Collection of sources for Japanese nobility of the era

Collection of sources for Japanese nobility of the era
I highlighted the most interesting resources in red.
Additional sources (websites, videos, but also movies or books) may be added to this thread.
Keep in mind that the IG heraldic system cannot copy the RL heraldic system to 100 %, the goal is to get close to it in a practical manner.
The links are also added in the respective threads.


About the Feudal System

Video: The Feudal System of Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWFmYZ2qVns
Japanese Feudal System: http://medievaljapanalyssa.weebly.com/feudal-system.html
Feudalism Chart: http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151129/o35zlqrg.jpg
Feudalism Chart: http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151129/9in3lk5f.jpg
The Four-Tiered Class System of Feudal Japan (and people below the system: Eta and Hinin): http://asianhistory.about.com/od/japan/p/ShogJapanClass.htm
Merchants: http://www.lisashea.com/japan/articles/merchants.html
Burakumin (outcasts: Eta and Hinin): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin


About Fiefs

Shōen (estate = field or manor): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Den
Shiro (castle): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_castle
Han (domain) sytem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_system
Province: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Japan
Feudal Map of Japan with Daimyo and Provinces between 1564-73: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Feudal_Map_of_Japan_between_1564-73.jpg
Detailed Map of Japan in Provinces around 1600: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Map_of_Japan_in_Provinces_in_time_of_Iyeyasu.jpg
Provinces and Shōen in Medieval Japan: https://books.google.be/books?id=J-tO9pOjzmsC&printsec=frontcover
Map of the Provinces of Medieval Japan: http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151129/ypvq2ic9.png
Map of Japan in the Sixteenth Century in Warlords, Artists, and Commoners: https://books.google.de/books?id=T2_5_W7UFXwC&pg=PR18
Map of Japan in the Sixteenth Century: http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151129/sxywphys.png
Gokishichidō (ancient administrative units, Miyoshi is basically the five Kinai provinces): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokishichid%C5%8D
Kinai (Capital Region): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinai


About Personal and Family Emblems

Gallery of Flags of Samurai Armies (Japanese History Forum): http://www.samurai-archives.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1638
Mon (emblems): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem) (need to copy and paste the whole link with brackets into the browser)
Seal (stamp): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia) (need to copy and paste the whole link with brackets into the browser)
Nobori (stiffened banners used to denote different divisions within an army): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobori
Hata-jirushi (simple streamer war banners serving the same purpose as the later nobori): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hata-jirushi
Sashimono (small banners worn on the back of ashigaru foot soldiers and samurai for identification during battles): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashimono
Uma-jirushi (massive flags used to identify an important military commander or daimyo on the battle field): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma-jirushi
Horo (cloak attached to the back of the samurai armor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horo_(cloak) (need to copy and paste the whole link with brackets into the browser)
Kabuto (helmet used by warriors and the samurai class and their retainers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuto


About Families and Clans

Families: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_family
Clans (Kuge families): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clans


About Koku

Kokudawa (system of land value determination in the form of koku): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokudaka
Koku (unit of volume): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku
Koku in Japan Encyclopedia: https://books.google.de/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA549&dq=


About Nobility and Samurai

Some Misconceptions about Samurai (Japanese History Forum): http://www.samurai-archives.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=182
Rōnin (masterless samurai from his master's death or fall or loss of his favor or privilege): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin
Samurai/Bushi (military-nobility and officer-caste): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
Hatamoto/Jikisan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatamoto
Jitō (land stewards managing manors): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jit%C5%8D
Kuge (aristocratic class that dominates the imperial court in Kyoto): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuge
Kuge in Japan Encyclopedia: https://books.google.de/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA570&dq=
The Daily Life of the Kuge in the Heian Court (794-1185): http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/witt.html
Kuge in Medieval Japan: https://books.google.be/books?id=J-tO9pOjzmsC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Kuge+japan+court
Kokushi (provincial governor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokushi_(official) (need to copy and paste the whole link with brackets into the browser)
Gokenin/Omemie (direct vassals of the shogun): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokenin
Daimyō (most powerful feudal rulers, subordinate only to the Shogun): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimyo
Shōgun (hereditary military dictators and de facto rulers of Japan, although appointed by the Emperor as a formality): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun
Emperor (head of the Imperial Family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan


About the Muromachi period (1333–1568)

History of Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan#Muromachi_period_.281333.E2.80.931568.29
Muromachi period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muromachi_period


Examples of mon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem) (need to copy and paste the whole link with brackets into the browser)
http://www.yoroduya.co.jp/kamon
http://pingmag.jp/2007/10/25/animal-kamon-design
https://www.pinterest.com/sundayzoom/kamon
http://kamon-art.deviantart.com/gallery/48566175/Digital-art
http://www.cheng3.com/jw/363.html