Battle Era, Sengoku Jidai, 1490-1600
Be, guilds or corporations; hereditary, not changed by Daika; property of Crown; of armourers; fishermen
Bekki Shoemon, in plot of 1652
Bell, of Hoko-ji, "treasonable" inscription on; on public-service horses; bronze bells; Nanban (ill.); bell-tower (ill.); suzu
Benkei, halberdier
Betto superintendent of uji schools; president of samurai-dokoro; regent, shikken, head of man-dokoro, office hereditary in Hojo family; head of monju-dokoro, becomes finance minister of shogun (1225)
Bidatsu, 30th Emperor (572-85)
Biddle, James. (1783-1848), Commodore, U.S.N., in Japan (1846)
Bifuku-mon-in, consort of Toba, mother of Konoe
Bin, Buddhist priest, "national doctor"; death