...anban screen <ref>One belonging to Sairenji Temple 西蓮寺 in Anjô City, Aichi prefecture; Cat. no 124 in ''Turning Point.''</ref> was probably based on traditional
...scorting the elephant stayed at [[Kannabe]] (a post-station in [[Hiroshima prefecture]]) on 4/10, departing the following day. ''Nakamura ke nikki II - Fukuyama
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...[[Ogasawara Islands]], are also administered as part of Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture; both consist of small, sparsely populated islands, many of which are uninh
...[[Kido Takayoshi]] similarly advocated having Edo as an Eastern Capital, [[Osaka]] as a Western Capital, and Kyoto as the Imperial Capital,<ref name=fujitan
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...re reserved, traditional, and slower pace and lifestyle than their Edo and Osaka cousins. By the [[Edo period]], if not earlier, Kyoto's commoner cityscape
...ial past. The Emperor made a personal gift in 1877 of funds to the [[Kyoto prefecture|Kyoto prefectural]] government to be used for the preservation of the city,
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...re to not employ the characters ''ken'' 県, ''fu'' 府, or ''to'' 都, meaning "prefecture," in its name.
...[[tribute]] goods. Meanwhile, goods traveling in the other direction, from Osaka and elsewhere to the Inland Sea, the Sea of Japan coastal ports, and Hokkai
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...da Mitsunari|Ishida Mitsunari’s]] [[Sawayama castle]] in present day Shiga prefecture (in the former [[Omi province]]). After Mitsunari’s defeat by [[Tokugawa
...membered appearance was as (along with [[Himeji castle]]) a stand-in for [[Osaka castle]] in the American miniseries [[James Clavell's Shogun]]. The scenes
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...cts unique enough, or produced in large enough volume, to compete in the [[Osaka]] and [[Edo]] markets, unlike many other prominent domains.<ref name=hellye
...o pressure the domain to repay its loans both to the shogunate and to Edo, Osaka, and Nagasaki merchants. The domain attempted to come up with new payment p
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...then the chief ''[[tairo|tairô]]'' (senior counsellor), brought Adams to [[Osaka]] as the crew's representative. He had an interview with Ieyasu on May 12<r
...re. There is also an annual festival in his honor, held in Itô, [[Shizuoka Prefecture]], called ''Anjin Matsuri''.
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...of other municipalities into its borders, Naha is the capital of [[Okinawa prefecture]].
Following the fall of the kingdom in the 1870s and its annexation as Okinawa prefecture, Naha absorbed Shuri and became the prefectural capital. Combining with Kum
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...he shogunate, as ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' (Town Magistrates) did in Osaka, Edo, and elsewhere, and also monitored the Imperial family and court arist
...roy the Toyotomi. The castle served as the Tokugawa headquarters for the [[Osaka Campaign]] of [[1614]]-[[1615]], during which Ieyasu succeeded in eradicati
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...ently developed instrument central to a folk musical tradition of [[Aomori prefecture]]). These differ mainly in the length and thickness of the neck, size of th
...believed to have been introduced to the Japanese port of [[Sakai]] (near [[Osaka]]) sometime around [[1558]]-[[1567]]; according to some tales it was a blin
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...In Edo, gold was more widely circulated, while in [[Kamigata]] (the Kyoto-Osaka area), silver was more commonly the mode of exchange. Gold was exchanged in
...the country, particularly the active commercial centers of [[Kyoto]] and [[Osaka]], and other areas at a considerable distance from Edo, currency continued
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...of Kukishin Ryū, was born to Dōyu Shirōhōgan at Kumano-Hongu in [[Wakayama prefecture]] on January 1st, [[1318]]. He was born into one of the most influential cl
...onspirators at Kuragari-Tōge, a mountain pass situated on the borders of [[Osaka]] and [[Nara]] prefectures. It was here that they made a stand against the
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Nagasaki is a port city in [[Kyushu]], the capital of [[Nagasaki prefecture]]. It is perhaps most famous today for the atomic bombing of the city on Au
Along with [[Osaka]], [[Kyoto]], and a handful of other cities, Nagasaki was controlled direct
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...yushu Kagoshima.png|right|thumb|300px|The island of Kyûshû, with Kagoshima Prefecture in dark green. Satsuma han covered this territory, along with some to the n
...rgely contiguous with today's Kagoshima prefecture, plus parts of Miyazaki prefecture. As one of only ten ''daimyô'' clans to control (at least) an entire provi
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The [[Iwami Ginzan]] in [[Iwami province]] ([[Shimane prefecture]]) was the largest silver mine ever to operate in Japan, and was named a [[
...ve rights to such activity, and establishing mints (''[[ginza]]'') in Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
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...shima Islands]]), plus [[Io Torishima|Iô Torishima]]. The territory of the prefecture is essentially identical to that held by the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû King
...f Hawaii Press (2013), 8.; ''Hawaii'', Lonely Planet (2009), 52.</ref> The prefecture's economy relies chiefly on activities surrounding the US military bases (i
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...in [[Tokyo]], and the remaining six sightseeing in [[Kobe]], [[Kyoto]], [[Osaka]], traveling across the [[Inland Sea]], and in [[Nagasaki]]. After a stay o
...hi then boarded the king's ship along with the vice governor of [[Kanagawa prefecture]] and an admiral of the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]], presenting a formal inv
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...ht|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], identified as ''kokka'' (国家), or, "The State."]]
...this. Many [[daimyo yashiki|domain mansions]] in [[Edo]], [[Kyoto]], and [[Osaka]], though not seized by the government, were abandoned or sold. The existen
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...y afterwards secured a position for Seihô to teach formally at the [[Kyoto Prefecture Painting School]] which Bairei helped establish in [[1880]]. Bairei also he
...Takashimaya first prize at the [[1903]] [[Fifth Domestic Exposition]] in [[Osaka]]. These were an embroidered wall hanging depiction a lion, and a design of
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...fecture), Yamato (Nara), Settsu (Osaka and Hyogo), Kawachi (Osaka), Izumi (Osaka).Sanyo Do: Harima (Hyogo), Bizen (Okayama), Mimasaka (Okayama), Bitchu (Oka
...to be conspicuous. Especially Fukuoka-Ichimonji school in Bizen ( Okayama prefecture ) made the so-called Obusa-Choji or Juka-Choji and they became to be popula
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