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• Ryukyuan languages
  ...ko language]], [[Yaeyama language]], and [[Yonaguni language]]. Along with Japanese, they form the Japonic family of languages. *Amami language:
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• Chinese language
  *''Japanese'': 中国語 ''(Chûgoku go)'' ...uages and dialects that can all be subsumed under the category of "Chinese language(s)."
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• Okajima Kanzan
  ...her of [[Chinese language]] and calligraphy, known for compiling the first Japanese dictionary of vernacular Chinese in [[1716]]. ...d up becoming a notable contributor to [[Ogyu Sorai|Ogyû Sorai's]] Chinese-language association. In [[1716]], he compiled the ''Tôwa san'yô'', a dictionary o
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• Nagasaki interpreters
  ...d interpreters) specialized in the translation & interpretation of [[Dutch language|Dutch]], while a category of ''Tô tsûji'' ("[[Tojin|Chinese]]" interprete ...u Sorai|Ogyû Sorai's]] Chinese-language society and who compiled the first Japanese dictionary of vernacular Chinese, is an oft-cited example.<ref>Rebeckah Cle
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• Tateishi Tokujuro
  *''Japanese'': [[立石]] 得十郎 ''(Tateishi Tokujuurou)'' ...[[1860]] as part of the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]].
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• Yonahasedo Tuyumya
  *''Japanese'': 與那覇世頭豊見親 ''(Yonahasedo Tuyumya)'' ...he had some twenty Miyako Islanders remain on Okinawa to study [[Okinawan language]].
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• Moriyama Einosuke
  *''Japanese'': [[森山]] 栄之助 ''(Moriyama Einosuke)'' ...gn relations interactions in the mid-1850s, especially in terms of foreign language translation and interpretation.
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• Samuel Wells Williams
  Samuel Wells Williams was the Chinese & Japanese interpreter and translator on [[Commodore Matthew Perry|Commodore Perry's]] ...issionary the mission met in Ryûkyû, are harshly critical of one another's language abilities, manner, and approach.
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• Fudoki
  ==Language== ...notable linguistic hybrid seen in the ''Kojiki'', it contained interwoven Japanese when citing word-for-word or presenting poetry.
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• Gaoquan Xingdun
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 高泉性潡 ''(Gāoquán Xìngdùn / Kôsen Shôton)'' ...have played a significant role in sparking Yoshiyasu's interest in Chinese language and culture, and initiating his training in it, though Gaoquan passed away
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• James Hepburn
  ...oing it in Japan. The result was the ''Hepburn'' style of romanization of Japanese words. ...ides publishing the first Christian tract; also a Bible dictionary in that language. He was one of the founders of the Christian College, known as the Meiji Ga
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• Ito Kansai
  *''Japanese'': [[伊東]] 貫斎 ''(Itô Kansai)'' Itô Kansai was an English-language interpreter and translator who served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in interac
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• Kuraoka Bunjiro
  ...a notable role in [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu|Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu's]] Chinese-language salon. ...saki]]-based Japanese family of hereditary [[Nagasaki interpreters|Chinese-language interpreters]], or the illegitimate son of a Nagasaki-based Chinese merchan
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• Jeremias van Vliet
  ...translated into English in the 20th century, are among the chief European-language sources on the history of the kingdom and its capital city, and on the hist Van Vliet is said to have learned the Thai language quite quickly, and to have mingled among Siamese elites, Buddhist monks, an
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• Ezra Pound
  ...s today generally write that Pound's knowledge of Noh, and of the Japanese language, was minimal, and that the book contains numerous errors, misunderstandings
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• Amamikyo
  ...弥姑 ''(Amamiko, Amamikyo; [[Amami language]]: Amamiku, Amamikyu; [[Okinawan language]]: Amanchu, Amamichu)'' ...oddess is often called Amamichu in the [[Okinawan language]]; in that same language, a person from Amami would be called ''Amaminchu''. "[https://ryukyushimpo.
