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*In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67.
 
*In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67.
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*''Mai'' 舞 refers more to dances with a gliding motion of the feet and relatively subdued arm movements. It is a more subdued form, abstract, and restrained, and is found in Noh, bugaku, and kagura. This is in contrast to ''odori'' 踊り, which involves rhythmic movement of the limbs, is freer, more colorful, and more realistic. - Andrew Tsubaki, "The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki," Educational Theatre Journal 29:3 (1977), 305.
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*''Mai'' 舞 refers more to dances with a gliding motion of the feet and relatively subdued arm movements. It is a more subdued form, abstract, and restrained, and is found in Noh, bugaku, and kagura. ''Mai'' has always been performed by professional performers. This is in contrast to ''odori'' 踊り, which involves rhythmic movement of the limbs, is freer, more colorful, and more realistic, and which grows out of popular folk dance traditions, only becoming incorporated into formal/professional dance traditions later. - Andrew Tsubaki, "The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki," Educational Theatre Journal 29:3 (1977), 305.
    
*The [[Waegwan]] at Pusan had a kiln from 1639-1717 - Freer Gallery gallery labels
 
*The [[Waegwan]] at Pusan had a kiln from 1639-1717 - Freer Gallery gallery labels
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