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Other Famous Shoguns

Here is a list of some other shoguns and what they have done:


 * Minamoto no Yoritomo took power of the aristocrats of Kyoto.
 * Ashikaga's Shogunate ruled for 37 years.
 * Sakanoue no Tamuramaro who was the conquerer of Emish.

Weapons:

One famous medevil Japan weapon is the [|Katana.] The katana is a light weight blade that was mostly used far practice. It could also be used in combination with one of a few of the following weapons:
 * Shoto, a sword that looks a lot like a Katana, but is smaller.
 * [|Wakizashi,] is almost the same as the shoto and could be fought with in small rooms with one hand. When carried with the Katana it is called a daisho. It was also used to preform a ritual suicide called the Seppuku.
 * Tano, which is an even smaller sword than the Shoto or the Wakizashi and is about twelve inches long.

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