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• Treaty of Shimoda
  The [[1855]] Treaty of Shimoda, also known as the Russo-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Amity, signed between the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and [[ ...panese-language version. The Japanese were not given a copy of the Russian-language version of the document, but it was the Dutch which the Russians said would
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• Asadoya yunta
  *''Japanese'': 安里屋ユンタ ''(asadoya yunta)'' ...Islands]] which, in a version with lyrics in [[Japanese language|standard Japanese]], has become the most popular, or most widely-known Okinawan folk song.
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• Matteo Ricci
  ...y adopting the robes and manners of a Confucian official, studying Chinese language, [[Confucianism|Confucian]] teachings, and so forth, rather than more stubb ...ng Christianity in classical Chinese.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 156.</
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• Higa Shuncho
  *''Japanese'': [[比嘉]]春潮 ''(Higa Shunchou)'' ...the compilation of the ''Okinawa-go jiten'' ("Dictionary of the [[Okinawan language]]"), and produced a survey of the University of Hawaii's Sakamaki-Hawley Co
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• Ruunpe
  *''Japanese'': ルウンペ ''(ruunpe)'' The [[Ainu language|Ainu]] word ''ruunpe'' refers to "things that have a path." This name for t
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• Hojo Tokimune (NHK Taiga Drama)
  Japanese Title: '''Hojo Tokimune''' * Language: Japanese
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• Kaifuso
  *''Japanese'': 懐風藻 ''(kaifuusou)'' The ''Kaifûsô'', compiled in [[751]], is the oldest compilation of Japanese poetry written in Chinese.
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• Maeno Ryotaku
  *''Japanese'': [[前野]] 良沢 ''(Maeno Ryoutaku)'' ...ting Dutch materials, and organizing opportunities for others to learn the language.
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• Azumi
  Japanese Title: '''あずみ''' * Language: Japanese
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• Motoda Eifu
  *''Japanese'': 元田永孚 ''(Motoda Eifu)'' Motoda is also credited with playing a significant role in drafting the language of the ''[[Imperial Rescript on Education]]'', promulgated in [[1890]].
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• Taketomi Island
  *''Japanese'': 竹富島 ''(Taketomi jima)'' ...yrics invented and promoted in the 20th century, the traditional [[Yaeyama language]] lyrics tell the story of a young woman who resists being given to (marrie
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• Lake Akan
  *''Japanese'': 阿寒湖 ''(akan ko)'' ...words for "eternal" or "unchanging." It is written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[kanji]] using ''[[ateji]]'' (characters which emulate the sounds of a p
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• The Abandoned Swords
  Japanese Title: '''Onmitsu Shichishoki''' * Language: Japanese
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• Ro Sosetsu
  *''Japanese'': 盧草拙 ''(Ro Sôsetsu)'' ...own for his role in making Chinese texts on European sciences available to Japanese scholars, and for his own writings, such as ''Nagasaki senmin den'' ("Lives
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• Assassination (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Ansatsu''' * Language: Japanese
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• Anthony Bryant
  ...of interest also included [[Heian period]] court structure and society and Japanese literature. ...ryant resided in Japan from 1986 to 1992. He also had an Master of Arts in Japanese from Indiana University.
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• Yoshitsune (NHK Taiga Drama)
  Japanese Title: '''Yoshitsune''' * Language: Japanese
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• Adventure in Kigan Castle
  Japanese Title: '''Kiganjo no Boken''' * Language: Japanese
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• Shogun Sexecutioner
  * Language: Japanese
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• Assassination Orders (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Ansatsu Shirei''' * Language: Japanese
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• 13 Assassins
  Japanese Title: '''Jusan-Nin no Shikaku''' * Language: Japanese
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• August Pfizmaier
  ...verganglichen Welt''. The first widely circulated English translation of a Japanese work was not to come out until [[1871]]. ...shed alongside the original Japanese. Pfizmaier himself was self-taught in Japanese.
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• Isaac Harbottle
  ...turning to Hawaii, the brothers established worker assistance programs for Japanese immigrants to the islands.
