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...Book of Songs'', is a collection of poetry from the [[Zhou Dynasty|Western Zhou]]. Compiled prior to 600 BCE, it is one of the earliest surviving collectio *Gallery labels, "Poetry of the Zhou," British Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/22593219107/in/p

King You of Zhou was the last king of China's [[Zhou Dynasty|Western Zhou Dynasty]]. As is typical of the final ruler of a dynasty, Chinese records t ...capital city and killed King You, leading to the beginning of the Eastern Zhou, a period of considerable disunity and chaos.

...essel.jpg|right|thumb|320px|''Yi'' [[bronze]] ritual vessel, early Eastern Zhou, c. 8th century BCE. Santa Barbara Museum of Art]] ::For other states and dynasties called Zhou, see [[Zhou Dynasty (disambiguation)]].''

*[[Zhou Dynasty]] - c. 1100-256 BCE **[[Western Jin]] - [[265]]-[[317]]

...[[Zhu Xi]] ([[1130]]-[[1200]]), who wrote of "revering the [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou dynastic]] house, and sweeping away (or eradicating) what is barbarian." Th *[[Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi]], ''Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press (1992), 20-21.

...o East Asia, was used for indigo dyeing in China as early as the [[Western Zhou]] period (c. 1000 BCE), and was originally used in Japan as well, until the

...ench missionary, becoming a valuable source of information on Ryûkyû for a Western audience. ...57]] ''[[Ryukyu-koku shiryaku|Liuqiu-guo zhilue]]'' by investiture envoy [[Zhou Huang]], and a handscroll painting (date unknown) by Japanese painter Yamag

...asty, [[Emperor Taizu]], came to power as a leading general of the [[Later Zhou Dynasty]], one of the states of the preceding Five Dynasties & Ten Kingdoms In the late 10th century, private merchants in western China began to issue their own private forms of bills of exchange, which cu

...i clan]] in [[Hikone han|Hikone]] similarly served as ''osae'' against the western provinces, and as "guardian" (''shugo'') over [[Kyoto]] (in addition to the ...the ''[[Book of Odes]]'' to refer to fiefs or domains of China's ancient [[Zhou Dynasty]].<ref name=kodansha/><ref>Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 28.</ref>

*[[Meiji Gakuin University]]: Imbrie Pavilion (rep. of Meiji Western-style missionary architecture)<ref>[http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/guide/imbr ...shibun'', a [[1556]] document sent by [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] envoy [[Jiang Zhou]] regarding the ''[[wako|wakô]]'' (held at Shiryôhensanjo)

...to members of certain samurai clans, including the [[Ouchi clan|Ôuchi]] of western Japan; these titles and seals conferred official permission to engage in au ..., and generals were left to supply their armies on their own; as a result, Western-style firearms made by individual armies based on models had high failure r

...rom the castle from which [[King Wu of Zhou]] (or Wu Wang), ruler of the [[Zhou Dynasty]], had set out in the 11th or 12th century BCE to unify China. [[Em ...y conspiring against his former patron, sending out letters to the Mori of Western Japan, and to the Takeda, Uesugi, and Hojo of Eastern Japan. Evidently Yosh