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• Coal
  ...ater.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 91-92. </ref> ...[George Kerr]], ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People'', Revised ed., Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing (2000), 362. </ref>
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• Sho Ten
  [[Image:Shoten-funeral.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The 1920 funeral of Shô Ten.]] *''Titles: Crown Prince of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (-1879); Marquis (''侯爵'', kōshaku)(1901-1920)''
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• Imperial Hotel
  ...], [[Okura Kihachiro|Ôkura Kihachirô]], [[Iwasaki Yanosuke]], and a number of other prominent businessmen, and located next door to the [[Rokumeikan]], i ...oms, a ballroom that could accommodate 600 people, a library, and a number of game rooms, libraries, and a salon equipped with both organ and piano.
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• Okuma Ujihiro
  ...Home Affairs]] on [[Taiwan]], installed in [[1911]]-[[1912]] in the cities of [[Taipei]], [[Taichung]], and [[Tainan]]. ...tation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
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• Nakae Toju
  ...ucian]] scholar of the [[Edo period]], credited with advancing the thought of [[Wang Yangming]] in Japan. ...ding one's intuitive knowledge (''ryôchi'', C: ''liang zhi'') and of unity of knowledge and action."<ref>David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME S
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• Kinoshita Jun'an
  ...fucianism]] in the tradition of [[Zhu Xi]]. He was the teacher of a number of other prominent scholars, including [[Arai Hakuseki]], [[Amenomori Hoshu|Am ...of [[Fujiwara Seika]]. He later entered the service of the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga han]], and in [[1682]] became a tutor to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsuna
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• Hans Sloane
  ...queathed to the English nation upon his death in [[1753]], formed the core of what was then established that same year as the British Museum. ...16]]. Sloane also published an English translation of Kaempfer's ''History of Japan''.
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• Katsuren Seiki
  Katsuren Seiki was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...mission, and then took over the position of ''zaiban oyakata'' for a term of one year. In 1853, he was succeeded by [[Gushikawa Chofuku|Gushikawa Chôfu
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• Robert Garfias
  ...sity of California, Irvine, and was one of the early pioneers in the field of Ethnomusicology. ...versity of Tokyo]], who helped him arrange for UCLA to acquire its own set of ''gagaku'' instruments; those instruments remain in the UCLA Musical Instru
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• Katsuragawa Hoshu
  ...Hosan).<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 226.</ref> ...tch residence) in Edo.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Presss (2012), 333. </ref>
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• Hongokucho bell
  ...ho-bell.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Replica of the Hongoku-chô bell at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]]]] ...lose to [[Nihonbashi]], and continued to call out the time throughout much of the [[Edo period]].
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• Fukuzawa Yukichi
  Fukuzawa Yukichi was among the most prominent political thinkers of the early [[Meiji period]], famous in particular for his ideas on education ...o Jijo|Seiyô Jijô]]'' ("Conditions in the West"), a volume describing much of American lifestyles, material culture, societal and urban organization, and
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• Sakata Moroto
  ..., in which he restored Yanagisawa's reputation, arguing that most accounts of his lascivious or otherwise inappropriate behavior was based on unfounded r ..., and after the [[Meiji Restoration]] became an official in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] prior to his death in [[1875]].
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• Ishin Shiryo
  ...on.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Some of the 2600 volumes of handwritten summaries of the Ishin Shiryô which form the Ishin Shiryô Kôhon, the basis for the 10 ...d from [[1846]] to [[1871]] - i.e. events relating to the key developments of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and [[Meiji Restoration]].
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• Zenko-ji
  ...became patronized by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], and made a branch temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]]. ...duced a number of replicas which it put on display, though eventually some of these replicas came to be considered sacred enough to also be hidden away f
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• Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
  ...u|Nobuyasu]] (who was later made to commit suicide). He fought at [[Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] in [[1575]] and later took part in the failed expedit ...province]], Chikayoshi was made lord of [[Inuyama castle]], with an income of 100,000 ''koku''.
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• Watanabe Miki
  ...û's relations with China and Japan. She holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo. ...王国の自画像　－近世沖縄思想史－, Pelican-sha (translation of [[Gregory Smits]], ''Visions of Ryukyu'', UH Press (1999))
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• Shoya
  ...r often took the form of reporting specifically on births, deaths, changes of residence, marriages, adoptions, and the like within these small, relativel ...ess, such as assessments of public work projects and the associated burden of corvée labor and material contributions from various villages, or in inves
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• Maeda Nariyasu
  ...grounds of the mansion have become the main campus of the [[University of Tokyo]]. ...er of his sons, [[Maeda Toshiatsu]], succeeded [[Maeda Toshikata]] as lord of [[Toyama han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937),
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• Gekko-in
  ...da Gentetsu Akinori, consort of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and mother of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]]. ...pectively. Gekkô-in's son Nabematsu survived to be named shogun at the age of three, upon Ienobu's death in [[1712]].
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