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• Bakemono
  '''Bakemono''' are the traditional monsters of Japanese culture. The word itself means "changing things", and many bakemono are thus the re
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• Shamisen
  ...ery same strong association with low-class, popular culture (and not elite culture) that shamisen music was during the [[Meiji period]] not raised up as a cel
  11 KB (1,655 words) - 20:02, 5 March 2018
• Engelbert Kaempfer
  ...ire du Japon'', attempted to provide an overview of Japanese history, art, culture, language, religion and geography, and included among many other topics a n
  3 KB (383 words) - 23:54, 22 June 2019
• Tsurumaru castle
  Today, the [[Reimeikan Museum]] of History and Culture (est. 1983) occupies the former ''honmaru'' of the former castle grounds, w A statue of [[Atsuhime]], designed by [[Order of Culture]] winner Nakamura Shin'ya, was erected on the grounds in 2010. Another set
  7 KB (990 words) - 11:09, 22 August 2020
• Hyobanki
  ...er publications, ''hyôbanki'' were important elements in the urban popular culture of the period.
  3 KB (393 words) - 18:35, 10 July 2016
• Edward Sylvester Morse
  ...Arts Japanese collection, and thus in the introduction of Japanese art and culture to the US. ...Morse's collection of roughly 30,000 Japanese objects of everyday material culture of the [[Meiji period]] became the core of the Japanese collections at the
  8 KB (1,321 words) - 09:08, 2 February 2017
• Urasoe Choki
  ...hottenhammer (ed.), ''The East Asian Mediterranean: Maritime Crossroads of Culture'', Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. 264.</ref>
  3 KB (374 words) - 22:55, 4 November 2019
• Gunkimono
  ...|Shinchôkoki]]'', are less thoroughly prominent in traditional and popular culture, but have served as among the chief sources of traditional and modern histo
  3 KB (472 words) - 01:20, 8 February 2015
• Mono no aware
  ...r to a particular aesthetic, or aesthetic element, in Japanese traditional culture, particularly [[Nara period|Nara]] and [[Heian period]] literature. Usually
  3 KB (444 words) - 18:17, 5 October 2013
• Hayashi Gaho
  ...by the shogunate with the name Kôbun-in (roughly, "Institute of Broad/Vast Culture/Letters") during Gahô's time, and Gahô himself was named ''kôbun-in gaku
  3 KB (395 words) - 01:30, 18 January 2018
• Tang Dynasty
  ...Han characters"), it is the Tang Dynasty which represents China or Chinese culture in many other terms, including ''Tôjinmachi'' ("Chinatown"), ''Tôsen'' (" ...itimacy (albeit with limited or falsified evidence). In terms of political culture, the Tang marks the beginning of an important shift away from more focused
  6 KB (887 words) - 23:04, 23 January 2015
• Ryukyu zatsuwa
  ...Sozen or Motoyoshi<!--華坊素善-->, discussing various aspects of the history, culture, and geography of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], as well as conta
  3 KB (432 words) - 17:16, 15 March 2016
• Opium
  ...pium War, but opium was never a prominent feature of Japanese recreational culture either before or after that time.
  3 KB (433 words) - 00:49, 21 February 2015
• Chinese gardens
  The garden culture and style of the Jiangnan region (Suzhou, [[Hangzhou]], etc.) began to be i
  3 KB (428 words) - 23:14, 20 February 2014
• Giuseppe Castiglione
  ...rst to appreciate his aesthetic, and to take to a fascination with Western culture, ordered Castiglione to design a number of Western-style pavilions for the
  3 KB (431 words) - 21:06, 9 April 2017
• Yaeyama Islands
  ...ntury CE extended as far south as the [[Amami Islands]], artifacts of that culture have not been found in the Miyakos or Yaeyamas.<ref>Tokugawa Yoshinobu, "Ry ==Culture==
  13 KB (1,993 words) - 09:15, 30 August 2021
• Hachimachi
  [[Category:Culture]]
  3 KB (501 words) - 07:55, 6 June 2020
• Porcelain
  ..." remains a stereotypical example of extremely valuable objects in popular culture (at least in the United States, e.g. on television sitcoms and elsewhere) t ...ela Schottenhammer, ''The East Asian Mediterranean: Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration'', Otto Harrassowitz Verlag (2008), 2.</ref>
  7 KB (994 words) - 15:59, 29 January 2020
• Japanese schools in Hawaii
  ...lished where children were taught not only Japanese language, but Japanese culture, customs, and morals (''shûshin''), and the history of Japan and of the Ja ...stian schools are said to have placed a greater focus on American history, culture, and values. Both types of Japanese schools also became sites for community
  10 KB (1,463 words) - 14:07, 26 June 2014
• Washi
  [[Category:Culture]]
  3 KB (461 words) - 07:16, 21 September 2019

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