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...eral Japanese ports in [[1855]], captained by Charles Elliot, as part of a fleet led by Sir [[James Stirling]]. ...French frigate which visited several Japanese ports in 1855, as part of a fleet led by Admiral [[Nicolas Francois Guerin]].

*''Japanese'': [[山本]] 権兵衛 ''(Yamamoto Gonnohyôe, Yamamoto Gonbee)'' ...achirô]] to Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, prior to the [[Russo-Japanese War]].

The USS ''Susquehanna'' was one of the ships in fleet led by [[Commodore Matthew Perry]] to Japan in [[1853]]-[[1854]]; in 1854, Perry and his fleet of four ships (''Susquehanna'', ''[[USS Mississippi|Mississippi]]'', ''[[US

...Navy steamship which traveled to Japan in [[1853]]-[[1854]] as part of the fleet commanded by [[Commodore Matthew Perry]]. During this mission, the ''Missis ...ef port of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], on May 26 (4/19 on the [[Japanese calendar]]), departing Ryûkyû more than a month later, on 5/26.

*1419/6/20 Korean fleet, consisting of over 17,000 men on 227 ships, arrives at Tsushima, beginning *1419/6/26 Korean forces ambushed by Japanese ([[Battle of Nukadake]]).

*''Japanese'': 龍驤 ''(Ryuujou)'' The ''Ryûjô'' was the lead ship in a fleet of nine vessels which transported the [[Meiji Emperor]] from [[Tokyo]] to I

*''Okinawan/Japanese'': 御船手奉行 ''(Ufuni tii bujou / Ofunate bugyou)'' ...yû Kingdom]] who oversaw a number of responsibilities related to the royal fleet.

...en Korean territory in ancient times, and to be wrongfully occupied by the Japanese. Further, in the 14th-15th centuries, the island had become a major center ...an warships set sail for Tsushima under the command of [[Yi Jong-mu]]. The fleet, consisting of some 17,000 men on 227 ships, arrived at the island the foll

* ''Japanese'': [[西郷]]従道 ''(Saigou Tsugumichi)'' Tsugumichi led a Japanese invasion of Formosa (Taiwan) in May, [[1874]] ([[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]

...between [[Tsushima han]] and Joseon Korea. Among the stipulations are that Japanese envoys do not travel deeper into Korea beyond [[Pusan]]. *1609/3/5 The fleet reaches [[Kuchinoerabujima]], one of the [[Osumi Islands|Ôsumi Islands]].

*''Japanese'': [[東郷]]平八郎 ''(Tougou Heihachirou)'' ...panese Navy]] (IJN) to victory over that of Imperial Russia in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of [[1904]]-[[1905]].

*''Japanese'': 安宅船 ''(atakebune)'' ...near his [[Azuchi castle|castle at Azuchi]], in [[1573]]; he later used a fleet of ''atakebune'' to attempt to blockade the [[Ishiyama Honganji]], but was

*''Japanese'': 鹿児島五社 ''(Kagoshima gosha)'' ...which for centuries was the chief center of the city. The one-hundred-ship fleet which [[invasion of Ryukyu|invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom]] in [[1609]] departe

*1854/1/11-24 (Feb 8-21) A Russian fleet under [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] makes port in [[Naha]]. *1854/1/14 (Feb 11) Perry's fleet arrives at Edo Bay.

*''Japanese'': 香山栄左衛門 ''(Kayama Eizaemon)'' ...[[Uraga bugyo|Uraga bugyô]]'' in [[1853]] when [[Commodore Perry]] and his fleet arrived at [[Uraga]]. Alongside ''Uraga bugyô'' [[Toda Ujiyoshi (Uraga bug

...]] in the service of the [[Ming Dynasty]], and an admiral who led a famous fleet of so-called treasure ships on a series of voyages across the Indian Ocean ...t of developments that Zheng He was appointed admiral of Yongle's treasure fleet.

*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 牧港 ''(Makiminato / Machinato)'' It was to this port that the [[Shimazu clan]] fleet retreated briefly after being repulsed at Naha during their [[1609]] [[inva

*''Japanese'': [[国頭]] 正秀 ''(Kunjan Seishû / Kunigami Seishû)'' ...captain [[Jean-Baptiste Cecille]] in [[1846]] and convincing Cecille & his fleet of three ships to depart Ryûkyû.

