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• Sea cucumber
  ...to be exported in place of [[silver]], thus stemming the grievous outflow of silver during the 17th-18th centuries which deeply worried shogunate adviso ...ontrast to the love of fresh raw [[abalone]] which developed at that time, sea cucumber was preferred dried.
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• Genkai Sea
  ...portion of the [[Sea of Japan]], covering roughly the areas off the coast of [[Fukuoka prefecture]] ([[Chikuzen province]]) out to [[Tsushima]]. A branch of the warm [[Kuroshio current]] coming up from the south meets the cold [[Oya
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• Kuroshio
  ...ast of Japan. While extremely beneficial for the climate of large sections of the Japanese archipelago, over the centuries the Kuroshio also carried coun ...the two island groups.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 17.</ref>
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• Kombu
  ...boiled, or prepared otherwise. ''Kombu'' became a common/standard element of the cuisine in many areas in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. ...products for bullion in its regional trade, halting the grievous outflows of [[silver]] which had so concerned the shogunate up until that time. ''Kombu
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• Tortoise shell
  ...cessories. Though typically called "tortoise shell," it usually comes from sea turtles, and not tortoises. ...ere known as ''tsume'' (爪, lit. "claws") in Japanese; those from the sides of the turtle, near the flippers, are known as ''basa tsume'', and those from
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• Tawaramono
  ...] ([[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]), in the [[Edo period]], including [[abalone]], [[sea cucumber]] (''iriko''), [[kombu]], shark fin, and the like. *Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 167.
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• Kitamaebune
  ...a Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press, 1990. pp97-123.</ref> ...the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan, University of Hawaii Press (2012), 25.</ref>
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• Hamazaki family
  ...times, they received seed money, aid with transportation costs, or the use of official ships from the domain government. ...n]], and Matsumae ([[Ezo]]) products such as [[abalone]], [[kombu]], and [[sea cucumber]] back down south.
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• Totomi province
  * [[Shiba clan|Shiba]]/[[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]]<ref>Grossberg, Kenneth. ''Japan's Renaissance'' Cornell University, NY, 2001</ref> ...nd may have originated from its position in antiquity as the outer reaches of the Yamato polity (Hara 1986). In 642, an imperial edict conscripting work
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• Fusuma shitabari monjo
  ...in homes and other collections throughout Japan, anywhere that ''fusuma'' of sufficient age have been preserved. ...ntentionally preserved by the family "directly substantiated the existence of these ships"<ref>Amino, 27.</ref> in the Tokikuni merchant fleet.
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• Kyoho Famine
  ...the region to increase by a factor of seven. Roughly 22% of the population of [[Fukuoka han]], or 70,000 people, died due to the famine; among certain cl *Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 54-55.
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• Yokoate-jima
  ...of the southernmost of the [[Tokara Islands]] and is administered as part of Toshima village. ...sea level, and the eastern one about 495 meters. The soil is made chiefly of pyroxene andesite.
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• Kiya Kyuzaemon
  ...le is known about him, and even his name is unclear, appearing in a number of secondary sources under the surname Kii, and/or the given name Kyûemon. ...clear just when he stepped down as head of the ''Nihonmachi'', returned to Japan, and/or died.
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• Five harbors
  ...k [[Gyoki|Gyôki]], and the harbors were chosen so as to be roughly one day of travel apart from one another. *[[Kawajiri]] (at the mouth of the [[Yodo River]], today part of [[Amagasaki]] City)
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• Koshitsu (Hakuseki)
  ''Kôshitsu'' and ''Kôshitsu wakumon'' (皇室或問) are a pair of works composed by [[Neo-Confucianism|Confucian]] scholar and shogunal advis ...r conquered), Hakuseki suggests that many of the founding myths of ancient Japan can be interpreted as notable individuals, clans, or armies traveling from
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• Yi Bang-eon
  ...e Yi Bang-eon's writing, that the view from Fukuzen-ji is "the greatest in Japan."]] ...so famous in Korea. A plaque hanging over the window today, bearing a copy of his inscription, was produced by [[Kan Chazan]] in [[1812]].
