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• The Battles of Coxinga
  ...t after its debut.<ref>Ronald Toby ロナルド・トビ, "Sakoku" toiu gaikô 「鎖国」という外交, Tokyo: Shogakukan (2008), 218.</ref> ...upon Japan as a small country, he cries "have you learned now the meaning of Japanese prowess, before which even tigers tremble?"<ref>Jansen, 85.</ref>
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• Konoe Iehiro
  Konoe Iehiro was a son of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]], and was known as a poet, pa ...s ''sesshô'', ''kanpaku'', and ''dajô daijin'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only t
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• Ryukyu-banashi
  ...ice storehouses, from a copy in the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, University of Hawaii Library]] ...ima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]], a volume describing the history and culture of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], was among the most accurate and po
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• Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution
  ...eremonies from that time forward, particularly those held up until the end of World War II. ...to share with the public details of the schedule of events, and the layout of the Throne Room for the main ceremony.
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• Enryokan
  ...irst [former] foreign head of state to visit Japan), and King [[Kalakaua]] of Hawaii (first reigning monarch to visit Japan). ...resent: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 233.</ref>
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• Sword Hunt
  ...emple Hideyoshi founded.<ref>Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/33808120714/sizes/h/]</ref> ...ords, 700 daggers, 160 spears, and 500 suits of armor, along with a number of other objects.
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• Sato Susumu
  ...adopted son of [[Sato Takanaka|Satô Takanaka]], and his successor as head of the [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] [[Juntendo|Juntendô]]. ...came one of the first in Japan to be formally granted a degree as a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.).
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• Zhu Zaiyu
  ...id to have been the first person in the world to devise the musical system of 12-tone equal temperament.<ref>Nakao, 350.</ref> ...'The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite'', Oxford University Press (2012), 99.</ref> and is said to have been particularly talented at m
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• Tokyo National Museum
  [[Image:TNM-Honkan.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The second Honkan (Main Building) of the museum, built in 1938 in a Meiji-inspired style.]] ...d first founded as the Tokyo Imperial or Imperial Household Museum, is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Na
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• Daimyo yashiki
  ...ki'' (upper residence) of [[Matsudaira Tadamasa]], on display at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].]] ...were also maintained in Kyoto, [[Osaka]], and elsewhere, serving as bases of operations for the ''daimyô's'' political and economic activities in those
  9 KB (1,322 words) - 01:58, 27 August 2020
• Toyama Kyuzo
  [[File:Toyama-kyuzo.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Tôyama Kyûzô in Kin Town, Okinawa]] Tôyama Kyûzô is considered the father (or grandfather) of Okinawan immigration.
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• Omura Masujiro
  [[File:Omura.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Ômura at [[Yasukuni Shrine]]]] ...anese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]].
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• Hokoku Shrine
  ...deification of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. It is the head shrine of a network of Toyokuni shrines throughout the country. ...oyotomi Hideyoshi. [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] granted 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' worth of land to the shrine.
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• Osaka
  ...f largest city because, due to a technicality of political designations, [[Tokyo]] is a "metropolitan [[prefectures|prefecture]]" and not a "city."</ref> ...Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 18-19.</ref>
  5 KB (846 words) - 20:36, 7 June 2017
• Kyan Bangen
  ...[[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]] from the Ryukyuan side of the conflict. ...tion efforts, though all ultimately failed. He remained on the main island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] throughout the invasion, and so his diary is mos
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• Sessei
  ...kyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] below the king; the ''sessei'' served the function of royal or national advisor. Though the same [[kanji]] which compose the Okin ...n as the ''wii nu za'', or "Upper Seat," while the less powerful [[Council of Fifteen]] was known as the ''shicha nu za'', or "Lower Seat."
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• Oka Senjin
  ...i Restoration]], and after being freed became a teacher and librarian in [[Tokyo]]. ...members, and who practice great inefficiency and wastefulness, in the name of observing "filial piety." In the end, he concludes that Japan must separate
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• Fushimi castle
  ...and the like.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 59.</ref> ...stroyed. Hideyoshi then rebuilt the castle roughly 500 meters to the north of the original site.
  4 KB (592 words) - 06:35, 19 July 2020
• Yayoi Period
  ...ight|thumb|400px|Model of a Yayoi period village, at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]]] ...ates of the university's main campus in Hongô.<ref>Plaque at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref>
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• Ryukyu-koku shiryaku
  ...inoue Shrine]], as depicted in an [[1831]] Japanese woodblock-printed copy of the ''Liuqiu-guo zhilue'']] ...ntext: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref>
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