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• Kindaichi Kyosuke
  ...ar of the [[Ainu language]], based at [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]. ...llen, Mark Hudson, Mark Watson (eds.), ''Beyond Ainu Studies'', University of Hawaii Press (2015), 75.
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• Chiho Mashiho
  Chiho Mashiho was a notable early scholar of the [[Ainu language]]. ...erial University]] and went on to become a significant figure in the field of Ainu Studies.
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• Tokyo Imperial University
  #REDIRECT [[University of Tokyo]]
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• Tokyo University
  #REDIRECT [[University of Tokyo]]
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• Chiri Yukie
  ...y 1922, at the age of 19, to study at [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]] under Ainu linguistics expert [[Kindaichi Kyosuke|Kindaichi Kyôsuke]]. S ...rother, [[Chiho Mashiho]], is also regarded as a significant early scholar of Ainu Studies.
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• Julis Scriba
  ...lz]] (left) and Julis Scriba (right) at the [[University of Tokyo]] School of Medicine]] ...l of Medicine. He is considered one of the founders of the modern practice of external medicine in Japan.
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• Erwin von Baelz
  ...(left) and [[Julis Scriba]] (right) at the [[University of Tokyo]] School of Medicine]] ...rominent figure in the modern history of the introduction of Western modes of internal medicine in Japan.
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• Asakura Fumio
  [[File:Hisamitsu.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Asakura's statue of [[Shimazu Hisamitsu]] in Kagoshima]] ...|320px|Asakura's statue of [[Okuma Shigenobu|Ôkuma Shigenobu]] at [[Waseda University]]]]
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• Wada Eisaku
  ...ada-madameh.JPG|right|thumb|400px|"Portrait of Madame H" by Wada Eisaku. [[Tokyo National Museum]]]] ...[Tokyo bijutsu gakkô]]'' ("Tokyo Art School," today the [[Tokyo University of the Arts]]).
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• Okuma Shigenobu
  ...-waseda.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze statue of Ôkuma Shigenobu at [[Waseda University]]]] ...e of the ''[[genro|genrô]]'', and is also known as the founder of [[Waseda University]].
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• Sorimachi Shigeo
  Sorimachi Shigeo was a 20th century scholar of book history, and book dealer. ...]. He first began working for Isseidô Bookstore in the Kanda district of [[Tokyo]] in 1927. Five years later, he established his own operation, Kôbunshô (
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• Yanaihara Tadao
  ...of his writings and former personal library is now held by the University of the Ryukyus Library. ...d to devising colonial policy. Amidst rising militarism, he wrote a number of essays criticizing militarism and colonial policy.
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• Shiryohensanjo
  ...jpg|right|thumb|320px|The entrance to Shiryôhensanjo, at the University of Tokyo]] ...her materials, the Institute houses a [[National Treasure]], the Documents of the Shimazu clan (''Shimazu ke monjo'').
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• Albert M. Craig
  ...ks of East Asian history. He is professor emeritus of History at [[Harvard University]], where he taught from 1959 until his retirement. ...h Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1988.
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• Yoriai
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 324.
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• Uwajima Edo mansion
  ...ku daigakuin''). It neighbored the mansion of the [[Nabeshima clan]] lords of [[Kashima han]] ([[Hizen province]]). ...omain retainer [[Uetsuki Gyokei|Uetsuki Gyôkei]] now held at the Kagoshima University Library and entitled ''Ryûkyûjin ôrai suji nigiwai no zu'' (琉球人往
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• Seisho-ji
  [[File:Seishoji.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Main Hall of Seishô-ji]] ...Along with [[Sosen-ji|Sôsen-ji]] and [[Sengaku-ji]], it is considered one of the ''Edo sangaji'', the three chief Sôtô Zen temples in the city.
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• Shimazu Tadatsugu
  ...humb|320px|Shimazu Tadatsugu's grave at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]] ...u Tadatsugu was a member of the [[House of Lords]] who also served as head of the Japanese Red Cross and the Tuberculosis Prevention Society.
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• Ishikawa Seitsu
  ...English literature. Among his works were translations of the full stories of Sherlock Holmes. ...kushikan University]]. He also served as translator and interpreter at the Tokyo War Crimes trials.
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• Nakagawa Nariyoshi
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 316n103.
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• Ginza
  ...px|A model of the Ginza as it appeared in the 1880s, on display at the Edo-Tokyo Museum]] Ginza is a neighborhood in [[Tokyo]] known for its expensive high fashion brands and often compared to New Yor
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• Doshin
  ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 51.</ref> ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 319.
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• Todo Takatoshi
  Tôdô Takatoshi was a lord of　a [[han|domain]] in [[Ise province]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n116.
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• Okubo Norishige
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n40.
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• Abe Masataka
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n97.
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• Takebe Masataka
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n135.
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• Honda Tadaharu
  Honda Tadaharu served as ''[[jisha bugyo|jisha bugyô]]'' (Magistrate of Temples & Shrines) from [[1702]] until his resignation in [[1713]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n92.
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• Richard Pearson
  Richard Pearson (b. 1938) is an archaeologist of East Asia specializing in Okinawa. ...1971 until 2000. His work runs the gamut from Canadian archaeology to that of China, Hawaii, Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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• Hirata Naokata
  Hirata Naokata was a ''[[karo|karô]]'' under the [[So clan|Sô clan]] of [[Tsushima han]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n73.
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• Osobashu
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.
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• Shunzo Sakamaki
  ...nese history at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is considered the father of Okinawan Studies in the United States. ...ssistants was [[Mitsugu Sakihara]], who later became a prominent historian of Okinawa in his own right.
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• Frank Hawley
  ...British book collector and journalist known for his exceptional collection of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]]-related materials, and expertise in related sub ...s, and Third High School, he became a researcher at the British Embassy in Tokyo.
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• Nagai Naohiro
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n39.
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• Kamiyama Seiryo
  ...ama-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Kamiyama Seiryô at Tama Cemetery, Tokyo]] ...the Nagoya Government Monopoly Office; he was reassigned to the equivalent Tokyo office the following year.
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• Seiyo kibun
  ....jpg|right|thumb|400px|An 1821 copy of ''Seiyô kibun'' on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]]]] ...Hakuseki]] of information he learned about Europe from his interrogations of [[Giovanni Battista Sidotti]], a [[Jesuit]] missionary captured by the [[To
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• Takebe Masunaga
  Takebe Masunaga was a ''daimyô'' of [[Hayashida han]], a 100,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain in [[Harima province]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 280n25.
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• Asano Naganao
  Asano Naganao was the founder of [[Ako castle|Akô castle]] in [[Harima province]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n41.
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• Ooka Kiyosuke
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 306n187.
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• Okonandoshu
  The ''okonandoshû'' were personal servants of the [[shogun]], who handled small duties such as the shogun's hairdressing. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.
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• Miyoshi Nagahiro
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n68.
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• Orusui
  The ''Ôrusui'' was the head of security for the women's quarters at [[Edo castle]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.
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• Hotta Masatsune
  [[File:Hotta-masatsune.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Masatsune and his wives Hideko and Kazuko, at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery a Hotta Masatsune was a prominent politician of the Taishô and Shôwa periods.
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• Nezu Shrine
  Nezu Shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] in Tokyo, established in [[1706]] by [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] at the site ...The shrine is a fine example of ''gongen-zukuri'' architecture - the style of shrine architecture associated with the [[Tokugawa clan]] - and has been na
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• Oshichi fire
  ...oya Oshichi, near Oshichi's grave at Enjô-ji, in the Hakusan/Hongô area of Tokyo]] ...over Sahei again; the fire spread and in the end destroyed a large section of downtown [[Edo]].
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• Tokyo Music School
  [[File:Tokyosymphonyhall.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Symphony Hall of the Tokyo Music School]] The Tokyo Music School was the first music school officially sponsored by the [[Meiji
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• Gunji Masanobu
  Gunji Masanobu was an adopted son of [[Arai Masanari]] (father of [[Arai Hakuseki]]). ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 309n7.
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• Hattori Seisuke
  Hattori Seisuke, son of [[Confucian]] scholar [[Hattori Tokuro|Hattori Tôkurô]], was known as a c ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n35.
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• Arai Akinori
  Arai Akinori was the eldest son of Confucian scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 310n18.
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• Furuta Shigeharu
  Furuta Shigeharu, also known as Furuta Daizen-Daibu, was lord of [[Hamada castle]] in [[Iwami province]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n43.
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• Hatakeyama Yoshinari
  ...was the first head of the Tokyo Kaisei Academy (today, the [[University of Tokyo]]). ...out of the country in that year to go study in the West. For the duration of the journey, he went by the name Sugiura Kôzô. While in Europe, he studie
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• Sogyoki
  The ''Sôgyôki'' is a biography of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] written by [[Matsudaira Tadaaki|Matsudaira Shimousa-no- ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 293n141.
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• Nishiyama Juntai
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 310n14.
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• Okubo Jinemon
  ...metsuke]]'' in [[1710]], and ''[[fushin bugyo|fushin bugyô]]'' (magistrate of public works) in [[1714]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 316n105.
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• Konoe Takataka
  Konoe Takataka was a son of [[Konoe Sakihisa]], and head (''monshu'') of [[Ichijo-in|Ichijô-in]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n66.
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• Enko-ji
  ...a Buddhist temple in [[Fushimi]], established in [[1601]] with the support of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] for both lay & clergy education. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 294n168.
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• Edward Seidensticker
  ...[Kawabata Yasunari]], as well as several books on the history of [[Edo]]/[[Tokyo]] as a city. ...re he played some small role in overseeing the filming of the film version of Kawabata's novel ''Snow Country'' (''Yukiguni'').
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• Yoriki
  ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 51.</ref> ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 324.
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• Toda Tadazane
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n109.
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• Doi Genshiro
  Doi Genshirô was a [[Confucian]] scholar in the service of the lords of [[Kai province|Kai]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n36.
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• Magaribuchi Kagehira
  ...Kagehira, also sometimes rendered as Magabuchi Kagehira, was a Magistrate of Works (''[[fushin bugyo|fushin bugyô]]''). ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n28.
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• Inagaki Shigetomi
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n52.
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• Shibazaki Juroemon
  ...ter and ''[[kobushin]]'' in the service of [[Kai province]], with a salary of 250 ''[[Japanese Measurements|hyô]]''. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n32.
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• Matsudaira Terusada
  ...n|soba yônin]]'' and lord of [[Murakami castle]]. He was a maternal cousin of [[Inoue Masakata]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n38.
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• Sumiyoshi Gukei
  Sumiyoshi Gukei was a painter of the [[Sumiyoshi school]], and son of painter [[Sumiyoshi Jokei]]. *Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'', University of Tokyo Press (2015), 120.
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• Koben Hoshinno
  Kôben Hôshinnô was the sixth son of [[Emperor Go-Sai]], and an abbot of [[Rinno-ji|Rinnô-ji]] in [[Nikko|Nikkô]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n45.
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• Shobo
  Shôbô, also known as Rigen Daishi, was a prominent [[Shingon]] monk of the early [[Heian period]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 303n105.
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• Mizuno Tadakuni (kanjo bugyo)
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 316n104.
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• Yaso-no-miya
  ...ess, the daughter of Retired [[Emperor Reigen]]. Her mother was a daughter of [[Matsumuro Shigeatsu]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 306n170.
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• Niwa Mitsushige
  Niwa Mitsushige was a son of [[Niwa Nagashige]], and lord of [[Nihonmatsu han]] in [[Iwashiro province]]. He was transferred to that 100 ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n42.
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• Jinkoki
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n136.
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• Uryu Iwako
  ...humb|320px|Statue of Uryû Iwako at [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]] in [[Asakusa]], [[Tokyo]]]] ...t the age of 14, she was educated by her uncle, a physician in the service of [[Aizu han]].
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• Sumiyoshi Jokei
  ...he [[Sumiyoshi school]]. His son [[Sumiyoshi Gukei]] succeeded him as head of the school. *Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'', University of Tokyo Press (2015), 120.
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• Akimoto Takatomo
  Akimoto Takatomo was one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1699]] to [[1707]]. He was named Tajima-no-k ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n54.
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• Honda Masanaga
  ...asanaga was named ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' in [[1705]]. He adopted the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], [[Honda Masatake]], in [[1693]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 287n139.
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• Minbu-sho
  ...'Minbu-shô'', sometimes translated as Ministry of Home Affairs or Ministry of Popular Affairs, was an office under the ''[[ritsuryo|ritsuryô]]'' system ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 321.
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• Kamakura Yoshitaro
  [[File:Nakagusuku udun.jpg|right|thumb|295px|A photo of [[Nakagusuku udun]], taken by Kamakura in the 1920s]] ...other collections today; much of these, a mixture of direct transcriptions of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] documents and Kamakura's own thoughts o
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• Choju-ji
  ...iken-ji.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 209.</ref> *Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 141.
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• Matsudaira Norikuni
  Matsudaira Norikuni helped oversee the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to E ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n82.
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• Soba yonin
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 323.
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• Matsudaira Norisato
  ...[[1710]]. He was briefly suspended in [[1712]], but was reinstated as lord of Kamayama two months later. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n83.
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• Tokugawa Nobumitsu
  Tokugawa Nobumitsu was an ancestor of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], six generations back. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n126.
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• Murata Juroemon
  ...of [[Kai province]]. He became a ''[[yoriai]]'' in [[1716]], with a salary of 300 ''[[Japanese Measurements|hyô]]''. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n33.
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• Tsuboi Shogoro
  ...and his father [[Tsuboi Shinryo|Tsuboi Shinryô]], at [[Somei Cemetery]] in Tokyo]] Tsuboi Shôgorô is considered one of the founders or fathers of anthropology and archaeology in Japan.
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• Ito Genboku
  ...whose offices became the predecessor to the [[University of Tokyo]] School of Medicine. ...ning his private practice. It is said that there was regularly a long line of patients eager to see him. At one time, Genboku was also invited by [[Shima
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• Shingyo
  ...Mizunoo]]. A tonsured prince (''hôshinnô''), he was also head (''monshu'') of the [[Ichijo-in|Ichijô-in]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n67.