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• Ryukyu zatsuwa
  ...ictional story of travel to exotic parts of the world, and a discussion of sea creatures. ...seibatsu ki]]'' (an account of the [[1609]] [[Invasion of Ryukyu|Invasion of Ryûkyû]])
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• Korean currency
  ...suke/47588044022/sizes/k/]</ref> such as ''Haedong'' ("[[Sea of Japan|East Sea]]"), ''Samhan'' ("[[Three Kingdoms (Korea)|Three Kingdoms]]"), and ''Donggu ...of [[Goryeo]], and do not seem to have circulated widely to/in other parts of the peninsula.
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• Yamamoto Otokichi
  Yamamoto Otokichi was one of three Japanese castaways, along with two men named Kyukichi and Iwakichi, w ...the American ship ''Morrison'', a ship out of [[Macao]] carrying a number of American missionaries who were hoping to show goodwill by returning the cas
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• Japanese archipelago
  ...rief/><ref>The land area of the three main islands which formed the extent of the realm throughout its pre-modern history, i.e. excluding Hokkaidô and t ...not erupted since [[1708]]. The islands are also one of the chief centers of earthquake activity in the world.
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• Haedong chegukki
  ...ce for understanding [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korean views and attitudes towards Japan and Ryûkyû.<ref>Kang, 74.</ref> The volume includes one of the earliest extant maps of Ryûkyû included in any work.<ref>"Ryûkyû-koku-zu and
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• Osaka
  ...cities vie for the position of largest city because, due to a technicality of political designations, [[Tokyo]] is a "metropolitan [[prefectures|prefectu ...[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (19
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• Tanegashima
  ...e site of the first introduction of European-style [[teppo|firearms]] into Japan in [[1543]]. ...unkan (1987), 51.</ref> The island was officially added into the territory of [[Osumi province|Ôsumi province]] in [[624]].<ref name=tatsugo>Gallery lab
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• Kure
  [[File:Kure-skyline.jpg|right|thumb|400px|View of the Kure Naval Facilities]] ...as constructed. Today, much of the former naval facilities are used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces (''kaijô jieitai'').
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• Hokkoku Kaido
  ...Sea of Japan]] (Jôetsu) region. It followed the [[Chikuma River]] for much of the highway's length, running chiefly through [[Shinano province]]. ...a quarter mile east of the historic Hokkoku Kaidô, allowing many sections of historic buildings and streets to be preserved.
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• 1415
  ==Timeline of 1415== ==Other Events of 1415==
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• Awaji province
  ...e]] and [[Awa province (Shikoku)|Awa province]] in Shikoku. Now it is part of Hyôgo Prefecture. ...: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697'', Japan Society of London (1896), 13n1.</ref>
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• Salt
  ...ourt]] in the [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]]s, and a major form of tax payments to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the [[Edo period]], especiall ...he sea seems to have dropped off dramatically shortly before the beginning of the [[Yayoi period]], however.<ref>Tatsuo Kobayashi, “Nurturing the Jomon
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• Peddlers
  Peddlers were an important, but often overlooked, element of the premodern commercial landscape. ...ht, but bought it on credit, promising to pay back the seller/producer out of revenues.
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• Dotaku
  ...hey may have been intentionally buried in such locations as a ritual means of encouraging agricultural production.<ref>"Two bronze bells (dôtaku)," gall ...cavated in Izumo are believed to have been produced there, many show signs of having been produced in [[Kawachi province]] ([[Osaka]]).<ref>Gallery label
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• Treaty of Shimonoseki
  The Treaty of Shimonoseki, signed April 17, [[1895]], marked the end of the [[Sino-Japanese War]]. ...of Japan's total GNP at the time, and far more than making up for the cost of the war to the Japanese government, expenses totalling around 200,476,000 y
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• Fukuzen-ji
  [[File:Fukuzenji-daiichi.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The view of [[Sensuijima]] from the Taichôrô]] ...Taichôrô guest room, which hosted [[Korean embassies to Edo]] on a number of occasions.
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• Chikuzen province
  ...mall islands, including [[Okinoshima]] and [[Oronoshima]], in the [[Genkai Sea]], between Kyushu and [[Tsushima]]. [[Hakata]] and [[Fukuoka]] were the mos ...ting.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 15.</ref>
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• Ginkaku-ji
  ...dfather, [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]], in the corresponding northwestern corner of the city. ...signed in the ''[[shoin zukuri]]'' style. The second story houses a statue of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]], features more Zen architectural elements in
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• 1764
  ==Timeline of 1764== *1764/1/20 (Korean calendar) After sailing through the [[Inland Sea]], the [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to Edo]] arrives at Osaka.
