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  • Tokugawa Yoshiyori was a head of the [[Tayasu clan|Tayasu]] branch family of the [[Tokugawa clan]]. ...n of [[Tokugawa Narimasa]], he succeeded his father to become the 8th head of the Tayasu family in [[1839]]. In [[1858]], he was promoted from Gonnochûn
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  • ...ojo clan|Hôjô]], [[Takeda clan|Takeda]], and [[Imagawa clan]]s on a number of occasions. ...koku]]'' at the beginning of the Edo period, but the clan was dispossessed of its lands in [[1614]], and their line died out in [[1622]].<ref name=arai/>
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  • ...[[1897]] state funeral of [[Empress Myeongseong]]. National Palace Museum of Korea.]] The ''uigwe'' are official records commissioned and kept by the royal court of [[Joseon]] Korea.
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  • ...cial and diplomat, who played a prominent role in many of the major events of late 19th century China. ...l, and contributed suggestions as to aspects of the execution or direction of the [[Self-Strengthening Movement]], and was dispatched on several diplomat
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  • ...tember [[1632]].<ref>Adam Clulow, ''The Company and the Shogun'', Columbia University Press (2014), 98.</ref> *Cynthia Viallé, "In Aid of Trade: Dutch Gift-Giving in Tokugawa Japan," ''Tokyo daigaku shiryôhensanjo kenkyû kiyô'' 16 (2006), 73n3.
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  • ...at the site of Tokutomi's home in the Omotesandô/Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. He moved here from [[Zushi]] in October [[1900]], and returned to Zushi in Tokutomi Roka was a prominent novelist of the [[Meiji period]], and younger brother to writer and politician [[Tokuto
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  • ::''Ôban 大判 can also refer to a type of coin. See [[currency]].'' ...castle]]s, as well as patrolling the samurai districts of [[Edo]] (outside of the castle grounds proper).
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  • ...uced for members of the US military, often incorporating garish depictions of weapons or other military equipment. ...ompany ten years later to establish his own studio, going on to become one of the most preeminent lacquerware artists in Okinawa, while Benbô retained i
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  • ...nate name, or a misreading of the name 「茂憲」。</ref> was the second governor of [[Okinawa Prefecture]], serving in that position from [[1881]]-[[1883]]. ...that time promoted to the Lower Junior Fourth Rank and granted the titles of Jijû and Shikibutaifu.
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  • [[File:Juntendo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall of the Juntendô.]] [[File:Juntendo-model.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A model of the Juntendô, showing the complex at its fullest historical size.]]
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  • *''Territory: one of fourteen districts of [[Iyo province]]'' ...nd of [[Shikoku]]. It was ruled from [[Uwajima castle]] by a branch family of the [[Date clan]] which ruled [[Sendai han]] in [[Mutsu province]] (in the
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  • ...') under [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], and [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]]. ...Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferred to [[Murakami han]] in [[Ech
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  • ...yuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref> ...and demanded the resignation of his fellow Sanshikan, deputy envoy on the Tokyo embassy, [[Giwan Choho|Giwan Chôho]].
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  • ...izen|Satô Taizen]], one of a number of monuments to the individual members of the Satô family, at the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] ...ku|Western medicine]] in [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]] Japan. Several of Taizen's natural sons who were adopted into other families and took on othe
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  • Gushikawa Chôfuku was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...of ''zaiban oyakata'' from [[Katsuren Seiki]], remaining there for a term of one year.
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  • ...ticularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku. ...>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 222.</ref>
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  • ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 46.</ref> ...ear, and were granted mansions near [[Nihonbashi]], just outside the gates of [[Edo castle]]. Though they held no official [[stipend]], all three familie
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  • [[File:Zojoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Zôjô-ji, with Tokyo Tower visible behind it]] ...320px|The Great Gate (''daimon'') of Zôjô-ji, which gives the neighborhood of Shiba Daimon, as well as the Daimon subway station, their names]]
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  • Prince Morinaga was an Imperial prince and, later, [[shogun]] of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. ...as initially defeated, but rallied and rose up again. Following his defeat of Takatoki, he was himself named Shogun.
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  • ...b|400px|A 19th c. paper model on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]], of the Hiunkaku ("Flying Cloud Tower") from the Jurakudai, now at [[Nishi Hong ...his residence the following year. The Jurakudai later became the residence of his nephew [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and was dismantled in [[1595]] following
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