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• Kuze Shigeyuki
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n61.
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• Manabe Akiyuki
  ...[[Manabe Akifusa]]. He became a ''[[yoriai]]'' in [[1716]], with a salary of 2,150 ''[[koku]]''. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n29.
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• Hasegawa Settan
  [[File:Hasegawa-settan.jpg|right|thumb|320px|"Moon and Autumn Plants," Tokyo National Museum]] ...ter became a ''goyô eshi'' (court painter) to the [[Ogasawara clan]] lords of [[Karatsu han]].
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• Rusukan
  ...ration of his [[han|domain's]] mansions and interests in [[Edo]] on behalf of his [[daimyo|lord]].'' ...later, in [[1871]], the existence of the post helps point to the idea that Tokyo was only an ''[[anzaisho]]'', a temporary capital, at least initially, and
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• Matsudaira Tadayoshi
  Matsudaira Tadayoshi was one of the ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' beginning in [[1685]]. He was named ''[[soba yoni ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n42.
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• Ohama Nobumoto
  [[File:Ohama-nobumoto.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bust of Ôhama at Okinawa Expo Park]] *''Died: 1976/2/13, [[Tokyo]]''
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• Matsushita Nagatsuna
  Matsushita Nagatsuna was made lord of [[Miharu han]] in [[Iwashiro province]], a 30,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain, in [ ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n36.
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• Katayama Tokuma
  [[Image:Kyotonatlmuseum.jpg|right|thumb|240px|The main hall of the Kyoto National Museum.]] [[Image:Hyokeikan-TNM.JPG|right|thumb|240px|The Hyôkeikan at the [[Tokyo National Museum]], completed in [[1909]], survived both the 1923 Great Kant
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• Takasaki-ya
  ...ke|saké]] and [[soy sauce]] [[goyo shonin|purveyor]] to the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga han]]. Its head in each generation was known as Takasaki Chôemon. ...n of the family's much larger mansion complex, located at the intersection of the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]] and the [[Nikko Dochu|Nikkô Onarimichi]] (Nik
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• Tokugawa Tadanaga
  Tokugawa Tadanaga was a son of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], and younger brother of [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]. He was named ''[[Dainagon]]'' in [[1624]], and held a ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n47.
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• Documents of the So clan
  ...eums, university archives, etc.) in Seoul, Tsushima, Kyushu (Dazaifu), and Tokyo. ==History of the Collections==
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• Nakatsukasa-sho
  ...h oversaw the keeping of records, the drafting of ordinances, distribution of edicts, and the like. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 321-322.
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• Manabe Akihira
  ...nger brother of [[Manabe Akifusa]]. From [[1710]], he had 500 ''[[koku]]'' of land in fief; this was expanded to 1500 ''koku'' in [[1715]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n41.
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• Emperor Nakamikado
  ...upon his father's abdication. Nakamikado then abdicated in turn, with one of his sons succeeding him as [[Emperor Sakuramachi]]. |width="25%"|'''Emperor of Japan<br>[[1709]]-[[1735]]'''
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• Hojo Ujihide
  ...'[[machi bugyo|Osaka machi bugyô]]'' beginning in [[1709]] and held a fief of 3400 ''[[koku]]''. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n114.
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• Shinagawa
  ...at Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. p133.</ref> ...umerous prominent government officials on official missions to other parts of the country.
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• Honda Masatake
  Honda Masatake was the second son of [[Sakakibara Hisamasa]], and was adopted by [[Honda Masanaga]] in [[1693]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 287n139.
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• Daiju-ji
  Daiju-ji is a [[Jodo|Pure Land]] Buddhist temple of the Chinzei sect, located in Nukada district, [[Aichi prefecture]]. It is b ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n128.
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• Kofu castle
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 283n70.</ref>
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• Takamatsu han
  ...f 120,000 ''[[koku]]''.<ref>Fukai Masaumi 深井雅海, Tôken to kakutsuke 刀剣と格付け, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2018), 76.</ref> Lords of Takamatsu domain included:
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• Teikin Orai
  ...des models of handwriting styles appropriate for each of the twelve months of the year. It is written in a form resembling ''[[kanbun]]'', and is often a ...kuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 282n60.
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• Shirakawa Masafuyu
  ...inted ''jingi haku'', he was granted the name Shirakawa, and the privilege of passing on that name to his descendants. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 316n107.
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• Emperor Higashiyama
  Emperor Higashiyama reigned during the time of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. ...[[1687]]. He then abdicated in turn in [[1709]], passing the throne to one of his sons, who became [[Emperor Nakamikado]].
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• Ise Sadatoki
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n118.
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• Yanagisawa clan
  ...ing Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 127-128</ref> ...thy Clark, "Edo Kabuki in the 1780s," ''The Actor's Image'', Art Institute of Chicago (1994), 28-30, 32.</ref>
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• Nagai Nagayoshi
  ...ern medicines. He was also a founding member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. ...ne. In 1919, one of his students, Ogata Akira, produced a crystalline form of the substance, inventing crystal meth.
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• Asahi-no-kata
  Asahi-no-kata was one of the chief wives (''midaidokoro'') of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], marrying him in [[1586]]. Her father was named Chikuami. She was a half-sister of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]; the two had the same mother.
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• Ludwig Riess
  ...ary sources, were profoundly fundamentally influential upon the discipline of History as it continues to be practiced today, and Riess surely conveyed hi
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• Tsuko Ichiran
  ...a gakumonjo]], it spans the period from [[1566]] to [[1825]]. Descriptions of Japan's relations are organized chronologically within sections divided by ...collection of documents and objects obtained from the (former) [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].
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• Okubo Tadayoshi
  ...]'' from [[1708]] to [[1716]], during which time he oversaw the inspection of [[highways]] for the [[1711]] [[Korean embassies to Edo|Korean embassy to E ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n81.
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• Ito Chuta
  ...ural properties protection policy, the [[1897]] [[Law for the Preservation of Old Shrines and Temples]] (''koshaji hozon hô'').<ref name=beni53>"Beni no ...[Horyu-ji|Hôryû-ji]] is described by Watanabe as "the first scholarly work of modern art history in Japan."<ref name=wata241/>
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• Okubo Tadatomo
  ...o Tadatomo was ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1677]]-[[1698]]. He was a grandson of prominent [[Sengoku period]] general [[Okubo Tadachika|Ôkubo Tadachika]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n50.
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• Ino Jakusui
  ...han]]. He studied under [[Ito Jinsai|Itô Jinsai]] and entered the service of the Maeda in [[1693]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 284n101.
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• Suwaraya Ichibei
  ...hihei. ''Sangoku tsûran zusetsu''. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei, 1785. University of Hawaii Hamilton Library Sakamaki-Hawley Collection. HW 552-553. ...-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 88.
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• Higashionna Kanjun
  ...a-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Higaonna Kanjun at Tama Cemetery in Tokyo]] Higashionna Kanjun was one of the pioneers of the field of Okinawan Studies.
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• Matsudaira Nobutsune
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n102.
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• Itakura Katsunori
  ...i]], lord of [[Fukushima han]], he succeeded [[Itakura Katsumasa]] as lord of Niwase following Katsumasa's death in [[1858]]. *Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3, University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo (1937), 101.
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• Zhu Shunsui
  ...umb|250px|A monument to Zhu at the College of Agriculture, [[University of Tokyo]] main campus]] ...ominent Confucian scholar in Japan, after fleeing there following the fall of the [[Ming Dynasty]].
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• Ronald Toby
  ...k on the [[Korean embassies to Edo]], and on representation and conception of foreigners in [[Edo period]] Japan. ...took up the study of modern Korean, and of ''[[kanbun]]'' and other forms of pre-modern / early modern Japanese, in order to pursue research into such s
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• Ikeda Shigeaki
  ...of Ikeda Shigeaki and his relatives at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]] ...|Minister of Finance]] and [[Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce|Minister of Agriculture and Commerce]].
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• Muto Nobuyoshi
  ...i.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Mutô's grave at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]] Mutô Nobuyoshi was a prominent military officer and official of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods.
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• Japan-British Exhibition
  ...l of the [[Taitokuin Mausoleum]] was shown alongside thirteen other models of Japanese architecture. More than eight million people attended, including K ...nce as a great power of the world. The Japanese displays included examples of Japanese craft, sports, entertainment, music, and so forth.
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• Okubo Tadamasu
  Ôkubo Tadamasu was a son of [[Okubo Tadatomo|Ôkubo Tadatomo]]. He was named Kaga-no-kami in [[1705]] a ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n53.
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• Mikawa Go-fudoki
  ...Tokugawa clan]], and the life of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] up until the [[Battle of Sekigahara]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n130.
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• Hotta Masanaka
  ...tta Masatoshi]]. He became lord of the 100,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[han|domain]] of [[Yamagata han]] in [[1685]], before being transferred to [[Fukushima han]] ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 310n17.
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• Sappan kyuki zatsuroku
  ...i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/collection/collection02-j.html]</ref> No other [[Provinces of Japan|provincial]] or [[han|domain]] document collection is said to paralle ...compilation unknown) comprises an additional 30 volumes, for a grand total of 362 volumes altogether.
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• Yamada Masakata
  Yamada Masakata was a pediatrician appointed to the women's apartments of [[Edo castle]] in [[1709]]. In [[1712]], he was granted the honorary title ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 306n168.
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• Nakayama Tokiharu
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n80.
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• Naganuma Moriyoshi
  ...riyoshi was a [[Tokyo]]-based bronze sculptor of the [[Meiji period]], one of the first Japanese to be trained in the Italian tradition. ...later designed sculptures of [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Taiwan Chief of Home Affairs]] [[Mizuno Jun]] and railroad engineer [[Hasegawa Kinsuke]], e
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• Mizuno Tadanori
  ...[[1854]]/12/24, and given responsibility for overseeing the administration of [[Uraga]], [[Shimoda]], [[Nagasaki]], and [[Ezo]].<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôy ...apanese Convention of 1854]] on behalf of the shogunate, opening the ports of [[Nagasaki]] and [[Hakodate]] to British vessels, as well as granting [[mos
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• Inaba Masatomo
  ...Yodo han]] in [[1723]].<ref name=yodojo>Plaques on-site at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/45652536925/sizes/k/] Inaba claimed descent from [[Kasuga no Tsubone]], wife of [[Inaba Masanari]] and wet-nurse to [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]].<ref name=yodojo/>
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• Tobacco
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 297n278.
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• Gen'e
  ...kuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 282n60.
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• Tokonami Takejiro
  [[File:Tokonami-takejiro.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A bust of Tokonami at Kagoshima Chûô Station]] Tokonami Takejirô was a notable government official of the [[Meiji period]], originally from [[Satsuma han]].
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• Uwai Satokane
  ...]] top councilors. Parts of his diary survives as a glimpse into the court of a 16th Century [[daimyo|daimyô]]. ...against the [[Otomo clan|Ôtomo clan]], but was also active in appreciation of ''[[waka]]'' poetry and [[tea ceremony]], and is known to have been a highl
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• Honda Tadayoshi (1690-1751)
  Honda Tadayoshi was a fifth-generation descendant of [[Honda Tadakatsu]], and served as ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1734]]-[[1735 He became lord of [[Murakami han]] in [[1709]], and then lord of [[Koga han]] in [[Shimousa province]] in [[1712]].
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• Taguchi Ukichi
  ...the ''Tokyo Keizai Zasshi'' ("Tokyo Economics Magazine"), formed the core of the earliest major campaign to inspire interest in Micronesia among Japanes By [[1900]], he had become a member of the [[National Diet]], and quite successful as a journalist. His interests
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• Myogyo-ji
  ...-ji in the foreground. Photograph by [[Abel Gower]], a member of the staff of [[Rutherford Alcock]], first British diplomatic official stationed in Japan *Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo entrance lobby, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/33808112294/]
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• Osakite
  ...also the head of the [[shogun|shogun's]] guard when the shogun was outside of the castle, and played a role in fire prevention and law enforcement in the ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.
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• Jusangu
  ...an honorary title, granting that individual an income equal to that of one of the empresses. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 320.
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• Ii ke shiryo
  ...Documents, are a collection of documents and records from the [[Ii clan]] of [[Hikone han]], pertaining in particular to the [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji R ...ographical Institute]] prepared and published transcriptions (''honkoku'') of these documents beginning in 1959. The 30th and final volume was published
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• Emperor Murakami
  ...known for appointing no regent (''[[kanpaku]]''), thus weakening the power of the [[Fujiwara clan]] at court. He was a grandson of [[Fujiwara no Mototsune]] and succeeded his older brother [[Emperor Suzaku]
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• Josiah Conder
  ...humb|200px|Statue of Conder at the College of Engineering, [[University of Tokyo]] Hongô campus]] ...0px|The grave of Conder and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]]
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• Anthony Bryant
  ...chi period|Muromachi]], and [[Momoyama period]] warrior culture. His areas of interest also included [[Heian period]] court structure and society and Jap ...from 1986 to 1992. He also had an Master of Arts in Japanese from Indiana University.
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• Daishoji han
  *''Territory: section of [[Kaga province]]'' ...aru]]. Located within [[Kaga province]], the domain had a ''[[kokudaka]]'' of 70,000 ''[[koku]]''.
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• Vienna World's Fair
  ...Satsuma of Japan").</ref> It is further notable as the first major display of a Japanese garden anywhere in Europe, and the first major venue in which th ...on: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum''. Cleveland Museum of Art (2014), 15-17.</ref>
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• Sakakibara Koshu
  ...akakibara Gensuke, was a [[Confucianism|Confucian]] scholar in the service of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]]. Born into the Shimoyama family of [[Iga province]], he was adopted by his maternal grandfather and raised in
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• Kaga Edo mansion
  ...|The Akamon ("red gate") which now serves as a gate to the [[University of Tokyo]] main campus]] ...iage of Kaga daimyô [[Maeda Nariyasu]] to [[Yohime|Yôhime]], 21st daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ienari]].<ref>Craig, 78.; "[http://www.seisonkaku.com/eng
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• Ashikaga Yoshiakira
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 300n43.
