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• Uwajima han
  *''Territory: one of fourteen districts of [[Iyo province]]'' ...nd of [[Shikoku]]. It was ruled from [[Uwajima castle]] by a branch family of the [[Date clan]] which ruled [[Sendai han]] in [[Mutsu province]] (in the
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• Manabe Akifusa
  ...') under [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], and [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]]. ...Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferred to [[Murakami han]] in [[Ech
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• Kamekawa Seibu
  ...yuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref> ...and demanded the resignation of his fellow Sanshikan, deputy envoy on the Tokyo embassy, [[Giwan Choho|Giwan Chôho]].
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• Sato family (Juntendo)
  ...izen|Satô Taizen]], one of a number of monuments to the individual members of the Satô family, at the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] ...ku|Western medicine]] in [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]] Japan. Several of Taizen's natural sons who were adopted into other families and took on othe
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• Gushikawa Chofuku
  Gushikawa Chôfuku was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...of ''zaiban oyakata'' from [[Katsuren Seiki]], remaining there for a term of one year.
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• Katsuragawa Hoken
  ...ticularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku. ...>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 222.</ref>
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• Machi doshiyori
  ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 46.</ref> ...ear, and were granted mansions near [[Nihonbashi]], just outside the gates of [[Edo castle]]. Though they held no official [[stipend]], all three familie
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• Zojo-ji
  [[File:Zojoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Zôjô-ji, with Tokyo Tower visible behind it]] ...320px|The Great Gate (''daimon'') of Zôjô-ji, which gives the neighborhood of Shiba Daimon, as well as the Daimon subway station, their names]]
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• Prince Morinaga
  Prince Morinaga was an Imperial prince and, later, [[shogun]] of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. ...as initially defeated, but rallied and rose up again. Following his defeat of Takatoki, he was himself named Shogun.
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• Jurakudai
  ...b|400px|A 19th c. paper model on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]], of the Hiunkaku ("Flying Cloud Tower") from the Jurakudai, now at [[Nishi Hong ...his residence the following year. The Jurakudai later became the residence of his nephew [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and was dismantled in [[1595]] following
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• Coal
  ...ater.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 91-92. </ref> ...[George Kerr]], ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People'', Revised ed., Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing (2000), 362. </ref>
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• Sho Ten
  [[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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• Imperial Hotel
  ...], [[Okura Kihachiro|Ôkura Kihachirô]], [[Iwasaki Yanosuke]], and a number of other prominent businessmen, and located next door to the [[Rokumeikan]], i ...oms, a ballroom that could accommodate 600 people, a library, and a number of game rooms, libraries, and a salon equipped with both organ and piano.
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• Okuma Ujihiro
  ...Home Affairs]] on [[Taiwan]], installed in [[1911]]-[[1912]] in the cities of [[Taipei]], [[Taichung]], and [[Tainan]]. ...tation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
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• Nakae Toju
  ...ucian]] scholar of the [[Edo period]], credited with advancing the thought of [[Wang Yangming]] in Japan. ...ding one's intuitive knowledge (''ryôchi'', C: ''liang zhi'') and of unity of knowledge and action."<ref>David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME S
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• Kinoshita Jun'an
  ...fucianism]] in the tradition of [[Zhu Xi]]. He was the teacher of a number of other prominent scholars, including [[Arai Hakuseki]], [[Amenomori Hoshu|Am ...of [[Fujiwara Seika]]. He later entered the service of the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga han]], and in [[1682]] became a tutor to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsuna
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• Hans Sloane
  ...queathed to the English nation upon his death in [[1753]], formed the core of what was then established that same year as the British Museum. ...16]]. Sloane also published an English translation of Kaempfer's ''History of Japan''.
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• Katsuren Seiki
  Katsuren Seiki was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...mission, and then took over the position of ''zaiban oyakata'' for a term of one year. In 1853, he was succeeded by [[Gushikawa Chofuku|Gushikawa Chôfu
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• Robert Garfias
  ...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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• Katsuragawa Hoshu
  ...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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