People

The historical figures who shaped this guide’s ideas, arts, and places — tea masters, shoguns, printmakers, a chemist — each in a short profile.

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Ashikaga Yoshimasa 足利義政 Eighth Ashikaga shogun · 1436–1490 Eisai 栄西 Zen monk · 1141–1215 Izumo no Okuni 出雲阿国 Dancer, founder of kabuki · b. c. 1571 Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 Ukiyo-e artist · 1760–1849 Kikunae Ikeda 池田菊苗 Chemist · 1864–1936 Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 First shogun · 1147–1199 Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 Scholar · 1730–1801 Murasaki Shikibu 紫式部 Writer, author of The Tale of Genji · c. 973–c. 1014 Oda Nobunaga 織田信長 Warlord, first unifier of Japan · 1534–1582 Sen no Rikyū 千利休 Tea master · 1522–1591 Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真 Scholar, later deified · 845–903 Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 Shogun, unifier of Japan · 1543–1616 Tokugawa Yoshimune 徳川吉宗 Eighth Tokugawa shogun · 1684–1751 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣秀吉 Warlord, second unifier of Japan · 1537–1598 Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 Ukiyo-e artist · 1797–1858 Zeami 世阿弥 Noh actor and playwright · c. 1363–c. 1443