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• Hattori Tokuro
  ...ce|Kai]]. He was a student of [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], and author of a number of works including ''Dan'en'', ''Kansei Nikki'', and ''Sôkan Shôshûshû''. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n34.
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• Prince Naohito
  Prince Naohito was the founder of the Imperial princely line of [[Kan'in-no-miya]]. ...e. The Heisei Emperor is thus a direct descendant, eight generations down, of Naohito.
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• Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 300n43.
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• Imagawa Norikuni
  Imagawa Norikuni was a relative of [[Ashikaga Takauji]] who was rewarded by Takauji for his military service w ...kuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 282n58.
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• Ichijo-in Den
  ...Kofuku-ji|Kôfuku-ji]] in [[1719]], and was also the 37th head (''monshu'') of the [[Ichijo-in|Ichijô-in]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n64.
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• Nitta Yoshishige
  Nitta Yoshishige was a grandson of [[Minamoto no Yoshiie]], and ancestor of the [[Nitta clan]]. Long considered to be of the [[court ranks|Lower Junior Fifth Rank]], Yoshishige was posthumously el
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• Shimabara jinzu byobu
  ...reen Painting of Shimabara Military Camp") is a painting in the collection of the Asakura City Akizuki Museum<!--朝倉市秋月郷土館-->. It is perha ...tsu zu," in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), ''Egakareta gyôretsu'', University of Tokyo Press (2015), 133.
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• Spring and Autumn Annals
  ...history of the [[state of Lu]] from 722-481 BCE. One of the Five Classics of the Four Books & Five Classics which comprise the [[Confucian classics]], t ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 285n108.
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• Lafcadio Hearn
  ...er), his wife (left), and other relatives (right) at Zôshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo]] ...the most prominent Westerners resident in [[Meiji period]] Japan, and one of the first Westerners to take on a Japanese name.
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• Tomoyose Kiko
  ...genre paintings, and [[birds and flowers]], are in the collection of the [[Tokyo National Museum]]. ...yuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.
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• Nanbu Shigenao
  ...s a son of [[Nanbu Toshinao]], and lord of the 130,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Morioka han|Morioka]].
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• Prefectures of Japan
  ...including [[Awa odori]], [[Sanuki udon]], and [[Shinshu University|Shinshû University]], to give just a few examples. However, they no longer have any official s ...names, and numbers of prefectures fluctuated considerably over the course of the [[Meiji period]], but eventually settled into the 47 we know today.
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• Nitobe Inazo
  ...le:Nitobe-inazo.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Nitobe at Tama Cemetery in Tokyo]] ...do: the Soul of Japan]]'', which remains one of the chief sources for much of the modern misconceptions about the [[samurai]]. Nitobe was also an avid wr
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• Tsuchiya Yorinao
  ...was a son of [[Tsuchiya Toshinao]]. He was named Iyo-no-kami and made lord of [[Tsuchiura han]] in [[Hitachi han]] (20,000 ''[[koku]]'') in [[1675]]. His ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 309-310n10-11.
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• Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1933-2005)
  ...art historian, the 21st head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]], and director of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]] in [[Nagoya]] for many years. ...inobu was born in Tokyo on December 24, 1933 as Hotta Masayoshi, sixth son of [[Kazoku|Count]] [[Hotta Masatsune]]<!--堀田正恒-->.
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• Tsuchiya Toshinao
  Tsuchiya Toshinao was a ''fudai [[daimyo|daimyô]]'', lord of [[Kururi han]] in [[Kazusa province]]. ..., a 20,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain, in [[1612]]. Three years later, at the age of 8, he served in the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]]. He was also named Minbu-no-s
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• Nagai Naoyuki
  ...year. On [[1854]]/1/22, he was named ''kaibô kakari'' (official in charge of coastal defense). On 4/5 that same year, he was re-assigned to [[Nagasaki]] ...[Mizuno Tadanori]].<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vol 2, University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo (1937), 454.</ref>
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• Satsuma students
  ...before the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] lifted bans on overseas travel. A number of these students went on to become prominent figures in the [[Meiji governmen ...rveying, and other industrial and technical fields.<ref>Plaques on-site at University College London.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/25574315256/sizes/
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• Nori-hime
  ...ounger sister, [[Yasu-hime]]. Nori-hime was married to [[Shimazu Uzuhiko]] of the Echizen [[Shimazu clan]]. ...ikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45n74.
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• George Ladd
  Doshi-sha University, [[Kyoto]], and conducted the graduate seminary in the summer school of the university. In [[1899]] he was invited by the
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• Gessho
  *Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3, University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo (1937), 100.
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• Onoya Sohachi
  ...[kashihonya]]'' (booklender) business, based in the Nagashima 5-chôme area of [[Nagoya]]. ...ding business. Though originally located in the Motoshige-chô neighborhood of the city, Ônoya later moved his shop to the Nagashima area, where it remai
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• Ryukyu Royal Sho Family Documents
  ...eum of History]] and considered collectively to be a [[National Treasure]] of Japan. ...eld at the home of Matsumoto Hiroshi, son-in-law to Shô Hiroshi, 22nd head of the former royal lineage.
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• Zacharias Wagenaer
  Zacharias Wagenaer was ''opperhoofd'' (factor, chief) of the [[Dutch East India Company]] base at [[Dejima]] for a time. ...ings of scenes and sights in both places, including at least one depiction of the [[Meireki Fire]] in [[Edo]].
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• Tokugawa Ietsugu
  ...ly Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.</ref> ...'A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 153-154.</ref>
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• Yasu-hime
  ...to [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]] (Nariakira's nephew, and last [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]). ...ikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45n75.
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• Iriki-in Kimihiro
  ...a head of the [[Iriki-in clan]], retainer to the [[Shimazu clan]] and lord of the Iriki [[sub-fief]] within [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]]. His wife [[Ochin|Ochin-dono]]<!--御珍殿--> was a daughter of [[Shimazu Hisamitsu]].
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• Confucian classics
  ...xué''), the [[Doctrine of the Mean]] (C: ''Zhōng yōng''), and the writings of [[Mencius]] (C: ''Mèngzǐ'').
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• Nanma Uho
  Nanma Uhô was a prominent ''[[kokugaku]]'' scholar of the [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]]s. ...nd distinguished himself as an excellent student. At age 25, at the orders of the domain, he began studying at the [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo|Shôheizaka gak
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• Ogasawara Nagashige
  Ogasawara Nagashige was a shogunal official, who served as one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1697]]-[[1705]], and again from [[1709]]-[[1 ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n44.
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• Gosanke
  ...dvisory & decision-making positions in the shogunate, such as the position of ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. ...rmer site of [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|Kishû Tokugawa mansion]] in Edo (Tokyo).[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/29623611121/sizes/o/]</ref>
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• Zizhi Tongjian
  ...ompiled by [[Sima Guang]], who began the project in [[1066]] at the orders of the [[Yingzong Emperor]], finishing in [[1084]]. The text, in 294 volumes, covers the reigns of 113 emperors over the period from 403 BCE to [[959]] CE.
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• Tsuchiya Tadanao
  ...adopted into the family, becoming [[Soma Tadatane|Sôma Tadatane]] and head of the Sôma. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 280n22.
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• Tokugawa Ieyoshi
  ...le:Ieyoshi.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Ieyoshi's grave at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]] ...[[Tenpo Reforms|Tenpô Reforms]] of [[Mizuno Tadakuni]], and the beginnings of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and foreign policy efforts by [[Abe Masahiro]].
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• Shokonsha
  ...nent such [[Shinto shrines|shrines]] in Japan are [[Yasukuni Shrine]] in [[Tokyo]], and [[Ryozen Gokoku Shrine|Ryôzen Gokoku Shrine]] in [[Kyoto]], but aro *Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 90, 210.
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• Owari Tokugawa Edo mansion
  ...i yawa zokuhen'', Tokyo: Heibonsha (1981), vol 7, p299.</ref> The Ministry of Defense occupies the site today. ...as located nearby, and is today the grounds of the main campus of [[Sophia University]].
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• Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts
  ...pg|right|thumb|400px|The main campus of the Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts]] ...acquerware]]), it is the only public university of the arts in Japan south of [[Hiroshima]].
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• Hikeshi
  ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 63.</ref> * ''Oedo Happyaku Yacho'' (大江戸八百八町) Tokyo Edo Museum.
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• Date Munenari
  ...i.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Date Munenari, in a photo from the 1942 reprinting of the ''[[Tokugawa reiten roku]]'']] ...[[Uwajima han]], known for his prominent involvement in a number of events of the [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]]s.
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• Tokugawa Tsunashige
  ...u]], and lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]] in [[Kai province]]. He became lord of the 350,000<ref>Hakuseki, 292n125.</ref> ''[[koku]]'' domain in [[1661]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 288n12.
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• Kishu Tokugawa clan
  ...shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], were both heads of the Kishû family and lords of Wakayama before becoming shogun. ...of [[Joseon]]. The [[Akasaka Detached Palace]] was constructed on the site of the latter mansion.
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• Hotta Masatora
  [[File:Hotta-rekidai.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The grave of Hotta Masatora, [[Hotta Masanari]], and [[Hotta Masasuke]] at [[Jindai-ji]] Hotta Masatora was the second son of [[Hotta Masatoshi]], and a ''daimyô'' of [[Yamagata han]].
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• Hotta Masamori
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n119.
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• Omoto
  ...Ayabe]] in [[Kyoto prefecture]], would become the new capital (''miyako'') of peace and purity. ...bers of the sect to alter Deguchi's tomb, claiming its resemblance to that of the [[Meiji Emperor]] was inappropriate. Authorities attacked Ômoto again
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• Ryozen Gokoku Shrine
  ...jôkan]]'' (Grand Council of State) to serve as a sanctuary for the spirits of those who died in battle in service to the nation, especially those who die ...e overshadowed by [[Yasukuni Shrine]], established the following year in [[Tokyo]].
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• Tatsuno Kingo
  ...articular for the [[Bank of Japan]] building, completed in [[1896]], and [[Tokyo Station]] (1914). ...rned to Japan in [[1883]], and the following year succeeded Conder as head of the architecture department at the ''Kôbu gakkô''.
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• Battle of Ueno
  ...o]] - [[Battle of Hokuetsu|Hokuetsu]] - [[Battle of Aizu|Aizu]] - [[Battle of Hakodate|Hakodate]]}}</td></tr></table> [[Image:Ueno.jpg|thumb|roght|Battle of Ueno]]
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• Yokohama Specie Bank
  [[File:Yokohama-dome.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]] ...today the home of the [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefectural]] Museum of History, has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]].
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• Ogiwara Shigehide
  ...'A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 143.</ref> ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312-313n51.
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• Tokugawa Yoshichika
  ::''For Tokugawa Yoshichika 徳川義比, 15th lord of [[Owari han]], see [[Tokugawa Mochinaga]].'' ...ikatsu to become the 19th head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Owari branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]].
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• Omori shellmound
  [[File:Omori.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Stone marker at the site of the Ômori shellmound]] ...site' in Japan."<ref>Simon Kaner, "Jomon and Yayoi," ''Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History'' (ed. Karl Friday), 55.</ref>
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• University of the Ryukyus
  ...ru-ike.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Senbaru Pond, at the center of the University of Ryukyus campus in Nishihara]] ...t|thumb|400px|The University of Ryukyus campus in 1953, on the former site of [[Shuri castle]]]]
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• Mizuno Tadayuki
  ...stle]]. He was named ''[[wakadoshiyori]]'' on [[1711]]/12/23, becoming one of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' six years later, on [[1717]]/9/27. He also served a ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n108.
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• Hirata Tosuke
  ...graves of Hirata Tôsuke and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]] ...He was also a member of the [[Iwakura Mission]], and later of the [[House of Lords]].
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• Inoue Masamine
  Inoue Masamine served as a member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' from [[1705]] to [[1722]]. ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n37.
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• Kishu Sokaku
  Kishû Sôkaku was a [[Soto|Sôtô]] [[Zen]] monk of the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]]. Born in [[Owari province]], he became the ninth abbot of Kongô-in in Takefu, in what is now [[Fukui prefecture]]. He also founded a
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• Tokugawa Yoshiyori
  Tokugawa Yoshiyori was a head of the [[Tayasu clan|Tayasu]] branch family of the [[Tokugawa clan]]. ...n of [[Tokugawa Narimasa]], he succeeded his father to become the 8th head of the Tayasu family in [[1839]]. In [[1858]], he was promoted from Gonnochûn
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• Satomi clan
  ...ojo clan|Hôjô]], [[Takeda clan|Takeda]], and [[Imagawa clan]]s on a number of occasions. ...koku]]'' at the beginning of the Edo period, but the clan was dispossessed of its lands in [[1614]], and their line died out in [[1622]].<ref name=arai/>
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• Uigwe
  ...[[1897]] state funeral of [[Empress Myeongseong]]. National Palace Museum of Korea.]] The ''uigwe'' are official records commissioned and kept by the royal court of [[Joseon]] Korea.
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• Li Hongzhang
  ...cial and diplomat, who played a prominent role in many of the major events of late 19th century China. ...l, and contributed suggestions as to aspects of the execution or direction of the [[Self-Strengthening Movement]], and was dispatched on several diplomat
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• Jacques Specx
  ...tember [[1632]].<ref>Adam Clulow, ''The Company and the Shogun'', Columbia University Press (2014), 98.</ref> *Cynthia Viallé, "In Aid of Trade: Dutch Gift-Giving in Tokugawa Japan," ''Tokyo daigaku shiryôhensanjo kenkyû kiyô'' 16 (2006), 73n3.
