''Sekibune'' were a type of oared warship used extensively in the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] and [[Edo
In the [[Edo period]], the shogun, as well as a number of ''daimyô'', possessed luxury ''sekibune'' which had been refitted to serve
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...establish himself at Toyohara castle, but who rebelled at the difficulties of constructing a ''yamashiro'' (mountain castle).
...eyasu]], lord of [[Kitanosho castle|Kitanoshô castle]], became the keepers of Maruoka.
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...ends its name today to the surrounding [[prefectures of Japan|prefecture]] of [[Hyogo prefecture|Hyôgo]]. The port-city was renamed [[Kobe]] in the mode
One of the [[five harbors]] (''go-tomari'' or ''go-haku'') built by [[Gyoki|Gyôki
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...awa clan]]s, in the Chinese port of [[Ningbo]] in [[1523]], over dominance of maritime trade with China.
...he East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges''. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p23.</ref>
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...there is no evidence in the documents of Bunhitsu being ill for any length of time, so it appears he may have died fairly suddenly.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮
...Bunhitsu's grave. One reads, in large characters, 「海清」and「龍飛」 ("pure/clear sea" and "dragon flying"), while the other pair features lengthier poetry, read
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...rights activists and those who claim the hunting & consumption of the meat of whales (and other cetaceans) is a traditional practice, has led to heated p
...nd Europeans, whose whaling ships played a significant role in the history of the Pacific, including in encounters with the Japanese.
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...rchangeably with [[Wa]]. Both terms refer to the Japanese state; the term "Japan" itself is avoided as the extent to which the term should be applied to any
...[Hakata]] (Fukuoka), following the Korean coast before crossing the Yellow Sea and arriving in Shangdong. At this time, the Yamato state refused to submit
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Kawasaki Shôzô was the founder of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, which later developed into Kawasaki Heav
...n the port's commerce. He then opened his own shop in [[Osaka]] at the age of 27, but faced difficulties as, on several occasions, ships transporting his
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...hisada.jpg|thumb|left|Nitta Yoshisada prepares to throw his sword into the sea as an offering so that the gods will roll back the tide and let his army pa
...s appointed by Go-Daigo Governor of [[Echigo province]], and Vice-Governor of [[Kozuke Province|Kozuke]] and [[Harima province|Harima provinces]]. When [
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...the [[Gempei War]] ([[1180]]-85) and resulted in the complete destruction of the [[Taira clan|Taira]] leadership.
...-nurse [[Suke no Tsubone]] committed suicide by drowning, followed by most of the Taira samurai - save their leader, Munemori, who was captured and later
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..., and a licensed foreign ship the other half. In theory, a merchant's half of the form would have to line up properly with the port officials' half in or
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[[File:John Manjiro Grave.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The graves of Nakahama Manjirô and his relatives, at Zôshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo]]
...njirô is among the most famous of 19th century Japanese castaways, and one of the first Japanese to ever travel to the United States.
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...of Niigata into a key site of national coastal defense along the [[Sea of Japan]] coast.
...ration of a city which [[Nagaoka han]] had previously managed with a staff of under twenty.
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Phra Phetracha was king of the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]] from [[1688]] to [[1703]].
He came to power in 1688 amidst a great moment of crisis and conflict within Ayutthaya. His predecessor, King [[Narai]], had
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''Jôi'' literally means "Expel the Barbarians", and was usually used as part of "[[Sonno|Sonnô]] Jôi" ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") as a p
...ffected this violently and harshly, and not through the more ideal methods of benevolent rule. Still, Confucius writes, if not for Guan Zhong, "we might
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...wn for his arguments for broad-ranging reassessments of our understandings of, and approaches to, Japanese history.
...tead, he suggests that a great many rural people were engaged in a variety of trades - including fishing and other maritime activities, artisanal or craf
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==Timeline of 1904==
...zô]] departs [[Kobe]] for [[Manila]], to prepare to oversee the settlement of the first Okinawan emigrants to the Philippines.
