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• Japan Folk Crafts Museum
  [[File:Mingeikan.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall of the Nihon Mingeikan]] ...under of the ''Mingei'' Movement, who also designed both the main building of the museum and its galleries, and a residence across the street, completed
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• Niwaka
  ...ional [[kabuki]] plays of the time, ''niwaka'' performed by [[courtesans]] of the [[Yoshiwara]] were particularly popular, and sometimes depicted in ''[[ ...in the Yoshiwara; they were performed in the 8th month each year, as part of a festival dedicated to the ''[[kami]]'' [[Inari]]. The festival also invol
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• Tenpi
  Tenpi, also known as Mazu, is a [[Daoist]] goddess of the sea, most often prayed to for safe voyages. Tenpi worship is particular ...ina, Taiwan, Ryûkyû, and elsewhere associate her with being an incarnation of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]], and in Ryûkyû she is sometimes known as B
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• Sumidagawa
  ...riod]], it marked the eastern border of [[Musashi province]], and the city of [[Edo]], dividing these from [[Shimousa province]] to the east. A major wat ...d from the river, as well as numerous sites along its banks, are the theme of numerous ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' prints.
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• Owari Tokugawa clan
  ...ô Ii ke no girei'', Hikone Castle Museum (2004), 329.</ref> [[han|domain]] of [[Owari han|Owari]] with [[Nagoya castle|Nagoya]] as their castle, the Owar ...one at Ichigaya. The grounds of the latter is today home to the [[Ministry of Defense]].
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• Morishima Churyo
  ...and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the late 18th century, known as the writer of numerous popularly-published books on foreign cultures, as well as for his ...<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 225-226.</ref>
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• Tokugawa Iemitsu
  ...d solidification of Tokugawa authority, through acts such as the expansion of [[Nijo castle|Nijô castle]] and [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]]. ...es lecture. Honolulu, Hawaii. 9 November, 2006.</ref> Tadanaga became lord of [[Kofu castle|Kôfu castle]]. Their sister [[Senhime]] was married to [[Toy
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• Robert Walker Irwin
  *''Titles: Knight Commander of the Royal [[Order of Kalakaua]]''<ref>Odo and Sinoto, 24.</ref> ...related to the beginning of [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]]. He was one of the first Americans to become a naturalized Japanese citizen, marrying a Ja
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• Oda Nobuo
  ...It should be pointed out, though, that the account by Frois of the burning of Azuchi is seemingly the only explanation that has eyewitnesses.</ref> ...given a 50,000 koku fief in [[Yamato provine|Yamato]] after the conclusion of the [[Osaka Campaign]] in [[1615]].
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• Sulfur
  Sulfur is a yellow mineral essential to the production of [[gunpowder]]. ...Islands]].<ref name=smits69>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 69-70.</ref>
  4 KB (558 words) - 03:55, 12 January 2020
• Gagaku
  ...ance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 14.</ref> ...h local/regional [[Shinto]] festivals, but also with certain ancient rites of the imperial court. Some [[Heian period]] "folk music" (''fûzokuuta'') has
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• Music
  ...the [[Yellow Emperor]].<ref>K.C. Chang, ''Art, Myth, and Ritual'', Harvard University Press (1983), 2, 42.</ref> ...ing the ritual correctly, and legitimating the Emperor as the rightful Son of Heaven.
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• Rice broker
  ...old or silver [[currency]], but with bills of exchange - these were pieces of paper that functioned, perhaps, not entirely unlike a personal check, which ...izenya, and Oka.<ref>Berry, Mary Elizabeth. ''Japan in Print''. University of California Press, 2006. p216.</ref>
  3 KB (411 words) - 02:04, 31 October 2015
• Okinawa Island
  [[File:Okinawa-battlemap.jpg|right|thumb|380px|Map of the Battle of Okinawa at Punchbowl Cemetery in Honolulu]] ...om]], and [[Shuri]], the former royal capital of the Kingdom, today a part of Naha City.
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• Yanagi Soetsu
  ...s peoples/places where a stronger sense of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found. ...is expertise in hydrographic mapping, and for botany, poetry, and a number of other pursuits.
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• Katsu Kaishu
  [[Image:Katsu-kaishu1.gif|left|frame|Photograph of '''Katsu Kaishu'''.]] Katsu Kaishû is considered the "father" of the modern [[Imperial Japanese Navy]].
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• Treaty of Portsmouth
  ...e Treaty of Portsmouth, as depicted in a wall mural at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.]] ...rk Peattie]] (ed.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 69.</ref> and his Russian counterparts.
  2 KB (335 words) - 10:54, 16 December 2021
• Xu Baoguang
  ...: Harvard University Press, 1968. pp135-164.</ref> Xu then became a member of the [[Hanlin Academy]]. ...he East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges''. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p46.</ref>
  5 KB (756 words) - 13:21, 31 March 2018
• Makino Yasutoshi
  ...kami ki'' (牧野遠江守記); all but a hundred or so of these are from a collection of documents entitled ''Gishiki nado sho tome'' (儀式等諸留, "Various Rec ...r the poor, river management and flood control projects, and the promotion of local agricultural and artisan production, among other activities.
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• Ryukyu investiture crown
  [[File:Hibenkan.JPG|right|thumb|400px|A replica of the Naha City Museum of History crown, on display at [[Shuri castle]]]] ...ert K. Sakai et al (eds.), ''Shashinshû: Bôkyô Okinawa'' 写真集：望郷沖縄, vol. 5, Tokyo: Honpo shoseki, 1981., p120.</ref>
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