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• Yokohama
  ...t populous during the days, when commuters from outside the city come into Osaka for work.</ref> ...in Japan from 1993-2012, until it was surpassed by Abeno Harukas tower in Osaka.
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• 1876
  *Obama prefecture is absorbed into [[Shiga prefecture]]. *The railroad link between [[Kobe]] and [[Osaka]] is extended to [[Kyoto]].
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• Iroha-maru
  ...]], just off of [[Tomonoura]] (a notable port in what is today [[Hiroshima prefecture]]), late in the night on [[1867]]/4/23. This was the first maritime crash i
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• Sugar
  ...it from the islanders at roughly 1/3 the price it would be worth at the [[Osaka]] markets. Zusho also oversaw the expansion of efforts to combat smuggling ...in the season than shipments of Amami sugar, and thus arriving earlier at Osaka as well, and commanding higher prices. Seeing the value of this revenue, an
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• 1882
  *Taxes in [[Okinawa Prefecture]] traditionally paid in salt or rice are now permitted to be paid in cash; *The second YMCA in Japan opens in Osaka.
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• 1884
  ...ga Tatsuhirô]] settles in the [[Senkaku Islands]], and petitions [[Okinawa prefecture]] to have the islands officially declared Japanese territory on account of *A regular [[steamship]] line linking [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] and [[Osaka]] via [[Kagoshima]] is established.
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• Fuzhou
  ...ufactured/processed goods for ''kombu'', textiles, and canned goods from [[Osaka]]. Thus trade between Fuzhou and Okinawa enjoyed a brief revival, but ended
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• Dogugaeshi
  Though used to a limited extent in the ''[[bunraku]]'' theatres of [[Osaka]] and [[Tokyo]], as merely background or scene-change elements in plays tha ...xtensively, though a number of folk groups in various parts of [[Tokushima prefecture]] continue to make use of the screens and the technique. One such theatre,
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• Kanazawa
  Kanazawa is the capital city of [[Ishikawa prefecture]], and was previously the central [[castletown]] of [[Kaga han]]. ...drid, though never approaching the far larger populations of cities like [[Osaka]] and [[Edo]]. Though provincial, and not as prominently influential as [[K
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• Niigata
  Niigata is the capital city of [[Niigata prefecture]], and has a long history as a significant port town on the [[Sea of Japan] ...Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]] and the Sea of Japan coast to the [[Inland Sea]] and [[Osaka]]. Primarily a merchant city, Niigata lacked a castle, and a magistrates' o
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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 ...scorting the elephant stayed at [[Kannabe]] (a post-station in [[Hiroshima prefecture]]) on 4/10, departing the following day. ''Nakamura ke nikki II - Fukuyama
  7 KB (1,090 words) - 00:57, 15 July 2017
• Tokyo
  ...[[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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• Kyoto
  ...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,
  12 KB (1,950 words) - 06:28, 19 July 2020
• Hokkaido
  ...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
  22 KB (3,382 words) - 06:05, 29 July 2022
• 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 ...membered appearance was as (along with [[Himeji castle]]) a stand-in for [[Osaka castle]] in the American miniseries [[James Clavell's Shogun]]. The scenes
  7 KB (1,117 words) - 20:25, 28 June 2020
• Tsushima han
  ...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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• William Adams
  ...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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• Naha
  ...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
  25 KB (3,835 words) - 04:01, 18 September 2021
• Nijo castle
  ...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
  14 KB (2,320 words) - 06:44, 6 August 2018
• 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 ...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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