*''Japanese'': [[土屋]] 寅直 ''(Tsuchiya Toranao)'' When Russian naval captain [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] led a fleet to Osaka in [[1854]], Toranao met with the two Osaka ''[[machi bugyo|machi

*''Japanese'': [[大山]]巌 ''(Ooyama Iwao)'' ...to his cousin [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]], and commanded [[Imperial Japanese Army]] troops in suppressing the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].

* 1597/7 Japanese forces defeat Korean naval forces at Chilcheonnyang. * 1597/8 Japanese troops capture the Namwon fortress.

*''Japanese:'' 白浜剣鬼<!--Not sure on these kanji. Please help.--> (''Shirahama Ke ...aider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact.

...ted States; 7/18 on the Japanese calendar) aboard the ''[[Pallada]]''. His fleet then made port at [[Naha]], the primary port of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, from ...ttacking Putyatin. Putyatin fled, but returned on November 8 (9/18) with a fleet headed by the ''[[Diana]]'', landing first at [[Hakodate]], then [[Osaka]],

*''Japanese'': [[小松]] 輝久 ''(Komatsu Teruhisa)'' ...ising to the rank of captain (''taisa'') and being named head of the Sixth Fleet in 1942. The following year, he became the chief commanding officer at Sase

*''Japanese'': 襖下張り文書 ''(fusuma shitabari monjo)'' ...he existence of these ships"<ref>Amino, 27.</ref> in the Tokikuni merchant fleet.

Mongol, Chinese, and Korean forces under [[Kublai Khan]] vs. Japanese forces under [[Dazai]] [[Shoni Tsunetsugu|Shôni Tsunetsugu]] *Japanese: 元寇 ''(Genkou)''

*California imposes restrictions on Japanese ownership of land. *[[Togo Heihachiro|Tôgô Heihachirô]] is named fleet admiral (''gensui'').

*''Japanese'': 観光丸 ''(kankou maru)'' ...ong with a portrait of the king, and to have its crew train some number of Japanese sailors more extensively in the operation of the vessel.<ref>Ishin Shiryô

..." or "longevity," but after arriving in Ryûkyû, they were then often given Japanese names ending in "''-maru''" and/or Ryukyuan names ending in "''-tomi''."<re ...dominant role. By the end of the 1570s, nearly all ships in the royal navy/fleet were made in Ryûkyû, albeit in forms in complete emulation of Ming vessel

...print triptych by [[Kobayashi Kiyochika]] depicting a scene from the Russo-Japanese War]] *''Japanese'': 日露戦争 ''(Nichi-ro sensou)''

*''Japanese'': 戊辰戦争 (Boshin Sensou) [[Enomoto Takeaki]] and former Bakufu retainers took Bakufu's fleet to Ezo, occupied [[Goryokaku|Goryôkaku]] fort in 10/26 and established the

*''Japanese'': ペリー提督 ''(Perii teitoku)'' ...the signing of the [[Harris Treaty]] several years later, opening several Japanese ports to Western commercial activity, are generally taken to mark the begin

* 1592/4/13 Japanese forces land on Korean soil and capture Pusan. * 1592/5/7 Korean '[[turtle ships]]' under Admiral [[Yi Sun Shin]] sink 26 Japanese vessels near Okpo; by 5/8 Yi sinks a further 18 ships.

* ''Japan (The Combined Fleet) Vs. [[Russia]] (Second and Third Pacific Squadrons)'' In October 1904, Russia's Baltic Fleet, now renamed the [[Second Pacific Squadron]], was preparing to set out on i

*''Japanese:'' 朝鮮出兵 ''(Chôsen Shuppei)'' In Japanese, the invasions of Korea are generally known respectively as ''Bunroku no ek

...] states. [[Zheng He]], the admiral who famously commanded a Ming treasure fleet across the Indian Ocean, as far as India, the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Afr ...Emperor]],<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 247.</ref> from a

*''Japanese'': 対馬 ''(Tsushima)'' ...ushima province]], and was one of the "eight islands" referred to when the Japanese archipelago was referred to as ''[[Alternate historical names for Japan|Yas

...Hong]] was perhaps among the more prominent pirates in the area; he led a fleet of some sixty junks in a series of attacks on the Spanish in [[1574]] which ...e restrictions on the Japanese living in Manila, and around the same time, Japanese residents, such as [[Harada Quimon]], petitioned [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] to

