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	Hiroshige - 60 Odd Provinces
		The Pine Grove at Mio in Suruga Province
		The Cave Temple of Kannon in the Iwai Valley in Tajima Province
		The Weir in the Shallows at Yanase in Chikugo Province
	www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/60_odd_provinces/60_odd_provinces.htm (385 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mimasaka Province
		Mimasaka (美作国 -no kuni) or Sakushu (作州 sakushū) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture.
		Mimasaka bordered Bitchu, Bizen, Harima, Hoki, and Inaba Provinces.
		Mimasaka was landlocked, and was often ruled by the daimyo in Bizen.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mimasaka_Province (108 words)

	Mimasaka Province - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mimasaka (美作国 -no kuni) or Sakushu (作州 sakushū) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshu that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture.
		Mimasaka was landlocked, and was often ruled by the daimyo in Bizen.
		The ancient capital and castle town was Tsuyama.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mimasaka_Province (87 words)

	WholesaleKnives Range Of Paul Chen Swords
		The famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was born Shinmen Takezo in Harima Province and may have fought at Sekigahara under the Ukita as a common soldier.
		Travelling from province to province, Musashi made a name for himself striking down his opponents using a wooden bokken (wooden sword) while his opponents used katanas, chain and sickle fighters, and even spears.
		Kojiro was a kenjutsu instructor for the lord of the province, Hosokawa Tadaoki.
	www.wholesaleknives.co.uk /who_was_miyamoto_musashi.htm (2033 words)

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	Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
		Kojiro was retained by the lord of the province, Hosokawa Tadaoki.
		The Hosokawa house had been entrusted with the command of the hot seat of Higo province, Kumamoto castle, and the new lord of Bunzen was an Ogasawara.
		The lords of the southern provinces had always been antagonistic to the Tokugawas and were the instigators of intrigue with foreign powers and the Japanese Christians.
	thor.prohosting.com /kijaji/archive/KIAI27/art4.html (2441 words)

	The Exhibition
		The Pine Grove at Mio in Suruga Province
		The Cave Temple of Kannon in the Iwai Valley in Tajima Province
		Wier in the Shallows at Yanase in Chikugo Province
	www.cottontown.org /page.cfm?language=eng&pageID=3299 (364 words)

	TAKENAKA HANBEI
		In March, Hideyoshi was transferred from the attack of Saiga troop in Kishu province to the attack of Ishiyama-honganji, and commanded Hanbei and Kinoshita-Koichiro to defend the Tennoji fort.
		Nobunaga was pleased with the advancement of the stratagem of Harima province, and relieved penitence of Hideyoshi.
		He was born to the powerful clan in Mino province, and became a direct retainer of Nobunaga, and served as Hideyoshi's officer (aide).
	hp1.cyberstation.ne.jp /histry/hanbei1.html (1483 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History
		However, over the years of since the establishment of the Tokugawa Shōgunate, most domain had run up serious debts (due in part to the construction and sankin kotai demands of the Tokugawa rulers) and this one carrot the new Meiji leaders used to entice the daimyō to willing “return” their domains to the Emperor.
		A province in the Western part of Honshū (pg.
		He secured control of about one-third of the provinces through the use of large-scale warfare, and he institutionalized administrative practices, such as systematic village organization, tax collection, and standardized measurements.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/index.html (5963 words)

	Takeuchi Hisayoshi, the Little Warrior
		Remnants of the Toyotomi rebels still hid out in various provinces, and the need for warriors to be trained in self-defense and military arts was still a very life-and-death necessity.
		Takeuchi Hisayoshi, in the midst of that turmoil, had decided to go on a journey, a musha shugyo, in which he would travel across the unsettled provinces and test his skills against the best bugeisha, or martial artists, of the land.
		Hisayoshi's reputation had preceded him, so when he entered the castle town of Tsuyama, in Mimasaka province, its lord Mori Nagatsugu proposed a martial arts duel between Hisayoshi and one of his retainers, Takagi Umanosuke.
	www.koryubooks.com /library/wmuromoto5.html (1414 words)

	Toyotomi Hideyoshi
		According to tradition, Hideyoshi was born in a village called Nakamura in Owari province, the son of a foot-soldier/peasant known to us as Yaemon.
		Four provinces had fallen under his sway within a month and a half, with the Môri, one of Japan's most powerful families, acting as Hideyoshi's spearhead.
		Hideyoshi, whose forces still controlled some territory in Korea's southern-most province (Kyongsang), could boast to Luis Frois later that year that "he had already conquered the kingdom of Korea." and that the Chinese "had sent him their submission".4 He further demanded that Luzon show him obedience, threatening to invade if this was not done.
	www.samurai-archives.com /hideyoshi.html (8027 words)

	Art-of-Budo.com \|\| Samurai Biography of Myamoto Musashi © Karateschool Wadokan Gorinchem
		Musashi was born in Miyamoto village of the Ohara town (Mimasaka province).
		Ogasawara Tadazane is the new lord Kumamoto castle and of Binzen province.
		The lords of the southern provinces support a rebellion of foreign powers and the Japanese Christians against the Tokugawa family.
	www.art-of-budo.com /samurai/musashi/musashi.htm (2949 words)

