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• Kango boeki
  ..., and a licensed foreign ship the other half. In theory, a merchant's half of the form would have to line up properly with the port officials' half in or
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• John Manjiro
  [[File:John Manjiro Grave.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The graves of Nakahama Manjirô and his relatives, at Zôshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo]] ...njirô is among the most famous of 19th century Japanese castaways, and one of the first Japanese to ever travel to the United States.
  3 KB (376 words) - 01:33, 4 December 2019
• Kawamura Nagataka
  ...of Niigata into a key site of national coastal defense along the [[Sea of Japan]] coast. ...ration of a city which [[Nagaoka han]] had previously managed with a staff of under twenty.
  3 KB (390 words) - 00:18, 16 April 2020
• Phra Phetracha
  Phra Phetracha was king of the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]] from [[1688]] to [[1703]]. He came to power in 1688 amidst a great moment of crisis and conflict within Ayutthaya. His predecessor, King [[Narai]], had
  2 KB (278 words) - 23:20, 24 November 2019
• Joi
  ''Jôi'' literally means "Expel the Barbarians", and was usually used as part of "[[Sonno|Sonnô]] Jôi" ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") as a p ...ffected this violently and harshly, and not through the more ideal methods of benevolent rule. Still, Confucius writes, if not for Guan Zhong, "we might
  3 KB (486 words) - 23:05, 11 May 2015
• Amino Yoshihiko
  ...wn for his arguments for broad-ranging reassessments of our understandings of, and approaches to, Japanese history. ...tead, he suggests that a great many rural people were engaged in a variety of trades - including fishing and other maritime activities, artisanal or craf
  8 KB (1,116 words) - 15:23, 23 August 2013
• 1904
  ==Timeline of 1904== ...zô]] departs [[Kobe]] for [[Manila]], to prepare to oversee the settlement of the first Okinawan emigrants to the Philippines.
  3 KB (340 words) - 09:37, 12 March 2017
• Gyoki
  [[Image:Gyoki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Gyôki at Kintetsu Nara Station.]] ...i-ji]]. After his death, he was posthumously named a bodhisattva; a statue of Gyôki stands outside Kintetsu [[Nara]] Station.
  3 KB (507 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2017
• Atsuta Shrine
  ...ine]] in [[Nagoya]], famous as the site where [[Kusanagi no tsurugi]], one of the [[Imperial Regalia]], is kept. Atsuta is dedicated to numerous ''[[kami ...hrine in [[686]]. It is said to have been lost in [[1185]] at the [[Battle of Dan-no-Ura]], and either retrieved, or replaced with a replica. Only a very
  3 KB (496 words) - 21:44, 15 March 2015
• Turbo shell
  ...lected for its iridescent shell, which is used to make decorative [[mother-of-pearl]] inlay on [[lacquerwares]]. ...Nov 2021.</ref> Within the Amamis, this trade helped fuel the acquisition of equipment and raw materials for producing [[iron]] tools and other goods.
  2 KB (323 words) - 03:07, 4 November 2021
• Sino-Japanese War
  ...ternational war fought by the Meiji state. Like the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of ten years later, it was fought chiefly in Korea, and over which countries w ...eement ending the war is similarly often cited as marking the beginning of Japan's imperialist/colonialist Empire.
  8 KB (1,289 words) - 12:21, 18 August 2021
• Hai jin
  ...n'', literally "maritime restrictions" or "sea prohibitions," was a system of maritime trade proscriptions put into place during the [[Ming Dynasty]], an ...he Ryukyu Kingdom and Ming China (1372-1526).” Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2010, 59. http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/20602.</ref
  3 KB (445 words) - 14:46, 10 May 2015
• Abalone
  ...ne]].<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 166.</ref> ...ial channels, with the shogunate mandating quotas for each domain's export of these goods, which would be purchased by the shogunate at a low fixed price
  3 KB (478 words) - 23:07, 6 October 2014
• Kuril Islands
  ...igenous groups. Several of the Kurils are today disputed territory between Japan and Russia. ...of influence, or claim, of the [[Matsumae clan]] of [[Ezo]] (Hokkaidô) or of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] directly, the Kurils were never directly adminis
  6 KB (844 words) - 15:33, 11 August 2014
• Hata no Kokatsu
  ...Chinese immigrant to [[Japan]], or someone from further afield who came to Japan via China or Korea (see [[Hata clan]]). ...his appearance in the dream as a result of his destiny being connected to Japan's.
  4 KB (674 words) - 21:47, 3 March 2018
• Iroha-maru
  ''Iroha-maru'' refers to two different ships built in [[Bakumatsu]] era Japan. ...Satsuma shipyard at Setomura on [[Sakurajima]].<ref>Plaques at former site of Iso shipyard, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/152173971
  4 KB (542 words) - 08:59, 2 June 2020
• Benzaiten
  ...to Benzaiten are also located on tiny islands in manmade ponds. She is one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods]]. ...ith a local serpent [[kami|deity]], Ugajin. According to the founding myth of Enoshima Shrine, a dragon menaced the local population until one day an isl
  3 KB (496 words) - 06:59, 11 February 2020
• Obama han
  ...]]). It was governed by the [[Kyogoku clan|Kyôgoku clan]] at the beginning of the [[Edo Period]], and by the [[Sakai clan]] from [[1634]] on. ...f Japan]] coast, and played a significant role in the economic development of the early Edo period.
  5 KB (730 words) - 10:07, 5 May 2020
• Russo-Japanese War
  ...[[Colonial Korea|Korea]], which became a Japanese protectorate as a result of this war. ...ase in the Far East to supplement [[Vladivostok]]. For Japan it was a case of adding insult to injury.
  8 KB (1,205 words) - 10:51, 16 December 2021
• Naminoue Shrine
  ...noue Shrine, located high above the waves looking out over the South China Sea.]] ...]], the primary shrine (一の宮, ''[[ichinomiya]]'') in the prefecture and one of the [[Ryukyu Eight Shrines|Ryûkyû Eight Shrines]]. It sits atop a high bl
  7 KB (1,080 words) - 07:42, 14 June 2022

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