* ''Japanese:'' 九州 ''(Kyuushuu)'' ...tection from mainland invaders.<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 2.</ref>

...who lost 130 ships to Yi's turtle ships. Yi led seven more attacks on the Japanese navy in the 2nd and 3rd months of [[1593]], and on 1593/8/15 was named comm ...nnon. In addition to merely winning victories, Yi succeeded in cutting off Japanese supply lines in the waters on the western side of the Korean peninsula, and

* Japanese: 長宗我部　元親 ''(Chousokabe Motochika)'' ...Bungo]], defeated. The [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo]] later supplied Kanesada with a fleet and he returned in an expedition which the Chôsokabe easily crushed. The t

* ''Entered Japanese Service: 3 February 1869'' ...right|Naval ensign of the 大日本帝國海軍 (''Dai Nippon Teikoku Kaigun'' [Imperial Japanese Navy]) prior to 1889.]]

...ndfall in [[Bungo province]], in Kyushu, on April 19, [[1600]] (3/7 on the Japanese calendar). Only 21 of the original 110 crew were still alive and with the s ...-countries.html). This would mean the date he he saw Ieyasu was 1600/3/29 (Japanese calendar). However, England was still using the Julian calendar. If Adams a

*''Japanese/Chinese'': 勘合貿易 ''(kangou boueki / kanhe maoyi)'' ...tified them to Chinese port officials as licensed merchants or as official Japanese [[tribute]] missions, distinguishing them, therefore, from smugglers or pir

...in the city. (''Japanese Noh Drama: Plays Selected and Translated from the Japanese'', vol. 3, Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai (1960), 151n2.)</ref> * ''Japanese:'' [[源]] 義経 ''(Minamoto no Yoshitsune)''

*''Japanese'': 南洋 ''(nan'you)'', 南洋群島 ''(nan'you guntou)'' ...eas archipelago") was ruled as a Japanese colony from 1914 until 1944. The Japanese first gained control of Micronesia as part of treaty conditions following W

* ''Japanese'': [[毛利]]輝元 ''(Mouri Terumoto)'' ...nganji's sea-lanes and sat in blockade off the coast. Terumoto ordered his fleet, commanded by [[Murakami Takayoshi]], to make for the waters off Settsu and

...] in [[Kagoshima]], at the former site of the docks from which the Satsuma fleet departed for [[Yamakawa]].]] ...d normally have made a landing difficult, unusually high tides carried the Japanese ships over the obstacles, and the island surrendered with little or no figh

...used at the time, in the Edo period, while ''tsûshinshi'' was used by the Japanese more commonly in the Muromachi period. See: Lillehoj. p107n3.</ref> *''Japanese/Korean'': （朝鮮）通信使 ''((Chousen) tsuushinshi / (Joseon) t'ongsi

*''Japanese'': 源平合戦 ''(Genpei kassen)'' ...turn to the war. Intending to launch an assault on Yashima, he assembled a fleet of ships at Watanabe ([[Settsu province]]). During the preparations he argu

*''Chinese/Japanese'': 台湾 ''(Táiwān / Taiwan)'' ...''[[wako|wakô]]'' ("Japanese brigands") were mostly Chinese, but included Japanese, Koreans, and Southeast Asians as well, and raided ships and ports all alon

*''Japanese/Chinese/Korean'': [[倭]]寇 ''(wakou / wōkòu / waegu)'' ...6th century), these regions became major centers of ''wakô'' activity, and Japanese came to be used as a common language among the ''wakô''. However, while ma

*''Japanese'': 薩摩藩 ''(Satsuma han)'' or, more correctly, 鹿児島藩 ''(Kagoshim ...one location.<ref>Clements, Rebekah. "Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries : Pottery, Power and

* ''Japanese'': [[豊臣]]秀吉 ''Toyotomi Hideyoshi'' One of the most remarkable men in Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born a peasant and yet rose to finally end

* ''Japanese'': [[織田]] 信長 ''(Oda Nobunaga)'' ...(2011), 63.</ref> and the construction of [[Azuchi castle]], the model for Japanese [[castles]] in the mode most well-known today.

*''Japanese'': 江戸時代 (''Edo jidai'') ...he [[Heian period]] ([[1185]]).<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 42.</ref> <!--Element