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• Tokutomi Roka
  ...at the site of Tokutomi's home in the Omotesandô/Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. He moved here from [[Zushi]] in October [[1900]], and returned to Zushi in Tokutomi Roka was a prominent novelist of the [[Meiji period]], and younger brother to writer and politician [[Tokuto
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• Oban
  ::''Ôban 大判 can also refer to a type of coin. See [[currency]].'' ...castle]]s, as well as patrolling the samurai districts of [[Edo]] (outside of the castle grounds proper).
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• Benbo
  ...uced for members of the US military, often incorporating garish depictions of weapons or other military equipment. ...ompany ten years later to establish his own studio, going on to become one of the most preeminent lacquerware artists in Okinawa, while Benbô retained i
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• Uesugi Mochinori
  ...nate name, or a misreading of the name 「茂憲」。</ref> was the second governor of [[Okinawa Prefecture]], serving in that position from [[1881]]-[[1883]]. ...that time promoted to the Lower Junior Fourth Rank and granted the titles of Jijû and Shikibutaifu.
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• Juntendo
  [[File:Juntendo.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall of the Juntendô.]] [[File:Juntendo-model.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A model of the Juntendô, showing the complex at its fullest historical size.]]
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• Uwajima han
  *''Territory: one of fourteen districts of [[Iyo province]]'' ...nd of [[Shikoku]]. It was ruled from [[Uwajima castle]] by a branch family of the [[Date clan]] which ruled [[Sendai han]] in [[Mutsu province]] (in the
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• Manabe Akifusa
  ...') under [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], and [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]]. ...Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferred to [[Murakami han]] in [[Ech
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• Kamekawa Seibu
  ...yuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref> ...and demanded the resignation of his fellow Sanshikan, deputy envoy on the Tokyo embassy, [[Giwan Choho|Giwan Chôho]].
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• Sato family (Juntendo)
  ...izen|Satô Taizen]], one of a number of monuments to the individual members of the Satô family, at the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] ...ku|Western medicine]] in [[Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]] Japan. Several of Taizen's natural sons who were adopted into other families and took on othe
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• Gushikawa Chofuku
  Gushikawa Chôfuku was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...of ''zaiban oyakata'' from [[Katsuren Seiki]], remaining there for a term of one year.
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• Katsuragawa Hoken
  ...ticularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku. ...>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 222.</ref>
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• Machi doshiyori
  ...Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 46.</ref> ...ear, and were granted mansions near [[Nihonbashi]], just outside the gates of [[Edo castle]]. Though they held no official [[stipend]], all three familie
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• Zojo-ji
  [[File:Zojoji.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main hall at Zôjô-ji, with Tokyo Tower visible behind it]] ...320px|The Great Gate (''daimon'') of Zôjô-ji, which gives the neighborhood of Shiba Daimon, as well as the Daimon subway station, their names]]
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• Prince Morinaga
  Prince Morinaga was an Imperial prince and, later, [[shogun]] of the [[Kamakura shogunate]]. ...as initially defeated, but rallied and rose up again. Following his defeat of Takatoki, he was himself named Shogun.
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• Jurakudai
  ...b|400px|A 19th c. paper model on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]], of the Hiunkaku ("Flying Cloud Tower") from the Jurakudai, now at [[Nishi Hong ...his residence the following year. The Jurakudai later became the residence of his nephew [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and was dismantled in [[1595]] following
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• Coal
  ...ater.<ref>Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 91-92. </ref> ...[George Kerr]], ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People'', Revised ed., Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing (2000), 362. </ref>
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• Sho Ten
  [[Image:Shoten-funeral.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The 1920 funeral of Shô Ten.]] *''Titles: Crown Prince of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (-1879); Marquis (''侯爵'', kōshaku)(1901-1920)''
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• Imperial Hotel
  ...], [[Okura Kihachiro|Ôkura Kihachirô]], [[Iwasaki Yanosuke]], and a number of other prominent businessmen, and located next door to the [[Rokumeikan]], i ...oms, a ballroom that could accommodate 600 people, a library, and a number of game rooms, libraries, and a salon equipped with both organ and piano.
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• Okuma Ujihiro
  ...Home Affairs]] on [[Taiwan]], installed in [[1911]]-[[1912]] in the cities of [[Taipei]], [[Taichung]], and [[Tainan]]. ...tation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
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• Nakae Toju
  ...ucian]] scholar of the [[Edo period]], credited with advancing the thought of [[Wang Yangming]] in Japan. ...ding one's intuitive knowledge (''ryôchi'', C: ''liang zhi'') and of unity of knowledge and action."<ref>David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME S
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• Kinoshita Jun'an
  ...fucianism]] in the tradition of [[Zhu Xi]]. He was the teacher of a number of other prominent scholars, including [[Arai Hakuseki]], [[Amenomori Hoshu|Am ...of [[Fujiwara Seika]]. He later entered the service of the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga han]], and in [[1682]] became a tutor to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsuna
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• Hans Sloane
  ...queathed to the English nation upon his death in [[1753]], formed the core of what was then established that same year as the British Museum. ...16]]. Sloane also published an English translation of Kaempfer's ''History of Japan''.
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• Katsuren Seiki
  Katsuren Seiki was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat]] who served as ''[[zaiban oyakata]]'', ...mission, and then took over the position of ''zaiban oyakata'' for a term of one year. In 1853, he was succeeded by [[Gushikawa Chofuku|Gushikawa Chôfu
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• Robert Garfias
  ...sity of California, Irvine, and was one of the early pioneers in the field of Ethnomusicology. ...versity of Tokyo]], who helped him arrange for UCLA to acquire its own set of ''gagaku'' instruments; those instruments remain in the UCLA Musical Instru
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• Katsuragawa Hoshu
  ...Hosan).<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 226.</ref> ...tch residence) in Edo.<ref>Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Presss (2012), 333. </ref>
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• Hongokucho bell
  ...ho-bell.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Replica of the Hongoku-chô bell at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]]]] ...lose to [[Nihonbashi]], and continued to call out the time throughout much of the [[Edo period]].
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• Fukuzawa Yukichi
  Fukuzawa Yukichi was among the most prominent political thinkers of the early [[Meiji period]], famous in particular for his ideas on education ...o Jijo|Seiyô Jijô]]'' ("Conditions in the West"), a volume describing much of American lifestyles, material culture, societal and urban organization, and
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• Sakata Moroto
  ..., in which he restored Yanagisawa's reputation, arguing that most accounts of his lascivious or otherwise inappropriate behavior was based on unfounded r ..., and after the [[Meiji Restoration]] became an official in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] prior to his death in [[1875]].
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• Ishin Shiryo
  ...on.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Some of the 2600 volumes of handwritten summaries of the Ishin Shiryô which form the Ishin Shiryô Kôhon, the basis for the 10 ...d from [[1846]] to [[1871]] - i.e. events relating to the key developments of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and [[Meiji Restoration]].
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• Zenko-ji
  ...became patronized by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], and made a branch temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]]. ...duced a number of replicas which it put on display, though eventually some of these replicas came to be considered sacred enough to also be hidden away f
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• Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
  ...u|Nobuyasu]] (who was later made to commit suicide). He fought at [[Battle of Nagashino|Nagashino]] in [[1575]] and later took part in the failed expedit ...province]], Chikayoshi was made lord of [[Inuyama castle]], with an income of 100,000 ''koku''.
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• Watanabe Miki
  ...û's relations with China and Japan. She holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo. ...王国の自画像　－近世沖縄思想史－, Pelican-sha (translation of [[Gregory Smits]], ''Visions of Ryukyu'', UH Press (1999))
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• Shoya
  ...r often took the form of reporting specifically on births, deaths, changes of residence, marriages, adoptions, and the like within these small, relativel ...ess, such as assessments of public work projects and the associated burden of corvée labor and material contributions from various villages, or in inves
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• Maeda Nariyasu
  ...grounds of the mansion have become the main campus of the [[University of Tokyo]]. ...er of his sons, [[Maeda Toshiatsu]], succeeded [[Maeda Toshikata]] as lord of [[Toyama han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937),
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• Gekko-in
  ...da Gentetsu Akinori, consort of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and mother of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]]. ...pectively. Gekkô-in's son Nabematsu survived to be named shogun at the age of three, upon Ienobu's death in [[1712]].
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• Rekidai Hoan
  ...eriod from 1424 to 1867, it contains records, written entirely in Chinese, of communications between Ryûkyû and ten different trading partners in this ...er were missing or severely damaged. All were destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa.
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• Ie Chochoku
  [[File:Ie-chochoku.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Prince Ie in a photo of the heads of the [[1872]] embassy.]] ...]] in [[1872]] to formally pay respects to the [[Meiji Emperor]] on behalf of his nephew, King [[Sho Tai|Shô Tai]].
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• Tsuruta Kei
  ...is a professor at the [[University of Tokyo]], specializing in the history of foreign relations in early modern Japan, especially relations with Korea.
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• Emperor Taisho
  ...[Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] in 1921, and the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923. ...aishô was also to be the first emperor to observe modern/Western standards of monogamous marriage for a monarch.<ref>Fujitani, 189.</ref>
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• Ichiki
  Located at the mouth of the Yafusa River, it was a significant port for trade with Korea, China, an ...taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45-46n86.
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• Nanbu Toshinao
  Toshinao was the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Morioka han]], in northern [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]]. ...is men to aid [[Mogami Yoshiaki]] and [[Date Masamune]] against the forces of [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]]. After the campaign was concluded, Toshinao was confir
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• Koku
  ...n as ''[[kokudaka]]''. This, in turn, would indirectly dictate the number of men such a lord could be expected to field, if necessary. ...period, however, the value of gold rose dramatically relative to the cost of rice,<ref>Screech, Timon. "Owning Edo-Period Paintings." in Lillehoj, Eliza
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• Buddhist ranks and titles
  *''Chôrô'' - one of a number of titles for the head of a temple *''Dai-ajari'' or ''Azari'' - the chief expounder of a sect's doctrine
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• Ryukyu tsuho
  ...yu-tsuho.JPG|right|thumb|320px|A ''Ryûkyû tsûhô'' coin on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]].]] ...'' coins were minted.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 192.</ref>
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• Hojo Takatoki
  ...] (''Hôjô Takatoki Harakiri [[Yagura]]''), a short distance from the grave of [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], in [[Kamakura]].]] ...of Kamakura]] to pro-Imperial forces led by [[Nitta Yoshisada]] on behalf of [[Emperor Go-Daigo]].
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• Nagazumi Yoko
  ...[[sakoku]]'') view of [[Edo period]] Japan, and advocating a reexamination of how open and actively engaged Japan was in that period. A graduate of the [[University of Tokyo]], she taught there for many years and is today professor emeritus.
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• Nagoya Sagenta
  ...xiled to [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] during the ''Oyura sôdô'', a series of factional disputes between [[Shimazu Narioki]] and [[Shimazu Nariakira]] ov ...]] Historiographical Institute ([[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]]) as part of the ''[[Shimazu-ke monjo]]'' (Shimazu Family Documents).
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• 1877
  ==Timeline of 1877== ...[Meiji Emperor]] travels to Kyoto and Nara to pay respects at the mausolea of [[Emperor Komei|Emperors Kômei]] and [[Emperor Jimmu|Jimmu]].
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• Hiroshima castle
  ...Zwigenberg, ''Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture'', Cambridge University Press (2014), 128n121.</ref> ...estoration]] in [[1871]]. As happened to many castles during this era, all of the buildings except for the ''tenshu'' were destroyed by the government (c
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• Nagasaki-ya
  ...) ''Edo & Paris''. Cornell University Press, 1994. p284.</ref> The manager of the Nagasaki-ya was named [[Nagasakiya Gen'emon]], a name passed down in a ...later; the Dutch arrival in April coincided more closely with the blooming of the [[sakura|cherry blossoms]], which then came to be associated with the D
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• Bashford Dean
  [[File:Bashford-dean.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Dean in a suit of samurai armor which he later sold to the museum]] ...collected during several [[Meiji period]] travels to Japan formed the core of that collection.
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• Book of Rites
  ...ly in accordance with and in fulfillment of their societal roles, then all of society would fall into a great cosmic balance and prosperity would result. Edited versions of the ''Book of Rites'' are credited to [[Han dynasty]] scholars [[Dai De]] and his nephew
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• Itowappu
  ...saka]]-based textile merchants was granted a monopoly on the domestic sale of Chinese [[silk]] imported by [[VOC|Dutch]] and [[Chinese in Nagasaki|Chines ...r, the fall of the [[Ming Dynasty]] in [[1644]] led to a severe disruption of normal economic patterns, and prices began to rise considerably.
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• Yoshida Kenko
  Urabe Kaneyoshi, commonly known today as Yoshida Kenkô, was the author of the ''[[Tsurezuregusa]]'', a now-famous miscellany. ...ife, and to the contrary actively attended social events held by the likes of [[Ashikaga Takauji]], [[Ashikaga Tadayoshi]], [[Ko no Moronao|Kô no Morona
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• Yamada Shinzan
  ...in [[1873]] after being informed in Tokyo of the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of their kingdom]]. It is the only work in the Gallery by an Okinawan artist. Born in Naha the fifth son of an aristocratic [[Shuri]] family, Shinzan was encouraged from a young age b
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• Tani Buncho
  Tani Bunchô was a prominent [[bunjinga|literati painter]] of the mid-[[Edo period]]. ...result of these surveys, Bunchô learned much about the history and breadth of Japanese arts, as well as being exposed to Chinese and European arts in [[N
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• Takizawa Bakin
  ...-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 96.</ref> ...rhood of Monzen-nakachô. Ten years later, in [[1790]], he became a student of the author [[Santo Kyoden|Santô Kyôden]], publishing his first ''[[kibyos
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• Amino Yoshihiko
  ...wn for his arguments for broad-ranging reassessments of our understandings of, and approaches to, Japanese history. ...tead, he suggests that a great many rural people were engaged in a variety of trades - including fishing and other maritime activities, artisanal or craf
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• Meiji Shrine
  [[File:Meijishrine-torii.jpg|right|thumb|320px|One of the main ''[[torii]]'' at the entrance to Meiji Shrine, near Harajuku Stati ...]] located in Shibuya-ku, [[Tokyo]]. It was established in 1920, in memory of [[Emperor Meiji]], who died [[1912|eight years prior]].
