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• Kanazawa
  Kanazawa is the capital city of [[Ishikawa prefecture]], and was previously the central [[castletown]] of [[Kaga han]]. ...]] and [[Edo]]. Though provincial, and not as prominently influential as [[Kyoto]] or even [[Nagoya]], Kanazawa was nevertheless a bustling and significant
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• Takenouchi Ryu
  ...of [[Ichinose castle]] in Mimasaka (美作国), which is now modern day Okayama Prefecture. The castle later fell to an offensive by [[Ukita Ienao|Ukita Ienao's]] (On ...as an instructor for the garrisoned Bichū Ikusaka-han (modern day Okayama Prefecture.)
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• Takeuchi Seiho
  Takeuchi Seihô was a prominent Kyoto [[Nihonga]] painter, perhaps most famous for his monochrome ink landscapes ...tudents in his private studio for roughly forty years, and taught at the [[Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts]] for roughly thirty; his students incl
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• Unkei
  ...ref> many of the most famous and treasured Buddhist sculptures of Nara and Kyoto. ...eveloped a style which is often described words typical of descriptions of Kyoto area art, such as "elegant" and "refined", it is perhaps interesting to not
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• Elephants
  ...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 ...l audience with [[Emperor Nakamikado]] and Retired [[Emperor Reigen]] in [[Kyoto]], being bestowed the Fourth [[Court Rank]] in order to do so. A diary by [
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• Kamakura
  Kamakura is a small city in [[Kanagawa prefecture]] (formerly, [[Sagami province]]), to the west of [[Tokyo]] and [[Yokohama] ...|Sensô-ji]] in Asakusa serve a similar spiritual purpose for the cities of Kyoto and [[Edo]]/[[Tokyo]] respectively.
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• Nijo castle
  ..., but from the 1630s onwards served chiefly as the headquarters of the ''[[Kyoto shoshidai]]'', the chief shogunal administrator in the city. The castle was ...ply at Nijô castle for authorization to leave a certain central portion of Kyoto, to which they were otherwise restricted.
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• Seiken-ji
  ...ince]], just east of [[Sunpu]], now part of [[Shizuoka City]] of Shizuoka prefecture. It dominates an important point on the [[Tokaido Highway]], and so has bee ...kugawa Iemochi]], who stayed there briefly in [[1862]] while on his way to Kyoto, and of [[Emperor Meiji]], who stayed there [[1869|seven years later]] whil
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• Sho Taikyu
  ...ef>Shinzato, Keiji, et al. ''Okinawa-ken no rekishi'' ("History of Okinawa Prefecture"). Tokyo: Yamakawa Publishing, 1996. p53.</ref>, and had some 23 bronze bel
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• Silk
  ..., roughly 90% of silk processing in the archipelago was done in and around Kyoto.<ref>Kaplan, Edward The Cultures of East Asia: Political-Material Aspects. ...roughly one-quarter of the silk production in the country was in [[Nagano prefecture]].<ref>William Coaldrake, "Unno: Edo Period Post Town of the Central Japan
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• Burial Practices
  ...jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of [[Murasaki Shikibu]] (d. c. 1014?) in [[Kyoto]]]] ...in places as disparate as [[Hiraizumi]] (in the north, modern-day [[Iwate prefecture]]) and parts of Kyushu less than a century later. [[Yi Xingmo]] and a numbe
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• Kukishin-ryū
  ...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 ...o]] (mountaineering asceticism) from his father Dōyu, Ryushin then went to Kyoto where he learned esoteric [[Buddhism]] from the Buddhist monk Joukai at San
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• Hikone castle
  ...da Mitsunari|Ishida Mitsunari’s]] [[Sawayama castle]] in present day Shiga prefecture (in the former [[Omi province]]). After Mitsunari’s defeat by [[Tokugawa ...tyle of the [[Kinkaku-ji|Golden]] and [[Ginkaku-ji|Silver Pavilions]] in [[Kyoto]]. The ''tenshu'' features cusped windows known as ''kato mado'' and an upp
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• Murakami clan (Chugoku)
  ...s later, [[Murakami Nobukuni]] served [[Kiso Yoshinaka]] in his defense of Kyoto, while [[Murakami Motokuni]], according to the ''[[Heike Monogatari]]'', fo ...he attacked and defeated [[Hojo Tokinao|Hôjô Tokinao]], and then moved on Kyoto, where he launched an attack on the [[Rokuhara Tandai]].
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• Sosuishi ryu
  ...a during the era called ''Sho-o''. (now present day [[Oita]] and [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]]). Masaaki, was a practitioner of his family martial art Futagami- ...the hombu (本部) dōjō (home dōjō) of the ryu and it is located in [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]], Japan. It is headed by the current hereditary [[shihan]] (head t
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• Futagawa-juku
  ...Mikawa province]], within what is today the city of [[Toyohashi]], [[Aichi prefecture]], Futagawa was a small [[post-town]], home to some 1,468 residents in 328 ...o far more than typical. [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] also journeyed to Kyoto himself in 1863, the first such visit by a shogun in over two hundred years
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• Sekisho
  .... [[Ataka-no-seki]] in what is today the city of [[Komatsu]] in [[Ishikawa prefecture]], famous as the setting of the [[Noh]] play ''[[Ataka]]'', and the [[kabuk
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• Sho Hashi
  ...first king of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (today [[Okinawa Prefecture]]), having united the islands' three kingdoms of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], [[Hoku ...to ask for investiture, to the Japanese [[Ashikaga shogunate|Shogun]] in [[Kyoto]] and to the courts of a number of other kingdoms, as diplomatic missions.
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• Ryukyu-kan
  ...aku danki]]'' 「琉客談記」 1796, reprinted in ''Shiseki shûran'' 「史籍集覧」, vol 16, Kyoto: Rinsen shoten (1996), 625.</ref> Its dormitories were one of three places ...m's territory was annexed by the [[Meiji period|Meiji state]] as [[Okinawa Prefecture]]. For a brief period in the early decades of the 20th century, a group of
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• Ise Shrine
  ...ated on the Kii peninsula in central [[Honshu|Honshû]],<ref>[[Ise]], [[Mie prefecture]].</ref> is the most sacred shrine in [[Shinto|Shintô]]. Associated with t ...aisho.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A ''yôhaisho'' at [[Goo Shrine|Goô Shrine]] in Kyoto, for worshiping "at" Ise, from afar]]While the Shrine has retained a strong
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