...eigning shogun gone to Kyoto. This was a difficult time for a Japan as the country was violently struggling to find consensus on how to deal with the threat s
...scope of the Mibu Roshigumi's mission from one of protecting the Shogun to one of patrolling the streets of Kyoto and restoring order in the name of the B
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...ng a total land area of some 2,000 square kilometers, it comprises roughly one percent of Japan's total land area.<ref>Hiroko Matsuda and Pedro Iacobelli,
...ractices in Okinawa into line with systems used throughout the rest of the country. This included converting much communal land into private property, and eli
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...as Japan burst onto the world scene demanding to be recognized as a modern country, and as a world power. From electricity and [[railroads]] to [[yoga|oil pai
...or gone in a dramatically different direction, at any of numerous points. One such threat came from [[shizoku rebellions|violent rebellions]] by former s
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...yama|Toyama]] – [[Siege of Negoroji|Negoroji]] – [[Siege of Ota Castle|Ôta Castle]] – [[Invasion of Shikoku (1585)|Shikoku & Ichinomiya]] – [[Battle of T
...enmity of the senior Oda retainers. Tokachiro is then given a position as one of Nobunaga's sandal-bearers and is present for the [[Battle of Okehazama]]
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...Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 63.</ref> and the construction of [[Azuchi castle]], the model for Japanese [[castles]] in the mode most well-known today.
...ased at [[Kiyosu castle]]. The rival branch was to the north, in [[Iwakura castle]].
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...the political ploys of the [[Imagawa clan]], and was now lord of [[Okazaki castle]], a relatively minor territory in [[Mikawa province]]. The question of acc
...ice but to agree, and Sessai returned to Suruga with Takechiyo, who traded one hostage situation for another.
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...ng the Tokugawa victory over the [[Toyotomi clan]] in the [[siege of Osaka Castle]], thus finally eliminating the last serious opposition. The population of
...archipelago. In each locale, peasants and commoners paid taxes only to the one authority that controlled that territory, whether it be a ''daimyô'' house
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...Bingo]] are also known to have commanded raiding parties around this time. One contemporary source relates that "the seven bands" of ''wakô'', though pre
...led in turn to a rise in illegal trade between the coastal Chinese on the one hand with Japanese and other foreigners. A number of Chinese officials and
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[[Image:Seiden.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The Seiden of Shuri castle.]]
Shuri castle was the chief royal palace of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]]
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...ng with [[Noh]] and ''[[ningyo joruri|ningyô jôruri]]'' (aka ''bunraku''), one of the three most prominent forms of traditional Japanese theater. Emerging
The ''hanamichi'' (lit. "flower path"), a long, narrow walkway and one of the most visible stage features, extends from the stage (just left of st
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...territory on the island of Ezo. Controlling that territory from [[Matsumae castle]], they came to be known as the [[Matsumae clan]], and remained the only da
...ies explicitly did not recognize the Ainu as a sovereign people, i.e. as a country, in the same way that they recognized Korea, China, or Ryûkyû; instead, J
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