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• Ganjin
  ...[[Toshodai-ji|Tôshôdai-ji]], and performed the first Buddhist ordinations of Japanese monks. ...] Exhibition. Nara National Museum. April through June 2010.</ref> Records of this incident refer to the island as ''Akonaha'' or ''Akonawa'', and are co
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• Jan Joosten
  ...ommemorative or memorial plaque for Jan Joosten, in the Yaesu neighborhood of Tokyo]] ...t Dutchmen (and the first Englishman, [[William Adams]]) to ever travel to Japan.
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• Fujiwara no Umakai
  * ''Titles: Governor of [[Hitachi|Hitachi province]] (c. [[719]]-[[723]])'' * ''Distinction: third son of [[Fujiwara no Fuhito]]''
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• Murotsu
  ...ure|Hyôgo prefecture]]. During the [[Edo period]], in addition to a volume of typical traffic, Murotsu also regularly provided lodgings for shogunate off ....BA.8B.E5.85.B8 Gotomari]," Britannica kokusai daihyakka jiten, Britannica Japan, 2014.; "[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BA%94%E6%B3%8A-65593#E3.83.96.E3.83.
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• Miroku
  ...sculpture which was the first to be designated a [[National Treasure]] in Japan]] ...ha]] in the future, Miroku is among the more prominent Buddhist deities in Japan.
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• Enni
  ...possibly the first to introduce [[Song Dynasty]] [[Neo-Confucianism]] into Japan. ...of Confucianism, this marked the first introduction of such materials into Japan, though other accounts differ. The following year, Enni and Xie organized t
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• Hakone
  ...ation]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]].<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Korea.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/41550129501/in/photostream/ ...Korean Embassies in the Eighteenth Century," PhD dissertation, University of Toronto (2008), 161.</ref>
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• Manila galleons
  ...20px|A model of a Spanish galleon on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles]] ...ng Spanish silver (in the form of [[Mexican silver dollars]]) to China and Japan.
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• Tenpi
  Tenpi, also known as Mazu, is a [[Daoist]] goddess of the sea, most often prayed to for safe voyages. Tenpi worship is particularly popul ...ina, Taiwan, Ryûkyû, and elsewhere associate her with being an incarnation of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]], and in Ryûkyû she is sometimes known as B
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• Sumiyoshi Shrine
  ...ne shrine (''ichi-no-miya'') in [[Settsu province]], and remains today one of the most significant [[Shinto shrines|shrines]] in [[Shinto]]. ...ago]]'', in which the two are represented as an elderly couple. The spirit of [[Empress Jingu|Empress Jingû]] is enshrined at Sumiyoshi as well.
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• Mitarai
  ...Islands in the [[Inland Sea]], located roughly halfway between the cities of [[Kure]] (in [[Hiroshima han]]) and [[Imabari]] (in [[Iyo province]], on [[ [[File:Mitarai.jpg|center|thumb|1000px|The port of Mitarai in [[1904]]]]
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• Koshiki Islands
  ...sula, in the [[East China Sea]]. They consist chiefly of the three islands of Kami-Koshiki, Naka-Koshiki, and Shimo-Koshiki. ...ials known as ''bangashira'', recruited or appointed from among the people of the island.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "
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• Niigata
  ...icant port town on the [[Sea of Japan]] coast. It is situated at the mouth of the [[Shinano River]], and faces [[Sado Island]] (''Sado-ga-shima'') across ..., and festivals, and emerged as a major site, famous throughout the realm, of [[prostitution]].
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• Tokujo Maru
  ...y of the waves, for many months, until only the captain, a man by the name of Jûkichi, and two crewmen, remained. ...of the slaughter of cattle; meat was only eaten very rarely in pre-modern Japan, and animals were thus not raised or slaughtered for such purposes.
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• Clove
  ...], marked the beginning of official diplomatic relations between the Court of King James and the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. ...ascar, Yemen, India, and Java, the ''Clove'' arrived in Japan, at the port of [[Hirado]], on June 11, 1613.
