Shimazu is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Esther Shimazu
Esther Shimazu is an American sculptor who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1957. Her grandparents were immigrant laborers from Japan. She attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa before transferring to the University of Massachusetts in Amhe ...
(born 1957), American/Hawaiian sculptor
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Saeko Shimazu
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Isehara. Shimazu is notable for having had voice roles in all four of the major anime television series based on the works of Rumiko Takahashi - she played Shinobu Miyake in ''Urusei Yatsur ...
(born 1959), Japanese voice actress
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Shimazu clan
The were the ''daimyō'' of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.
The Shimazu were identified as one of the '' tozama'' or outsider ''daimyō'' familiesAppert, Georges ''et al.'' (1888). in contrast ...
, ''daimyō'' of the Satsuma han
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Shimazu Hisamitsu
Prince , also known as , was a Japanese samurai
were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the ...
(1817-1887), Japanese samurai prince
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Shimazu Katsuhisa
was head of the Shimazu clan in Japan.
He was adopted father of Shimazu Takahisa (son of Shimazu Tadayoshi
was a ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Satsuma Province during Japan's Sengoku period. He was born into the Mimasaka Shimazu family ( ...
(1503-1573), the fourteenth head of the Shimazu clan
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Shimazu Nariakira (1809-1858), Japanese feudal lord (''daimyō'')
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Shimazu Tadahisa (died 1227), founder of the Shimazu clan
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Shimazu Tadatsune
was a ''tozama daimyō'' of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief ('' han'') under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom. As lord of Satsuma, he was among the most powerful lords in Japan at ...
(1576-1638), Tozama daimyō of Satsuma
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Shimazu Tadayoshi (1493-1568), ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Satsuma
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Shimazu Takahisa (1514-1571), ''daimyō'' during Japan's Sengoku period
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Shimazu Toshihisa (1537-1592), senior retainer to the Shimazu clan
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Shimazu Yoshihiro
was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. Traditionally believed to be the 17th head of the Shimazu clan, he was a skilled general during the Sengoku period who greatly contributed to the unification o ...
(1535-1619), general of the Shimazu clan
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Shimazu Yoshihisa (1533-1611), ''daimyō'' of Satsuma
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Takako Shimazu
, born , is a former member of the Imperial House of Japan. She is the fifth and youngest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun, and the youngest sister of the Emperor Emeritus of Japan, Akihito. She married Hisanaga Shimazu on 3 Marc ...
(born 1939), Japanese princess
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Yasujirō Shimazu
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, and a pioneer of the ''shomin-geki'' (common people drama) genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan.
Biography
Shimazu was born in Tokyo, the second son of merchant Otojirō Shimazu ...
(1897–1945), Japanese film director
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