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• Chuzan seifu
  *''Japanese'': 中山世譜 ''(chuuzan seifu)'' ...oken|Shô Shôken]] around [[1650]], re-presenting the contents in [[Chinese language|Chinese]]; in addition, while the historical facts and overall historical n
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• Jitodai
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': 地頭代 ''(jitoudai / jitudee)'' ''Jitôdai'', or ''jitudee'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], were local village officials appointed to administer and overse
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• Komyo ga Tsuji (NHK Taiga Drama)
  Japanese Title: '''Komyo ga Tsuji''' (功名が辻) * Language: Japanese
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• Sho Dairetsu
  *''Titles'': 読谷山王子 ''(Yomitanzan ôji / [[Okinawan language|O]]: Yuntanzan wuuji)'' *''Japanese'': [[向]] 大烈 ''(Shou Dairetsu)''
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• Japanese newspapers in Hawaii
  ...and events in Japan, among members of the [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|Japanese community in Hawaii]] in its early decades. Some continued to circulate tod ...al today (ハワイ). These papers played a key role in informing members of the Japanese community, especially those who did not speak English or Hawaiian, about lo
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• 1857
  ...suggest a connection between [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and the Altaic language family.
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• Ganryujima (Movie)
  * Language: Japanese The famed Japanese swordsman [[Miyamoto Musashi]] of the 17th century is not the violent yet p
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• Ryukyu-koku yuraiki
  *''Japanese'': 琉球国由来記 ''(Ryuukyuu koku yuraiki)'' It was later translated by [[Tei Heitetsu]] into a [[Chinese language]] version, entitled ''[[Ryukyu-koku kyuki|Ryûkyû-koku kyûki]]''. This wa
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• Goda Kiyoshi
  *''Japanese'':　合田清　''(Gouda Kiyoshi)'' ...or newspapers and magazines. He also briefly worked as a teacher of French language at the Tokyo Fine Arts School.
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• Ako Roshi (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Ako Roushi''' * Language: Japanese
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• Japanese schools in Hawaii
  ...ed in [[1895]]-[[1896]], roughly ten years after the beginning of formal [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]]. ...re, customs, and morals (''shûshin''), and the history of Japan and of the Japanese community in Hawaii.
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• Frank Hawley
  ...attending Liverpool University, Hawley moved to Japan to become an English language teacher at the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages in 1931. After some time a ...tbreak of World War II, he returned to England, where he attended Japanese language training at the University of London, worked for the BBC, and traveled to W
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• Nakamura Hironari
  *''Japanese'': [[中村]]博愛 ''(Nakamura Hironari)'' ...time at the [[han school|domain school]] in Kagoshima, and later served as Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark.
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• Maehira Bosho
  *''Japanese'': [[真栄平]] 房昭 ''(Maehira Bôshô)''<ref>Not to be confused with [ ...cy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]] known in particular as an English-language interpreter.
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• Northern Wei Dynasty
  ...Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 124.< *Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 84-85.
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• Aragami
  * Language: Japanese
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• Vasily Golovnin
  ...a Rinzô]] and other Japanese scholars and explorers, teaching them Russian language, and information about Europe, and learning about Japan in return. ...entitled "Navigation in Japanese coastal waters and negotiations with the Japanese government" as a supplement to Golovnin's account.
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• Ashura (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Ashura-jo no Hitomi''' * Language: Japanese
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• Naata Ufushu
  ..." in [[Japanese language|Japanese]]. ''Ufushu'' (''Ôshu'' or ''Ônushi'' in Japanese) is not a name, but rather means "great leader."</ref> was born on [[Hateru
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• Abe Clan (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Abe Ichizoku''' (阿部一族) * Language: Japanese
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• Sho In
  *''Titles'': 宜野湾王子 ''(J: Ginowan ôji, [[Okinawan language|O]]: Jinon wuuji, Prince Ginowan)'' *''Japanese'': [[尚]] 寅 ''(Shô In)''
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• Richard Cocks
  ...ne occasion.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lo ...ith Company business in a number of ways, chiefly as a tutor of [[Japanese language]] for the English staff. While the two were separated for a time, she conti
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• Okinawan language
  ...hompson, Robin]]. ''The Music of Ryukyu''. ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p304.</ref> ...jin dialect, spoken in Northern Okinawa, and sometimes called the Kunigami language or dialect, takes its name from [[Nakijin]], the former capital of the nort
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• Japanese Christians in Hawaii
  ...d practices, the earliest Buddhist temples to be established by or for the Japanese community in Hawaii came only after the establishment of a number of Christ ...prominent Japanese Christian leaders of missionizing efforts aimed at the Japanese community there.
