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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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