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• Emishi
  ...people were located in the provinces of [[Dewa Province|Dewa]] and [[Mutsu Province|Michinoku]] (aka Mutsu); by this time, the ''kanji'' 毛人 fell out of use At the beginning of the [[Nara period]] (early 8th c.), terms such as "Nihon" were used to refer only to t
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• Kan'ami
  ...f Noh, Kan'ami was the head of a traveling troupe of performers based in [[Nara]]. He died in [[1384]], in [[Suruga province]], having performed at [[Sengen Shrine]] there in Suruga just the previous
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• Gyoki
  [[Image:Gyoki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Gyôki at Kintetsu Nara Station.]] ...thumously named a bodhisattva; a statue of Gyôki stands outside Kintetsu [[Nara]] Station.
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• Asuka Period
  ...the [[Yamato period]]. Following the [[Kofun period]] and preceding the [[Nara period]], Asuka marks the shift from kingly rule by the [[Yamato clan]] eme ...shed as the first "permanent" capital in 710, marking the beginning of the Nara period.
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• 753
  *753/12 Ôtomo no Komaro and the Chinese monk [[Ganjin]] arrive in [[Satsuma province]] aboard one of the four ships. [[Category:Nara Period|0753]]
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• Uwajima castle
  Located in [[Ehime prefecture]] ([[Iyo province]]) in [[Shikoku]], Uwajima castle was the central castle of the [[Edo perio During the [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian periods]], the area was controlled by the [[Tachibana family]
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• Kanzeon-ji
  ...along with [[Todaiji|Tôdaiji]] in Nara, and [[Yakushi-ji]] in [[Shimotsuke province]].
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• Li Bai
  ...o have been born somewhere in Central Asia, and to have moved to [[Sichuan province]] with his family around the age of five. He began traveling at the age of [[Category:Nara Period]]
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• Military conscription
  ...t, was chiefly only practiced in Japan in the [[Asuka period|Asuka]] and [[Nara period]]s, and again from the [[Meiji period]] into the 20th century; durin ==Asuka & Nara Periods==
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• Ashikaga Yoshiaki (Shogun)
  ...e and Yoshiaki looked elsewhere. By now, [[Oda Nobunaga]] had taken [[Mino province|Mino]], and word of his skill and ambition reached Yoshiaki, who dispatched ...Totomi]] (at [[Battle of Mikatagahara|Mikatagahara]]) and entered [[Mikawa province|Mikawa]] in the spring of 1573. Perhaps emboldened by Shingen's activities,
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• Tachibana clan (kuge)
  ...most powerful ''[[kuge]]'' (court nobility) families in the [[Nara Period|Nara]] and early [[Heian Period]]. Members of the Tachibana family often held hi ...e 14th century onwards was named. Another branch family developed in [[Iyo province]], becoming known as the Iyo Tachibana family. [[Tachibana Toyasu|Tachibana
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• Shoen
  The system of ''shôen'' emerged as early as [[743]], in the [[Nara period]], as the privatization of reclaimed lands was made permanent. The c ...estates was [[Shimazu-sho|Shimazu-shô]], located in [[Hyuga province|Hyûga province]] and owned, successively, by members of the [[Taira clan|Taira]], [[Koremu
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• Matsunaga Hisahide
  ...a is reputed to have burned down the Great Buddha Hall of the [[Todaiji]] (Nara), to this day considered a needless act of near-villainy. ...ga cannily decided to submit and was allowed to keep his lands in [[Yamato Province|Yamato]]. Most likely Nobunaga was him as a useful tool both against the Mi
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• Akuto
  ''Akutô'' (lit. "evil bands") was a term used in the [[Nara period|Nara]] (710-794) to [[Muromachi period]]s (1333-1573), but primarily in the [[Ka Though the term appears in documents as early as the Nara period, and as late as the Muromachi period, ''akutô'' activities in the K
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• Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
  ...the state of [[Nanzhao]], established in [[738]] in what is today [[Yunnan province]]; a second attempt under Xuanzong in [[754]] failed as well. ...han led a rebellion, forcing Xuanzong and Yang Guifei to flee to [[Sichuan province]] (the former [[state of Shu]]), a scene depicted in countless later works
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• Fujiwara no Umakai
  * ''Titles: Governor of [[Hitachi|Hitachi province]] (c. [[719]]-[[723]])'' In [[719]], Fujiwara no Umakai became governor of Hitachi province, having just returned to Japan from China where he was vice-envoy [[Kentosh
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• Musashibo Benkei
  Musashibô Benkei, or "Benkei, monk of [[Musashi province|Musashi]]," was the quasi-legendary companion of [[Minamoto no Yoshitsune]] ...r the reconstruction of [[Todai-ji|Tôdai-ji]], destroyed in the [[Siege of Nara|war]]. Other episodes, as seen in ''[[Funa Benkei]]'' and ''[[Yoshitsune Se
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• Konoe Sakihisa
  ...i and was forced out of the capital; Sakihisa spent some years in [[Echigo province]] as a guest of [[Uesugi Kenshin]] before returning to [[Kyoto]] in [[1565] ...hese relations had soured, and Nobunaga sent Sakihisa to faraway [[Satsuma province]], in response to requests that he do something to end disputes between the
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• Cotton
  Cotton was first introduced to Japan in the late [[Nara period|Nara]] or early [[Heian period]], but only began to be grown in any significant ...cotton was also produced in ancient China, emerging originally in [[Yunnan province]] but not becoming economically prominent until the [[Yuan Dynasty]];<ref>C
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• Marugame castle
  ...innings in the early [[Muromachi period]] as fortifications built by the [[Nara clan]] (retainers of the [[Hosokawa clan]]). In [[1587]], [[Ikoma Chikamasa ...1615 when the [[Tokuagwa shogunate|shogunate]] issued its ‘one castle per province’ edict. Many of the buildings were destroyed or fell apart from neglect.
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