Shimazu

The six films in the festival's Shimazu retrospective will include "Our Neighbor Miss Yae" (1934), actually a tale of two families — neighbors always in and out of each other's house.

Hong Kong Film Close-Up Dean Napolitano 2010

The six films in the festival's Shimazu retrospective will include "Our Neighbor Miss Yae" (1934), actually a tale of two families — neighbors always in and out of each other's house.

Hong Kong Film Close-Up Dean Napolitano 2010

Some daimyo, however, effectively managed to secure hereditary succession in their chosen regions.7 The Shimazu lords of the huge, sic domain of Satsuma in southern Japan, for instance, built up enough regional power to exercise effective autonomy8 and, eventually, in the nineteenth century to challenge the shoguns9.

A disappointment 2008

Some daimyo, however, effectively managed to secure hereditary succession in their chosen regions.7 The Shimazu lords of the huge, sic domain of Satsuma in southern Japan, for instance, built up enough regional power to exercise effective autonomy8 and, eventually, in the nineteenth century to challenge the shoguns9.

井の中の蛙 » A disappointment » Print 2008

The festival got its start when the 19th feudal lord of the local Shimazu clan, Mitsuhisa, donated a lantern at the local temple as a prayer for children and protection from illness.

Matsuri report » Japundit Blog 2005

The subjugation of the Shimazu family of southern Kysh completed Hideyoshi's conquest of western Japan.

1584 2001

Yoshishige, commonly called Sorin (1530-1587), fought successfully with the Kikuchi and the Akizuki, and the closing years of his life were devoted to a futile struggle against the Shimazu, the Ryuzoji, and the Akizuki.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Subsequently (1471) the shogun Yoshimasa, in compliance with a request from the Shimazu family, forbade the sailing of any vessel to

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Tadamichi's manor of Shimazu comprised one-fourth of the province of

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

-- Yoshinori (1394-41), shogun (1428-41); abbot, called Gien; rule; killed; relations with China; grants Ryukyu to Shimazu

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886