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[[Image:Gyoki.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Gyôki at Kintetsu Nara Station.]]
...i-ji]]. After his death, he was posthumously named a bodhisattva; a statue of Gyôki stands outside Kintetsu [[Nara]] Station.
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...ine]] in [[Nagoya]], famous as the site where [[Kusanagi no tsurugi]], one of the [[Imperial Regalia]], is kept. Atsuta is dedicated to numerous ''[[kami
...hrine in [[686]]. It is said to have been lost in [[1185]] at the [[Battle of Dan-no-Ura]], and either retrieved, or replaced with a replica. Only a very
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...lected for its iridescent shell, which is used to make decorative [[mother-of-pearl]] inlay on [[lacquerwares]].
...Nov 2021.</ref> Within the Amamis, this trade helped fuel the acquisition of equipment and raw materials for producing [[iron]] tools and other goods.
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...ternational war fought by the Meiji state. Like the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of ten years later, it was fought chiefly in Korea, and over which countries w
...eement ending the war is similarly often cited as marking the beginning of Japan's imperialist/colonialist Empire.
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...n'', literally "maritime restrictions" or "sea prohibitions," was a system of maritime trade proscriptions put into place during the [[Ming Dynasty]], an
...he Ryukyu Kingdom and Ming China (1372-1526).” Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2010, 59. http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/20602.</ref
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...ne]].<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 166.</ref>
...ial channels, with the shogunate mandating quotas for each domain's export of these goods, which would be purchased by the shogunate at a low fixed price
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...igenous groups. Several of the Kurils are today disputed territory between Japan and Russia.
...of influence, or claim, of the [[Matsumae clan]] of [[Ezo]] (Hokkaidô) or of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] directly, the Kurils were never directly adminis
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...Chinese immigrant to [[Japan]], or someone from further afield who came to Japan via China or Korea (see [[Hata clan]]).
...his appearance in the dream as a result of his destiny being connected to Japan's.
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''Iroha-maru'' refers to two different ships built in [[Bakumatsu]] era Japan.
...Satsuma shipyard at Setomura on [[Sakurajima]].<ref>Plaques at former site of Iso shipyard, Kagoshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/152173971
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...to Benzaiten are also located on tiny islands in manmade ponds. She is one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods]].
...ith a local serpent [[kami|deity]], Ugajin. According to the founding myth of Enoshima Shrine, a dragon menaced the local population until one day an isl
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...]]). It was governed by the [[Kyogoku clan|Kyôgoku clan]] at the beginning of the [[Edo Period]], and by the [[Sakai clan]] from [[1634]] on.
...f Japan]] coast, and played a significant role in the economic development of the early Edo period.
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...[[Colonial Korea|Korea]], which became a Japanese protectorate as a result of this war.
...ase in the Far East to supplement [[Vladivostok]]. For Japan it was a case of adding insult to injury.
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...noue Shrine, located high above the waves looking out over the South China Sea.]]
...]], the primary shrine (一の宮, ''[[ichinomiya]]'') in the prefecture and one of the [[Ryukyu Eight Shrines|Ryûkyû Eight Shrines]]. It sits atop a high bl
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...n embassies to Edo]] in the 17th-19th century, and in diaries and journals of Western travelers such as [[Carl Peter Thunberg]] in the 1770s, and [[Rober
...small portion of the Murotsu Peninsula, which juts out from the "mainland" of Honshû. It faces the Suô Channel to the west, and the Iyo Channel to the
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...un Park, "Small States and the Search for Sovereignty in Sinocentric Asia: Japan and Korea in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Anthony Reid & Zheng Yangwen
...chus.<ref>Ji-Young Lee, “Diplomatic Ritual as a Power Resource," ''Journal of East Asian Studies'' 13 (2013), 325.</ref>
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...many claims to fame is a [[banyan]] tree said to be the largest in all of Japan.<ref name=amaminosato>Gallery labels, Amami no Sato, Amami Park.</ref>
...ashion to spread islands out to the north, and then to the south. A number of legends, songs, and the like from [[Okinawa Island]] and elsewhere suggest
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...Island|Okinawa]], about 100 km west of [[Naha]], and facing the East China Sea.
