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• Motoori Norinaga
  *''Japanese'': 本居宣長 ''(Motoori Norinaga)'' ...the [[Edo period]], writing extensively on the essence of Japaneseness, or Japanese culture, and disparaging Chinese culture and influence.
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• Nanzen-ji
  *''Japanese'': 南禅寺 ''(Nanzenji)'' ...he ''[[shinden-zukuri]]'' architecture style, and faces the temple's front garden, said to have been designed by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Enshû]] around [[1600
  3 KB (373 words) - 16:53, 20 September 2016
• Akamatsu Mitsusuke
  * ''Japanese'': [[赤松]] 満祐 ''(Akamatsu Mitsusuke)'' ...ctory feast. Yoshinori agreed, and during a presentation of dancing in the garden a number of horses suddenly burst from their stables and caused great confu
  4 KB (624 words) - 14:48, 18 November 2007
• Kaga Edo mansion
  *''Japanese'': 加賀江戸藩邸 ''(Kaga Edo hantei)'' ...ed by as many as 30,000 people.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 72.</ref> The space i
  3 KB (504 words) - 10:13, 14 November 2021
• Sho Jun (1873-1945)
  *''Japanese'': [[尚]] 順 ''(Shou Jun)'' ...ekijô'' theater, and a canning factory, and was a major figure in both the Japanese political and investment worlds of his time.
  3 KB (473 words) - 22:41, 26 December 2023
• 1894
  ===[[Sino-Japanese War]]=== *1894/9/15 Japanese First Army (17,000 troops) attacks Pingyang.
  3 KB (420 words) - 00:02, 27 January 2018
• Chengde
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 承德 ''(Chéngdé)'' ...used by elite scholar-officials, while an area to the north, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, contained an area of prairie meant to reproduce the
  3 KB (451 words) - 00:08, 7 May 2015
• Hikone castle
  *''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)'' ...x. It was also known as the Rinchikaku ("Tower Next to the Pond"). Another garden in the compound, the Genkyû-en, was built by Ii Naooki in 1677, and was me
  7 KB (1,117 words) - 20:25, 28 June 2020
• Shokoshuseikan
  *''Japanese'': 尚古集成館 ''(Shou ko shuu sei kan)'' ...loyed over two thousand workers.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
  4 KB (669 words) - 02:04, 18 August 2020
• Eisei Bunko
  *''Japanese'': 永青文庫 ''(Eisei Bunko)'' ...rtion of the estate's gardens are maintained nearby as the [[Higo-Hosokawa Garden]]. The archive takes its name from the "ei" of Eigen-an, a [[tachu|branch t
  3 KB (494 words) - 19:33, 22 May 2017
• Daimyo yashiki
  *''Japanese'': 大名屋敷 ''(daimyou yashiki)'' ..., "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</re
  9 KB (1,322 words) - 01:58, 27 August 2020
• Honami Koetsu
  *''Japanese'': 本[[阿弥]]光悦 ''(Hon'ami Kouetsu)'' ...tion and reconstruction of [[Honpo-ji|Honpô-ji]] temple. Kôetsu designed a garden for the temple, and it became the Hon'ami family temple, maintaining strong
  3 KB (539 words) - 20:33, 24 March 2016
• Kabuki-za
  *''Japanese'': 歌舞伎座 ''(kabuki-za)'' ...r Western-style building. The three-story interior is said to have been in Japanese design, constructed chiefly in [[cypress]], but with experimental touches i
  5 KB (674 words) - 09:40, 26 June 2020
• Nanshu Cemetery
  *''Japanese'': 南洲墓地 ''(nanshuu bochi)'' ...died in the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]] fighting against the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. It is located on the former grounds of the Buddhist temple [[Jokomy
  4 KB (596 words) - 09:17, 24 February 2020
• Tenshikan
  ...ht|thumb|400px|The Tenshikan, as depicted in a 1788 handscroll painting by Japanese painter Yamaguchi Suiô]] *''Japanese'': 天使館 ''(Tenshikan)''
  5 KB (733 words) - 12:47, 31 March 2018
• Kanazawa castle
  *''Japanese'': 金沢城 ''(Kanazawa-jou)'' ...ous gardens in Japan, lies adjacent to the castle. The streams feeding the garden also served the purpose of supplying the castle town with water, and the te
  11 KB (1,752 words) - 05:33, 15 March 2012
• Hoko-ji
  *''Japanese'': 方広寺 ''(houkouji)'' ...balls were seen in the skies over [[Edo]], and that one even landed in the garden of [[Matsudaira Sadanobu]].<ref name=shogun/> The temple was rebuilt in [[1
  5 KB (708 words) - 11:53, 7 May 2019
• 1860
  ===[[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|First Japanese Embassy to the United States]]=== *1860/1/18 (Feb 9) The members of the first embassy to the US, 170 Japanese and some number of American escorts, depart Edo for Yokohama.
  4 KB (654 words) - 04:15, 5 September 2020
• Tokugawa Yoshimune
  *''Japanese'': [[徳川]]吉宗 ''(Tokugawa Yoshimune)'' ...ôshin''), before withdrawing. Normally, this would have been done from the garden, but as it was raining that day, it was done from the corridor or veranda (
  5 KB (696 words) - 11:06, 2 February 2022
• Kinkaku-ji
  *''Japanese'': 金閣寺 ''(kinkaku-ji)'' ...l, and is intended to serve chiefly as a pavilion from which to admire the garden, though it does contain religious sculpture. The first floor, constructed i
  5 KB (792 words) - 11:28, 9 July 2016

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