Ōkubo Nagayasu
was a Japanese samurai bureaucrat and ''daimyō'' of the Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok .... Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Matsudaira Ietada"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 747. He was in charge of silver mines at Sagami after 1601, at Sado after 1603 and at Izu after 1606. He expanded production at each mine. Murdoch, James. (1903)''A History of Japan,'' pp. 492-493 n.24 After his death, evidence of misconduct was found. His fief was confiscated and his sons were ordered to commit suicide. References Daimyo Hatamoto 1545 births 1613 deaths Ōkubo clan {{Daimyo-stub ...
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Samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court downsized the national army and delegated the security of the countryside to these privately trained warriors. Eventually the samurai clans grew so powerful that they became the ''de facto'' rulers of the country. In the aftermath of the Gempei War (1180-1185), Japan formally passed into military rule with the founding of the first shogunate. The status of samurai became heredity by the mid-eleventh century. By the start of the Edo period, the shogun had disbanded the warrior-monk orders and peasant conscript system, leaving the samurai as the only men in the country permitted to carry weapons at all times. Because the Edo period was a time of peace, many samurai neglected their warrior training and focused on peacetime activities such as a ...
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