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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sanada Yukimura has received more than 981,222 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sanada Yukimura is the 396th most popular military personnel (down from 332nd in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Japan (down from 127th 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 396 out of 2,058. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Bronislav Kaminski, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Gan Ning, and Li Mu. After him are Choe Yeong, Alexander Samsonov, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Günther Rall, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, and Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Sanada Yukimura ranks 9. Before him are Maurice, Prince of Orange, Date Masamune, Samuel de Champlain, Willem Schouten, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, and Jacques Clément. After him are Eleanor de' Medici, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Jacob van Heemskerck, Honoré d'Urfé, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, and John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1615, Sanada Yukimura ranks 4. Before him are Margaret of Valois, Hans von Aachen, and Toyotomi Hideyori. After him are Giambattista della Porta, Dom Justo Takayama, Heo Jun, Yodo-dono, Virginia de' Medici, Claudio Acquaviva, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 181 out of 6,245. Before him are Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), Yohji Yamamoto (1943), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), and Emperor Momozono (1741). After him are Emperor Tenji (626), Katsura Tarō (1848), Emperor Kōgen (-272), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Emperor Seimu (83), and Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Sanada Yukimura ranks 21. Before him are Shunroku Hata (1879), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), and Iwane Matsui (1878). After him are Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), and Hijikata Toshizō (1835).

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