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  Mutsu Province - The Encyclopedia
Mutsu, in northern Honshū, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Ainu, and became the largest as it expanded northward.
Old Iwase province encompassed the five districts of Shirakawa (白河), Iwase (石背), Aizu (会津), Asaka (安積) and Shinobu (信夫); but the area was reincorporated into Michinoku some time between 722 and 724.
The Uesugi clan had a castle town at Wakamatsu in the south, the Nambu clan at Morioka in the north, and Date Masamune, a close ally of the Tokugawa, established Sendai, which is now the largest town of the Tōhoku region.
www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Mutsu_Province   (480 words)

  
 Bizen Province - The Encyclopedia
Bizen (備前国 -no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of Honshū, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture.
In Wadō 6, Tamba province (丹波国) was sundered from Tango province (丹後国); and HyÅ«ga province (日向国) was divided from Osumi province (大隈国).
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.
www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Bizen_Province   (343 words)

  
 Aoki - Ayukawa
Nichijô was a priest of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism from Izumo Province and was an ardent opponent of Christianity.
Chachamaru was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and resided at Horigoe Castle in Izu Province.
Sadahide served Asai Nagamasa and was the keeper of Yamamotoyama Castle on the northeastern shore of Lake Biwa in Ômi Province.
www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/A2.html   (6601 words)

  
 Cuba-Junky | Havana Province
Havana Province, province of Cuba's capital, beaches at Playa del Este, Marina Hemingway Harbor, Cojimar and many many small towns to explore.
Still farther east, in Havana Province, beautiful Jibacoa, Tropico and Puerto Escondido Beaches continue the series, their white sand bordered on the landward side by lush vegetation and cliffs up to 328 feet (100 m) high and on the seaward side by incredible green and blue water.
Still farther west, in Havana Province again (city of Havana is bounded by Havana Province to the east, south and west), tranquil El Salado Beach, protected by coral reefs, has more scuba diving sites.
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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)

  
  Tamba - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Tamba is the traditional name given to the second born son in the Kono Tribe of Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Tamba is also used by Kissi tribes in the triangle region of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, otherwise known as the Parrot's beak region.
Tamba is the second boy's name from a mother.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tamba   (190 words)

  
  Tamba Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tamba (丹波国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan that included both the central part of modern Kyoto prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture.
Tamba bordered on Harima, Omi, Settsu, Tajima, Tango, Wakasa, and Yamashiro provinces.
The ancient provincial capital is believed to be in the area of modern Kameoka.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamba_province   (110 words)

  
 Provinces of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Provinces as part of the system of addresses were not abolished but, on the contrary, augmented.
Provinces are nonetheless today considered obsolete, although their names are still widely used in names of natural features, company names, and brands.
Some of the province names are used to indicate distinct parts of the current prefectures alog with their cultural and geographical characteristics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_provinces_of_Japan   (806 words)

  
 Tajima Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tajima (但馬国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyogo.
Tajima bordered on Harima, Inaba, Tamba Province, and Tango Provinces.
The ancient provincial capital is near the modern town of Hidaka, although a major castle town was built at Izushi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tajima_Province   (185 words)

  
 Oda Nobunaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1534, Nobunaga was born to regional daimyo Oda Nobuhide in Shobata Castle in Owari Province.
He was Nobuhide's third son; however, he was the first son not born to a concubine and so was the heir to the Oda clan and their domains in Owari province.
In a political maneuver, Hirate Masahide sent a proposal to the Oda clan's rival daimyo in Mino province, Saito Dosan, to have Nobunaga marry Dosan's daughter, Nōhime.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobunaga_Oda   (2955 words)

  
 Tamba Province - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tamba (丹波国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan that included both the central part of modern Kyoto prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture.
Tamba bordered on Harima, Omi, Settsu, Tajima, Tango, Wakasa, and Yamashiro provinces.
The ancient provincial capital is believed to be in the area of modern Kameoka.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tamba_Province   (104 words)

  
 Echizen Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Echizen (越前国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui prefecture.
It is one of the so called six old kiln sites of Japan (the others being Shigaraki, Bizen, Seto, Tamba, and Tokoname) and as such it is highly revered in the Japanese and international ceramics community.
The ancient capital is believed to have been near Takefu, but by the Sengoku period the province was divided among many fiefs and in the Edo period the daimyo maintained their seat at Fukui city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Echizen_Province   (155 words)