	Mimasaka Provence - IronFort
		Land locked Mimasaka Province is now part of modern Okayama Prefecture.
		The Mimasaka Provence is run by the Koyboshi Clan from Okayama City in Bizen.
		Most of Mimasaka is south of the mountains and has mild climate.
	www.ironfort.net /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MimasakaProvence (181 words)

	JODO SHU English
		Honen was born in the village of Inaoka in the township of Kume in Mimasaka province, present day Okayama Prefecture, located about four hundred miles west of Kyoto.
		Sada-akira was a local official sent by the lord of the province, the Emperor Horikawa, to govern the area.
		At first, Honen had been sentenced to exile in Tosa province, but later ex-premier Kanezane was able to change the place to Sanuki because of its milder weather.
	www.jodo.org /about_hs/ho_life.html (2166 words)

	ART: JANIS PRESENTS 'AMERICAN WOMEN' - New York Times
		Hiroshige: ''Famous Views in the 60-Odd Provinces'' (Ronin Gallery, 605 Madison Avenue at 57th Street): The print maker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the foremost landscape artists of Japan.
		In ''Naruto Rapids, Awa Province,'' we see a marvelously stylized view of a foaming wave and whirlpool that must be the model for all such images.
		Big, curved gray ropes of rain descend to a riverbank in ''Yamabushi, Mimasaka Province.'' And in ''Yoro Waterfall, Mino Province,'' the artist has produced a strange, almost abstract composition centered on a glasslike sheet of water between two towering cliffs.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E7DB163BF934A15752C0A962948260&sec=&pagewanted=all (1379 words)

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		Being pure in mind and conduct, he was not spoiled by the vulgarities of life.
		The disciple sent a boy to the seaside of Kii Province for fish.
		He sequestered himself in the Funai District of Tango Province and fervently engaged in ascetic practices for some years.
	maven.smith.edu /~nguyen/Lotus/Files/miraculo.rtf (10842 words)

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		The signature in hakiomote is chiselled with large character located in shinogi-ji, the living of place (Sakushu-ju), Samurai family name (Fujiwara) and the smith name (KANESAKI) and the ura is the date of year, in the eighth month, the third year of Sho-ou i.e.
		Smith Kanesaki in Mimasaka province had been moved from Mino to Mimasaka in the early Momoyama period (early 17th century) and had established Mimasaka-Kanesaki families had succeeded in five generations.
		It is understood that this blade was made either by the first (Osada Hansuke) or second generation from it's date of year.
	sanmei.com /shop_e/en-us/p_743.html (280 words)

	The Samurai Trilogy (1967)
		The movie presents a sweeping saga of the change of an unruly youth into the legendary 17th-century samurai swordsman Musashi Miyamoto set against a devastating civil war.
		1584 -- Musashi was born into the samurai family of Hiratas, in either Miyamoto, Okayama or possibly Harima in the province of Mimasaka.
		The Toyotomi lost the war and Shinmen Sokan fled to Kyushu province.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/samuraitrilogy1967.html (849 words)

	History of Tsuyama
		The capital of Mimasaka province was established at Soja present day Tsuyama in 713 A.D..
		Battles between competing warlords, each with absolute authority over his own landholdings and subjects, were frequent by the latter half of the 15th Century as this period developed into the age of civil wars.
		The Mimasaka area that includes Tsuyama did not see any prominent warlords, but tossed about on the waves of wars fought by major warlords.
	www.city.tsuyama.okayama.jp /newversion/e/history.html (549 words)

	Bizen Province at AllExperts
		Bizen (ååå½ -no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of Honshu, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture.
		In the Muromachi period, Bizen was ruled by the Akamatsu clan from Mimasaka, but by the Sengoku period the Urakami clan had become dominant and settled in Okayama city.
		After Kobayakawa Hideaki helped Tokugawa Ieyasu to win the Battle of Sekigahara over Ukita and others, he was granted Ukita's domains in Bizen and Mimasaka.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/bizen_province.htm (252 words)

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		The signature in hakiomote is chiselled with large character located in shinogi-ji, the living of place (Sakushu-ju), Samurai family name (Fujiwara) and the smith name (KANESAKI) and the ura is the date of year, in the eighth month, the third year of Sho-ou i.e.
		Smith Kanesaki in Mimasaka province had been moved from Mino to Mimasaka in the early Momoyama period (early 17th century) and had established Mimasaka-Kanesaki families had succeeded in five generations.
		It is understood that this blade was made either by the first (Osada Hansuke) or second generation from it's date of year.
	www.sanmei.com /shop_e/en-us/p_743.html (280 words)

	Haiku and Happiness - - - Happiness and Haiku: Mimasaka Haiku
		is an old province in the area that is today Okayama prefecture, Japan.
		Mimasaka bordered on Bitchu, Bizen, Harima, Hoki, and Inaba provinces.
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	happyhaiku.blogspot.com /2003/07/mimasaka-haiku.html (133 words)

