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• Manila
  ...anish, and thus [[Christianity|Catholic]], activity in the region, and one of the main transshipment points between Asia and the New World for the [[Mani ...ultimately unsuccessful.<ref>Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', University of Cambridge Press (2012), 106-107.</ref> Manila Bay and surrounding waters al
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• Ito Jakuchu
  ...n painting. Many of his otherwise traditional works display a great degree of experimentation with perspective, and with other very modern stylistic elem ...and was considered a lay brother (''koji''); but he was also keenly aware of his role within a [[Kyoto]] society that was becoming increasingly commerci
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• Rokumeikan
  [[File:Rokumeikan.JPG|right|thumb|400px|An 1893 photo of the Rokumeikan]] ...of various interactions with Westerners, the Rokumeikan was also the site of numerous more everyday meetings, dinners, and receptions attended chiefly o
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• Narahara Shigeru
  *''Titles: Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]] ([[1892]]-[[1908]]); Baron (''[[kazoku|danshaku]]'') ...1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the service of [[Satsuma han]], and was a prominent figure in early [[Meiji period]] Okina
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• Fuzhou
  ...huen|Fukushûen]] (Fuzhou Gardens) in [[Naha]], [[Okinawa]], a reproduction of a famous garden in Fuzhou]] ...distance from [[Taipei]] and from [[Okinawa]], Fuzhou was the chief center of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] activity in China, and the chief intermediary p
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• Chinese currency
  ...the modern period.<ref name=british/> Though there was a unified standard of bronze coins up until the [[Song Dynasty]] ([[960]]-[[1279]]), the economy ...Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 251.</ref> that they came to be widely used
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• Important Cultural Properties
  ...cal importance - into an upper tier of National Treasures and a lower tier of Important Cultural Properties. ...ung-il Pai, AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 2
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• Streets of Kyoto
  ...named streets organized on a grid system. The city was ravaged by the wars of the [[Sengoku period]], and largely rebuilt around [[1590]], under [[Toyoto ...f the major avenues are numbered, from Ichijô (First Avenue) in the center of the city, down to Jûjô (Tenth Avenue) in the south.
  11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:12, 27 August 2019
• Bernard Bettelheim
  ...Okinawan language|Okinawan]]-English dictionary, and the first translation of the Bible into Okinawan. He appointed himself translator for [[Commodore Ma ...e; for a time in [[1840]], he served as a surgeon on-board an Egyptian man-of-war. While working as a surgeon for a regiment based in Turkey, he first be
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• Currency
  ...crises, at times. Systems which served as precursors for a "modern" system of banks and paper currency, along with futures markets and other such economi [[File:Wadokaichin.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An example of a ''wadô kaichin'' coin, on display at the British Museum]]
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• Japanese immigration to Hawaii
  ...om [[Okinawan immigration to Hawaii|Okinawa]]. Japanese quickly became one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in the islands, remaining so ...efit too in the remittances emigrants might send back to their families in Japan, and in the agricultural experience, techniques, and technology they might
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• Kusunoki Masashige
  ...e lauded as an exemplar of Imperial loyalty, and a national hero; a statue of him erected in [[1900]] in the main public plaza at the [[Tokyo Imperial Pa ...g his own death: he ordered the castle torched and slipped out under cover of night, tricking the Hôjô into believing that he had committed suicide. Pr
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• Ayutthaya
  ...t outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction. ...: A Note on Mutual Images," in Donald Denoon et al (eds.), ''Multicultural Japan'', Cambridge University Press (1996), 153.</ref>
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• Meiji period
  [[Image:Meiji-naminoue.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], ide ...lture, and society, and marked the emergence of the modern nation-state of Japan.
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• Kabuki
  ...roku.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A mannequin of Ichikawa Danjûrô XII in the role of [[Sukeroku]], on display at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].]] ...ningyô jôruri]]'' (aka ''bunraku''), one of the three most prominent forms of traditional Japanese theater. Emerging around [[1603]] and developing into
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• Edo Period
  ...shares many of the features of social, economic, and political development of the same period in the West. ...and structures were put into place by Ieyasu's successors over the course of several decades.
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