MILITARY PERSONNEL

Sanada Yukimura

1567 - 1615

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Sanada Nobushige (真田 信繁; 1567 – June 3, 1615), also known as Sanada Yukimura (真田 幸村), was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called "A Hero who may appear once in a hundred years", "Crimson Demon of War" and "The Last Sengoku Hero". The famed veteran of the invasion of Korea Shimazu Tadatsune called him the "Number one warrior in Japan" (日本一の兵). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sanada Yukimura is the 417th most popular military personnel (down from 396th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 181st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Sanada Yukimura is most famous for being a samurai warrior who fought in the Siege of Osaka.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sanada Yukimura ranks 417 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Vasily Sokolovsky, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Günther Lütjens, and Günther Prien. After him are Thomas the Slav, Huang Zhong, Muqali, Reinhard Scheer, Gaius Claudius Glaber, and Henri Guisan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Sanada Yukimura ranks 9. Before him are Maurice, Prince of Orange, Samuel de Champlain, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Date Masamune, Willem Schouten, and Eleanor de' Medici. After him are Jacques Clément, Honoré d'Urfé, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Jacob van Heemskerck, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, and John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1615, Sanada Yukimura ranks 5. Before him are Margaret of Valois, Hans von Aachen, Toyotomi Hideyori, and Giambattista della Porta. After him are Yodo-dono, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Heo Jun, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Claudio Acquaviva, Dom Justo Takayama, and Virginia de' Medici.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 222 out of 6,245. Before him are Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), Ryuzo Shimizu (1902), Yosa Buson (1716), Arawa Kimura (1931), and Tokizo Ichihashi (1909). After him are Yoshio Okada (1926), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Tadao Takayama (1904), Yozo Aoki (1929), Waichiro Omura (1933), and Empress Kōjun (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 21. Before him are Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Shunroku Hata (1879), Okita Sōji (1842), Iwane Matsui (1878), and Honda Tadakatsu (1548). After him are Nogi Maresuke (1849), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), and Shoichi Yokoi (1915).

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