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• Sekibune
  ''Sekibune'' were a type of oared warship used extensively in the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] and [[Edo In the [[Edo period]], the shogun, as well as a number of ''daimyô'', possessed luxury ''sekibune'' which had been refitted to serve
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• Maruoka castle
  ...establish himself at Toyohara castle, but who rebelled at the difficulties of constructing a ''yamashiro'' (mountain castle). ...eyasu]], lord of [[Kitanosho castle|Kitanoshô castle]], became the keepers of Maruoka.
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• Hyogo no tsu
  ...ends its name today to the surrounding [[prefectures of Japan|prefecture]] of [[Hyogo prefecture|Hyôgo]]. The port-city was renamed [[Kobe]] in the mode One of the [[five harbors]] (''go-tomari'' or ''go-haku'') built by [[Gyoki|Gyôki
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• Ningbo Incident
  ...awa clan]]s, in the Chinese port of [[Ningbo]] in [[1523]], over dominance of maritime trade with China. ...he East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges''. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p23.</ref>
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• Ryo Bunhitsu
  ...there is no evidence in the documents of Bunhitsu being ill for any length of time, so it appears he may have died fairly suddenly.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮 ...Bunhitsu's grave. One reads, in large characters, 「海清」and「龍飛」 ("pure/clear sea" and "dragon flying"), while the other pair features lengthier poetry, read
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• Whaling
  ...rights activists and those who claim the hunting & consumption of the meat of whales (and other cetaceans) is a traditional practice, has led to heated p ...nd Europeans, whose whaling ships played a significant role in the history of the Pacific, including in encounters with the Japanese.
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• Kenzuishi
  ...rchangeably with [[Wa]]. Both terms refer to the Japanese state; the term "Japan" itself is avoided as the extent to which the term should be applied to any ...[Hakata]] (Fukuoka), following the Korean coast before crossing the Yellow Sea and arriving in Shangdong. At this time, the Yamato state refused to submit
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• Kawasaki Shozo
  Kawasaki Shôzô was the founder of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, which later developed into Kawasaki Heav ...n the port's commerce. He then opened his own shop in [[Osaka]] at the age of 27, but faced difficulties as, on several occasions, ships transporting his
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• Nitta Yoshisada
  ...hisada.jpg|thumb|left|Nitta Yoshisada prepares to throw his sword into the sea as an offering so that the gods will roll back the tide and let his army pa ...s appointed by Go-Daigo Governor of [[Echigo province]], and Vice-Governor of [[Kozuke Province|Kozuke]] and [[Harima province|Harima provinces]]. When [
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• Battle of Dan no Ura
  ...the [[Gempei War]] ([[1180]]-85) and resulted in the complete destruction of the [[Taira clan|Taira]] leadership. ...-nurse [[Suke no Tsubone]] committed suicide by drowning, followed by most of the Taira samurai - save their leader, Munemori, who was captured and later
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 1904
  ==Timeline of 1904== ...zô]] departs [[Kobe]] for [[Manila]], to prepare to oversee the settlement of the first Okinawan emigrants to the Philippines.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• Kaminoseki
  ...n embassies to Edo]] in the 17th-19th century, and in diaries and journals of Western travelers such as [[Carl Peter Thunberg]] in the 1770s, and [[Rober ...small portion of the Murotsu Peninsula, which juts out from the "mainland" of Honshû. It faces the Suô Channel to the west, and the Iyo Channel to the
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• King Injo
  ...un Park, "Small States and the Search for Sovereignty in Sinocentric Asia: Japan and Korea in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Anthony Reid & Zheng Yangwen ...chus.<ref>Ji-Young Lee, “Diplomatic Ritual as a Power Resource," ''Journal of East Asian Studies'' 13 (2013), 325.</ref>
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• Okinoerabujima
  ...many claims to fame is a [[banyan]] tree said to be the largest in all of Japan.<ref name=amaminosato>Gallery labels, Amami no Sato, Amami Park.</ref> ...ashion to spread islands out to the north, and then to the south. A number of legends, songs, and the like from [[Okinawa Island]] and elsewhere suggest
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• Gushikawa gusuku (Kume)
  ...Island|Okinawa]], about 100 km west of [[Naha]], and facing the East China Sea. ...e building a fortress at Aona-misaki, of the excellent defensive qualities of this hill, and Madafutsu ''anji'' then built his fortress here instead.
