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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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• Shamisen
  ...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 ...d at least one record notes a shamisen player from [[Yamashiro province]] (Kyoto) as early as [[1580]].<ref>Henry Johnson, ''The Shamisen: Tradition and Div
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• Meiji period
  ...ht|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], identified as ''kokka'' (国家), or, "The State."]] ...re examples of this. Many [[daimyo yashiki|domain mansions]] in [[Edo]], [[Kyoto]], and [[Osaka]], though not seized by the government, were abandoned or so
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• Nagasaki
  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 directly by the s
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• Satsuma han
  ...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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• Silver
  The [[Iwami Ginzan]] in [[Iwami province]] ([[Shimane prefecture]]) was the largest silver mine ever to operate in Japan, and was named a [[ ...o such activity, and establishing mints (''[[ginza]]'') in Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
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• Tea culture
  ...thumb|400px|A tearoom at Shôtôen in [[Kamagari|Shimo-Kamagari]], Hiroshima prefecture]] The [[1872 Kyoto Exposition]] saw the introduction of ''ryûrei'', a form of tea ceremony pe
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• David Kalakaua
  ...ama, twelve in [[Tokyo]], and the remaining six sightseeing in [[Kobe]], [[Kyoto]], [[Osaka]], traveling across the [[Inland Sea]], and in [[Nagasaki]]. Aft ...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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• Currency
  ...etc.). In Edo, gold was more widely circulated, while in [[Kamigata]] (the Kyoto-Osaka area), silver was more commonly the mode of exchange. Gold was exchan ...many parts of the country, particularly the active commercial centers of [[Kyoto]] and [[Osaka]], and other areas at a considerable distance from Edo, curre
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• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  ...[Kagoshima Prefecture]] while the rest of the Ryûkyûs constitute [[Okinawa Prefecture]]. ...rmly established and widespread. Shô Taikyû invited [[Kaiin]], a monk from Kyoto's [[Nanzen-ji]], to come and found a number of new temples, and to oversee
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• Japanese Swords
  *Kinai: Yamashiro (Today's Kyoto prefecture), Yamato (Nara), Settsu (Osaka and Hyogo), Kawachi (Osaka), Izumi (Osaka).S *San-in Do: Tanba (Kyoto and Hyogo), Tajima (Hyogo), Inaba (Tottori), Hoki (Tottori), Izumo (Shimane
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