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• Gu Xianrong
  ...ef of Home Affairs]], was initially skeptical towards Gu and suspected him of being a Chinese spy, in the end, Mizuno accepted Gu's aid. ...nspection tours of factories and the like, as well as the opening ceremony of the [[National Diet]].
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• Hotta Masatoshi
  [[File:Grave-Hotta-Masatoshi.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The grave of Hotta Masatoshi at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery at [[Jindai-ji]], in [[Sakur ...ogun]] [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]] from 1679-80, and as ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' (head of the ''rôjû'' council) under [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] from [[1681]]/12/11 u
  3 KB (431 words) - 20:33, 25 March 2014
• Machi bugyo
  ...tes," were [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials who oversaw the administration of certain cities during the [[Edo period]]. ...iroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), xxx.</ref>
  6 KB (778 words) - 07:31, 27 July 2021
• Shimazu Hisataka
  ...ikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p42-43n8.; ''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937 ...[1853]], he was appointed by Shimazu Nariakira to oversee the construction of a Ryukyu-style gunship.<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vo
  2 KB (195 words) - 04:23, 12 November 2019
• Hayakawa Shokosai I
  ...ing the way for a shift of bamboo weaving from the field of craft, to that of "modern art." ...cole Coolidge Rousmaniere, ''Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan'', University of Washington Press (2007), 15.</ref>
  2 KB (233 words) - 01:07, 5 August 2020
• Bonotsu
  ...ikawa kôbunkan (1987), 36.</ref> The port declined, however, with the rise of [[Nagasaki]] in the [[Edo period]]. ...trictions]] policies.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 46-47.</ref>
  2 KB (249 words) - 20:54, 10 January 2016
• Jahana Noboru
  ...[Meiji period]] political activist for Okinawan rights, one of the leaders of the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). ...er, completed in the Imperial College of Agricultural Science, was a study of fertilizer use in [[sugar]] production in [[Kagawa prefecture]]. He would l
  8 KB (1,263 words) - 20:39, 20 November 2014
• Shiga Shigetaka
  Shiga Shigetaka was a prominent thinker, geographer, and politician of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] and Taishô periods. ...active in similar groups, including Dôshikai and Chûô-seisha, and a number of different political parties.
  3 KB (409 words) - 01:09, 21 October 2014
• Yuki Hideyasu
  ...zen]] ([[Kitanosho castle|Kita-no-shô]]). He was also acting as the keeper of Fushimi castle when he died in [[1607]], and some have suggested his affini His descendants later became lords of [[Tsuyama han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937),
  2 KB (206 words) - 01:38, 26 March 2020
• Satsuma biwa
  ...red with a [[Heike biwa]] (right), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ''Satsuma biwa'' is a style or genre of narrative storytelling in which the storyteller accompanies him or herself
  2 KB (270 words) - 22:55, 16 January 2016
• Yushima Seido
  [[File:Yushimaseido.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The Taiseiden (main hall) of the Yushima Seidô, seen through the Kyôdanmon gate.]] ...cated in [[Tokyo]], which formerly housed the Shôheizaka gakumonjo academy of the [[Hayashi clan]].
  7 KB (1,018 words) - 07:21, 30 August 2020
• Toguchi Masanobu
  ...er at that time or in later years, including ''Shanghai kaeri no Riru'', ''Tokyo Anna'', ''Nagasaki Blues'', ''Shima Blues'', ''Yogiri ni kieta Chako'', and Many of his songs are said to include some element or sense of [[Amami folk music]] or "[[Kuroshio]] rhythms." The song ''Shima Blues'', i
  2 KB (241 words) - 06:50, 3 April 2020
• Kishomon
  ...and [[Edo period]]s, swearing fealty to their lord, and inviting the wrath of the gods should they violate the oath. These oaths were not only signed by ...ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 35.</ref>
  2 KB (262 words) - 03:31, 10 August 2018
• Maeno Ryotaku
  Maeno Ryôtaku was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the 18th century, known as one of the most active in learning the Dutch language, reading and translating Dut ...ith [[Yoshio Kosaku|Yoshio Kôsaku]], and was active in ''Rangaku'' circles of his time.
  2 KB (217 words) - 19:02, 15 March 2016
• King Injo
  ...ew [[Prince Gwanghae]] and his Puk'in faction, who supported accommodation of the [[Manchus]].<ref>Seo-Hyun Park, "Small States and the Search for Sovere ...chus.<ref>Ji-Young Lee, “Diplomatic Ritual as a Power Resource," ''Journal of East Asian Studies'' 13 (2013), 325.</ref>
  2 KB (350 words) - 08:38, 26 November 2019
• Kuroda Seiki
  ...mb|400px|''Maiko Girl''. Oil on canvas. 1893. Important Cultural Property. Tokyo National Museum.]] ...estern-style ("''[[yoga|yôga]]''") oil painter, art teacher, and proponent of Western-style painting.
  4 KB (621 words) - 21:35, 24 September 2016
• Mizuno Jun
  ...riod]], and first [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]] of [[Taiwan]]. ...n [[1873]], as an interpreter, and was involved in the [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874|Japanese punitive military expedition to Taiwan]] [[1874|the following
  2 KB (213 words) - 01:16, 21 October 2014
• Tokugawa Iemochi
  ....JPG|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tokugawa Iemochi at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]] Tokugawa Iemochi was the 14th shogun of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
  5 KB (677 words) - 00:16, 17 June 2020
• Satsumasendai
  ...ue to its connections to the China trade, Sendai was also one of a handful of cities in Satsuma domain where Chinese-language interpreters were regularly ...onsiderable protest, as Kagoshima residents sought to block the restarting of a nuclear reactor based in the city. They were ultimately unsuccessful.
  2 KB (245 words) - 18:06, 31 October 2017
• Na
  ...den imperial seal]] said to have been granted to ''Na'' by Emperor Guangwu of Han.]] ...rd centuries CE. Much of what is known about it comes from ancient records of both China and Japan.
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