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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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