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• Ryuzoji Takanobu
  * ''Japanese'': [[龍造寺]]隆信 ''(Ryuuzouji Takanobu)'' ...said to have heavily indulged in alcohol and by 1580 was showing signs of advanced alcoholism, including a dulling of his mental capabilities and an increasin
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• Siege of Koriyama
  * ''Japanese'': Battle of Yoshida-Koriyama (吉田郡山城の戦い) ''(Yoshida Kouriya In the 8th month Haruhisa's main force departed Izumo and advanced into the vicinity of Motonari's Yoshida-Koriyama Castle and established a h
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• Fuwa Kazuemon
  ...in Legends of the Samurai Overlook Press, 1995). One of several arguments advanced by Confucian scholars shortly after the 1702 Ako ronin attack. Yasusada pro ...ssor Henry Smith (cited below in the bibliography) describes as “the first Japanese historian to analyze the incident using the tools of modern scholarship.”
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• Okakura Kakuzo
  *''Japanese'': 岡倉覚三 ''(Okakura Kakuzou)'' ...a canon of Japanese art. He was also a prominent advocate for traditional Japanese art and culture, and a proponent of caution against Westernizing too quickl
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• Takenouchi Ryu
  * ''Japanese'': 竹内流 ''(Takenouchi Ryuu)'' ...ing and prayer. Takenouchi Hisamori was a relatively small person even for Japanese people, but used a training sword of two shaku and four sun in length. On t
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• Porcelain
  *''Japanese'': 磁製 ''(jisei)'', 磁器 ''(jiki)'' ...fired at around 1300-1350 C, white porcelain is said to have been the most advanced type of porcelain in terms of its hardness.<ref>Gallery labels, National Mu
  7 KB (994 words) - 15:59, 29 January 2020
• Hojo Ujimasa
  *''Japanese'': [[北条]]氏政 ''(Houjou Ujimasa)'' ...yotomi forces began to descend on the Kanto-including Tokugawa Ieyasu, who advanced eastward through the Hakone passes. Uesugi Kagekatsu and [[Maeda Toshiie]]
  7 KB (1,083 words) - 07:04, 26 July 2015
• Hikone castle
  *''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)'' ...gawa Ieyasu]] at the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] in [[1600]], Ieyasu’s forces advanced on Sawayama. The castle was being defended by Mitsunari’s brother, Ishida
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• Nakagusuku gusuku
  *''Japanese'': [[中城]]城 ''(Nakagusuku gusuku, Nakagusuku jou)'' ...''miigusuku''). Its walls are built in the ''aikata'' style, a newer, more advanced style than the ''nuno-zumi'' style in which the walls of the first and seco
  8 KB (1,191 words) - 08:33, 1 June 2020
• Sakamoto Ryoma
  * ''Japanese'': 坂本龍馬直柔 ''(Sakamoto Ryôma Naonari)'' **Began advanced training in swordsmanship at the famed Chiba dôjô in [[Edo]].
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• Sugar
  *''Japanese'': 砂糖 ''(satou)'' ...represented unfair competition.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
  10 KB (1,611 words) - 08:35, 27 February 2020
• Northern Song Dynasty
  ...ef name=schiro>Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 190-191.</ref> ...on of many of these goods. The Song coal and iron industries were the most advanced in the world at that time.<ref>Schirokauer, et al, 198.</ref> [[Gunpowder]]
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• Military of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  ...captain (''sedo'', O: ''shiidu'')<ref>A term etymologically related to the Japanese ''sentô'' 船頭, for "boatman" or "captain."</ref> down to infantry and p ...omi'', the same ending applied to the names of Ryukyuan ships (akin to the Japanese ''-maru''). The ''hiki'' served not only a strictly military role, but serv
  11 KB (1,772 words) - 09:54, 9 February 2020
• Chuzan
  * ''Japanese/Chinese:'' 中山 ''(Chuuzan / Zhōngshān)'' ...radually less true over the generations; the king's power and organization advanced considerably by the time all three kingdoms were unified as the Kingdom of
  12 KB (1,903 words) - 12:25, 31 March 2018
• Sosuishi ryu
  ...ryû pronunciations are interchangeable.</ref> is a [[Koryū|traditional]] [[Japanese martial art]] founded in [[1650]], a [[bujutsu]] school that focuses on Kum ...spirit converged at that one moment. This event, called ''[[satori]]'' in Japanese, prompted him to change the name of Futagami-ryû to Sôsuishi-ryû in rem
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• Ryukyu lacquerware
  *''Japanese'': 琉球漆器 ''(Ryuukyuu shikki)'' ...oxes. Carrying cases called ''sagejû'' (提重) or ''jikirô'', much like their Japanese cousins, carried a number of boxes, within which could be stored chopsticks
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• Ashikaga Takauji
  * ''Japanese'': [[足利]] 尊氏 ''(Ashikaga Takauji)'' Few figures in Japanese history are as controversial as Ashikaga Takauji, a man whose actions broug
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• Kusunoki Masashige
  *''Japanese'': [[楠木]]正成 ''(Kusunoki Masashige)'' ...t he visited with his eleven-year old son, a poignant moment celebrated in Japanese art. According to the ''Taiheki'' Masashige urged the boy, Masatsura, to re
  13 KB (2,129 words) - 15:12, 26 March 2015
• Shimazu Yoshihisa
  * ''Japanese:'' [[島津]]義久 ''(Shimazu Yoshihisa)'' ...success with the destruction of an enemy fort at Matsuyama. Yoshihisa then advanced to the Taka area, and joined with the rest of the Shimazu clan. The followi
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• Teppo
  *''Japanese'': 鉄砲 ''(teppou)'' ''Teppô'' is the Japanese term for arquebuses, or matchlocks, the first European firearm to be introd
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