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• Sword Hunt
  ...emple Hideyoshi founded.<ref>Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/33808120714/sizes/h/]</ref> ...ords, 700 daggers, 160 spears, and 500 suits of armor, along with a number of other objects.
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• Sato Susumu
  ...adopted son of [[Sato Takanaka|Satô Takanaka]], and his successor as head of the [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] [[Juntendo|Juntendô]]. ...came one of the first in Japan to be formally granted a degree as a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.).
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• Tokyo National Museum
  [[Image:TNM-Honkan.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The second Honkan (Main Building) of the museum, built in 1938 in a Meiji-inspired style.]] ...d first founded as the Tokyo Imperial or Imperial Household Museum, is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Na
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• Zhu Zaiyu
  ...id to have been the first person in the world to devise the musical system of 12-tone equal temperament.<ref>Nakao, 350.</ref> ...'The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite'', Oxford University Press (2012), 99.</ref> and is said to have been particularly talented at m
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• Daimyo yashiki
  ...ki'' (upper residence) of [[Matsudaira Tadamasa]], on display at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].]] ...were also maintained in Kyoto, [[Osaka]], and elsewhere, serving as bases of operations for the ''daimyô's'' political and economic activities in those
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• Toyama Kyuzo
  [[File:Toyama-kyuzo.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Tôyama Kyûzô in Kin Town, Okinawa]] Tôyama Kyûzô is considered the father (or grandfather) of Okinawan immigration.
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• Omura Masujiro
  [[File:Omura.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Ômura at [[Yasukuni Shrine]]]] ...anese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]].
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• Hokoku Shrine
  ...deification of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. It is the head shrine of a network of Toyokuni shrines throughout the country. ...oyotomi Hideyoshi. [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] granted 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' worth of land to the shrine.
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• Osaka
  ...f largest city because, due to a technicality of political designations, [[Tokyo]] is a "metropolitan [[prefectures|prefecture]]" and not a "city."</ref> ...Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 18-19.</ref>
  5 KB (846 words) - 20:36, 7 June 2017
• Kyan Bangen
  ...[[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]] from the Ryukyuan side of the conflict. ...tion efforts, though all ultimately failed. He remained on the main island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] throughout the invasion, and so his diary is mos
  4 KB (557 words) - 23:54, 17 February 2020
• Sessei
  ...kyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] below the king; the ''sessei'' served the function of royal or national advisor. Though the same [[kanji]] which compose the Okin ...n as the ''wii nu za'', or "Upper Seat," while the less powerful [[Council of Fifteen]] was known as the ''shicha nu za'', or "Lower Seat."
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• Oka Senjin
  ...i Restoration]], and after being freed became a teacher and librarian in [[Tokyo]]. ...members, and who practice great inefficiency and wastefulness, in the name of observing "filial piety." In the end, he concludes that Japan must separate
  2 KB (292 words) - 20:32, 15 October 2014
• Fushimi castle
  ...and the like.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 59.</ref> ...stroyed. Hideyoshi then rebuilt the castle roughly 500 meters to the north of the original site.
  4 KB (592 words) - 06:35, 19 July 2020
• Yayoi Period
  ...ight|thumb|400px|Model of a Yayoi period village, at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]]] ...ates of the university's main campus in Hongô.<ref>Plaque at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref>
  8 KB (1,196 words) - 07:14, 15 February 2017
• Ryukyu-koku shiryaku
  ...inoue Shrine]], as depicted in an [[1831]] Japanese woodblock-printed copy of the ''Liuqiu-guo zhilue'']] ...ntext: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref>
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• Asano Naganori
  ...ck on [[Kira Yoshinaka]] and his subsequent execution, after which a group of his retainers (the [[47 Ronin]]) sought revenge against Kira for provoking ...acked Kira in the Matsu-no-rôka (Pine Tree Corridor) in the Honmaru Palace of [[Edo castle]], and was sentenced the same day to commit ''[[seppuku]]''.
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• Narumi-juku
  ...surements|tsubo]]''.<ref>Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一, ''Nihon no shuku'' 日本の宿, Tokyo: Shakai shisôsha (1965), 168-169.</ref> Prior to the [[Edo period]], the area of Narumi was the site of [[Narumi castle]] (aka Negoya castle). It is believed to have been demolish
  2 KB (298 words) - 07:06, 29 September 2019
• Edward Sylvester Morse
  ...MA]], remains today one of the most famous and most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics and folk objects in the world. ...13 ([[1851]]), and in [[1859]], at age 21, he began studying at [[Harvard University]] under Louis Agassiz. After some friction with Agassiz, he quit studying a
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• Mount Fuji
  ...ino]] ("the East"), but has since the [[Edo period]] become a major symbol of Japan as a whole. ...te]] in 2013, under the "Cultural" category, as a "sacred place and source of artistic inspiration."<ref>"[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1418 Fujisan],"
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• Hananchi
  *''Titles: Lord of [[Nakijin gusuku|Nakijin]], King of [[Hokuzan]] (1397-1416)'' Hananchi was the third and final king of the Okinawan kingdom of [[Hokuzan]].
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