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  Toyama Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toyama Prefecture (富山県; Toyama-ken) is located in the Chubu region on Honshu island, Japan.
Toyama is leading industrial prefecture on the Japan-sea coast, and has industrial advantage "cheap electricity".
The prefecture used to have a seventh district, Higashitonami, consisting of the towns of Fukona, Inami, Johana, and Shogawa and the villages of Inokuchi, Kamiataira, Taira, and Toga.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toyama_Prefecture   (213 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Taira, M., Otani, H., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P., and Dawid, I.B.: Role of the LIM class homeodomain protein Xlim-1 in neural induction and muscle induction by the Spemann organizer in Xenopus.
Taira, M., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P., Dawid, I.B.: Role of the Xlim-1 and Xbra genes in anteroposterior patterning of the neural tissue by the trunk and head organizer.
Toyama, R., Dawid, I.B. :lim6, a novel LIM homeobox gene in the zebrafish:comparison of its expression pattern with lim1.
dir.nichd.nih.gov /lmg/oldwebpg/PUBS.HTM   (348 words)

  
 Taira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In reference to Japanese history, Along with Minamoto, Taira was an honorary surname bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period to the ex-member of the imperial family when they became subjects.
The Kammu Heishi line proved to be the most strong and dominant line during the late Heian period with Taira no Kiyomori eventually forming the first samurai dominated government in the history of Japan.
Taira was the name of a city in the Fukushima prefecture, before it was consolidated into the city of Iwaki.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/t/ta/taira.html   (247 words)

  
 Taira
In reference to Japanese history, Taira was an honorary surname bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period to their sons.
The first emperor to start granting the name Taira to his princes was the emperor Kammu.
The last of the Kammu Heishi line was eventually destroyed by the armies of Minamoto no Yoritomo at the Battle of Dannoura[?], the last battle of the Gempei War[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Taira.html   (169 words)

  
 Taira clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Taira were one of the four important clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period (794-1185) - the others were the Fujiwara, the Tachibana and the Minamoto.
The Kammu Heishi line, founded in 889 by Taira no Takamochi (a great-grandson of the 50th tenno Kammu, reigned 781-806), proved to be the most strong and dominant line during the late Heian period with Taira no Kiyomori eventually forming the first samurai dominated government in the history of Japan.
Taira no Kiyomori, son and heir of Tadamori, rose to the position of daijō daijin (great minister of state) following his victories in the Hōgen Disturbance (1156) and the Heiji Disturbance (1160).
www.toshare.info /en/Taira.htm   (411 words)

  
 Japan Regional Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Situated roughly in the middle of Honshu on the Sea of Japan side, Toyama is embraced by mighty nature, with the Tateyama mountain range on the east and the Japan Sea on the north.
In Taira, you will find the Ensyo Kinen Kan, which was established commemorating the place that was the home for gunpowder between 17th century and 19th century.
Himi is located in the northwestern part of Toyama and faces Toyama Bay to the east with the north and west sides bordering on Ishikawa, having Mt. Isurugi and other mountains in between.
www.asia-planet.net /japan/toyama.htm   (2293 words)

  
 Online People02
Toyama is located on the Japan Sea side of the central part of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
Toyama is famous for hot springs in many of its towns.
While some of Toyama’s resorts are closed in the winter due to heavy snowfall, according to Nihonkai Travel.com, many of Toyama’s hot springs remain open all through the winter months.
www3.hpu.edu /kalamalama/archive/2810/sub/People02.htm   (504 words)

  
 Taira no Tomomori Definition / Taira no Tomomori Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He was forced to withdraw in the end, but the Taira pursuit was soon named off when their leader, Tomomori fell ill....
The Taira forces tied their ships together, to create a larger stable surface to fire arrows from, and to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
[click for more], when the Taira were decisively beaten by their rivals, Tomomori joined many of his fellow clan members in committing suicide.
www.elresearch.com /Taira_no_Tomomori   (418 words)

