Catalogue January 2002.
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Daimyo.
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The daimyo were the highest class of aristocracy and were defined as a samurai having an income of over 10,000 koku (one koku was supposed to be the amount of rice needed to keep one man for one year). Each was required to provide a number of horsemen and footsoldiers according to their income. For example Tokugawa Ieyasu, the wealthiest daimyo in Japan in 1600, with 2.5 million koku, had over 30,000 men at the battle of Sekigahara. We are planning to release new daimyo (and their armies) as single personality figures and in encampment sets periodically throughout future years. Please watch this space for future developments. Please note that all prices are quoted "in store" Hong Kong and exclude postage and any relevant local duty & taxes. The Tokugawa
Encampment - Sekigahara (1600) |
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Set
No. SCD201 - Tokugawa Ieyasu
wearing Japanese/Portugese armour seated on tiger skin. |
 SCD201 |
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No. SCD202
Camp Screen set for Tokugawa encampment. White screens with black mon.
3 Pieces Price USD 58.00 |
 SCD202 |
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No. SCD203-
Honda Tadatsugu standing holding lance. 1 Piece Price USD 31.00 |
 SCD203 |
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No. SCD204-
Tokugawa Signals Set. 4 Pieces Price USD 70.00 |
 SCD204 |
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No. SCD205-
Mounted Monk ( Sohei ) Vignette. The great warlord Uesugi Kenshin, wearing the traditional white headcowl, attacks a samurai from the Oda clan. This set consists of two separate figures (horse with rider and foot figure) with an interlocking base and can either be displayed together, in the form of a vignette, or as two individual figures as part of a larger diorama. The set is packed in a Japanese style wooden box designed to compliment this collection 2 Pieces Price USD 105.00 |
 SCD205 |
 SCD206 |
 SCD206 Detail |
 SCD207 |
 SCD208 |
SCD208 Kuroda Nagamasa. - USD 31.00
 SCD209 |
Ii Naomasa (1561-1602), a trusted retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu, always dressed himself and his army in red armour, and became known as the 'Red-Outfit'. Ii was well known for his courage and in most battles would usually be found where the fighting was at its most intense. This was especially the case at the battle of Sekigahara (1600), where he led the by-then infamous "Red Devils" in the opening charge of the battle. As normal they struck fear into any enemy who saw them. As part of the Shogun Collection we now have 4 different Red Devil Cavalry and Ii Naomasa himself.
 SCD210 |
Katô Kiyomasa , a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyosi and a Tokugawa general, was a ferocious fighter and often ruthless. He was a true warrior, nothing more, nothing less. He wrote to his followers later in his life that poetry and dancing were shameful pastimes for a samurai, and ordered anyone who found himself engaged in the latter to commit suicide. His cruelty and love of combat (for sport, he hunted tigers with a spear in Korea) earned him the nickname Kishokan, or, 'Devil General'.
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