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• Sugar
  *''Japanese'': 砂糖 ''(satou)'' ...represented unfair competition.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
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• Northern Song Dynasty
  ...ef name=schiro>Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 190-191.</ref> ...on of many of these goods. The Song coal and iron industries were the most advanced in the world at that time.<ref>Schirokauer, et al, 198.</ref> [[Gunpowder]]
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• Military of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  ...captain (''sedo'', O: ''shiidu'')<ref>A term etymologically related to the Japanese ''sentô'' 船頭, for "boatman" or "captain."</ref> down to infantry and p ...omi'', the same ending applied to the names of Ryukyuan ships (akin to the Japanese ''-maru''). The ''hiki'' served not only a strictly military role, but serv
  11 KB (1,772 words) - 09:54, 9 February 2020
• Chuzan
  * ''Japanese/Chinese:'' 中山 ''(Chuuzan / Zhōngshān)'' ...radually less true over the generations; the king's power and organization advanced considerably by the time all three kingdoms were unified as the Kingdom of
  12 KB (1,903 words) - 12:25, 31 March 2018
• Sosuishi ryu
  ...ryû pronunciations are interchangeable.</ref> is a [[Koryū|traditional]] [[Japanese martial art]] founded in [[1650]], a [[bujutsu]] school that focuses on Kum ...spirit converged at that one moment. This event, called ''[[satori]]'' in Japanese, prompted him to change the name of Futagami-ryû to Sôsuishi-ryû in rem
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• Ryukyu lacquerware
  *''Japanese'': 琉球漆器 ''(Ryuukyuu shikki)'' ...oxes. Carrying cases called ''sagejû'' (提重) or ''jikirô'', much like their Japanese cousins, carried a number of boxes, within which could be stored chopsticks
  12 KB (1,837 words) - 06:20, 6 May 2020
• Ashikaga Takauji
  * ''Japanese'': [[足利]] 尊氏 ''(Ashikaga Takauji)'' Few figures in Japanese history are as controversial as Ashikaga Takauji, a man whose actions broug
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• Kusunoki Masashige
  *''Japanese'': [[楠木]]正成 ''(Kusunoki Masashige)'' ...t he visited with his eleven-year old son, a poignant moment celebrated in Japanese art. According to the ''Taiheki'' Masashige urged the boy, Masatsura, to re
  13 KB (2,129 words) - 15:12, 26 March 2015
• Shimazu Yoshihisa
  * ''Japanese:'' [[島津]]義久 ''(Shimazu Yoshihisa)'' ...success with the destruction of an enemy fort at Matsuyama. Yoshihisa then advanced to the Taka area, and joined with the rest of the Shimazu clan. The followi
  16 KB (2,547 words) - 06:43, 13 February 2020
• Teppo
  *''Japanese'': 鉄砲 ''(teppou)'' ''Teppô'' is the Japanese term for arquebuses, or matchlocks, the first European firearm to be introd
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• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  * ''Japanese'': [[豊臣]]秀吉 ''Toyotomi Hideyoshi'' One of the most remarkable men in Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born a peasant and yet rose to finally end
  55 KB (8,773 words) - 12:20, 31 March 2018
• Tokugawa Ieyasu
  * ''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家康 ''(Tokugawa Ieyasu)'' ...e offered the Kanto. Ieyasu was richer now, but further from the center of Japanese politics and easily containable beyond the Hakone Mountains should he betra
  43 KB (6,962 words) - 04:07, 22 September 2019

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