  
 ISF/KTRR/AB - Origins of Shinkendo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Although battodo was based upon Toyama ryu, Nakamura sensei felt the need to spread battodo by accepting practitioners from other arts, regardless of their lack of knowledge in the art and techniques of Toyama ryu.
Toyama ryu [as passed through the Nakamura line] has only eight kata and six kumitachi in its curriculum, many practitioners scoffed at the simplicity of the movements and doubted its combat efficiency.
I continue to teach Toyama ryu in my shinkendo organization; however, it is in the form of Shinkendo Gaiden Toyama ryu.
www.shinkendo.com /origins.html   (3843 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 46,031 and a population density density of 86.60 persons per square kilometer km²;.
All towns and villages in Higashitonami except Shogawa participated in the merger that formed the city of Nanto, Toyama Nanto on November 1, 2004.
*Fukuno, Toyama Fukuno *Inami, Toyama Inami *Inokuchi, Toyama Inokuchi *Johana, Toyama Johana *Kamitaira, Toyama Kamitaira *Shogawa, Toyama Shogawa *Taira, Toyama Taira *Toga, Toyama Toga {{Toyama}} Category:Districts in Toyama Prefecture {{Japan-geo-stub}} ja:東礪波郡
www.mauspfeil.net /Higashitonami_District,%20Toyama.html   (167 words)

  
 Interactions of the LIM-domain-binding factor Ldbl with LIM homeodomain proteins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Taira, M., Otani, H., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P. and Dawid, I. Nature 372, 677−679 (1994).
Taira, M., Evrard, J. L., Steinmetz, A. and Dawid, I. Trends Genet.
Karavanov, A. A., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P., Karavanova, I., Taira, M. and Dawid, I. Int.
www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v384/n6606/abs/384270a0.html   (456 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Kobayashi, M., Toyama, R., Takeda, H., Dawid, I.B., Kawakami, K. Overexpression of the forebrain-specific homeobox gene six3 induces rostral forebrain enlargement in zebrafish.
Rebagliati, M.R., Toyama, R., Fricke, C., Haffter, P., Dawid, I.B. Zebrafish nodal-related genes are implicated in axial patterning and establishing left-right asymmetry.
Rebagliati, M.R., Toyama, R., Haffter P., and Dawid, I.B. Cyclops encodes a nodal-related factor involved in midline signalling.
dir.nichd.nih.gov /Lmg/PUBS.HTM   (316 words)

  
 Inhibitory Effects of Vesnarinone on Cloned Cardiac Delayed Rectifier K+ Channels Expressed in a Mammalian Cell Line -- ...
Iijima T and Taira N (1987) Membrane current changes responsible for the positive inotropic effect of OPC-8212, a new positive inotropic agent, in single ventricular cells of the guinea pig heart.
Taira N, Endoh M, Iijima T, Satoh K, Yanagisawa T, Yamashita S, Maruyama M, Kawada M, Morita T and Wada Y (1984) Mode and mechanism of action of 3,4-dihydro-6-[4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2(1H)-quinolinone (OPC-8212), a novel positive inotropic drug, on the dog heart.
Toyama J, Kamiya K, Cheng J, Lee JK, Suzuki R and Kodama I (1997) Vesnarinone prolongs action potential duration without reverse frequency dependence in rabbit ventricular muscle by blocking the delayed rectifier K
www.jpet.org /cgi/content/full/294/1/339   (4316 words)

  
 Bu Jin Newsletter: Featured Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
As the Fujiwara declined during the latter part of the 12th century, disorder arose and the Taira and Minamoto factions began openly to battle for power.
It was this half-century of continual military conflict between the two families that gave rise to the Samurai as a distinct class in Japanese society.
At the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1388) Yoritomo led the Minamoto family to victory over the Taira clan and established a government based on the Samurai feudal code of loyalty and service.
www.bujindesign.com /newsletter/2000.11.vol10/article2.shtml   (458 words)

  
 GOKAYAMA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The inscribed property is a set of three villages:the Ainokura District in Taira-Mura and the Suganuma District in Kamitaira-Mura--both located in Higasi-Tonami-Gun in Toyama Prefecture--and the Ogimachi District,located in Sirakawa-Mura, in Ono-Gun, Gifu Prefecture.
Following their inscription, these historic villages will be protected under the terms of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage(1972), and it is expected that these villages will become well known world-wide.
It is important to note that these historic villages are still active communities, with the local residents directly involved in protecting the buildings together with the surrounding village setting, including both cultivated land and forested land.
www.pref.toyama.jp /sections/3007/heritage/gokayama_e.htm   (259 words)