  
 South Africa safaris: african lion safari
Tamba Africa specialises in safaris within South Africa, including Kruger Park accommodation, safari camps africa, Kwazulu Natal game reserves, kruger travel guide, big five spotting and photographic safaris, African lion safari, and national parks in South Africa.
A trip to South Africa would not be complete without time for some wildlife viewing and many visitors come to South Africa to see the big five.
Tswalu Kalahari Reserve is situated in the northern cape province of South Africa, at the foot of the Korannaberg Mountains.
www.tamba-africa.co.za /sa_safari.html   (646 words)

  
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Etchū Province A province in central Honshū, on the Sea of Japan side.
Hibuya Riots Hida Province A province in the area that is today part of Gifu Prefecture.
Higo Province A province in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt   (16714 words)

  
 Tamba - AliceSoftWiki - a Wikia wiki | アリスソフトウィキ - ウィキアのウィキ
Tamba - AliceSoftWiki - a Wikia wiki
Tamba is one of the provinces in JAPAN.
The Tamba of Sengoku Rance's JAPAN includes the equivalent of Tango as well.
alicesoft.wikia.com /wiki/Tamba   (157 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)

  
 About Us
From here to merchant banking was a natural progression as the company began to provide trading finance to its customers.
The Bank filled a vacuum in banking in the subcontinent, playing a pivotal role of bringing the banking habit to the middle class masses in general and Muslims in particular.
To open 34 branches in 5 years was to change the very pattern of branch banking in undivided India, where local banks preferred to restrict their activities to the province of their incorporation.
www.hoh.net /aboutus.htm   (1196 words)

  
 webPulaaku/History/D. Robinson/Holy War of Umar Tal/From Pilgrimage to Jihaad   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tamba cut into the traditional spheres of domination of Futa Jalon, Karta in the north and Segu in the east.
A Tamba hunter was passing by Dingiray and noticed the tata [fortification] under construction by the 34 people.
In pious circles the town of Tamba now went by the name of Dabatu, ‘the excellent’, a synonym for Medina and a symbol of Umar's effort to recreate the Muhammadan formula in the new jihaad 117.
www.pulaaku.net /defte/david_robinson/pt2ch3.html   (15672 words)

  
 Tamba Province
'''Tamba''' (and#20025;and#27874;and#22269;; -no kuni) was an old provinces of Japanold province of Japan that included both the central part of modern Kyoto prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture.
Tamba bordered on Harima provinceHarima, Omi provinceOmi, Settsu provinceSettsu, Tajima provinceTajima, Tango provinceTango, Wakasa provinceWakasa, and Yamashiro provinces.
The ancient provincial capital is believed to be in the area of modern Kameoka, KyotoKameoka.
www.territoriopc.com /eng/tamba_province.php   (97 words)

  
 TAMBA STYLE
This exhibition brings the original figure of Tamba ware as “pottery for daily life”, tracing a relation of Tamba ware and livings of people those days on the basis of a recent excavation and a folkloric study.
In addition to those traditional Tamba ware, this exhibition brings together master works of Ryoji Koie, who are invited from Tokoname pottery site to our museum this year as the 1st artist of “The Artists In Tamba Invitational”.
The tradition of Tamba that inherits only the essence of “pottery for daily life” and the experimental challenge of Koie’s new Tamba, through these two “TAMBA STYLE”, we try to clarify “what Tamba ware really is”.
www.mcart.jp /e_tambastyle.htm   (361 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Shinto - 8. Schools, Groups, and Personalities: Personalities
Known within the group as Seishi (Holy Teacher), he was born July 12, 1871, in Anao village in the Kuwada district of Tamba Province (present-day Kyoto Prefecture), as the eldest son of Ueda Kichimatsu and his wife Yone.
A thaumaturge thought to have lived on Mount Katsuragi (or Kazuraki) in Yamato Province in the second half of the seventh century and later known as the founder of Shugendō.
Born in 1809 in Iruma District in the province of Musashi (present-day Saitama Prefecture) as the son of physician Gonda Naonori.
eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp /modules/xwords/category.php?categoryID=36&start=20   (932 words)

  
 Oda Nobunaga information - Search.com
In 1534, Nobunaga was born to regional daimyo Oda Nobuhide in Shobata Castle in Owari Province.
He was Nobuhide's third son; however, he was the first son not born to a concubine and so was the heir to the Oda clan and their domains in Owari province.
In a political manoeuvre, Hirate Masahide sent a proposal to the Oda clan's rival daimyo in Mino province, Saito Dosan, to have Nobunaga marry Dosan's daughter, Nōhime.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Oda_Nobunaga   (3378 words)

