*''Japanese'': 仁和寺 ''(Ninna-ji)''
...se" (''wayô'') style of the [[Heian period]].<ref>The term ''wayô'' (lit. "Japanese style") was coined in the [[Kamakura period]] to refer to the architectural
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* ''Japanese'': [[西郷]]従道 ''(Saigou Tsugumichi)''
Tsugumichi led a Japanese invasion of Formosa (Taiwan) in May, [[1874]] ([[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]
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*''Japanese'': 物の哀れ ''(mono no aware)''
...equently used to refer to a particular aesthetic, or aesthetic element, in Japanese traditional culture, particularly [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]]
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*''Japanese'': 電信機 ''(denshinki)'', 電報 ''(denpô)''
...this was indeed the first-ever telegraph message in Japan, or the first on Japanese-made equipment, and whether it was using the machine gifted by Nabeshima or
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*''Japanese'': 町屋、町家 ''(machiya)''
...ya'' (lit. "townhouses") are perhaps the most standard form of traditional Japanese urban one-family dwellings. Developing into their mature form in the [[Edo
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*''Japanese'': 建長寺 ''(kenchou-ji)''
...ound it. Daolong would be the first to be named a Japanese Zen master by a Japanese Emperor.
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*''Japanese'': 清見寺 ''(Seiken-ji; Kiyomi-dera)''
...estored once again by [[Shogun]] [[Ashikaga Takauji]] in [[1342]], and its garden was officially named a "famous site" (''meishô''<ref>名勝</ref>) in the
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*''Japanese'': 旅籠 ''(hatago)'', 旅籠屋 ''(hatagoya)''
...building, from the ''genkan'' (entrance) through the kitchen and a pocket garden. A tatami-lined room behind the ''mise no ma'' but before the guest rooms w
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*''Japanese'': 仲島 ''(Nakashima)''
...hinese illustrated book, the scene is entitled ''Chûtô shôen'', or "Banana Garden at Chûtô (Nakashima)."
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*''Japanese'': [[川村]] 修就 ''(Kawamura Nagataka)''
...n [[Edo]], and originally inheriting his family post of ''niwaban'' (lit. "garden guard"), in which he traveled the realm compiling secret reports for the sh
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*''Japanese'': 本居宣長 ''(Motoori Norinaga)''
...the [[Edo period]], writing extensively on the essence of Japaneseness, or Japanese culture, and disparaging Chinese culture and influence.
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*''Japanese'': 南禅寺 ''(Nanzenji)''
...he ''[[shinden-zukuri]]'' architecture style, and faces the temple's front garden, said to have been designed by [[Kobori Enshu|Kobori Enshû]] around [[1600
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* ''Japanese'': [[赤松]] 満祐 ''(Akamatsu Mitsusuke)''
...ctory feast. Yoshinori agreed, and during a presentation of dancing in the garden a number of horses suddenly burst from their stables and caused great confu
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*''Japanese'': 加賀江戸藩邸 ''(Kaga Edo hantei)''
...ed by as many as 30,000 people.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 72.</ref> The space i
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*''Japanese'': [[尚]] 順 ''(Shou Jun)''
...ekijô'' theater, and a canning factory, and was a major figure in both the Japanese political and investment worlds of his time.
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===[[Sino-Japanese War]]===
*1894/9/15 Japanese First Army (17,000 troops) attacks Pingyang.
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*''Chinese/Japanese'': 承德 ''(Chéngdé)''
...used by elite scholar-officials, while an area to the north, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, contained an area of prairie meant to reproduce the
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*''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)''
...x. It was also known as the Rinchikaku ("Tower Next to the Pond"). Another garden in the compound, the Genkyû-en, was built by Ii Naooki in 1677, and was me
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*''Japanese'': 尚古集成館 ''(Shou ko shuu sei kan)''
...loyed over two thousand workers.<ref>[[Luke Roberts]], ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa''
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*''Japanese'': 永青文庫 ''(Eisei Bunko)''
...rtion of the estate's gardens are maintained nearby as the [[Higo-Hosokawa Garden]]. The archive takes its name from the "ei" of Eigen-an, a [[tachu|branch t
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*''Japanese'': 大名屋敷 ''(daimyou yashiki)''
..., "Upper, Middle, and Lower Residences of Kaga Domain," National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12591023803/sizes/h/]</re
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*''Japanese'': 本[[阿弥]]光悦 ''(Hon'ami Kouetsu)''
...tion and reconstruction of [[Honpo-ji|Honpô-ji]] temple. Kôetsu designed a garden for the temple, and it became the Hon'ami family temple, maintaining strong
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*''Japanese'': 歌舞伎座 ''(kabuki-za)''
...r Western-style building. The three-story interior is said to have been in Japanese design, constructed chiefly in [[cypress]], but with experimental touches i
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*''Japanese'': 南洲墓地 ''(nanshuu bochi)''
...died in the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]] fighting against the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. It is located on the former grounds of the Buddhist temple [[Jokomy
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...ht|thumb|400px|The Tenshikan, as depicted in a 1788 handscroll painting by Japanese painter Yamaguchi Suiô]]
*''Japanese'': 天使館 ''(Tenshikan)''
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*''Japanese'': 金沢城 ''(Kanazawa-jou)''
...ous gardens in Japan, lies adjacent to the castle. The streams feeding the garden also served the purpose of supplying the castle town with water, and the te
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*''Japanese'': 方広寺 ''(houkouji)''
...balls were seen in the skies over [[Edo]], and that one even landed in the garden of [[Matsudaira Sadanobu]].<ref name=shogun/> The temple was rebuilt in [[1
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===[[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|First Japanese Embassy to the United States]]===
*1860/1/18 (Feb 9) The members of the first embassy to the US, 170 Japanese and some number of American escorts, depart Edo for Yokohama.