  
 REFERENCES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In Taira, A., Hill, I., Firth, J.V., et al., Proc.
Taira, A., Hill, I., Firth, J.V., et al., 1991.
Taira, A., Katto, J., Tashiro, M., Okamura, M., and Kodama, K., 1988.
www.ga.gov.au /odp/publications/190_IR/chap_02/c2_7.htm   (547 words)

  
 TownNet.com - World > Asia > Japan > Toyama
Toyama is famous for its beautiful mountains, good water to drink and popular place to live in.
Profile of Toyama, News, Events (various festivals), and so on.
Toyama has been noted for trades for Medicines since 300 years ago.
www.townnet.com /world/asia/japan/toyama.html   (132 words)

  
 Taira - Gurupedia
Taira no Kiyomori eventually forming the first samurai dominated government in the history of Japan.
Taira was the name of a city in the
Fukushima prefecture, before it was consolidated into the city of Iwaki.
www.gurupedia.com /t/ta/taira.htm   (206 words)

  
 A SURVEY OF NANTO CITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nanto City is in Toyama Prefecture positioned in the southeast corner.
Nanto City is 40km from the prefecture capital, Toyama City.
Also within an hour from Toyama Airport, there are various industries and attractions that are currently expanding.
www.city.nanto.toyama.jp /webapps/www/english/index.html   (933 words)

  
 The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Cultural Property, as officially defined, is composed of the three villages where groups of Gassho-style houses still remain intact: Ogimachi, Ainokura and Suganuma.
Ogimachi is located in Shirakawa-Mura, Ono-gun, Gifu Prefecture, and Ainokura in Taira-Mura and Suganuma in Kamitaira-Mura are both located in Higashi-tonami-gun, Toyama Prefecture.
This property has been evaluated as having outstanding universal value in accordance with criteria (iv) and (v) of the six criteria listed in the accompanying World Heritage outline description.
ex-taira.city.nanto.toyama.jp /spot/heritage_e.html   (1449 words)

  
 Nodal induces ectopic goosecoid and lim1 expression and axis duplication in zebrafish -- Toyama et al. 121 (2): 383 -- ...
Nodal induces ectopic goosecoid and lim1 expression and axis duplication in zebrafish -- Toyama et al.
Taira, M., Otani, H., Jamrich, M. and Dawid, I.B (1994).
Expression of the LIM class homeobox gene Xlim-1 in pronephros and CNS cell lineages of Xenopus embryos is affected by retinoic acid and exogastrulation.
dev.biologists.org /cgi/content/refs/121/2/383   (1861 words)

  
 Ocean Drilling Program Legs 190/196 Citations
Moore, G.F., Taira, A., Klaus, A., et al., 2001.
In Moore, G.F., Taira, A., Klaus, A., et al., Proc.
Mikada, H., Moore, G.F., Taira, A., Becker, K., Moore, J.C., and Klaus, A. (Eds.), 2005.
www-odp.tamu.edu /publications/citations/cite190.html   (4574 words)

  
 TOYAMA TRAVEL NAVIGATOR/TRAVEL GUIDE/TONAMI & GOKAYAMA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
As a community of over twenty households in Taira Village, Ainokura features its architectural structure known as "Gassho-zukuri" (a house with a thatched gable roof, so named because of its shape resembling hands clasped in prayer: "gassho"), steeply sloping at an angle of 60 degrees for protection against heavy snowfall in winter.
The village community of these "Gassho-zukuri" houses was recognized for its historic value by the World Heritage Committee and added to the World Heritage List in 1995.
At the "Washi-kogei-kan" (traditional Japanese paper museum) you can learn the history and tradition of Gokayama "washi", including its manufacturing technique, which has supported Taira Village as its major industry.
www.toyama-smenet.or.jp /navi/english/tonami_guide.html   (1786 words)

  
 Role of the Xlim-1 and Xbra genes in anteroposterior patterning of neural tissue by the head and trunk organizer -- ...
Role of the Xlim-1 and Xbra genes in anteroposterior patterning of neural tissue by the head and trunk organizer -- Taira et al.
Taira, M., Jamrich, M., Good, P. & Dawid, I. Genes Dev.
Karavanov, A. A., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P., Karavanova, I., Taira, M. & Dawid, I. Int.
www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/94/3/895   (3867 words)