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• Christovao Ferreira
  ...to marry a Japanese wife and, seemingly, lead a happy life as a member of Japanese society. ...r executed as a criminal. The account ends by saying that Ferreira and his Japanese wife do not get along well. It seems rather unlikely, however, that he woul
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• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  *''Japanese'': [[柳沢]]吉保 ''(Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu)'' ...colloquial Chinese which served as the basis for Sorai's own study of the language. When the Chinese monk [[Yuefeng Daozhang]] was interviewed by Tsunayoshi i
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• Sessei
  *Japanese/Okinawan: 摂政 ''(sessei/shisshi)'' ...the position is not quite the same, and is not derived originally from the Japanese model or system.
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• Kaseda
  *''Japanese'': 加世田 ''(Kaseda)'' ...od, it was one of a handful of places within [[Satsuma han]] where Chinese-language interpreters were stationed, serving both commercial purposes, and to help
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• Ryukyu gashi
  *''Japanese'': 琉球画誌 ''(Ryuukyuu gashi)'' ...wise during that time. The last few pages of the volume discuss [[Okinawan language]], [[Ryukyuan court ranks]], banners carried in the processions, etc.
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• Matsuura Kasho
  *''Japanese'': [[松浦]] 霞沼 ''(Matsuura Kashou)'' ...heard of him. Incidentally, Matsuura did not speak or understand [[Korean language]], and communicated with the Koreans either through Amenomori, who served a
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• Asaka Tanpaku
  *''Japanese'': 安積澹泊 ''(Asaka Tanpaku)'' ...a student of [[Zhu Shunsui]], learning both vernacular (spoken) [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and the reading of the [[Confucian classics]] in Chinese pronunci
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• Haedong chegukki
  *''Korean/Japanese'': 海東諸國紀　''(Haedong chegukki / Kaitou shokokki)'' ...Countries of the Eastern Sea") is a compilation of the history, geography, language, and foreign relations of Japan and [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]], compiled b
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• Seiryu-ji
  *''Japanese'': 正龍寺 ''(seiryuu ji)'' ...nfucianism]] in the port, and people at the temple, well-versed in Chinese language, played a significant role in the translation and drafting of trade documen
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• Shikina Seimei
  *''Japanese'': [[識名]]盛命 ''(Shikina Seimei)'' ...1]] of the ''[[Konkokenshu|Konkôkenshû]]'', a dictionary of Ryukyuan court language.
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• Konkokenshu
  *''Japanese'': 混効験集 ''(konkou kenshuu)'' ...Ryukyuan royal court, and amongst Ryûkyû's aristocracy, explaining each in Japanese.
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• Edward Seidensticker
  Edward Seidensticker was a prominent translator of Japanese literature. His many works included translations of the ''[[Tale of Genji]] ...olorado, he initially studied English literature. He then studied Japanese language at the US Navy's school in Colorado, and took a job working for SCAP (the O
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• 1798
  ...s compiling his ''[[Bango-sen]]'' ("Lexicon of the Barbarian Language"), a Japanese-Dutch dictionary.
