MILITARY PERSONNEL

Date Masamune

1567 - 1636

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Date Masamune (伊達 政宗; DAH-tay; September 5, 1567 – June 27, 1636) was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he was made all the more iconic for his missing eye, as Masamune was often called dokuganryū (独眼竜), or the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū". As a legendary warrior and leader, Masamune is a character in a number of Japanese period dramas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Date Masamune is the 260th most popular military personnel (down from 196th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Japan (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Masamune is most famous for the creation of a sword called "Kusanagi-no-tsurugi" or "Grass Cutting Sword." This sword was said to be one of the three Imperial Regalia of Japan and was used by the emperor during coronation ceremonies.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Date Masamune ranks 260 out of 2,058. Before him are Craterus, Bertrand du Guesclin, Amr ibn al-As, Erhard Milch, Hugh Dowding, and J. D. Tippit. After him are Tomoyuki Yamashita, Federico da Montefeltro, Eumenes, Pedro de Alvarado, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Karl-Otto Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Date Masamune ranks 6. Before him are Claudio Monteverdi, Francis de Sales, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Samuel de Champlain, and Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain. After him are Willem Schouten, Eleanor de' Medici, Sanada Yukimura, Jacques Clément, Honoré d'Urfé, and Jindřich Matyáš Thurn. Among people deceased in 1636, Date Masamune ranks 2. Before him is Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After him are Santorio Santorio, Mulla Sadra, Dong Qichang, Sendivogius, Stefano Maderno, John Albert II, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Iskandar Muda, Gregorio Fernández, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Date Masamune ranks 95 out of 6,245. Before him are Liv Ullmann (1938), Emperor Itoku (-553), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Junko Tabei (1939), and Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740). After him are Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kūkai (774), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Akira Suzuki (1930), and Empress Meishō (1624).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Date Masamune ranks 13. Before him are Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593). After him are Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Shunroku Hata (1879), Okita Sōji (1842), and Iwane Matsui (1878).

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