The Tanegashima clan (種子島氏, Tanegashima-shi) is a Japanese aristocratic family of samurai origins that originated on the Tanegashima Island, just south...
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clan made itself autonomous on Tanegashima after the Hōjō clan was annihilated and began to claim the clan name of Tanegashima. The Tanegashima clan ruled...
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Toyotomi clan in the siege of Osaka and established the Tokugawa shogunate, the relatively peaceful Edo period arrived, and the use of tanegashima declined...
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branch family of the Higo clan settled in Tanegashima and became the Tanegashima clan. The islands other than Tanegashima were grouped as the Twelve...
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Tanegashima Tokitaka (1528 – October 21, 1579) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, the 14th head of the Tanegashima clan. He is known for having...
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branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji. Takigawa clan (滝川氏) – descended from Ki clan or Tomo clan (disputed). Tanegashima clan (種子島氏) – descended...
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1542, three Portuguese ships were carried by a typhoon to the island of Tanegashima, just off the coast of Kyūshū. Within ten years, trade with the Portuguese...
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The Taira (平) was one of the four most important clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period of Japanese history – the others being...
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Ijuin Tadaaki Ijuin Tadaao Ijuin Tadamune Ijuin Tadazane Niiro Tadamoto Tanegashima Tokitaka Uwai Kakuken Yamada Arinobu Yamada Arinaga Akizuki Tanezane...
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Samurai (section The regency political system by Fujiwara clan and cloistered rule by cloistered emperors)
improve and mass-produce them. The Japanese matchlock was named tanegashima after the Tanegashima island, which is believed to be the place where it was first...
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Shimazu Hisamitsu (category Shimazu clan)
mother was Yura, Narioki's concubine. He was briefly adopted by the Tanegashima clan as an heir, but was returned to the Shimazu family while still a child...
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1543, it was improved and mass-produced in Japan, and a gun called the tanegashima began to be used in wars. With the introduction of guns, a standing army...
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Mangjul (redirect from Mangjeol clan of Dogan)
the hometown of his Japanese grandfather (Shimama 島間, Minamitane 南種子町, Tanegashima Island 種子島, Kagoshima Prefecture 鹿児島県). The 2000 South Korean census...
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Islands have been settled since at least the Jōmon period. Burial sites on Tanegashima, namely the Yokomine and Hirota sites, attest to a uniquely well-developed...
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Shimazu Takahisa (category Shimazu clan)
firearms into Japan, following the shipwreck of a number of Portuguese on Tanegashima in 1543. In 1549, he welcomed St. Francis Xavier and met Xavier in Ijyuin...
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Matsura Takanobu (category Matsura clan)
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 28. Lidin, Olof G. (2003). Tanegashima – The Arrival of Europe in Japan. Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-135-78871-1...
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Lidin (2003). Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9781135788711. Olaf G. Lidin (2003). Tanegashima - The Arrival of...
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the Hōjō clan was annihilated, one line of the Higo clan made itself autonomous in Tanegashima and began to claim the clan name of Tanegashima. The post...
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century the ashigaru were also armed with matchlocks of the type known as tanegashima. Small banners called sashimono could be worn on their backs during battle...
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Tadamoto Yamada Arinobu Arima Harunobu Ei Hisatora Akizuki Tanezane Tanegashima Hisatoki Hoshino Yoshizane Hoshino Yoshikane Itō Yoshisuke Itō Suketaka...
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Ninja (section Iga and Kōga clans)
Kōka ninja Sugitani Zenjubō attempted to assassinate Nobunaga with two Tanegashima (gun) rifles. However, his attempts was failed as his shots failed to...
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from the nearby island of Tanegashima, which is home to the Japanese Space Centre. Periodic rocket launches from Tanegashima can clearly be seen from Yakushima...
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25th day of the 8th month (1543): Portuguese ship drifts ashore at Tanegashima, and European guns are introduced into Japan. Tenbun 20, 8th to 9th month...
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the Ashikaga shogunate. Adopting an innovative military strategy using tanegashima (種子島, matchlock gun) and an economic policy that encouraged economic...
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Oda Nobunaga (category Oda clan)
date. He changed the perception that matchlock guns, commonly known as tanegashima, were unsuitable for actual combat due to their short range and inability...
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troops) fought on foot and in close quarters, and yari, yumi (longbow) and tanegashima (Japanese matchlock) became the main weapons. This made naginata and...
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Japanese after Tanegashima Tokitaka bought two matchlock guns from Portuguese adventurers who were aboard a Chinese junk ship in Tanegashima. Within ten...
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Nanban trade (section Tanegashima guns)
Dejima, under total scrutiny. Following contact with the Portuguese on Tanegashima in 1543, the Japanese were at first rather wary of the newly arrived...
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Muromachi period, the first Europeans had arrived. The Portuguese landed in Tanegashima south of Kyūshū in 1543 and within two years were making regular port...
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the cavalry of the Takeda army with his powerful arquebusiers, using tanegashima. The causes of victory for the allied forces used to be cited as the...
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