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Topic: Glossary of Japanese history

	Japanese Gardens - Glossary
		Hojo - The residence of the abbot of a Japanese Buddhist monastery.
		A number of rock formations and islands in Japanese gardens are thought to represent—or at least evoke—the turtle, a symbol of longevity in Chinese and Japanese tradition.
		A group of three stones in a Japanese garden is sometimes thought to represent one of the Buddhas—Shaka, Amida, or Yakushi—together with appropriate flanking bodhisattvas.
	learn.bowdoin.edu /japanesegardens/glossary.html (1478 words)

	List of Glossaries Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Look up glossary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Jabberwocky glossary words from the poem from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
		S3CO Root WMS Warehouse and Warehousing Technology Glossary
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/List_of_glossaries (204 words)

	List of glossaries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of glossaries (pages containing terms and their definitions or explanations).
		For lists of terms without definitions, see List of reference tables and List of topic lists, or Category:Lists of terms and Category:Topic lists.
		Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_glossaries (138 words)

	Glossary: Japanese porcelain
		The Japanese name for blue and white porcelain is Sometsuke where the older types such as 17th and 18th century are called Ko-Sometsuke, meaning "Old Blue-and-white".
		The early exports of Arita porcelain was run by the Dutch from around 1660, while the supplies from China became scarse due to the civil wars raging the coastal provinces of China after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and blocking the transportation.
		Fukugawa is a is a family, a brand name, a place and nowadays a pocelain factory and whose history goes back in the Arita region to the seventeenth century.
	www.gotheborg.com /glossary/data/japanese.shtml (1600 words)

	Japanese Costume Glossary
		As Japanese clothing is quite varied, especially when the whole history is taken into account - which has been well documented for a millenium - the glossary must needs be incomplete.
		All Japanese clothing items are basically unisex, the gender (and age) difference being expressed in fabric patterns and -colours, length and the shape of the sleeves.
		They are made of non-stretch material (woven vs. knit) and have relatively thick soles as the Japanese don't wear any shoes within the house.
	www.costumebase.org /en/ethno/japan/glossary.shtml (732 words)

	Japanese Herb History - Planet Botanic Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The myth regarding the establishment of ancient Japanese dynasty relates that one of the deities treated a rabbit suffering from scrape with the pollens of a kind of reeds, Gama (Typha angustifolia L.), which is allegedly the first description of medicinal herb in Japanese literature.
		While people in Japanese islands were passing Joumon era when characters were unknown, in China, a book called “Shinnou-kyo” (meaning the scripture of the god of agriculture) was allegedly written by a mythical emperor god, Shinnnou (meaning the god of agriculture) after he tried one hundred herbs a day to check the properties.
		Besides, the oldest history book, of Japan called “Nihon-shoki” records the event where infusion of dried Okera root was dedicated to the then emperor, which is the first description of infusion for medicine.
	www.planetbotanic.ca /fact_sheets/japanese_herbs/japanese_herb_history.htm (3669 words)

	THE JAPANESE SWORD INDEX
		Graphical glossaries of the parts of Japanese sword blades and types of sword mounts including katana and tachi.
		Major shapes of Japanese sword blades, types of sword flaws, styles of hamon, hada, boshi and nakago.
		Major eras of Japanese history and periods of the Japanese sword.
	home.earthlink.net /~steinrl/nihonto.htm (512 words)

	Japanese Art History
		The periods of Japanese art history like Kamakura or Muromachi are mostly named after the places, where the seat of the government was located.
		The Japanese calligraphy and the Japanese tea ceremony were initiated.
		The history of Japanese art was marked by a move backwards to a more aristocratic character.
	www.artelino.com /articles/japanese_art_history.asp (791 words)

	Online Japanese Dictionaries and Glossaries
		A huge glossary, indexed on Japanese and English words, with explanations in Japanese.
		A large glossary, with extended explanations (in Japanese).
		This is a music term glossary, indexed on the term in Italian, German, English, etc. with explanations in Japanese.
	www.csse.monash.edu /~jwb/onlinejdic.html (1765 words)

	Stanford Jujitsu - Japanese Glossary
		Some experts in Japanese medieval history differentiate between bushi and samurai, considering the latter to be a subset of the former.
		Further, even if there was, those who heard Japanese usually had no understanding of the Japanese language and were not aware of any standard and simply tried to transliterate what they heard the best they could.
		Thus, many modern Japanese jujitsu clubs which were established in the West in the 20th century, like the Stanford Jujitsu Club, have inherited a name for their art that is technically incorrect.
	www.stanford.edu /group/jujitsu/Curriculum/glossary.html (1616 words)

	Glossary
		In U.S. history, Congress often passed enabling legislation to establish a procedure for a territory to follow in order to achieve statehood.
		In U.S. history, a derisive term for Americans who favored the continuation of British control during the era of the American Revolution; a loyalist.
		In 18th century English history, the faction that opposed unbridled royal power and styled itself as the champion of liberty.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1451.html (4251 words)

	Japanese Suiseki History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These first rocks were extremely interesting to the Japanese court and aristocracy.
		This was also a period of intense isolation for Japan, when they closed their borders to outsiders.
		In some ways the art stagnated during the latter part of the nineteenth century (Meiji period 1868-1912) due to a decrease in wealth of the nobility and the samurai.
	shimagata.tripod.com /suihist.htm (531 words)

	Japanese Art History
		From a cultural point of view, the Edo period maybe was something like the pop culture of "swinging London" in the sixties and early seventies of the 20th century.
		The first ukiyo-e in fl and white were produced in the late 17th century.
		In the 20th century Japanese painters and print-makers were very successful.
	www.artelino.com /articles/japanese_history.asp (730 words)

	Samurai Archives Japanese History Page
		A history of the 15th century Onin war.
		An analysis of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki as political tools in early Japanese society, by Joseph Ryan.
		A transcript of a lecture on the Ikko-Ikki by Michael Baker.
	www.samurai-archives.com (104 words)

	Hand Gonnes & Matchlocks
		The other means of absorbing recoil was to lengthen the stock and brace the gun against the ground, over the shoulder (like a modern rocket launcher), or under the arm.
		Bohemia and the Czech lands were to figure importantly in firearms history as a result.
		Platow mentions target shooting, either as military training or for pleasure, in Eger in 1420.
	homepages.ihug.com.au /~dispater/handgonnes.htm (3868 words)

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