / 1564–1613 (about 49 years)
Ōtani Yoshitsugu Commander, lord of Tsuruga / 1565–1600 (about 35 years)
Date Masamune Warlord of Sendai / 1567–1636 (about 69 years)
Sanada Yukimura (Nobushige) Military commander / 1567–1615 (about 48 years)
Tachibana Muneshige Commander, daimyō of Yanagawa / 1567–1643 (about 76 years)
Kuroda Nagamasa Warlord, first lord of Fukuoka domain / 1568–1623 (about 55 years)
Yodo-dono Consort of Toyotomi Hideyoshi / 1569–1615 (about 46 years)
Itō Mancio Chief envoy of the Tenshō embassy, priest / 1569–1612 (about 43 years)
Hasekura Tsunenaga Date retainer, envoy to Europe / 1571–1622 (about 51 years)
Ukita Hideie Sengoku daimyō, one of the Five Elders / 1572–1655 (about 83 years)
Yuki Hideyasu Ieyasu's second son, lord of Echizen / 1574–1607 (about 33 years)
Kobayakawa Hideaki General who defected to the East at Sekigahara / 1582–1602 (about 20 years)
Toyotomi Hideyori Head of the Toyotomi house / 1593–1615 (about 22 years)

Other periods

Yayoi/Kofun Asuka Nara Heian Kamakura Muromachi Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama Edo Meiji Taishō

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