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• 1851
  ==Timeline of 1851== *1851/2/2 [[Shimazu Narioki]] steps down as lord of [[Satsuma han]], and is succeeded by [[Shimazu Nariakira]].
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• Kudaka Island
  ...med prayers or rituals.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 128-129.</ref> ...tection. One such site is [[Kuba nu utaki]], also known as Kubô utaki, one of the most sacred spaces on the island and closed entirely today to outsiders
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• Xie Bizhen
  ...official who traveled to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] on a number of occasions in the 1640s-1660s, initially seeking to convince the kingdom to ...ear loyalty to the Qing, but the Ryukyuan court delayed, through a variety of excuses and techniques. Finally, however, in [[1653]], they agreed to send
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• Dogugaeshi
  ...for a scene are changed out, in various dramatic ways, sometimes a number of them in sequence, for dramatic effect or purely as spectacle. The term literally means simply the ''gaeshi'' (changing, or exchange) of ''dôgu'', a term which in general usage means "tools," but which in the th
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• Opium
  ...s like these, each about the size of a bowling ball, were packed in crates of forty or so for shipment to China.]] ...h contributed, in turn, dramatically, to the decline and eventual collapse of the dynasty.
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• Basil Hall
  ...cing an account of his journeys, ''[[Voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island]]'', which remains a prominent and oft- ...[1812]], he was assigned to the East Indies, and in 1816 was named captain of the [[HMS Alceste and Lyra|HMS ''Lyra'']], which accompanied the HMS ''Alce
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• Shiga Shigetaka
  Shiga Shigetaka was a prominent thinker, geographer, and politician of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] and Taishô periods. ...active in similar groups, including Dôshikai and Chûô-seisha, and a number of different political parties.
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• 1867
  == Timeline of 1867 == ...the ''Iroha-maru'' sinks off Ujishima, near [[Tomonoura]], in the [[Inland Sea]].
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• 1850
  ==Timeline of 1850== ...(lord of [[Mito han]]), is adopted into the [[Ikeda clan]] to become lord of [[Tottori han]].
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• Nantoshi
  ...ecame one of the chief sources of knowledge about Ryûkyû in [[Edo period]] Japan. It may be the first text to employ the term "Okinawa" (沖縄). ...ords of the Three Kingdoms|Record of Wu]]<!--呉史 or 呉志 or 呉書-->, the [[Book of Tang]]<!--唐書-->, the ''[[Shoku Nihongi]]'', ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', ''[[En
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• Tsurumaru castle
  [[File:Tsurumaru.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The former site of the main gates to Tsurumaru castle, with the [[Reimeikan]] visible in the b ...ma, facing out towards the [[jokamachi|castle town]], beyond which lay the sea.
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• Nara Period
  ...o-daigokuden.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The main audience hall (''daigokuden'') of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]] (reconstructed 2010)]] The Nara period takes its name from the site of [[Heijo-kyo|Heijô-kyô]] in present day [[Nara]], which served as the impe
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• Chuzan denshin roku
  ...dition of the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', on display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]] ...1719]]. The volume was republished numerous times in Japan, and became one of the most widely read, and widely regarded, sources on the Ryûkyû Kingdom;
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• Tachibana Nankei
  ...<!--伊勢国久居藩-->. He had one older sister and four older brothers, the eldest of whom, Kanenosuke, died young; the second son, Yasukage, thus became the hei ...n studying under a Confucian scholar in service to the domain, by the name of [[Sano Yuzan|Sano Yûzan]]<!--佐野酉山-->. Nankei's father died on [[17
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• Kentoshi
  ...Kentosen.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Reproduction ''kentôsen'' ship, at the site of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]].]] ...rchangeably with [[Wa]]. Both terms refer to the Japanese state; the term "Japan" itself is avoided as the extent to which the term should be applied to any
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• Murakami clan (Chugoku)
  [[Image:Murakami2_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The ''[[kamon]]'' of the Murakami.]] ...ower and thus were key in establishing the Môri's domination of the Inland Sea, which lasted from around 1555-1576.
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