  
 Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama
A native of Mino province, from his youth wandered around various places, and because of that he mastered geography of different provinces and locations of their castles and forts.
Above all, when he was charged with subjugation of the province of Tamba, he suffered assassination of his old mother who was a hostage of the Hatano brothers*.
He was born in a common house in the county of Amachi* in of Owari province.
faculty.risd.edu /faculty/evarshav/Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama.html   (5632 words)

  
 Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama
A native of Mino province, from his youth wandered around various places, and because of that he mastered geography of different provinces and locations of their castles and forts.
Above all, when he was charged with subjugation of the province of Tamba, he suffered assassination of his old mother who was a hostage of the Hatano brothers*.
He was born in a common house in the county of Amachi* in of Owari province.
students.risd.edu /faculty/evarshav/Research_protagonists_of_historic_drama.html   (5632 words)

  
 Harima Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harima (播磨国; -no kuni) or Banshu (播州 banshū) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshu that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyogo Prefecture.
Harima bordered on Tajima, Tamba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces.
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, a shipbuilder and major Boeing engine subcontractor gets its name from the province.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harima_province   (109 words)

  
 BabyTalk :: Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Birth Association) is actually based on the Belmont Road in East Belfast, the work of the organisation is spread throughout the Province thanks to a network of clubs and access to a freephone helpline (0800 138 0509).
TAMBA Co-Ordinator, Pauline Downey, firmly believes that the work, which TAMBA does, is invaluable.
‘TAMBA is the only organisation in Northern Ireland, which is dedicated to providing information and mutual support networks for families of twins, triplets and more around the Province’, she said.
www.babytalkmagazine.co.uk /index.pl?cat_id=28&issue_id=8&art_id=1080   (1092 words)

  
 Manual of Nichiren Buddhism
Nichiren was born in Kominato, a fishing village in the Province of Awa (Chiba-ken), on February 16, 1222.
Born of a samurai family in the Province of Shimousa (Chiba-ken), it is said that, while he was at Hieizan, he was adopted as a yûshi (an adopted son without succession right) by Konoye Kanetsune, the third head of the Konoye family of the Kyoto nobility.
Nissei, the chief priest of the temple, fled to Obama in the Province of Wakasa (Fukui-ken).
la.nichirenshu.org /history/history.htm   (9929 words)

  
 One of the Horde
We were fully aware that Oda had a large army in Tamba, but we expected the defense would be weakened because now Kawachi and Kii are both exposed to Yamato.
The outcome of the surprise attack in Tamba was better than we have thought.
The free victory of Tamba has enabled myself to be promoted to a Rank 5 general in the clan.
www.totalwar.org /hosted/maltz/06_Hojo/Hojo12.htm   (1206 words)

  
 bleu et blanc/Blue & White America, Inc. Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese,Stoneware Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Early production in the large number of kilns at Tamba was mostly of large naturally glazed utilitarian storage jars (Tsubo), wide mouthed jars (kame) and bowls for grating (suribachi).
Mushiage was a kiln in Bizen province, established by Igi Sanyensai in 1830, with the guidance of the Kyoto potter Makuzu; the kiln made pieces primarily for tea ceremony, and were sometimes given the additional mark of Makuzu.
Tamba is known as one of Japan's great six ancient kilns.
www.trocadero.com /blueandwhiteamerica/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Stoneware.html   (931 words)

  
 Tamba   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With mountains at the extremities, this province is a wide valley surrounded by high hills in the west, and low hills in the east.
Attacking forces should aim to move quickly northward in-order to gain a good view of the battle-field.
Once the enemy is spotted, the attacking generals must attempt to maintain altitude and outflank them.
iserit.greennet.gl /ignatius/stw/Province/tamba.htm   (57 words)

  
 Tamba Storage Vessel, Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The earliest examples from all these kilns are very similar, featuring coarse, heavily thrown, ash glazed storage vessels made of stoneware.
Tamba is the name of an old province in Central Japan, a mountainous regions through which an ancient highway passed.
This storage jar in stoneware shows random accumulations of ash from the firing in the anagama (hole) kiln.
www.glendale.edu /ceramics/tambastoragevessel.html   (390 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, Alabama (AL)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1508, when Ōuchi Yoshioki marched his armies into Kyoto having Ashikaga Yoshiki (Ashikaga Yoshitane) who was the former shogun and had escaped to Suo Province as his boss, Takakuni conspired with them and purged the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi and Sumimoto to Omi Province.
In 1521, Yoshiki hated to be a puppet shogun, and escaped to Awa Province.
In 1527, he was purged from Kyoto by Miyoshi Motonaga and Hosokawa Harumoto.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hosokawa_Takakuni   (358 words)

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