List of Famous people named Yagyu

Here are some famous Yagyus:

Yagyū Munenori

First Name Yagyū
Last Name Munenori
Born on January 1, 1571
Died on May 11, 1646 (aged 75)

Yagyū Munenori was a Japanese swordsman, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyū "Sekishūsai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa shogunate. Munenori began his career in the Tokugawa administration as a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the Tokugawa house, and later had his income raised to 10,000 koku, making him a minor fudai daimyō, with landholdings around his ancestral village of Yagyū-zato. He also received the title of Tajima no Kami (但馬守).

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Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi

First Name Yagyū
Last Name Mitsuyoshi
Born on November 30, 1606
Died on April 21, 1650 (aged 43)

Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi was one of the most famous and romanticized of the samurai in Japan's feudal era.

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Yagyū Munetoshi

Yagyū Shinsuke Munetoshi
First Name Yagyū
Last Name Munetoshi
Died on May 25, 1606

Yagyū Sekishūsai Taira-no-Munetoshi was a samurai in Japan's Sengoku period famous for mastering the Shinkage-ryū school of combat, and introducing it to the Tokugawa clan. He was also known as Shinsuke, or Shinzaemon.

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Yagyū Munefuyu

First Name Yagyū
Last Name Munefuyu
Born on January 1, 1613
Died on January 1, 1675 (aged 62)

Yagyū Munefuyu was a daimyō and a teacher of kenjutsu and military strategy in Japan during the Edo period. His highest-ranking pupil was Tokugawa Ietsuna, fourth Tokugawa shōgun. Munefuyu, who also went by the name Matajūrō, was the third son of Yagyū Munenori. One of his elder brothers was Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi. His younger brother was Retsudō Gisen, the real person who is fictionalized as Yagyū Retsudō, leader of the Ura-Yagyū, in Lone Wolf and Cub.

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