	Takeuchi Hisayoshi, the Little Warrior
		Remnants of the Toyotomi rebels still hid out in various provinces, and the need for warriors to be trained in self-defense and military arts was still a very life-and-death necessity.
		Takeuchi Hisayoshi, in the midst of that turmoil, had decided to go on a journey, a musha shugyo, in which he would travel across the unsettled provinces and test his skills against the best bugeisha, or martial artists, of the land.
		Hisayoshi's reputation had preceded him, so when he entered the castle town of Tsuyama, in Mimasaka province, its lord Mori Nagatsugu proposed a martial arts duel between Hisayoshi and one of his retainers, Takagi Umanosuke.
	www.koryu.com /library/wmuromoto5.html (1414 words)

	Toronto Niten Kai - more of Musashi
		He was born in Miyamoto village, in the Yoshino area of Mimasaka province near Osaka.
		Musashi left Akashi when he was 43 to wander and teach, finally settling in Osaka where he opened a school.
		He next opened a school in Takatsuki in Settsu province but eventually went to Edo in 1632 where a former student, Ogo Hisadayu, a retainer of the lord of Chikuzen province, provided him housing and a dojo.
	www.toronto-nitenkai.org /moremusashi.htm (932 words)

	Musashi - OTMWiki
		The most generally accepted possibility is that his elder brother, Shirota, was born in 1578 (dying in 1660), and Musashi himself was born into a samurai family called the Hirata, in the village of Miyamoto (in present-day Mimasaka, Okayama (then Sakushu, west of Kyoto), in the province of Mimasaka.
		In 1615 he entered the service of Lord Ogasawara Tadanao of the Harima province, at Ogasawara's invitation, as a foreman or "Construction Supervisor", after previously gaining skills in craft.
		The attendants of the Kashima Kantori shrines of the province Hitachi received instruction from the gods, and made schools based on this teaching, travelling from country to country instructing men.
	www.onthemat.com /wiki/index.php/Musashi (6101 words)

	Hye Katch Do :: Armenian Martial Arts Academy
		A Samurai warrior of the 16th and 17th century Japan, Miyamoto Musashi is a real life hero turned into a legendary figure for his excellence in the art of swordsmanship.
		Born in the Mimasaka province of Japan in 1584, he learned the art of fighting from his father.
		He fought his first duel at the age of 13, after which he fought more than 60 duels until the age of 29, remaining undefeated.
	www.hyekatchdo.com /legends/musashi.htm (319 words)

	MIYAMOTO MUSASHI, biography/part1
		In the sixth month, in Akashi, Harima province, he met Muso Gonnosuke, who was a six foot tall strapping warrior.
		is retained there by Hosokawa Tadaoki, lord of the province, applies to Hosokawa for permission to fight Kojiro through the offices of Sado.
		Permission is granded and the time and place were set to be the next morning, at 8:00 am, of April 14th 1612 on Funajima, a small island of Kyushu.
	musashi1584.netfirms.com /musashi/bios/bios1/bios1.htm (1834 words)

	Shoami Katsuyoshi
		Born at Tsuyama in the province of Mimasaka, the third son of Nakagawa Katsutsugu, who was his first teacher.
		In 1849 he was adopted into the Okayama branch of the Shoami Fujishiro family, of which he became the 9th and last master.
		He became a retainer of the Ikkeda Daimyo, of Bizen Province.
	www.ncjsc.org /item_shoami_katsuyoshi_mk1.htm (122 words)

	Untitled Document
		A year before, Musashi was born in Miyamoto village in the Yoshino area of Mimasaka province.
		When Musashi was still very young, Munisai divorced Yoshiko, and she returned to her family home in Harima province along with her young step-son Musashi.
		It was there that the young Musashi was raised by his step-mother along with his older sister Ogin, with only intermittent visits to his father 50km away.
	www.musashiusa.org /pages_F/History.htm (1906 words)

	Shinto: the Way of the Gods (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was born in Mimasaka Province (modern day Okayama Prefecture) as the son of a local samurai...
		In Japan, Shinto sanctuaries for Koyasu-sama are dedicated to the mythical princess of Konohana Sakkuya Hime, goddess of Mt Fuji & of cherry trees.
		Koyasu-sama was mainly venerated in the Kanto (Tokyo) & Chiba provinces where the women had the habit of asking her for healthy milk after childbirth in exchange for rice offerings...
	n.webring.com /hub?ring=shinto (389 words)

	Takeuchi-ryu iai batto
		His direct family members passed down the art since that time.
		The ryu eventually split into two lines, through two branches of the Takeuchi family, in Mimasaka province (central Okayama Prefecture), the soke and sodenke lines.
		One strain also arose and developed in Bitchu province (southern Okayama), and it was called Bitchu den Takeuchi-ryu.
	www.furyu.com /onlinearticles/TRIai1.html (219 words)

	Bushido
		They emerged from the provinces of Japan to become the ruling class until their decline and later total abolition in 1876 during the Meiji Era.
		His place and date of birth are in doubt but three places lay claim to this.
		He was a samurai of the Saga domain in Hizen Province under his lord Mitsushige Nabeshima.
	www.beholders.org /martialarts/bushido.htm (758 words)

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