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*''Japanese'': [[徳川]]吉宗 ''(Tokugawa Yoshimune)''
...ôshin''), before withdrawing. Normally, this would have been done from the garden, but as it was raining that day, it was done from the corridor or veranda (
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*''Japanese'': 金閣寺 ''(kinkaku-ji)''
...l, and is intended to serve chiefly as a pavilion from which to admire the garden, though it does contain religious sculpture. The first floor, constructed i
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*''Japanese:'' 二条城 ''(Nijou-jou)''
...iro]]'' ("plains castle"), it is much more of a palace than other existing Japanese castles. Shortly after his victory over the forces of the West at the [[Bat
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*''Japanese'': 丸山 ''(maruyama)''
...e quarters were able to carry things between the foreign districts and the Japanese townsmen of Nagasaki, thus circumventing the shogunate's [[Nagasaki kaisho|
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...g the gifts. The actual objects were sometimes displayed on the veranda or garden adjoining the audience hall, but were transported by castle staff, and were
...rough the lower level of the ''Ôhiroma'', directly to the south across the garden. After the performance, there was a ceremonial sharing of cups of saké, an
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...en]] (Fuzhou Gardens) in [[Naha]], [[Okinawa]], a reproduction of a famous garden in Fuzhou]]
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 福州 ''(Fúzhōu; Fukushuu)''
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*''Japanese'': [[伊藤]] 若冲 ''(Itou Jakuchuu)''
...the mid-[[Edo period]]. Though many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds, his painting style and met
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*''Chinese/Japanese'': 乾隆帝 ''(Qiánlóng dì / Kenryuu tei)''
...ens]] in the style of [[Jiangnan|Southern China]].<ref>Chi Xiao, ''Chinese Garden as Lyric Enclave'', Center for Chinese Studies, Univ. of Michigan (2001), 7
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* ''Japanese'': 浅野 長矩 ''(Asano Naganori)''
...criminals and was further shown contempt by having to commit seppuku in a garden rather than in the grand chamber appropriate to his status as a daimyo.
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*''Japanese'': 興福寺 ''(koufuku-ji)''
In the garden in front of the Ô-mi-dô is a grave mound for a boy who was stoned to deat
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*''Japanese/Chinese'': 禅 ''(zen / chán)'', 禅宗 ''(zen shuu / chánzōng)''
...enters with shoes on, and are often furnished with chairs, in contrast to Japanese temples of other sects, where one typically removes one's shoes before step
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*''Japanese'': 古川古松軒 ''(Furukawa Koshouken)''
...rally means "house of the old pine," from an old pine tree in his family's garden. In the autobiographical ''Koshôken zakki'', he characterizes himself as a
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The first Japanese embassy to the [[United States]] took place in [[1860]]. The ambassadors tr
The chief nominal purpose of this mission was to exchange the Japanese- and English-language versions of the [[Harris Treaty|Treaty of Amity and C
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*''Japanese'': イギリス東インド会社 ''(Igirisu higashi indo kaisha)''
...ike Lambs in Japan and Devils outside Their Land: Diplomacy, Violence, and Japanese Merchants in Southeast Asia,” ''Journal of World History'' 24:2 (2013), 3
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*''Japanese'': 横浜 ''(Yokohama)''
...s largest cities. Not counting Tokyo, Yokohama is generally considered the Japanese city with the most residents, and Osaka the most populous during the days,
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*''Japanese'': 成田山新勝寺 ''(Narita-san Shinshou-ji)''
...lly built in 1928, and considerably renovated in 1998, the park contains a garden in a distinctively early 20th century European style, with carefully arrang
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*''Japanese'': [[今帰仁]]城, 今帰仁グスク ''(Nakijin-jou / Nakijin gusuku)''
...e highest and innermost part of the complex, and was surrounded by a small garden with a spring. Three shrines (''[[utaki|uganju]]'') stood at the highest p
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*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 組踊 ''(kumi odori / kumi udui)''
...2010.</ref> It can now be considered in a category with other traditional Japanese performing arts, including ''[[gagaku]]'', ''[[Noh]]'', ''[[bunraku]]'', an
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...nces, University of Tsukuba (2003), 1-2.<br>Nicholas Fiévé and Paul Waley, Japanese capitals in historical perspective: place, power and memory in Kyoto, Edo a
...t gardens]] for himself within the Forbidden City.<ref>Chi Xiao, ''Chinese Garden as Lyric Enclave'', Center for Chinese Studies, Univ. of Michigan (2001), 7
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*''Japanese'': 皇居 ''(koukyo)''
...d of the nation to all those who saw it, including foreign dignitaries and Japanese officials and [[kazoku|nobility]]. In the petition, Kawaji also emphasizes
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*''Japanese'': 伊勢音頭恋の寝刃 ''(Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba)''
Today, the Aburaya and Inner Courtyard/Garden scenes of Act III are most often performed, with the [[Futami-ga-Ura]] scen
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*''Japanese'': 在番奉行 ''(zaiban bugyou)''
...ô'' typically enjoyed a reception at [[Uchaya udun]] (the court's "eastern garden" detached palace) once during his term. Such receptions included lavish ban
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