...e building a fortress at Aona-misaki, of the excellent defensive qualities of this hill, and Madafutsu ''anji'' then built his fortress here instead.
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==Timeline of 1851==
*1851/2/2 [[Shimazu Narioki]] steps down as lord of [[Satsuma han]], and is succeeded by [[Shimazu Nariakira]].
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...med prayers or rituals.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 128-129.</ref>
...tection. One such site is [[Kuba nu utaki]], also known as Kubô utaki, one of the most sacred spaces on the island and closed entirely today to outsiders
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...official who traveled to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] on a number of occasions in the 1640s-1660s, initially seeking to convince the kingdom to
...ear loyalty to the Qing, but the Ryukyuan court delayed, through a variety of excuses and techniques. Finally, however, in [[1653]], they agreed to send
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...for a scene are changed out, in various dramatic ways, sometimes a number of them in sequence, for dramatic effect or purely as spectacle.
The term literally means simply the ''gaeshi'' (changing, or exchange) of ''dôgu'', a term which in general usage means "tools," but which in the th
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...s like these, each about the size of a bowling ball, were packed in crates of forty or so for shipment to China.]]
...h contributed, in turn, dramatically, to the decline and eventual collapse of the dynasty.
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...cing an account of his journeys, ''[[Voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island]]'', which remains a prominent and oft-
...[1812]], he was assigned to the East Indies, and in 1816 was named captain of the [[HMS Alceste and Lyra|HMS ''Lyra'']], which accompanied the HMS ''Alce
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Shiga Shigetaka was a prominent thinker, geographer, and politician of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] and Taishô periods.
...active in similar groups, including Dôshikai and Chûô-seisha, and a number of different political parties.
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== Timeline of 1867 ==
...the ''Iroha-maru'' sinks off Ujishima, near [[Tomonoura]], in the [[Inland Sea]].
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==Timeline of 1850==
...(lord of [[Mito han]]), is adopted into the [[Ikeda clan]] to become lord of [[Tottori han]].
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...ecame one of the chief sources of knowledge about Ryûkyû in [[Edo period]] Japan. It may be the first text to employ the term "Okinawa" (沖縄).
...ords of the Three Kingdoms|Record of Wu]]<!--呉史 or 呉志 or 呉書-->, the [[Book of Tang]]<!--唐書-->, the ''[[Shoku Nihongi]]'', ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', ''[[En
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[[File:Tsurumaru.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The former site of the main gates to Tsurumaru castle, with the [[Reimeikan]] visible in the b
...ma, facing out towards the [[jokamachi|castle town]], beyond which lay the sea.
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...o-daigokuden.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The main audience hall (''daigokuden'') of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]] (reconstructed 2010)]]
The Nara period takes its name from the site of [[Heijo-kyo|Heijô-kyô]] in present day [[Nara]], which served as the impe
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...dition of the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', on display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]]
...1719]]. The volume was republished numerous times in Japan, and became one of the most widely read, and widely regarded, sources on the Ryûkyû Kingdom;
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...<!--伊勢国久居藩-->. He had one older sister and four older brothers, the eldest of whom, Kanenosuke, died young; the second son, Yasukage, thus became the hei
...n studying under a Confucian scholar in service to the domain, by the name of [[Sano Yuzan|Sano Yûzan]]<!--佐野酉山-->. Nankei's father died on [[17
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...Kentosen.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Reproduction ''kentôsen'' ship, at the site of the [[Heijo Imperial Palace|Heijô Imperial Palace]].]]
...rchangeably with [[Wa]]. Both terms refer to the Japanese state; the term "Japan" itself is avoided as the extent to which the term should be applied to any
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[[Image:Murakami2_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The ''[[kamon]]'' of the Murakami.]]
...ower and thus were key in establishing the Môri's domination of the Inland Sea, which lasted from around 1555-1576.
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