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• Goeku Chosei
  Goeku ''ueekata'' Chôsei was a scholar-bureaucrat in the service of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. ...as assistant to the Lead Envoy [[Kunjan Seisoku]], and in 1671, at the age of 51, he served as assistant to Lead Envoy [[Kin Choten|Kin Chôten]].
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• Koriki Tanenobu
  ...as being a samurai retainer of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] with a stipend of 300 ''[[koku]]''. ...and projection drawing techniques on his own, and producing images mainly of festivals and other popular and public gatherings.
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• Ryukyu kankei monjo
  ...umes of documents selected out of the ''[[Shimazu-ke monjo]]'' ("Documents of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu House]]"). ...stitute, known as the ''Ryûkyû gaikoku kankei monjo'' 琉球外国関係文書 ("Documents of Relations between Ryûkyû and Foreign Countries"), collects documents pert
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• Tokugawa Ienari
  ...awa clan]],<ref>Gallery labels, "Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn," [[Tokyo National Museum]], 23 July 2010.</ref> Ienari was adopted into the main sho He married [[Kodai-in (1773-1844)|Shige-hime]] (aka Kôdai-in), a daughter of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], in [[1789]]. She gave birth to their first child, At
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• James Hepburn
  ...breaking down, he returned to the United States. He commenced the practice of medicine in New York City, where he resided some thirteen years. ...r doing it in Japan. The result was the ''Hepburn'' style of romanization of Japanese words.
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• Gekkyo-in
  ...himi]], in southern [[Kyoto]] City. Its main object of worship is a statue of [[Shaka]] Nyorai. ...hborhood of central Kyoto, and was operated as a [[Shingon]] branch temple of [[Engaku-ji]].
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• Konoe Hiroko
  ...okoro]]'' (principal wife) of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and daughter of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]. She had two brothers, [[Kon ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n60.
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• Tsuchiya Masanao
  ...member of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' for over thirty years, through the reigns of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], [[Tokugawa Ienobu|Ienobu]], and [[Tokug ...rimary member of the ''rôjû'' to liaise with the [[So clan|Sô clan]] lords of [[Tsushima han|Tsushima domain]] in handling formal diplomatic relations wi
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• Koishikawa Korakuen
  ...fusa]], ''daimyô'' of [[Mito han]], as a private garden within the grounds of his [[Mito Edo mansion|Edo mansion]]. Construction began in [[1629]], but t ...ures", was chosen at the suggestion of [[Zhu Shunsui]], a Chinese retainer of Mito, based on a proverb or famous quotation, "work first, pleasure later".
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• Hayashi Razan
  ...ave at the Hayashi family cemetery in Ichigaya-yamabushi-chô, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo]] ...nate]], playing a significant role in foreign relations as well. The first of the [[Hayashi clan]] shogunal advisors during the [[Edo period]], he advise
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• Hayashi Nobuatsu
  ...ef>James Lewis, “Beyond Sakoku: The Korean Envoy to Edo and the 1719 Diary of Shin Yu-Han,” ''Korea Journal'' 25:11 (1985), 40n17.</ref> ...ulers, and advocates that the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] should take some kind of action to free China from their control.<ref>Schottenhammer, Angela. “Emp
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• Prince Mochihito
  ...Shirakawa]]. A succession dispute between his claim to the throne and that of [[Emperor Antoku]] played a major role in sparking the [[Genpei War]]. ...s children, were formally adopted by [[Hachijo-in|Hachijô-in]], a daughter of [[Emperor Toba]] and his consort [[Empress Bifukumon-in|Bifukumon-in]].
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• Shinbashi Station
  Shinbashi, in [[Tokyo]], was one of the first train stations in Japan. While the old station buildings have bee ...and not rebuilt. The bridge was removed in 1964.<ref>Plaque at former site of Shibaguchi Gate.</ref>
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• Giovanni Battista Sidotti
  ...'A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 155.</ref> ...ained from Sidotti in writing his ''[[Seiyo kibun|Seiyô kibun]]'' ("Record of Things Heard about the West").
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• Ifa Fuyu
  [[File:Ihafuyu.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Photo of Ifa Fuyû, c. 1912]] ...rom the same origin, and that with [[Okinawa prefecture]] now being a part of Japan, assimilation was the best path.
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• Muro Kyuso
  [[File:Muro-kyuso.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Muro Kyûsô at Ôtsuka Confucian scholars' graveyard]] ...fucian]] scholar in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] during the reign of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]].
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• Sone Tatsuzo
  ...was an architect of the [[Meiji architecture|Meiji period]], and a student of [[Josiah Conder]]. ...c/creative nature, instead focusing on the practical and technical aspects of architecture. Sone relates considerable relief at the changeover to Conder'
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• 1886
  ==Timeline of 1886== *1886/1/28 A formal [[Convention of Japanese Immigration]] is signed with [[Hawaii]], retroactively covering th
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• Robert Karl Reischauer
  ...uctor in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. ...s two-volume chronology of Japanese history, laying out the specific dates of events in Japanese history from roughly 40 BCE to [[1167]] CE.
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• Ryukyu-gakari
  ...ner"), a samurai official charged with overseeing the Ryûkyû-kan on behalf of the daimyô. ...ikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), 5.</ref> He traveled with [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], serving as
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• Emperor Reigen
  ...unoo]] by his consort [[Shin-Kogimon-in|Shin-Kôgimon-in]]. He was the last of Go-Mizunoo's children to reign, succeeding his half-brother [[Emperor Go-Sa Following a fire on [[1673]]/5/8 which destroyed large parts of the city, including the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], Emperor
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• Daikan
  ...iroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), xxix.</ref> ...assigned. Within that territory, he was responsible for overseeing a range of government functions, including infrastructure projects, tax collection, an
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• Higa Shuncho
  Higa Shunchô was one of the most prominent Okinawan historians of the 20th century. ...[Nishibaru]], [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]], he graduated from Okinawa Normal University<!--沖縄師範学校--> with a teaching certificate, and worked for a time
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• Hakone
  ...ation]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]].<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Korea.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/41550129501/in/photostream/ ...Korean Embassies in the Eighteenth Century," PhD dissertation, University of Toronto (2008), 161.</ref>
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• Sima Guang
  ...irst history of China to incorporate differing accounts or interpretations of events rather than presenting a single official narrative. ...highest level of the [[Chinese Imperial examinations]] and became a member of the [[Hanlin Academy]].
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• Nihonbashi
  ...t|300px|thumb|A model of Nihonbashi at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, showing parts of the Nihonbashi district.]] ...n in [[Hiroshige]]'s [[ukiyo-e|woodblock print]] series "[[The 53 Stations of the Tokaido]]."]]
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• Iwakura Tomomi
  ...significantly influential in a variety of other decisions and developments of the [[Meiji period]] as well. ...s.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 171.</ref>
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• Benzaiten
  ...to Benzaiten are also located on tiny islands in manmade ponds. She is one of the [[Seven Lucky Gods]]. ...ith a local serpent [[kami|deity]], Ugajin. According to the founding myth of Enoshima Shrine, a dragon menaced the local population until one day an isl
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• Kikuin
  Kikuin was a Ryukyuan [[Zen]] monk of the early 17th century. ...to Kyoto to practice at the [[Kyoto Five Mountains|five top Zen temples]] of that city. There, he was granted the monastic name Kikuin, by the Zen maste
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• Kabunakama
  ''Kabunakama'' were merchant guilds of the [[Edo period]], which evolved out of the more basic merchants' associations known as ''[[nakama (guilds)|nakama] ...apan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press (1990), 225-226.</ref>
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• Ueno Park
  ...National Museum]], Ueno Zoo, [[Tokyo University of the Arts]], and Museum of Western Art, among others. ...so be found in the park. Other notable sights in the park include a statue of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] designed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kô
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• 1875
  ==Timeline of 1875== ...blish Japan's first national decoration in the European style, the [[Order of the Rising Sun]].
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• Sakai
  ...nsiderable degree of independence from [[samurai]] control throughout much of the [[Sengoku period]]. ...>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 36.</ref>
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• Kasuga no Tsubone
  [[File:Kasuga.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Kasuga no Tsubone's grave at Rinshô-in in Tokyo]] ...in convincing [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] to join the Eastern army at [[Battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]].
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• Tokugawa Hidetada
  ...he grave of Hidetada and his wife [[Oeyo]] (Ogô) at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]] ...a|Oda Nobunaga's]] sister [[Oichi]]. Hidetada retired in [[1623]] in favor of his son [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Iemitsu]]. He had two younger sons, [[Tokugawa T
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• Hanami
  ...i.jpg|right|thumb|320px|People taking part in ''hanami'' in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, March 2008]] ...njoying viewing [[cherry blossoms]]. The practice typically takes the form of a picnic, featuring food and drink, in which people simply gather under or
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• Gu Xianrong
  ...ef of Home Affairs]], was initially skeptical towards Gu and suspected him of being a Chinese spy, in the end, Mizuno accepted Gu's aid. ...nspection tours of factories and the like, as well as the opening ceremony of the [[National Diet]].
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• Hotta Masatoshi
  [[File:Grave-Hotta-Masatoshi.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The grave of Hotta Masatoshi at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery at [[Jindai-ji]], in [[Sakur ...ogun]] [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]] from 1679-80, and as ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' (head of the ''rôjû'' council) under [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] from [[1681]]/12/11 u
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• Machi bugyo
  ...tes," were [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials who oversaw the administration of certain cities during the [[Edo period]]. ...iroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), xxx.</ref>
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• Shimazu Hisataka
  ...ikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p42-43n8.; ''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937 ...[1853]], he was appointed by Shimazu Nariakira to oversee the construction of a Ryukyu-style gunship.<ref>''Ishin Shiryô Kôyô'' 維新史料綱要, vo
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• Hayakawa Shokosai I
  ...ing the way for a shift of bamboo weaving from the field of craft, to that of "modern art." ...cole Coolidge Rousmaniere, ''Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan'', University of Washington Press (2007), 15.</ref>
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• Bonotsu
  ...ikawa kôbunkan (1987), 36.</ref> The port declined, however, with the rise of [[Nagasaki]] in the [[Edo period]]. ...trictions]] policies.<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 46-47.</ref>
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• Jahana Noboru
  ...[Meiji period]] political activist for Okinawan rights, one of the leaders of the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). ...er, completed in the Imperial College of Agricultural Science, was a study of fertilizer use in [[sugar]] production in [[Kagawa prefecture]]. He would l
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• Shiga Shigetaka
  Shiga Shigetaka was a prominent thinker, geographer, and politician of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] and Taishô periods. ...active in similar groups, including Dôshikai and Chûô-seisha, and a number of different political parties.
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• Yuki Hideyasu
  ...zen]] ([[Kitanosho castle|Kita-no-shô]]). He was also acting as the keeper of Fushimi castle when he died in [[1607]], and some have suggested his affini His descendants later became lords of [[Tsuyama han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937),
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• Satsuma biwa
  ...red with a [[Heike biwa]] (right), on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]] ''Satsuma biwa'' is a style or genre of narrative storytelling in which the storyteller accompanies him or herself
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• Yushima Seido
  [[File:Yushimaseido.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The Taiseiden (main hall) of the Yushima Seidô, seen through the Kyôdanmon gate.]] ...cated in [[Tokyo]], which formerly housed the Shôheizaka gakumonjo academy of the [[Hayashi clan]].
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• Toguchi Masanobu
  ...er at that time or in later years, including ''Shanghai kaeri no Riru'', ''Tokyo Anna'', ''Nagasaki Blues'', ''Shima Blues'', ''Yogiri ni kieta Chako'', and Many of his songs are said to include some element or sense of [[Amami folk music]] or "[[Kuroshio]] rhythms." The song ''Shima Blues'', i
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• Kishomon
  ...and [[Edo period]]s, swearing fealty to their lord, and inviting the wrath of the gods should they violate the oath. These oaths were not only signed by ...ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 35.</ref>
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• Maeno Ryotaku
  Maeno Ryôtaku was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the 18th century, known as one of the most active in learning the Dutch language, reading and translating Dut ...ith [[Yoshio Kosaku|Yoshio Kôsaku]], and was active in ''Rangaku'' circles of his time.
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• King Injo
  ...ew [[Prince Gwanghae]] and his Puk'in faction, who supported accommodation of the [[Manchus]].<ref>Seo-Hyun Park, "Small States and the Search for Sovere ...chus.<ref>Ji-Young Lee, “Diplomatic Ritual as a Power Resource," ''Journal of East Asian Studies'' 13 (2013), 325.</ref>
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• Kuroda Seiki
  ...mb|400px|''Maiko Girl''. Oil on canvas. 1893. Important Cultural Property. Tokyo National Museum.]] ...estern-style ("''[[yoga|yôga]]''") oil painter, art teacher, and proponent of Western-style painting.
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• Mizuno Jun
  ...riod]], and first [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]] of [[Taiwan]]. ...n [[1873]], as an interpreter, and was involved in the [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874|Japanese punitive military expedition to Taiwan]] [[1874|the following
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• Tokugawa Iemochi
  ....JPG|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tokugawa Iemochi at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]] Tokugawa Iemochi was the 14th shogun of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
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• Satsumasendai
  ...ue to its connections to the China trade, Sendai was also one of a handful of cities in Satsuma domain where Chinese-language interpreters were regularly ...onsiderable protest, as Kagoshima residents sought to block the restarting of a nuclear reactor based in the city. They were ultimately unsuccessful.
