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• Shiga Shigetaka
  Shiga Shigetaka was a prominent thinker, geographer, and politician of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] and Taishô periods. ...izing the preservation of national characteristics, the magazine supported the First [[Imperial Diet|Imperial Diet's]] hard stances against foreign powers
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• Kamakura shogunate
  ...[[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] following his victory over the [[Taira clan]] in the [[Genpei War]] of [[1180]]-[[1185]]. ...d from 1185-[[1221]], and around 3,000 afterwards. The total population of the archipelago may have been around 9.75 million in 1300.<ref>Robert Tignor, [
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• Shimazu Motohisa
  ...ôshû branch. The Shimazu fortress of [[Shimizu castle]] (in [[1387]]), and the Shimazu clan graveyard at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] (in [[1394]]) were est ...against [[Imagawa Ryoshun|Imagawa Ryôshun]] and others. He became head of the clan himself following his father's death on [[1387]]/int.5/4.
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• Uesugi Mochinori
  ...her this is an alternate name, or a misreading of the name 「茂憲」。</ref> was the second governor of [[Okinawa Prefecture]], serving in that position from [[ ...and was at that time promoted to the Lower Junior Fourth Rank and granted the titles of Jijû and Shikibutaifu.
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• Tokugawa Yoshiatsu
  Tokugawa Yoshiatsu was the second to last lord of [[Mito han]]. He was the eldest son of [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], succeeding him as lord of Mito upon Nar ...erhaps about Yoshiatsu's ability, or his own political intentions), and so the guardians were permitted to continue to wield considerable authority. Those
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• Hachisuka Shigeyoshi
  Hachisuka Shigeyoshi was the tenth lord of [[Tokushima han]]. ...den han]], and was adopted into the [[Hachisuka clan]] in [[1754]]/6, when the ''daimyô'' [[Hachisuka Yoshihisa]] fell severely ill. He succeeded Yoshihi
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• Bashford Dean
  ...g|right|thumb|320px|Dean in a suit of samurai armor which he later sold to the museum]] ...jects he collected during several [[Meiji period]] travels to Japan formed the core of that collection.
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• 1559
  *Eiroku 1/12/7 (Jan 15, 1559) - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I is held in England. *1559/6-8 [[Siege of Iwakura]] by [[Oda Nobunaga]]; ends in the surrender of the castle and its subsequent destruction.
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• Rikugien
  ...6]] by [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]] in [[Edo]], it is still extant and open to the public today. ...garden would continue to house the [[Yanagisawa clan]] lower mansion until the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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• Saigo Kikujiro
  ...as taken to [[Kagoshima]] by his father. Three years later, he was sent to the United States for study. ...pan in the mid- or late 1870s, and fought alongside his father Takamori in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. He suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg, which
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• Kaiho Yusho
  ...hi-Momoyama period|Azuchi-Momoyama]] and early [[Edo period]]s, trained in the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] and an innovator in both monochrome ink and bl ...he defeat and destruction of his family, that Yûshô, at age 41, first left the temple and began his career as an artist.
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• Minamoto clan
  ...|thumb|240px|The Minamoto ''sasarindô'' crest, seen on the stone stairs to the grave of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] in [[Kamakura]]]] ...beginning of a period of over 600 years during which Japan would be under samurai (warrior) rule.
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• Marriage
  ...ent statuses meant for the woman; as well as the style of the ceremony and the extent to which marriages were (or needed to be) officially or legally reco ...nettes in the ''Tales'', a man is appointed to an official position out in the countryside for three years, and upon his return, his (former) wife says sh
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• Heiji Disturbance
  ...decline of direct Imperial power, and the early stages of the rise of the samurai class. ...lt he was more responsible for their victory, it was Kiyomori who received the greater rewards. Thus, Yoshitomo allied with court minister [[Fujiwara no N
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• Ikeda Mochimasa
  ...jpg|right|thumb|320px|Mochimasa, as seen in a photo in the 1942 reprint of the ''[[Tokugawa reiten roku]]'']] Ikeda Mochimasa was the ninth ''daimyô'' of [[Okayama han]].
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• Sho Ko (尚宏)
  ...s such, he was Crown Prince; he was a prominent political advisor and held the title "Prince [of] Gushichan." His Chinese-style name was Chôsei. ...for [[Edo]], the ill prince remained behind, dying in Sunpu on 1610/8/24. The king heard of his brother's death some weeks later, but was unable to stop
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• Sat-Cho Alliance
  The Sat-Chô Alliance was an alliance between [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] and [[Cho ...atsuma to negotiate further trade relations. For the next couple of years, the two domains enjoyed a lively trade in [[sugar]] from [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûk
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• Narahara Shigeru
  ...1892]] to [[1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the service of [[Satsuma han]], and was a prominent figure in early [[Meiji per ...s older brother by three years, is generally cited as the chief culprit in the [[Namamugi Incident|killing of a British merchant in Yokohama]] in [[1862]]
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• Satsuma Kyoto mansion
  ...]] built in [[Kyoto]] in [[1862]]; the gate serves today as an entrance to the campus of [[Doshisha University|Dôshisha University]].]] ...rved as an outpost for the domain's political and commercial activities in the [[Kamigata]] (Kyoto-[[Osaka]]) region.
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• Kitagawa Utamaro
  ...jpg|right|thumb|317px|"Flowers of Edo: Young Woman's Narrative Chanting to the Samisen," by Utamaro, c. 1800]] ...or across the year, providing a glimpse into the lives of courtesans, and the secret world they inhabited, beyond only what they showed to clients.
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