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• Sando
  *''Japanese'': 三道 ''(sandou)'' ...scusses the composition of the play itself, with a particular focus on the language used. He writes about drawing plays from various established stories or sou
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• Sanshin
  ...eskin strings"), are not typically used in Ryûkyû, but only among mainland Japanese (Ashgate. p305.), highlighting the snakeskin aspect, and marking the instru *''Japanese'': 三線 ''(sanshin)''
  25 KB (3,931 words) - 09:12, 21 April 2020
• Yuan Dynasty
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 元 ''(Yuán / Gen)'' ...ere forbidden from riding horses, possessing firearms, speaking the Mongol language, or intermarrying with Mongols. Many Chinese scholar-officials retreated to
  7 KB (1,002 words) - 15:00, 30 January 2015
• Kaisen
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': 楷船 ''(kaisen / keeshin)'' ''Kaisen'', or ''keeshin'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]],<ref>[http://ryukyu-lang.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/srnh/details.php?ID=
  8 KB (1,210 words) - 03:33, 12 January 2020
• Confucianism
  *''Japanese'': 儒教 ''(jukyou)'' ...phy of the state, Confucianism remained the foundation of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan]] political philosophy, or at
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• Bernard Bettelheim
  *''Japanese'': バーナード・ジャン・ベッテルハイム ''(baanaado jan bett ...m [[1846]] to [[1854]]. He is credited with producing the first [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]]-English dictionary, and the first translation of the Bible into
  23 KB (3,627 words) - 00:37, 10 August 2021
• Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution
  *''Japanese'': 憲法発布 ''(kenpou hapu)'' ...on, and thus in a sense the anniversary of the establishment of the modern Japanese nation-state. They were advertised ahead of time, and information was given
  8 KB (1,255 words) - 12:53, 27 March 2015
• Sho Hashi
  * ''Japanese/Chinese'': [[尚]] 巴志 ''(Shou Hashi / Shàng Bāzhì)'' ...n Japanese), registered a new title in their annals: ''Liuqiu Wang'' (琉球王, Japanese: ''Ryûkyû-Ô'', King of Ryûkyû), and sent Hashi's emissary back with a
  8 KB (1,221 words) - 09:17, 1 February 2020
• 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States
  The first Japanese embassy to the [[United States]] took place in [[1860]]. The ambassadors tr ...nominal purpose of this mission was to exchange the Japanese- and English-language versions of the [[Harris Treaty|Treaty of Amity and Commerce]] signed two y
  7 KB (1,143 words) - 02:11, 29 August 2020
• Vietnam
  ...sian Security'' 1, no. 1 (2005): 58.</ref> Towards the end of this period, Japanese had at least some kind of experience of Vietnam at least as early as the 8t
  20 KB (2,985 words) - 00:49, 10 July 2019
• Taiwan
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 台湾 ''(Táiwān / Taiwan)'' ...''[[wako|wakô]]'' ("Japanese brigands") were mostly Chinese, but included Japanese, Koreans, and Southeast Asians as well, and raided ships and ports all alon
  25 KB (3,779 words) - 08:44, 15 January 2020
• Government of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  ...decisions of governance and legislation. Alongside two ministries known in Japanese as [[Moshikuchiho|Môshikuchihô]] and [[Umun bujo|Mono bugyôsho]] (O: ''U ...but even from quite early on, communications with Japan were written in a Japanese form called ''[[kanbun|wayô kanbun]]'', and not in standard [[classical Ch
  8 KB (1,290 words) - 06:21, 8 February 2020
• Miyako Islands
  *''Japanese'': 宮古列島 ''(Miyako retto)'' .... For example, while the [[Yayoi culture]] dominant throughout much of the Japanese archipelago around the 11th century BCE to the 3rd century CE extended as f
  17 KB (2,578 words) - 09:11, 30 August 2021
• Yamada Nagamasa
  *''Japanese'': [[山田]]長政 ''(Yamada Nagamasa)'' ...and then burned down the ''Nihonmachi'' in order to eliminate any further Japanese threat to his rule.
  10 KB (1,583 words) - 08:22, 14 July 2020
• Ryukyuan architecture
  ...oyal castles) and ''minka'' (vernacular residences), incorporates Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian influence in rather distinctive local forms. Red-orang ...n with the same [[kanji|characters]] as ''[[byobu|byôbu]]'' - the standard Japanese term for a folding screen, which also could be said to serve to block wind
  9 KB (1,451 words) - 15:43, 20 August 2021
• Shiseibyo
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': 至聖廟 ''(Shiseibyou / Chiishinbuu)'' ...children of the exclusive Kumemura community, it hosted classes in Chinese language, the Confucian classics, and bureaucratic & diplomatic skills, as well as s
  9 KB (1,439 words) - 17:48, 2 August 2016
• Han Dynasty
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 漢 ''(Hàn / Kan)'' ...J: ''kanji'', K: ''hanja'', "Chinese characters") and ''hàn yǔ'' ("Chinese language").
  9 KB (1,438 words) - 23:45, 18 August 2020
• Ainu
  *''Japanese'': アイヌ ''(ainu)'' ...im partial or full Ainu heritage. The Ainu were formally recognized by the Japanese government as an indigenous people in recent years, though social programs
  32 KB (5,052 words) - 04:38, 28 July 2022
• Kumi odori
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': 組踊　''(kumi odori / kumi udui)'' ...2010.</ref> It can now be considered in a category with other traditional Japanese performing arts, including ''[[gagaku]]'', ''[[Noh]]'', ''[[bunraku]]'', an
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• Japanese immigration to Hawaii
  ...o]], and, after [[1900]], from [[Okinawan immigration to Hawaii|Okinawa]]. Japanese quickly became one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in the ...perience, techniques, and technology they might bring back with them. Most Japanese who traveled to Hawaii on three-year contracts, however, settled there perm
  28 KB (4,451 words) - 22:23, 8 October 2014

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