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• Na
  ...den imperial seal]] said to have been granted to ''Na'' by Emperor Guangwu of Han.]] ...rd centuries CE. Much of what is known about it comes from ancient records of both China and Japan.
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• Soma clan
  ...Nakamura han]] in [[Iwashiro province]], and remained there until the end of the Edo period. During that time, the Sôma clan was assigned to the Teikan ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 280n21.</ref>
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• Gosekku
  ...olls depicting the ''gosekku'', by [[Ikeda Koson]], c. 1830. Freer Gallery of Art.]] The ''gosekku'' (lit. "five seasonal festivals") were five of the most important seasonal rites performed by the Imperial Court.
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• Konoe Motohiro
  ...ather-in-law of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]. Konoe was named [[Minister of the Left]] in [[1677]], ''[[Kampaku]]'' in [[1690]], and ''[[Dajo daijin|Da ...adoptive mother at a young age; his grandfather had been a younger brother of Go-Mizunoo who had been adopted into the Konoe family.
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• Okakura Kakuzo
  ...|right|thumb|400px|A bust of Okakura, at Okakura Tenshin Memorial Park, in Tokyo's Yanaka district]] ...ominent advocate for traditional Japanese art and culture, and a proponent of caution against Westernizing too quickly or too completely.
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• Suimui utaki
  ...u Sakihara, ''A brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro soshi'', Tokyo: Honpo Shoseki Press (1987), 163, 167.</ref> Suimui was one of ten sacred spaces within the palace grounds known collectively as ''totaki'
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• Torii
  ...jpg|right|thumb|320px|One section of the "tunnels" formed by the thousands of ''torii'' lined up at [[Fushimi Inari Shrine]] in Kyoto]] ...earliest and largest bronze ''torii'' in Japan, at [[Yasukuni Shrine]] in Tokyo, dating to [[1887]]. The shrine's ''Daiichi torii'', or "First Torii," the
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• Himeji han
  *''Territory: parts of [[Harima province]]'' ...the Edo period, but the [[Sakai clan]] then became and remained the lords of Himeji from [[1749]] onward.
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• Kyukan onzon
  ...and establishment of the prefecture in 1879, it was believed that elements of the kingdom's administrative structure, and certain other traditions or cus ...imyô'', other samurai, and the king of Ryûkyû had been able to retain much of their prestige.<ref>Gregory Smits, "Jahana Noboru: Okinawan Activist and Sc
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• Kochi castle
  Kôchi castle was the seat of the [[Yamauchi clan]], lords of [[Tosa han]]. ...today capital of [[Kochi prefecture|Kôchi prefecture]], on the south shore of [[Shikoku]].
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• Tsukioka Kogyo
  Tsukioka Kôgyo was a woodblock print artist of the [[Meiji period]], known especially for his multiple series depicting ch ...of Noh in the early 20th century, when it was challenged by many new forms of performance and entertainment, as well as having a significant impact on ho
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• Niwa Nagashige
  ...ki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n41.</ref> He died on 1 April 1637.
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• Ayabune
  ...uccession, or on similar celebratory occasions, as part of the maintenance of a friendly relationship between Ryûkyû and Satsuma. The ''ayabune'' embas ...to be confused with [[dragon boat]] races, which use a very different type of boat.</ref>, or an ''ayabune'' (crest ship); the character ''aya'', the sam
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• Yamamoto Hosui
  ...(Western-style) painter of the [[Meiji period]], the first of the students of [[Antonio Fontanesi]] to travel to Europe to study painting there. ...al Industrial Exposition, and was awarded third place, gaining some degree of recognition.
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• Tanuma Okitsugu
  ...Hall, ''Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788): Forerunner of Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press (1955), 57-60, 86.</ref> ...is generally associated with political corruption, especially in the form of bribes, and with rampant inflation, and widespread moral decay.
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• Great Meireki Fire
  ...o mark numerous notable shifts in shogunate policy, and in the development of the city. ...eviously the shogunate and the various ''daimyô'' each managed the defense of their own properties against fire, and the townspeople were left to their o
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• The Battles of Coxinga
  ...t after its debut.<ref>Ronald Toby ロナルド・トビ, "Sakoku" toiu gaikô 「鎖国」という外交, Tokyo: Shogakukan (2008), 218.</ref> ...upon Japan as a small country, he cries "have you learned now the meaning of Japanese prowess, before which even tigers tremble?"<ref>Jansen, 85.</ref>
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• Konoe Iehiro
  Konoe Iehiro was a son of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]], and was known as a poet, pa ...s ''sesshô'', ''kanpaku'', and ''dajô daijin'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only t
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• Ryukyu-banashi
  ...ice storehouses, from a copy in the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, University of Hawaii Library]] ...ima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]], a volume describing the history and culture of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], was among the most accurate and po
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• Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution
  ...eremonies from that time forward, particularly those held up until the end of World War II. ...to share with the public details of the schedule of events, and the layout of the Throne Room for the main ceremony.
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• Enryokan
  ...irst [former] foreign head of state to visit Japan), and King [[Kalakaua]] of Hawaii (first reigning monarch to visit Japan). ...resent: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 233.</ref>
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• Sword Hunt
  ...emple Hideyoshi founded.<ref>Gallery labels, Shiryôhensanjo, University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/33808120714/sizes/h/]</ref> ...ords, 700 daggers, 160 spears, and 500 suits of armor, along with a number of other objects.
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• Sato Susumu
  ...adopted son of [[Sato Takanaka|Satô Takanaka]], and his successor as head of the [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] [[Juntendo|Juntendô]]. ...came one of the first in Japan to be formally granted a degree as a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.).
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• Tokyo National Museum
  [[Image:TNM-Honkan.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The second Honkan (Main Building) of the museum, built in 1938 in a Meiji-inspired style.]] ...d first founded as the Tokyo Imperial or Imperial Household Museum, is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Na
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• Zhu Zaiyu
  ...id to have been the first person in the world to devise the musical system of 12-tone equal temperament.<ref>Nakao, 350.</ref> ...'The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite'', Oxford University Press (2012), 99.</ref> and is said to have been particularly talented at m
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• Daimyo yashiki
  ...ki'' (upper residence) of [[Matsudaira Tadamasa]], on display at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].]] ...were also maintained in Kyoto, [[Osaka]], and elsewhere, serving as bases of operations for the ''daimyô's'' political and economic activities in those
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• Toyama Kyuzo
  [[File:Toyama-kyuzo.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Tôyama Kyûzô in Kin Town, Okinawa]] Tôyama Kyûzô is considered the father (or grandfather) of Okinawan immigration.
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• Omura Masujiro
  [[File:Omura.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Ômura at [[Yasukuni Shrine]]]] ...anese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]].
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• Hokoku Shrine
  ...deification of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]. It is the head shrine of a network of Toyokuni shrines throughout the country. ...oyotomi Hideyoshi. [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] granted 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' worth of land to the shrine.
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• Osaka
  ...f largest city because, due to a technicality of political designations, [[Tokyo]] is a "metropolitan [[prefectures|prefecture]]" and not a "city."</ref> ...Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 18-19.</ref>
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• Kyan Bangen
  ...[[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]] from the Ryukyuan side of the conflict. ...tion efforts, though all ultimately failed. He remained on the main island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] throughout the invasion, and so his diary is mos
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• Sessei
  ...kyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] below the king; the ''sessei'' served the function of royal or national advisor. Though the same [[kanji]] which compose the Okin ...n as the ''wii nu za'', or "Upper Seat," while the less powerful [[Council of Fifteen]] was known as the ''shicha nu za'', or "Lower Seat."
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• Oka Senjin
  ...i Restoration]], and after being freed became a teacher and librarian in [[Tokyo]]. ...members, and who practice great inefficiency and wastefulness, in the name of observing "filial piety." In the end, he concludes that Japan must separate
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• Fushimi castle
  ...and the like.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 59.</ref> ...stroyed. Hideyoshi then rebuilt the castle roughly 500 meters to the north of the original site.
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• Yayoi Period
  ...ight|thumb|400px|Model of a Yayoi period village, at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]]] ...ates of the university's main campus in Hongô.<ref>Plaque at University of Tokyo.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15800690658/sizes/k/]</ref>
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• Ryukyu-koku shiryaku
  ...inoue Shrine]], as depicted in an [[1831]] Japanese woodblock-printed copy of the ''Liuqiu-guo zhilue'']] ...ntext: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref>
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• Asano Naganori
  ...ck on [[Kira Yoshinaka]] and his subsequent execution, after which a group of his retainers (the [[47 Ronin]]) sought revenge against Kira for provoking ...acked Kira in the Matsu-no-rôka (Pine Tree Corridor) in the Honmaru Palace of [[Edo castle]], and was sentenced the same day to commit ''[[seppuku]]''.
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• Narumi-juku
  ...surements|tsubo]]''.<ref>Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一, ''Nihon no shuku'' 日本の宿, Tokyo: Shakai shisôsha (1965), 168-169.</ref> Prior to the [[Edo period]], the area of Narumi was the site of [[Narumi castle]] (aka Negoya castle). It is believed to have been demolish
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• Edward Sylvester Morse
  ...MA]], remains today one of the most famous and most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics and folk objects in the world. ...13 ([[1851]]), and in [[1859]], at age 21, he began studying at [[Harvard University]] under Louis Agassiz. After some friction with Agassiz, he quit studying a
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• Mount Fuji
  ...ino]] ("the East"), but has since the [[Edo period]] become a major symbol of Japan as a whole. ...te]] in 2013, under the "Cultural" category, as a "sacred place and source of artistic inspiration."<ref>"[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1418 Fujisan],"
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• Hananchi
  *''Titles: Lord of [[Nakijin gusuku|Nakijin]], King of [[Hokuzan]] (1397-1416)'' Hananchi was the third and final king of the Okinawan kingdom of [[Hokuzan]].
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• Yangban
  The ''yangban'' were a class of government officials and administrators in [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea, patter ...farmers and merchants below them, with a class of outcastes at the bottom of the ladder.
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• Niwa clan
  ...some prominence. They lost a good deal of their influence after the death of Nobunaga but survived into the [[Edo Period]] as ''[[kunimochi|jun-kunimoch ...ir party, and to report back to Edo anything suspicious. Further, when one of these [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] ''daimyô'' was unable to depart on time (or at al
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• Zhou Huang
  ...of calligraphy by Zhou Huang, from the collection of [[Ichikawa Beian]]. [[Tokyo National Museum]].]] ...' (C: ''Liuqiu-guo zhilue''), a history of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] based on records written by previous envoys to Ryukyu.
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• Tokunoshima
  ...t south of [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]. It is today administered as part of [[Kagoshima prefecture]]. ...>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 51.</ref>
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• Tokugawa Ietsuna
  ...from [[1651]]/8/18 until his death on [[1680]]/5/8. He was the eldest son of third shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]. ...quently ill, and various high-ranking retainers performed much of the work of administration and governance on his behalf, at times. Particularly promine
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• Oyake Akahachi
  ...]] (Kawara lineage) of [[Kumejima]], and making Shô Shin's attacks on both of them attacks on particular (rival) ''wakô'' lineages. Smits, 101.</ref> ...to take advantage of the chaos and disunity, Akahachi proposed an invasion of the Miyako Islands. However, [[Nakasone Toyomiya|Nakasone ''Toyomiya'']] le
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• Maeda Toshitsune
  * ''Distinction: Lord of [[Kaga province|Kaga]], [[Noto province|Noto]], and [[Etchu province|Etchû ...defenders of [[Osaka Castle]] and fought at the [[Battle of Tennoji|Battle of Tennôji]] ([[1615]]).
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• Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
  ...8/23 until his death from smallpox on [[1709]]/1/10. He was the fourth son of third shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and shogunal concubine [[Keishoin|Keishô From [[1661]] until 1680, he was lord of the 250,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief of [[Tatebayashi han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]].<ref>''[[Kokuda
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• Indigo
  ...egion in early modern Japan, and that most highly regarded for the quality of its product,<ref>Ravina, 159.</ref> though other regions are known for indi ...s allowed to ferment for several months, ideally under specific conditions of temperature, pressure, and moisture. The dye is formed as the leaves fermen
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• Gi Shien
  ...Wèi Zhīyǎn, was one of the chief musicians credited with introducing music of the [[Ming Dynasty]] into Japan in the 17th century. ...perform Ming music. While in Nagasaki, Zhiyan also became an active patron of [[Sofuku-ji|Sôfuku-ji]], an [[Obaku|Ôbaku]] [[Zen]] temple closely associ
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• Oishi Kuranosuke
  [[Image:Kuranosuke.jpg|right|frame|Picture of Ôishi Kuranosuke]] ..., one more piece of evidence that the men involved were not all acting out of loyalty to a failed lord), showed a shrewd ability to plot and implement a
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• Hoshina Masayuki
  ...wa Iemitsu]], becoming shogun at the age of ten. Hoshina was the third son of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], half-brother to [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], and ...han|Takatô]] in [[Shinano province]]. Masayuki succeeded Masamitsu as lord of Takatô in [[1631]], but was then transferred to [[Yamagata han]] (200,000
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• Maeda Koin
  ...years since then. He was designated by [[Okinawa prefecture]] as a holder of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and served as an advisor to the prefecture on ...田孝允氏を悼む」, ''Shurijô kenkyû'' 首里城研究 23 (March 2021), 96.</ref> He graduated university in 1959 and immediately afterward was given a full-time job as a designer f
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• Taikun
  ...atic correspondence with [[Joseon Dynasty]] [[Korea]] in the early decades of the [[Edo period]], and in communications with Western powers in the [[Baku ...f Korea. Thus, they returned to the use of the term ''Nihon kokuô'' ("King of Japan").
