...sity of California, Irvine, and was one of the early pioneers in the field of Ethnomusicology.
...versity of Tokyo]], who helped him arrange for UCLA to acquire its own set of ''gagaku'' instruments; those instruments remain in the UCLA Musical Instru
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...Hosan).<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 226.</ref>
...tch residence) in Edo.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Presss (2012), 333. </ref>
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Fukuzawa Yukichi was among the most prominent political thinkers of the early [[Meiji period]], famous in particular for his ideas on education
...o Jijo|Seiyô Jijô]]'' ("Conditions in the West"), a volume describing much of American lifestyles, material culture, societal and urban organization, and
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...ho-bell.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Replica of the Hongoku-chô bell at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]]]]
...lose to [[Nihonbashi]], and continued to call out the time throughout much of the [[Edo period]].
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..., in which he restored Yanagisawa's reputation, arguing that most accounts of his lascivious or otherwise inappropriate behavior was based on unfounded r
..., and after the [[Meiji Restoration]] became an official in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] prior to his death in [[1875]].
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...on.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Some of the 2600 volumes of handwritten summaries of the Ishin Shiryô which form the Ishin Shiryô Kôhon, the basis for the 10
...d from [[1846]] to [[1871]] - i.e. events relating to the key developments of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and [[Meiji Restoration]].
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...became patronized by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], and made a branch temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]].
...duced a number of replicas which it put on display, though eventually some of these replicas came to be considered sacred enough to also be hidden away f
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...u|Nobuyasu]] (who was later made to commit suicide). He fought at [[Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] in [[1575]] and later took part in the failed expedit
...province]], Chikayoshi was made lord of [[Inuyama castle]], with an income of 100,000 ''koku''.
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...r often took the form of reporting specifically on births, deaths, changes of residence, marriages, adoptions, and the like within these small, relativel
...ess, such as assessments of public work projects and the associated burden of corvée labor and material contributions from various villages, or in inves
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...û's relations with China and Japan. She holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo.
...王国の自画像 －近世沖縄思想史－, Pelican-sha (translation of [[Gregory Smits]], ''Visions of Ryukyu'', UH Press (1999))
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[[Image:Shoten-funeral.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The 1920 funeral of Shô Ten.]]
*''Titles: Crown Prince of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (-1879); Marquis (''侯爵'', kōshaku)(1901-1920)''
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...grounds of the mansion have become the main campus of the [[University of Tokyo]].
...er of his sons, [[Maeda Toshiatsu]], succeeded [[Maeda Toshikata]] as lord of [[Toyama han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937),
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...da Gentetsu Akinori, consort of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and mother of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]].
...pectively. Gekkô-in's son Nabematsu survived to be named shogun at the age of three, upon Ienobu's death in [[1712]].
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...eriod from 1424 to 1867, it contains records, written entirely in Chinese, of communications between Ryûkyû and ten different trading partners in this
...er were missing or severely damaged. All were destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa.
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...is a professor at the [[University of Tokyo]], specializing in the history of foreign relations in early modern Japan, especially relations with Korea.
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...[Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] in 1921, and the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923.
...aishô was also to be the first emperor to observe modern/Western standards of monogamous marriage for a monarch.<ref>Fujitani, 189.</ref>
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Located at the mouth of the Yafusa River, it was a significant port for trade with Korea, China, an
...taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45-46n86.
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Toshinao was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Morioka han]], in northern [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]].
...is men to aid [[Mogami Yoshiaki]] and [[Date Masamune]] against the forces of [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]]. After the campaign was concluded, Toshinao was confir
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...n as ''[[kokudaka]]''. This, in turn, would indirectly dictate the number of men such a lord could be expected to field, if necessary.
...period, however, the value of gold rose dramatically relative to the cost of rice,<ref>Screech, Timon. "Owning Edo-Period Paintings." in Lillehoj, Eliza
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*''Chôrô'' - one of a number of titles for the head of a temple
*''Dai-ajari'' or ''Azari'' - the chief expounder of a sect's doctrine
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