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• Soma clan
  ...Nakamura han]] in [[Iwashiro province]], and remained there until the end of the Edo period. During that time, the Sôma clan was assigned to the Teikan ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 280n21.</ref>
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• Gosekku
  ...olls depicting the ''gosekku'', by [[Ikeda Koson]], c. 1830. Freer Gallery of Art.]] The ''gosekku'' (lit. "five seasonal festivals") were five of the most important seasonal rites performed by the Imperial Court.
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• Konoe Motohiro
  ...ather-in-law of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]. Konoe was named [[Minister of the Left]] in [[1677]], ''[[Kampaku]]'' in [[1690]], and ''[[Dajo daijin|Da ...adoptive mother at a young age; his grandfather had been a younger brother of Go-Mizunoo who had been adopted into the Konoe family.
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• Okakura Kakuzo
  ...|right|thumb|400px|A bust of Okakura, at Okakura Tenshin Memorial Park, in Tokyo's Yanaka district]] ...ominent advocate for traditional Japanese art and culture, and a proponent of caution against Westernizing too quickly or too completely.
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• Suimui utaki
  ...u Sakihara, ''A brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro soshi'', Tokyo: Honpo Shoseki Press (1987), 163, 167.</ref> Suimui was one of ten sacred spaces within the palace grounds known collectively as ''totaki'
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• Torii
  ...jpg|right|thumb|320px|One section of the "tunnels" formed by the thousands of ''torii'' lined up at [[Fushimi Inari Shrine]] in Kyoto]] ...earliest and largest bronze ''torii'' in Japan, at [[Yasukuni Shrine]] in Tokyo, dating to [[1887]]. The shrine's ''Daiichi torii'', or "First Torii," the
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• Himeji han
  *''Territory: parts of [[Harima province]]'' ...the Edo period, but the [[Sakai clan]] then became and remained the lords of Himeji from [[1749]] onward.
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• Kyukan onzon
  ...and establishment of the prefecture in 1879, it was believed that elements of the kingdom's administrative structure, and certain other traditions or cus ...imyô'', other samurai, and the king of Ryûkyû had been able to retain much of their prestige.<ref>Gregory Smits, "Jahana Noboru: Okinawan Activist and Sc
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• Kochi castle
  Kôchi castle was the seat of the [[Yamauchi clan]], lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...today capital of [[Kochi prefecture|Kôchi prefecture]], on the south shore of [[Shikoku]].
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• Tsukioka Kogyo
  Tsukioka Kôgyo was a woodblock print artist of the [[Meiji period]], known especially for his multiple series depicting ch ...of Noh in the early 20th century, when it was challenged by many new forms of performance and entertainment, as well as having a significant impact on ho
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• Niwa Nagashige
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n41.</ref> He died on 1 April 1637.
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• Ayabune
  ...uccession, or on similar celebratory occasions, as part of the maintenance of a friendly relationship between Ryûkyû and Satsuma. The ''ayabune'' embas ...to be confused with [[dragon boat]] races, which use a very different type of boat.</ref>, or an ''ayabune'' (crest ship); the character ''aya'', the sam
  5 KB (680 words) - 08:40, 27 September 2021
• Yamamoto Hosui
  ...(Western-style) painter of the [[Meiji period]], the first of the students of [[Antonio Fontanesi]] to travel to Europe to study painting there. ...al Industrial Exposition, and was awarded third place, gaining some degree of recognition.
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• Tanuma Okitsugu
  ...Hall, ''Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788): Forerunner of Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press (1955), 57-60, 86.</ref> ...is generally associated with political corruption, especially in the form of bribes, and with rampant inflation, and widespread moral decay.
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• Great Meireki Fire
  ...o mark numerous notable shifts in shogunate policy, and in the development of the city. ...eviously the shogunate and the various ''daimyô'' each managed the defense of their own properties against fire, and the townspeople were left to their o
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• The Battles of Coxinga
  ...t after its debut.<ref>Ronald Toby ロナルド・トビ, "Sakoku" toiu gaikô 「鎖国」という外交, Tokyo: Shogakukan (2008), 218.</ref> ...upon Japan as a small country, he cries "have you learned now the meaning of Japanese prowess, before which even tigers tremble?"<ref>Jansen, 85.</ref>
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• Konoe Iehiro
  Konoe Iehiro was a son of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]], and was known as a poet, pa ...s ''sesshô'', ''kanpaku'', and ''dajô daijin'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only t
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• Ryukyu-banashi
  ...ice storehouses, from a copy in the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, University of Hawaii Library]] ...ima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]], a volume describing the history and culture of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], was among the most accurate and po
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• Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution
  ...eremonies from that time forward, particularly those held up until the end of World War II. ...to share with the public details of the schedule of events, and the layout of the Throne Room for the main ceremony.
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• Enryokan
  ...irst [former] foreign head of state to visit Japan), and King [[Kalakaua]] of Hawaii (first reigning monarch to visit Japan). ...resent: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 233.</ref>
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