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• Hara Kei
  ...lso known as Hara Takashi, was the first commoner to become prime minister of Japan. ...racting support from amongst the bureaucracy. He also placed loyal members of his party in positions as prefectural governors, and attracted others to hi
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• Japan Folk Crafts Museum
  [[File:Mingeikan.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main hall of the Nihon Mingeikan]] ...under of the ''Mingei'' Movement, who also designed both the main building of the museum and its galleries, and a residence across the street, completed
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• Niwaka
  ...ional [[kabuki]] plays of the time, ''niwaka'' performed by [[courtesans]] of the [[Yoshiwara]] were particularly popular, and sometimes depicted in ''[[ ...in the Yoshiwara; they were performed in the 8th month each year, as part of a festival dedicated to the ''[[kami]]'' [[Inari]]. The festival also invol
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• Tenpi
  Tenpi, also known as Mazu, is a [[Daoist]] goddess of the sea, most often prayed to for safe voyages. Tenpi worship is particular ...ina, Taiwan, Ryûkyû, and elsewhere associate her with being an incarnation of the [[bodhisattva]] [[Kannon]], and in Ryûkyû she is sometimes known as B
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• Sumidagawa
  ...riod]], it marked the eastern border of [[Musashi province]], and the city of [[Edo]], dividing these from [[Shimousa province]] to the east. A major wat ...d from the river, as well as numerous sites along its banks, are the theme of numerous ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' prints.
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• Owari Tokugawa clan
  ...ô Ii ke no girei'', Hikone Castle Museum (2004), 329.</ref> [[han|domain]] of [[Owari han|Owari]] with [[Nagoya castle|Nagoya]] as their castle, the Owar ...one at Ichigaya. The grounds of the latter is today home to the [[Ministry of Defense]].
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• Morishima Churyo
  ...and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar of the late 18th century, known as the writer of numerous popularly-published books on foreign cultures, as well as for his ...<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 225-226.</ref>
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• Tokugawa Iemitsu
  ...d solidification of Tokugawa authority, through acts such as the expansion of [[Nijo castle|Nijô castle]] and [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]]. ...es lecture. Honolulu, Hawaii. 9 November, 2006.</ref> Tadanaga became lord of [[Kofu castle|Kôfu castle]]. Their sister [[Senhime]] was married to [[Toy
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• Robert Walker Irwin
  *''Titles: Knight Commander of the Royal [[Order of Kalakaua]]''<ref>Odo and Sinoto, 24.</ref> ...related to the beginning of [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]]. He was one of the first Americans to become a naturalized Japanese citizen, marrying a Ja
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• Oda Nobuo
  ...It should be pointed out, though, that the account by Frois of the burning of Azuchi is seemingly the only explanation that has eyewitnesses.</ref> ...given a 50,000 koku fief in [[Yamato provine|Yamato]] after the conclusion of the [[Osaka Campaign]] in [[1615]].
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• Sulfur
  Sulfur is a yellow mineral essential to the production of [[gunpowder]]. ...Islands]].<ref name=smits69>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 69-70.</ref>
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• Gagaku
  ...ance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 14.</ref> ...h local/regional [[Shinto]] festivals, but also with certain ancient rites of the imperial court. Some [[Heian period]] "folk music" (''fûzokuuta'') has
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• Music
  ...the [[Yellow Emperor]].<ref>K.C. Chang, ''Art, Myth, and Ritual'', Harvard University Press (1983), 2, 42.</ref> ...ing the ritual correctly, and legitimating the Emperor as the rightful Son of Heaven.
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• Rice broker
  ...old or silver [[currency]], but with bills of exchange - these were pieces of paper that functioned, perhaps, not entirely unlike a personal check, which ...izenya, and Oka.<ref>Berry, Mary Elizabeth. ''Japan in Print''. University of California Press, 2006. p216.</ref>
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• Okinawa Island
  [[File:Okinawa-battlemap.jpg|right|thumb|380px|Map of the Battle of Okinawa at Punchbowl Cemetery in Honolulu]] ...om]], and [[Shuri]], the former royal capital of the Kingdom, today a part of Naha City.
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• Yanagi Soetsu
  ...s peoples/places where a stronger sense of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found. ...is expertise in hydrographic mapping, and for botany, poetry, and a number of other pursuits.
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• Katsu Kaishu
  [[Image:Katsu-kaishu1.gif|left|frame|Photograph of '''Katsu Kaishu'''.]] Katsu Kaishû is considered the "father" of the modern [[Imperial Japanese Navy]].
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• Treaty of Portsmouth
  ...e Treaty of Portsmouth, as depicted in a wall mural at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.]] ...rk Peattie]] (ed.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 69.</ref> and his Russian counterparts.
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• Xu Baoguang
  ...: Harvard University Press, 1968. pp135-164.</ref> Xu then became a member of the [[Hanlin Academy]]. ...he East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges''. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p46.</ref>
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• Makino Yasutoshi
  ...kami ki'' (牧野遠江守記); all but a hundred or so of these are from a collection of documents entitled ''Gishiki nado sho tome'' (儀式等諸留, "Various Rec ...r the poor, river management and flood control projects, and the promotion of local agricultural and artisan production, among other activities.
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• 1879
  ==Timeline of 1879== ===Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan===
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• Tokutomi Soho
  ...elling author of the [[Meiji period]], known for his writings on a variety of social and political subjects. ...''Kumamoto Yôgakkô'') before enrolling at the English school at [[Doshisha University|Dôshisha]] in Kyoto. He attended but did not complete the program in Kyoto
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• Sanshikan
  ...of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], which originally developed out of a council of regents. ...icitly prohibited the king from "entrust<nowiki>[ing]</nowiki> the conduct of public affairs in the islands to any persons other than San-shi-kuan"<ref>K
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• Shiro Furi Dispute
  ...ri castle]], and the deaths of both claimants. Prince Goeku, a younger son of [[Sho Hashi|Shô Hashi]] (and thus younger brother to Furi, and uncle to Sh ...ountry").<ref name=smits113>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 113.</ref> The actual circumstances and politics at th
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• Kano Shunko
  ...0]] [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyu embassy]] scroll, in the collection of the [[British Museum]]]] ...no school|Kanô school]] painter and founding head of the Inaribashi branch of the school.
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• Tokyo
  [[File:Tokyo-yakei.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Tokyo as seen from the roof of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower]] ...olitan Prefecture; both consist of small, sparsely populated islands, many of which are uninhabited nature preserves or are restricted to military use.
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• Matsudaira Shungaku
  ...ht|thumb|320px|Matsudaira Shungaku, as seen in a photo in the 1942 reprint of the ''[[Tokugawa reiten roku]]'']] Matsudaira Shungaku was the last ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Echizen han]], and played a prominent role in [[Bakumatsu]] politics.
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• John Manjiro
  ...The graves of Nakahama Manjirô and his relatives, at Zôshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo]] ...njirô is among the most famous of 19th century Japanese castaways, and one of the first Japanese to ever travel to the United States.
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• Ie
  ...of traditional Japanese arts also bears a strong connection to the concept of the ''ie''. ..., wealth or power. This was the case for myriad decisions made by the head of household, including decisions regarding marriage prospects for their child
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• Senhime
  [[File:Senhime-himeji.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of Senhime outside of [[Himeji castle]]]] ...e-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Senhime at [[Denzu-in|Denzû-in]] in Tokyo]]
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• Castletowns
  [[Image:Nagoya-castle-model.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A model of [[Nagoya castle]] and the surrounding ''jôkamachi''.]] ..., especially those which served as a daimyô's "seat," the political center of a ''[[han]]'' (domain) in the [[Edo period]].
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• Nishijin
  ...oto, centered on [[Funaoka-yama]], which is perhaps the most famous center of [[textiles|textile]] production in Japan. ...the industry in a vertical manner, establishing or taking over operations of silkworm cultivation, [[silk]] spinning, weaving, and dyeing, as well as th
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• Kafu
  ''Kafu'' were family registry records of the [[Ryukyuan aristocracy]] written in ''[[kanbun]]'', which included line ...Prince [[Kochinda Choshun|Kochinda Chôshun]]<!--尚弘徳・東風平王子朝春-->, fifth son of the late King [[Sho Shitsu|Shô Shitsu]] (and thus, younger brother to the
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• Emperor Antoku
  ...[[battle of Dan-no-ura]] in [[1185]] which ended that war and saw the end of the [[Taira clan]]. Antoku was perhaps the only emperor to ever die in war, ...ly Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 156.</ref>
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• Kano Hogai
  ...non]] as Compassionate Mother'' (''[[Hibo Kannon]]''), 1883. Freer Gallery of Art]] ...great master of the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] of painting, and a pioneer of the [[Nihonga]] (neo-traditional painting) style, or movement, in the early
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• Ryukyu investiture crown
  [[File:Hibenkan.JPG|right|thumb|400px|A replica of the Naha City Museum of History crown, on display at [[Shuri castle]]]] ...s sent by the Chinese Court]]; the investiture ceremonies involved the use of special ritual garments called ''hibenfuku'', including a Chinese-style cro
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• 1906
  ==Timeline of 1906== *1906/2/1 [[Japanese Resident-General of Korea]] opens.
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• Ryukyu zatsuwa
  ...a fictional story of travel to exotic parts of the world, and a discussion of sea creatures. ...seibatsu ki]]'' (an account of the [[1609]] [[Invasion of Ryukyu|Invasion of Ryûkyû]])
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• Yasukuni Shrine
  ...d when it was erected in 1974, is visible in the distance. A bronze statue of [[Omura Masujiro|Ômura Masujirô]] stands between the two.]] ...ese soldiers who died in service to the Japanese nation, and is easily one of the most controversial sites in the country.
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• Yanagita Kunio
  ...n work was ''Tôno monogatari'', a collection of folktales from the village of Tôno in [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]]. ...him an appreciation for traditional Japanese faith and values in the face of what he called "foreign ways" and "newfangled affectations".<ref>Mori, 87.<
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• Nagoya castle
  ...astle was eventually taken by [[Oda Nobunaga]] while unifying the province of [[Owari province|Owari]]. The [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa family]] constructed t ...ed the efforts of 200,000 laborers and constructed the massive stone walls of Nagoya in about sixth months. Building materials were used both from the mu
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• Saigo Takamori
  .../18.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 176.</ref>]] [[Image:Saigo-takamori1.gif |frame|left|Portrait of Saigô Takamori]]
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• Meiji education
  ...riod|Meiji]] or Taishô era schoolhouse now used as storage, on the grounds of Onari Elementary School in [[Kamakura]]]] ...e citizenry cognizant of an identity as citizens of a unitary modern state of Japan.
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• Ryukyu Shinto ki
  ...t length. Both were requested or commissioned by the [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]] [[Ba Komei|Ba Kômei]]<!--馬高明-->. ...orship in Ryûkyû, including summaries of the origin stories (''[[engi]]'') of Ryûkyû's [[Ryukyu Eight Shrines|major Shinto shrines]].
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• Ota Chofu
  *''Titles: Mayor of [[Shuri]]'' ...nawa Prefecture|Okinawa]] under the heirs to the royal family of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]].
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• Santo Kyoden
  ...le:Santo-kyoden-stele.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A stele erected on the grounds of [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]], associated with a burial mound erected for Kyôden' ...ra: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan''. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. p141.</ref> known primarily for his work on ''[[kibyosh
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• Atakebune
  ''Atakebune'' were a prominent form of warship in the [[Sengoku period]]. ...er indeed iron-plated.<ref>Farris, 283n76.</ref> In any case, with the aid of these new ships, Nobunaga eventually subdued the Ishiyama Honganji in [[158
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• William Griffis
  [[Image:Wegriffis.jpg|right|frame|Photograph of W.E.Griffis]] ...A.B. Later he was made an A.M. by his alma mater, and received the degree of D.D. from Union College, and Rutgers made him an L.H.D. in [[1899]].
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• Triumphal Military Review of April 1906
  ...ith military strength, and as one who watches over the Empire in the sense of literally seeing, surveying, all within his domain. ...ions in [[1889]] and [[1895]], leading to the death of at least one member of the public during the latter event.</ref> New plaza entrances were construc
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• Chuzan denshin roku
  ...dition of the ''Chûzan denshin roku'', on display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]] ...1719]]. The volume was republished numerous times in Japan, and became one of the most widely read, and widely regarded, sources on the Ryûkyû Kingdom;
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• Tokugawa Yoshinobu
  ::''For the former head of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]], see [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1933-2005)]].'' ...one year later in January 1868; both of these took place in the last month of the lunar year more generally corresponding to the previous Western year. T
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• Bunei
  * ''Title: King of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]]'' ...doms on the island of [[Okinawa]], before it was united into the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] by [[Sho Hashi|Shô Hashi]].
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• Kodokai
  ...e group was also aimed at restoring those scholar-aristocrats to positions of power and prestige.<ref name=jahana>Gregory Smits, "Jahana Noboru: Okinawan ...he governorship of Okinawa Prefecture be a hereditary post held by members of the former royal family.
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• Tokugawa Yoshimune
  ...ng shogun, succeeded his father as lord of the 555,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Wakayama han]] in [[1705]]. ...gunate fees in exchange for monopoly rights to production and distribution of certain goods.<ref>Hellyer, 86.</ref>
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• Kabukimono
  ...kone Screen]]'', an image often used to represent the attitude and fashion of the ''kabukimono''.]] ''Kabukimono'' gangs were groups of flamboyant rogues or ''flaneurs'' prominent during the late [[Sengoku perio
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• Tokugawa Ienobu
  [[File:Ienobu.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tokugawa Ienobu at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]]]] Tokugawa Ienobu was the sixth [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. His reign, lasting from [[1709]] to [[1712]], s
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• Hachisuka Mochiaki
  ...Hachisuka Narihiro]] in [[1868]], just before the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the shogunate]]. ...romoted to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank at that time and granted the title of Jijû (Chamberlain).<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (19
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• Nantoshi
  ...e volume later circulated quite widely and became one of the chief sources of knowledge about Ryûkyû in [[Edo period]] Japan. It may be the first text ...ords of the Three Kingdoms|Record of Wu]]<!--呉史 or 呉志 or 呉書-->, the [[Book of Tang]]<!--唐書-->, the ''[[Shoku Nihongi]]'', ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', ''[[En
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• Kira Yoshinaka
  ...ersonal name has traditionally been given as Yoshinaka, recent discoveries of letters and other contemporary documents show that it was actually pronounc ...e attributed to Kira, it still left open the question of whether this view of Kira was indeed supported by fact".
