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• Colonial Korea
  *''Japanese'': 朝鮮 ''(Chousen)'' ...any native Korean political and social institutions and replaced them with Japanese ones, as well as oppressing the people, severely damaging Korean cultural t
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• Qing Dynasty
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 清 ''(Qīng / Shin)'' ...ial China as "the olden times," and should not be confused for the English-language historians' term "ancient."
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• Ryukyu-kan
  * ''Japanese/Chinese:'' 琉球館 ''(Ryuukyuukan or Ryuukyuu-yakata / Liúqiú guǎn)'' ...479690860/sizes/o/]</ref> The compound covered an area of roughly 3599 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'', and appears in the ''[[Satsuma fudoki]]''.<ref>Gall
  13 KB (2,083 words) - 16:33, 25 April 2018
• Sho Shin
  *''Japanese/Chinese:'' [[尚]] 真 (''Shou Shin / Shàng zhēn'') The Shuri dialect of the Okinawan language used by administrators and bureaucrats became standardized at this time, an
  11 KB (1,736 words) - 06:05, 9 February 2020
• Neo-Confucianism
  *''Japanese'': 宋明理学 ''(Soumin rigaku)'' ...</ref> Keian's techniques for making classical Chinese comprehensible to a Japanese reader unskilled in Chinese were developed further by [[Nanpo Bunshi]], who
  13 KB (1,877 words) - 11:50, 26 April 2018
• Ryukyuan textiles
  *''Jôfu'', or ramie, known as ''karamushi'' in Japanese, is said to be "prized for its strength, high luster, remarkable resistance *Cotton, known as ''mumin'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], is not native to the Ryukyus, and it is believed that it only f
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• Tachibana Nankei
  *''Japanese'': [[橘]]南谿 (Tachibana Nankei) ...too warm in personality to pass for [Japanese], although they resemble the Japanese physically,"<ref>Yonemoto. p93.</ref> the result, in his thinking, it would
  12 KB (1,837 words) - 23:00, 29 April 2018
• Kumemura
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': [[久米]] 村 ''(Kumemura / Kuninda)'' Kumemura, or Kuninda in the [[Okinawan language]], was a walled district of [[Naha]], the chief port city of the [[Kingdom
  12 KB (1,742 words) - 12:54, 31 March 2018
• Tribute
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': 貢 ''(mitsugi / gòng)'' ...apid growth came circa 1570-1630, coinciding with the peak of [[Nihonmachi|Japanese maritime activity in the region]], and of high seas competition between the
  27 KB (4,146 words) - 02:09, 18 August 2020
• Society of Jesus
  *''Japanese'': イエズス会 ''(Iezusu kai)'' ...m Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), ''Sources of Japanese Tradition'', Second Edition, vol 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 144.<
  15 KB (2,177 words) - 16:07, 9 March 2018
• Zen
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': 禅 ''(zen / chán)'', 禅宗 ''(zen shuu / chánzōng)'' ...enters with shoes on, and are often furnished with chairs, in contrast to Japanese temples of other sects, where one typically removes one's shoes before step
  15 KB (2,363 words) - 06:02, 20 June 2020
• Tenets of Buddhism
  ...e estimates 99%) claim to practice both. In the following explanation, the Japanese terms are used rather than the original Indian/Sanskrit except where noted. ...for not having wicked thoughts, allowing wicked thoughts, or using wicked language. The last two points are used to discipline the mind. Following the Four No
  14 KB (2,328 words) - 02:30, 1 December 2014
• Okinawa prefecture
  *''Japanese'': 沖縄県 ''(Okinawa ken)'' ...ton University Press (1984), co-edited with Ramon Myers, and describes the Japanese efforts in Taiwan as "experiments," based on no prior experience in colonia
  41 KB (6,265 words) - 06:03, 29 July 2022
• Chinese investiture envoys
  *''Japanese/Chinese'': 冊封使 ''(sappoushi / cèfēngshǐ)'' ...ived in ships called ''ukwanshin'' (御冠船, lit. "Crown Ships") in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]]. These ships were often private merchant junks commandeered by t
  39 KB (6,086 words) - 07:46, 3 May 2020
• Ryukyu seasonal observances
  ...Eight Shrines]]. Members of the court then prepared for a ritual known (in Japanese pronunciation) as ''Gokaiin ukishiki'' (御開御規式); officials of vari ...Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 72.</
  14 KB (2,139 words) - 09:48, 15 August 2021
• Emperor
  *''Japanese'': 天皇 ''(tennô)'' ...C Press (1998), 180.</ref> Prior to that time, on a number of occasions in Japanese history, a widow or daughter succeeded to the throne.
  19 KB (2,922 words) - 00:10, 11 September 2022
• Ryukyuan names
  ...ginning in [[1625]], many family names which seemed too similar to regular Japanese usage of name-characters were ordered changed, resulting in the distinctive ...Fukuji ''peechin'' Bai Ien's family were formally entered into the modern Japanese ''[[koseki]]'' system of family registers as the Fukuji family.
  18 KB (2,807 words) - 03:01, 29 September 2017
• Ayutthaya
  ...011), 222-223.</ref> including some six hundred warriors, and four hundred Japanese Christians,<ref name=pol23>Polenghi, 23-24.</ref> while the city of Ayuttha ...the office was headed by a resident Chinese official, and employed Chinese language in much of its activities, Ming diplomatic protocols being standard through
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• Yoshiwara
  *''Japanese'': 吉原 ''(Yoshiwara)'' ...ivity unique to the district, including courtesan processions and affected language (''arinsu kotoba''), the few thousand people who lived in the district were
  20 KB (3,089 words) - 00:03, 9 July 2016
• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  *''Japanese'': 琉球王国 ''(Ryuukyuu-ou-koku)'' ...s. Though the Chinese character for "king" (王) is used in both Chinese and Japanese sources of the period, it is perhaps most accurate to not consider these ru
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