  
 SUZUME-DO: About Toyama clay figure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
At Kaei era (1848-54), Toshiyasu Maeda the feudal lord of Toyama invited Hidenobu Hirose to Toyama.
In those days, there were several clay figure makers in a castle town of Toyama.
However, there is no heir of Nobuhide Watanabe the third generation of Watanabe family, and because of it, in 1983, Toyama city had formed the Toyama clay figure preserver's club and recruited the successor who will handed down the technique of clay figure making.
www.netlaputa.ne.jp /~suzumedo/e/about/toyama.html   (186 words)

  
 Lhx2, a LIM homeobox gene, is required for eye, forebrain, and definitive erythrocyte development -- Porter et al. 124 ...
Articles by Porter, F. Articles by Westphal, H. Agulnick, A. D., Taira, M., Breen, J. J., Tanaka, T., Dawid, I. and Westphal, H (1996).
Taira, M., Otani, H., Saint-Jeannet, J.-P. and Dawid, I. Role of the LIM class homeodomain protein XLIM-1 in neural and muscle induction by the Spemann organizer in Xenopus.
Expression pattern of the murine LIM class homeobox gene Lhx3 in subsets of neural and neuroendocrine tissues.
dev.biologists.org /cgi/content/refs/124/15/2935   (2793 words)

  
 Ocean Drilling Program Legs 190/196 Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Mikada, H., Moore, G.F., Taira, A., Becker, K., Moore, J.C., and Klaus, A. (Eds.), in press.
Elementary and isotopic chloride geochemistry and fluid flow in the Nankai Trough.
Origin of deformation bands in argillaceous sediments at the toe of the Nankai Accretionary Prism, southwest Japan.
www.ga.gov.au /odp/publications/citations/cite190.html   (2483 words)

  
 JREF Shop - Looking for the Lost
In the second part, he retraces the way sanurai and statesman Saigo Takamori took from the North of Miyazaki prefecture to his home town of Kagoshima at the end of his ill-fated rebellion against the new Meiji government.
In the last part, Booth travels from Nagoya to the small village of Taira in Toyama prefecture and passes through the pitoresque towns of Inuyama, Seki, Gujo Hachiman, Shirakawa-go and Ogimachi in Gifu prefecture.
His quest is to find a connection between the village of Taira and the descendants of the powerful 11-12th century family of the same name whose demise is described in the famous novel "The Tale of Heike" and are said to have settled in th region after the battle of Dannoura (1185).
www.jref.com /shop/showproduct.php/product/370   (295 words)

  
 Ocean Drilling Program Leg 190 Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Moore, G.F., Klaus, A., Boeckel, B., Dean, A., Henry, P., Hisamitsu, T., Kastner, M., Taira, A., Becker, L., Cragg, B.A., Fergusson, C.L., Hirano, S., Hunze, S., Maltman, A.J., Morgan, J.K., Saffer, D.M., Screaton, E.J., Spivack, A.J., Tobin, H.J., Underwood, M.B., Murakami, Y., M. Sanchez-Gomez, Smith, D.C., Steurer, J., Ujiie, K., and Wilson, M., submitted.
Underwood, M.B., Taira, A., Moore, G.F., Wilson, M., Hirano, S., Fergusson, C.L., Steurer, J., and the Leg 190 Shipboard Scientific Party, submitted.
Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of a trench-slope basin in the Nankai subduction zone of southwest Japan.
owen.nhm.ac.uk /odp/publications/citations/cite190.html   (735 words)

  
 Bibliography for kidney development database
Fujii, T., Pichel, J.G., Taira, M., Toyama, R., Dawid, I.B., and Westphal, H. Expression patterns of the murine LIM class homeobox gene Iim1 in the developing brain and excretory system.
Taira, M., Jamrich, M., Good, P.J., and Dawid, I.B. The LIM domain-containing homeo box gene Xlim-1 is expressed specifically in the organizer region of Xenopus gastrula embryos.
Taira, M., Otani, H., Jamrich, M., and Dawid, I.B. Expression of the LIM class homeobox gene XLIM-1 in pronephros and CNS cell lineages of Xenopus embryos is affected by retinoic acid and exogastrulation.
www.ana.ed.ac.uk /anatomy/kidbase/refsk.html   (8316 words)

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