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• Sho Tei
  ...Nakagusuku ôji; Prince Nakagusuku)'', 琉球国中山王 ''(Ryûkyû koku Chûzan-ô; King of Ryûkyû, [[1670]]-[[1709]]) Shô Tei was king of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] from [[1670]] until [[1709]]. Prior
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• Era of Rival Chiefs
  ...amas is from the 1430s.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 58.</ref> The period ended in 1500 with the government of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] (based on [[Okinawa Island]], to th
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• Kitamaebune
  ...apan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press, 1990. pp97-123.</ref> ...the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan, University of Hawaii Press (2012), 25.</ref>
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• Important Cultural Properties
  [[File:Kaneiji-sign.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Sign at [[Kan'ei-ji]] in Tokyo, bearing the Bunkachô logo, and identifying the site as containing Importa ...cal importance - into an upper tier of National Treasures and a lower tier of Important Cultural Properties.
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• Hyakusho
  ...as to understandings of the lifestyles led by ''hyakushô'' and their level of economic well-being. ...eas were not so isolated, as is most commonly believed. In his translation of Amino's work, [[Alan Christy]] translates ''hyakushô'' into English not as
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• Edo
  ...domeisho.jpg|right|thumb|"Edo Meisho Screen(part). The oldest extant image of Edo.]] ...ation) from the 18th into the 19th century; in [[1868]], Edo was renamed [[Tokyo]] as the imperial capital was moved there from Kyoto.
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• Japanese archipelago
  ...rief/><ref>The land area of the three main islands which formed the extent of the realm throughout its pre-modern history, i.e. excluding Hokkaidô and t ...not erupted since [[1708]]. The islands are also one of the chief centers of earthquake activity in the world.
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• 1903
  ==Timeline of 1903== *1903/4/6 The second group of Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii arrives in Honolulu.
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• Sakai Hoitsu
  [[Image:Hoitsu - irises.jpg|right|thumb|281px|One of a set of three handscroll paintings by Hôitsu depicting the four seasons and the ri ...h his family owned. They are today separated, for conservation purposes. [[Tokyo National Museum]].]]
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• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  ...orites, and after Tsunayoshi became shogun in [[1680]], he was granted use of the character ''yoshi'' from Tsunayoshi's name, taking on the name Yoshiyas ....</ref> In [[1701]], Tsunayoshi granted Yoshiyasu the privilege of the use of the surname [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]].<ref name=clements605>Clements,
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• Ansei Earthquake
  ...5]]/10/2<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 18.</ref>'' ...ths and years following the Ansei Earthquake. It was the third of a series of major earthquakes following the [[Ansei-Tokai Earthquake|Ansei-Tôkai Earth
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• Kumejima
  ...inawa Island]]. Despite its nearby location, Kumejima remained independent of Okinawan control until the early 16th century. ...], in the 11th century.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 22.</ref>
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• Tokyo Imperial Palace
  ...ve or have been rebuilt, along with many of the compound's gates, and much of the foundational stone castle walls. ...Household Ministry]] relocated to the [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|mansion of the Kishû Tokugawa clan]], just outside the moats, that same day, designat
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• Muragaki Norimasa
  ...raves of Muragaki and his family at [[Yanaka Tenno-ji|Yanaka Tennô-ji]] in Tokyo]] Muragaki Norimasa was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official of the [[Bakumatsu]] period. He is perhaps particularly known as the vice-amba
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• Lacquer
  [[File:Lacquerwares-ishikawa.jpg|right|thumb|500px|A variety of lacquerware and gold-foil-decorated objects, on display at the Ishikawa Pre Lacquer is a natural plastic-like substance made from the sap of the lac tree; typically combined with red or black coloring, it is used for
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• Ryukyu Shobun
  ...] [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]] and executed under the supervision of [[Matsuda Michiyuki]]. The population of the islands at the time of the ''shobun'' is said to have been over 310,000 people, occupying over 63,
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• Minamoto no Tametomo
  ...wa Island|Okinawa]] from Ôshima, and fathering [[Shunten]], the first king of Okinawa. ...his time there, it is said he married a woman named Shiranui, the daughter of [[Taira no Tadakuni]].
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• Bansho shirabesho
  ...|400px|Marker at former site of the ''Bansho shirabesho''. Today, the site of the Shôwakan and Kudanshita Station.]] ...itute established by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] for the study and teaching of Western Studies.
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• Omoro Soshi
  ...6th century.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 2.</ref> ...love poems. They range from two verses to forty, some making extensive use of rhyme and couplet structures.
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• David Kalakaua
  [[File:Kalakaua.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Statue of King Kalākaua in Waikiki]] ...9]]-[[1611]].</ref> Kalākaua's meeting with the [[Meiji Emperor]] in March of that year set the stage for [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii]].
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• Taiwan Expedition of 1874
  ...hat the Japanese had a responsibility to exact retribution for the killing of their people. ...r of the second Kyushu outpost garrison, pressured Tokyo to send some sort of punitive military expedition to Taiwan.
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• Seiken-ji
  [[File:Grave-gushichan.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of [[Sho Ko (尚宏)|Prince Gushichan Shô Kô]], erected by Prince [[Ginowan ...[Suruga province]], just east of [[Sunpu]], now part of [[Shizuoka City]] of Shizuoka prefecture. It dominates an important point on the [[Tokaido Highw
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• Nihon Shoki
  ...ty volumes; it begins with two volumes containing origin myths and stories of the gods, followed by 28 volumes organized by imperial reign, from [[Empero ...ter generations.<ref>[[Conrad Totman]], ''Early Modern Japan'', University of California Press (1993), 25.</ref>
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• Dogugaeshi
  ...for a scene are changed out, in various dramatic ways, sometimes a number of them in sequence, for dramatic effect or purely as spectacle. The term literally means simply the ''gaeshi'' (changing, or exchange) of ''dôgu'', a term which in general usage means "tools," but which in the th
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• Tsurumaru castle
  [[File:Tsurumaru.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The former site of the main gates to Tsurumaru castle, with the [[Reimeikan]] visible in the b ...so known as Kagoshima castle, was the chief castle of the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]]. It sat up against Mt. Shiroyama, facing out towards the [[
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• Bingata
  [[File:Bingata.JPG|right|thumb|320px|A ''bingata'' robe on display at the [[Tokyo National Museum]]]] [[File:Ryusen.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bolts of cloth being hand-dyed at a workshop in Shuri]]
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• Gishi gakufu
  ...a Nobuyoshi<!--平信好・岡崎盧門-->), and was widely circulated, with the intention of allowing people to study and practice Ming music on their own. ...he Foreword to the ''Gishi gakufu'' says the same, and that the popularity of Ming music, and familiarity with it, was not limited to the elites but spre
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• National Treasures
  ...ites as being of cultural or historical importance. Those considered to be of the greatest importance are dubbed National Treasures. National Treasures c A select few individuals considered to be of exceptional prominence or importance in maintaining cultural traditions are
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• Kofun
  ...overed appearance, and the underlying manmade structure. [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]] ...y 7th century, a period known as a result as the [[Kofun period]]. Outside of this historical period, the term ''funkyûbo'' 墳丘墓 is used instead.
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• Satsuma Edo mansion
  ..., and numerous retainers, as well as housing the lord himself roughly half of the time, whenever he was in attendance in Edo in accordance with his ''[[s ...ed with calligraphy by [[Saigo Kichinosuke|Saigô Kichinosuke]], a grandson of Saigô Takamori]]
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• Cotton
  ...to be grown in any significant sense in the late 15th century. By the end of the 17th century, it was the most standard fabric for commoner clothing, re ...alf of the agricultural area immediately around [[Osaka]]; over the course of the Tokugawa period, cotton played a central and major role in driving (or
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• Amami Islands
  ...ami-islands.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A map of the Amami Islands on the bottom of a Sato no Akebono ''[[shochu|shôchû]]'' glass]] ...d subsequently directly administered by [[Satsuma han]], and remain a part of [[Kagoshima prefecture]] (not [[Okinawa prefecture]]) today. The islands ma
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• Abe no Seimei
  ...f [[Daizen]] no [[Daibu]] [[Abe no Masuki]], the 9th generation descendant of [[Udaijin]] [[Abe no Miushi]]. ...ast two sources claim he was born in 894, but others claim 921 as the date of his birth.
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• Sho Nei
  *''Titles:'' 琉球国王 ''(Ryûkyû-kokuô, King of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]])([[1587]]-[[1620]])'' ...]] and was the first king of Ryûkyû to be a vassal to the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]].
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• Quan Kui
  ...], on behalf of the Qing Imperial Court, with the title and powers of King of Ryûkyû. ...he East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges''. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p45.</ref>.
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• Silk
  ..., handscroll, [[Emperor Huizong]] of the [[Northern Song Dynasty]], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 12.886.]] ...for paintings and calligraphy, as well as for curtains and a wide variety of other objects.
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• Shinanomiya Tsuneko
  ...anjo|Shiryôhensanjo]] (Historiographical Institute) at the [[University of Tokyo]].</ref> ...npaku]]'', and ''[[dajo daijin|dajô daijin]]'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only t
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• Yokohama
  [[File:Yokohama-dome.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]] [[File:Akarenga.jpg|right|thumb|400px|One of the two red brick warehouses (''[[Akarenga soko|Akarenga sôko]]'') at Yoko
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• Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
  ...i]], and trade relations with [[Ming Dynasty]] China under the title "King of Japan." Yoshimitsu achieved the top [[court rank]], ''jû-ichi-i'', at the age of 22, in [[1380]]. He was named [[Naidaijin]] the following year, and [[Sadai
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• Kyoto
  ...ô]], established in the early 7th century, as seen through the glass walls of a Starbuck's.]] '''Kyoto''' was the Imperial capital of Japan from [[794]] to [[1869]], though the archipelago was governed from el
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• Sumidagawa (Noh)
  ''Sumidagawa'' is a [[Noh]] play by [[Kanze Motomasa]] of the fourth category (''monogurui Noh'', "madwoman plays"). *''Kokata'' - the ghost of Umewakamaru, the madwoman's son
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• Incense
  ...Incense smoke visible at [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]], a major Buddhist temple in Tokyo]] ...) in modern Japan chiefly in Buddhist contexts, where it serves a function of spiritual purification, incense was also burned for more non-religious, and
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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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• Sho Taikyu
  [[File:Sho-taikyu.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Tomb of Shô Taikyû in Nanjô City, Okinawa]] ...ce of [[Goeku gusuku|Goeku]], King of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], King of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]''
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• Sho En
  [[Image:King Sho En.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Official royal portrait of Shô En.]] *''Titles:'' 琉球国王 ''(Ryûkyû-kokuô, King of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]])([[1469]]-[[1476]])''
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• Shosoin
  ...aku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A model of the Shôsôin, at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]]] ...m of [[Silk Road]] origins and bearing Persian design elements or evidence of Roman manufacture.
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• Nakasone Toyomiya
  ...by the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], Nakasone saved the people of Miyako from harm - and secured greater political position for himself - by ...rs independently engaging in trade, piracy, etc., thus regaining the trust of the [[Ming dynasty|Ming court]], as well as strengthening his own rule dome
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• National holidays
  ...ed and reinforced an Emperor-centric history and nationalism, the majority of Japanese national holidays today are less blatantly nationalistic, and incl ...stablished in January [[1873]]. Six more holidays were created in November of that year, and two more in June [[1878]].
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• Yokohama Foreign Cemetery
  [[File:Yokohama-cemetery.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A few of the tombstones at the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery]] ...''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' and is divided into 22 sections; most of the graves were severely damaged in the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake, and t
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• Horyu-ji
  ...Hall) are considered the oldest wooden structures in the world, and a pair of terracotta [[Nio|Niô]] statues at the temple's ''chûmon'' (Middle Gate) a ...oolidge Rousmaniere (ed.), ''Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan'', University of Washington Press (2007), 26.</ref>
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• Shimazu Shigehide
  ...ukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]], surrounded by tens of stone lanterns, is one of the largest in the entire [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery]] ...generally not permitted to enter within the borders of the domain for much of the Edo period, during Shigehide's reign this was relaxed.
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• Taira no Masakado
  ==The Life of Taira no Masakado== ...omonki|Shômonki]]''.<ref>''Shômon'' being the Chinese-style or ''on-yomi'' of the characters for "Masakado."</ref>
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• E.H. Norman
  ...These works were both prominent and influential, if not seminal, elements of the scholarship on modern Japan (and the [[Meiji period]] in particular) in ...persecution by the team of US Senator Joseph McCarthy, who accused Norman of Communist sympathies, is said to have contributed significantly to Norman's
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• Miyako Islands
  ...shima]] island group in the southern portion of [[Okinawa prefecture]] and of the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryukyu]] island chain. ...yako Island]] is the largest in the group; it is surrounded by the islands of [[Ikema]], [[Irabu]], [[Kurima]], [[Ogami Island|Ôgami]], and [[Shimoji]].
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• Hikyaku
  ...rency, letters, packages, and the like. In the [[Edo period]], the network of ''hikyaku'' messengers expanded dramatically, and also became more organize ...h the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] in [[Edo]]. The messengers made use of horses made ready at [[post towns]] along the way - in theory, three horses
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• Za
  ...of the 16th century, when guild structures began to shift and other types of organizations began to grow in number. ...icular ''za'' might have been according to seniority, but the distribution of revenues was largely egalitarian.
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• Burial Practices
  ...y following the re-figuration of Imperial tombs under the [[State Shinto]] of the [[Meiji period]]]] ...gs in the [[Meiji period]], and continue to be surrounded by constructions of [[State Shinto]] today.
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