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• The 47 Masterless Samurai (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Chushingura: Oka no Maki, Kikka no Maki''' * Language: Japanese
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• Yanagi Soetsu
  *''Japanese'': 柳宗悦 ''(Yanagi Souetsu)'' ...[[House of Peers]], was likewise a veteran rear admiral in the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. His father, who died less than two years after Sôetsu was born, wa
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• Chuzan seikan
  *''Japanese'': 中山世鑑 ''(chuuzan seikan)'' ...Okinawa to be compiled. It was written in [[1650]], in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], by high-ranking [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] government minister [[Sho Sh
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• Umun bujo
  *''Japanese/Okinawan'': 御物奉行 ''(omono bugyô, gomotsu bugyô / umun bujô)'' ...''Omono bugyô'' or ''gomotsu bugyô'', known as ''umun bujô'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], was an official under the authority of the ''[[hyojoju|hyôjôj
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• Sato Shunkai
  *''Japanese'': [[佐藤]]舜海 ''(Satou Shunkai)'' ...hiharu]], Shunkai became a boarding student the Juntendô and studied Dutch language and medicine under [[Sato Taizen|Satô Taizen]] and [[Sato Takanaka|Satô T
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• Okumura Takie
  ...in Hawaii]], as well as in establishing or supporting other aspects of the Japanese community in the islands. ...ref>Odo and Sinoto, 154.</ref> In [[1904]], Okumura became the head of the Japanese Christian Church in Nu'uanu, establishing a second mission in Makiki at tha
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• 1910
  *The [[Imperial Japanese Army]] publishes a History of Warfare in Japan. ...argues the [[Korean language]] to be a lost dialect of [[Japanese language|Japanese]].
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• Yakushima
  *''Japanese'': 屋久島 ''(Yakushima)'' ...-year term in the position. A number of other officials, including Chinese-language interpreters, were also stationed there.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, K
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• Ranald MacDonald
  ...rteen Japanese, including [[Moriyama Einosuke]], who would put his English language abilities to use interpreting for shogunate officials during their encounte
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• Izena dunchi tomb
  *''Japanese'': 伊是名殿内の墓 ''(Izena dunchi no haka)'' The tomb is one of the largest "tortoise-shell tombs" ([[Okinawan language|O]]: ''kaami kuu nu baka'') in [[Okinawa prefecture]], covering some 660 sq
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• Yonabaru Ryoku
  *''Japanese'': [[与那原]] 良矩 ''(Yonabaru Ryouku)'' ...gentleman official." He was also known for his talent in writing Japanese-language prose.
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• Aak
  ...Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 16.</
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• Manchus
  ...球國王之印) in [[seal script]] on the right, and an inscription in the [[Manchu language]] on the left. As reproduced in ''Ryûkyû kokuô sappô no zu'', handscrol *''Japanese'': 満州民族 ''(manshuu minzoku)''
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• Anton L.C. Portman
  ...urned to the United States, where he played a role in receiving the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States]].
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• Chuzan denshin roku
  ...ion of the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', on display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]] *''Chinese/Japanese'': 中山伝信録 ''(Zhōngshān chuán xìn lù / Chuuzan denshin roku)''
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• 1847
  ...ver commercially produced translation of Japanese literature in a European language.
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• Ryukaku danki
  *''Japanese'': 琉客談記 ''(Ryuukaku danki)'' ...n]] and musician [[Sai Hokin|Sai Hôkin]]. Akazaki asked them, in [[Chinese language|Chinese]], about the route they traveled to Beijing, their stay in Beijing,
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• Peechin
  ...ion) at all similar to ''peechin'', but rather might be read in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]] as ''uya kumu uii'', suggesting that the term may have derived f
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• Japanese Measurements
  Premodern Japanese measurements consisted of the following:
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• Satsumasendai
  *''Japanese'': 薩摩川内 ''(Satsuma sendai)'' ...Sendai was also one of a handful of cities in Satsuma domain where Chinese-language interpreters were regularly stationed.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kan
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• Tomigusuku Choshun
  *''Titles'': 豊見城王子 ''(Tomigusuku ouji / [[Okinawan language|O]]: Tumigushiku wuuji)'' *''Japanese'': [[豊見城]] 朝春 ''(Tomigusuku Choushun)''
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• Sato Taizen
  *''Japanese'': [[佐藤]]泰然 ''(Satou Taizen)'' ...medicine, including surgical techniques, along with education in the Dutch language, drawing almost exclusively upon imported European books. In his activities
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• Nishikawa Joken
  *''Japanese'': [[西川]] 如見 ''(Nishikawa Joken)'' ...and on the peoples of the world. Joken is regarded as one of the earliest Japanese scholars to engage with and promote European observational approaches to as
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• Aoriyae
  *''Japanese'': 煽りやへ、阿応理屋恵 ''(Aoriyae)'' ...n "island-smashing priestess," the word ''shima'' ("island") in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]] referring not only to physical islands but also to any well-defi
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