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• Ninna-ji
  *''Japanese'': 仁和寺 ''(Ninna-ji)'' ...se" (''wayô'') style of the [[Heian period]].<ref>The term ''wayô'' (lit. "Japanese style") was coined in the [[Kamakura period]] to refer to the architectural
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• Saigo Tsugumichi
  * ''Japanese'': [[西郷]]従道 ''(Saigou Tsugumichi)'' Tsugumichi led a Japanese invasion of Formosa (Taiwan) in May, [[1874]] ([[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]
  3 KB (396 words) - 10:45, 4 April 2017
• Mono no aware
  *''Japanese'': 物の哀れ ''(mono no aware)'' ...equently used to refer to a particular aesthetic, or aesthetic element, in Japanese traditional culture, particularly [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]]
  3 KB (444 words) - 18:17, 5 October 2013
• Telegraph
  *''Japanese'': 電信機 ''(denshinki)'', 電報 ''(denpô)'' ...this was indeed the first-ever telegraph message in Japan, or the first on Japanese-made equipment, and whether it was using the machine gifted by Nabeshima or
  3 KB (382 words) - 01:54, 30 April 2020
• Machiya
  *''Japanese'': 町屋、町家 ''(machiya)'' ...ya'' (lit. "townhouses") are perhaps the most standard form of traditional Japanese urban one-family dwellings. Developing into their mature form in the [[Edo
  9 KB (1,435 words) - 20:04, 25 July 2016
• Kencho-ji
  *''Japanese'': 建長寺 ''(kenchou-ji)'' ...ound it. Daolong would be the first to be named a Japanese Zen master by a Japanese Emperor.
  3 KB (468 words) - 03:14, 16 May 2018
• Seiken-ji
  *''Japanese'': 清見寺 ''(Seiken-ji; Kiyomi-dera)'' ...estored once again by [[Shogun]] [[Ashikaga Takauji]] in [[1342]], and its garden was officially named a "famous site" (''meishô''<ref>名勝</ref>) in the
  6 KB (898 words) - 10:01, 15 July 2020
• Hatagoya
  *''Japanese'': 旅籠 ''(hatago)'', 旅籠屋 ''(hatagoya)'' ...building, from the ''genkan'' (entrance) through the kitchen and a pocket garden. A tatami-lined room behind the ''mise no ma'' but before the guest rooms w
  3 KB (425 words) - 11:11, 11 May 2020
• Nakashima (Naha)
  *''Japanese'': 仲島 ''(Nakashima)'' ...hinese illustrated book, the scene is entitled ''Chûtô shôen'', or "Banana Garden at Chûtô (Nakashima)."
  3 KB (388 words) - 04:54, 17 August 2013
• Kawamura Nagataka
  *''Japanese'': [[川村]] 修就 ''(Kawamura Nagataka)'' ...n [[Edo]], and originally inheriting his family post of ''niwaban'' (lit. "garden guard"), in which he traveled the realm compiling secret reports for the sh
  3 KB (390 words) - 00:18, 16 April 2020
• Motoori Norinaga
  *''Japanese'': 本居宣長 ''(Motoori Norinaga)'' ...the [[Edo period]], writing extensively on the essence of Japaneseness, or Japanese culture, and disparaging Chinese culture and influence.
  3 KB (481 words) - 15:00, 15 July 2016
• Nanzen-ji
  *''Japanese'': 南禅寺 ''(Nanzenji)'' ...he ''[[shinden-zukuri]]'' architecture style, and faces the temple's front garden, said to have been designed by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Enshû]] around [[1600
  3 KB (373 words) - 16:53, 20 September 2016
• Akamatsu Mitsusuke
  * ''Japanese'': [[赤松]] 満祐 ''(Akamatsu Mitsusuke)'' ...ctory feast. Yoshinori agreed, and during a presentation of dancing in the garden a number of horses suddenly burst from their stables and caused great confu
  4 KB (624 words) - 14:48, 18 November 2007
• Kaga Edo mansion
  *''Japanese'': 加賀江戸藩邸 ''(Kaga Edo hantei)'' ...ed by as many as 30,000 people.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 72.</ref> The space i
  3 KB (504 words) - 10:13, 14 November 2021
• Sho Jun (1873-1945)
  *''Japanese'': [[尚]] 順 ''(Shou Jun)'' ...ekijô'' theater, and a canning factory, and was a major figure in both the Japanese political and investment worlds of his time.
  3 KB (473 words) - 22:41, 26 December 2023
• 1894
  ===[[Sino-Japanese War]]=== *1894/9/15 Japanese First Army (17,000 troops) attacks Pingyang.
  3 KB (420 words) - 00:02, 27 January 2018
• Chengde
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 承德 ''(Chéngdé)'' ...used by elite scholar-officials, while an area to the north, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, contained an area of prairie meant to reproduce the
  3 KB (451 words) - 00:08, 7 May 2015
• Hikone castle
  *''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)'' ...x. It was also known as the Rinchikaku ("Tower Next to the Pond"). Another garden in the compound, the Genkyû-en, was built by Ii Naooki in 1677, and was me
  7 KB (1,117 words) - 20:25, 28 June 2020
• Shokoshuseikan
  *''Japanese'': 尚古集成館 ''(Shou ko shuu sei kan)'' ...loyed over two thousand workers.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
  4 KB (669 words) - 02:04, 18 August 2020
• Eisei Bunko
  *''Japanese'': 永青文庫 ''(Eisei Bunko)'' ...rtion of the estate's gardens are maintained nearby as the [[Higo-Hosokawa Garden]]. The archive takes its name from the "ei" of Eigen-an, a [[tachu|branch t
  3 KB (494 words) - 19:33, 22 May 2017

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