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• Ashikaga Yoshihide
  * ''Japanese:'' [[足利]] 義栄 ''(Ashikaga Yoshihide)'' ...Yoshiteru]] in [[1565]]. He was taken from [[Kyoto]] when [[Oda Nobunaga]] advanced on the city and died in the Miyoshi domain on Shikoku ([[1568]])
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• Nikuhitsuga
  *Japanese: 肉筆画 ''(nikuhitsuga)'' ''Nikuhitsuga'' were a form of Japanese [[painting]] in the ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' art style. Though the [[woodblock prin
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• Battle of Arita-Nakaide
  * ''Japanese'': Battle of Arita-Nakaide (有田中井手の戦い) ''(Arita Nakaide no T ...ed in Kyoto, the following year, Takeda gathered an army of some 5,000 and advanced into the territory of the Môri's [[Kikkawa clan|Kikkawa]] allies and surro
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• Huineng
  ...m emphasized gradual enlightenment through meditation, the Southern school advanced the idea of sudden enlightenment that comes in a flash, but only after a lo *Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 115.
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• Otani Yoshitsugu
  * Japanese: 大谷吉継 ''(Ootani Yoshitsugu)'' or 大谷吉隆''(Ootani Yoshitaka)'' ...y Ishida Mitsunari to follow the latter instead. Though suffering from now-advanced leprosy, he joined the 'western' forces on the battlefield at Sekigahara an
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• Orikuchi Shinobu
  *''Japanese'': 折口信夫 ''(Orikuchi Shinobu)'' ...], he advanced the notion that [[Okinawa]] represented an earlier stage of Japanese tradition, and that study of Okinawan folklore, religion, and so forth coul
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• Tokugawa Tadateru
  * ''Japanese'': [[徳川]]忠輝 ''(Tokugawa Tadateru)'' ...eventually settled in [[Suo province]], where he lived in obscurity to an advanced age, the last of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu’s]] sons to pass away.
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• Giovanni Battista Sidotti
  ...o lift their ban on [[Christianity]].<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 155.</ ...to find buried there would be [[Giuseppe Chiara]], who died at a much more advanced age, thus making the identification of this body as Sidotti's all the more
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• Tsutsui Masanori
  *''Japanese'': [[筒井]] 政憲 ''(Tsutsui Masanori)'' ...維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 626.</ref> The following year ([[1855]]), due to his advanced age, the shogunate excused him from more formal duties, and asked him to he
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• Battle of Mimigawa
  *''Japanese'': 耳川の戦い ''(Mimigawa no tatakai)'' ...success with the destruction of an enemy fort at Matsuyama. Yoshihisa then advanced to the Taka area, and joined with the rest of the Shimazu clan. In the resu
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• Ryuzoji Takanobu
  * ''Japanese'': [[龍造寺]]隆信 ''(Ryuuzouji Takanobu)'' ...said to have heavily indulged in alcohol and by 1580 was showing signs of advanced alcoholism, including a dulling of his mental capabilities and an increasin
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• Siege of Koriyama
  * ''Japanese'': Battle of Yoshida-Koriyama (吉田郡山城の戦い) ''(Yoshida Kouriya In the 8th month Haruhisa's main force departed Izumo and advanced into the vicinity of Motonari's Yoshida-Koriyama Castle and established a h
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• Fuwa Kazuemon
  ...in Legends of the Samurai Overlook Press, 1995). One of several arguments advanced by Confucian scholars shortly after the 1702 Ako ronin attack. Yasusada pro ...ssor Henry Smith (cited below in the bibliography) describes as “the first Japanese historian to analyze the incident using the tools of modern scholarship.”
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• Okakura Kakuzo
  *''Japanese'': 岡倉覚三 ''(Okakura Kakuzou)'' ...a canon of Japanese art. He was also a prominent advocate for traditional Japanese art and culture, and a proponent of caution against Westernizing too quickl
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• Takenouchi Ryu
  * ''Japanese'': 竹内流 ''(Takenouchi Ryuu)'' ...ing and prayer. Takenouchi Hisamori was a relatively small person even for Japanese people, but used a training sword of two shaku and four sun in length. On t
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• Porcelain
  *''Japanese'': 磁製 ''(jisei)'', 磁器 ''(jiki)'' ...fired at around 1300-1350 C, white porcelain is said to have been the most advanced type of porcelain in terms of its hardness.<ref>Gallery labels, National Mu
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• Hojo Ujimasa
  *''Japanese'': [[北条]]氏政 ''(Houjou Ujimasa)'' ...yotomi forces began to descend on the Kanto-including Tokugawa Ieyasu, who advanced eastward through the Hakone passes. Uesugi Kagekatsu and [[Maeda Toshiie]]
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• Hikone castle
  *''Japanese'': 彦根城 ''(Hikone-jou)'' ...gawa Ieyasu]] at the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] in [[1600]], Ieyasu’s forces advanced on Sawayama. The castle was being defended by Mitsunari’s brother, Ishida
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• Nakagusuku gusuku
  *''Japanese'': [[中城]]城 ''(Nakagusuku gusuku, Nakagusuku jou)'' ...''miigusuku''). Its walls are built in the ''aikata'' style, a newer, more advanced style than the ''nuno-zumi'' style in which the walls of the first and seco
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• Sakamoto Ryoma
  * ''Japanese'': 坂本龍馬直柔 ''(Sakamoto Ryôma Naonari)'' **Began advanced training in swordsmanship at the famed Chiba dôjô in [[Edo]].
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