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	Yamato Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yamato Damashi or the Spirit of Yamato is a phrase used colloquially in a nostalgic way by conservative Japanese to refer to a mysterious Golden Age of Japanese culture when life was simple and people were honest and worked hard.
		The Kofun period of Japanese history and culture is also sometimes called the Yamato Period by western scholars, since this local chieftainship eventually rose up to become the Imperial Dynasty at the end of the Kofun period.
		The province of Yamato was the namesake of World War II battleship Yamato.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamato_Province (224 words)

	Yamato period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamato court's supremacy was challenged throughout the Kofun period at least by another polity centred in the later Bizen and Bitchū provinces in what is now known as Okayama prefecture, and it was only into the 6th century that the Yamato clans could be said to have any major advantage over their neighbouring clans.
		Yamato links to the China and the Liu Song Dynasty in 425 and 478 were facilitated by the maritime knowledge and diplomatic connections of Baekje.
		The Yamato polity, which emerged by the late 5th century, was distinguished by powerful great clans or extended families, including their dependants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamato_period (1895 words)

	Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yamato period, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
		Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty
		Yamato Province, a former province of Japan that covered the part of Honshu that is present-day Nara Prefecture
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamato (605 words)

	Yamato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Yamato (大和) is an old province of Japan, which is now known as Nara prefecture.
		"Yamato Damashi" or the Spirit of Yamato is used colloquially in a nostalgic way by conservative Japanese to refer to a mysterious Golden Age of Japanese Culture when life was simple and people were honest and worked hard.
		The Kofun Period of Japanese culture is also sometimes called the Yamato Period by Western Scholars, since this local Chieftain ship eventually rose up to become the Imperial Dynasty at the end of the Kofun Period.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/y/ya/yamato.html (191 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamato was built in intense secrecy at a specially prepared dock to hide her construction at Kure Naval Dockyards beginning on 4 November 1937.
		Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward 460 mm gun turret, during attacks by U.S. carrier planes as she transited the Sibuyan Sea.
		Yamato was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from 12 February 1942, replacing Nagato.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato (1774 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Japanese battleship Yamato
		She was laid down as the third Yamato class battleship (of four planned), but following the losses in the Battle of Midway was completed with a flight deck, making her the largest carrier of her...
		Yamato 2520 was to chronicle the adventures of the eighteenth starship to bear the name, and its battle against the Seiren Federation.
		Yamato is often called Japan's answer to Star Trek and many similarities in the way the sagas played out raise speculation as to whether the two borrowed from each other.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese_battleship_Yamato (5016 words)

	Yamato (Japan) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Yamato (Japan)
		Ancient name of Japan and particularly the province of western Honshu where Japanese civilization began and where the early capitals were located; also the clan from which all emperors of Japan are descended, claiming the sun-goddess as ancestor.
		In the era of Prince Shōtoku Taishi (574–622) and the Taika reform period 645–50, the Yamato rulers became greatly influenced by the culture of Tang dynasty China, notably Buddhism, Confucianism, and China's bureaucratic system.
		In the mid-9th century the emperors ceded effective control of government to the Fujiwara clan and hardly ever ruled in their own right until the Meiji restoration 1868.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Yamato+(Japan) (220 words)

	Yamato
		Yamato (大和) is an old province of Japan, which is now Nara prefecture.
		Since the imperial court rose into power there, Yamato came to mean whole Japan too.
		The Okinawans sometimes use it as Mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa (Uchinaa in the dialect).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ya/Yamato.html (52 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		A province in the area that is today Kyōto Prefecture.
		A province in the area that is today Nara Prefecture.
		Yamato bordered on Iga, Ise, Kawachi, Kii, and Yamashiro Provinces.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/y.html (1090 words)

	HIJMS Yamato - Wikimedia Commons
		HIJMS Yamato, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the lead ship of her class.
		She and her sister ship Musashi were the largest battleships ever constructed, weighing 65,027 tons and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) main guns.
		Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward 460mm gun turret, during attacks by U.S. carrier planes as she transited the Sibuyan Sea.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/HIJMS_Yamato (503 words)

	Pottery And Porcelain - Japanese
		Between 660 and 581 B. C., Wakanet su Hiko-no-mikoto, in the province of Yamato, made some vessels of pottery for use in the temples.
		He settled in the province of Hizen, and from the first produced the different kinds of porcelain which are to-day made there, viz.
		Kutani is the name of the mountain in the province of Kaga where the porcelain material is found..
	www.oldandsold.com /articles15/oriental-art-16.shtml (1318 words)

	Yamato period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Template:History of Japan The Yamato period (大和) (better known as the Kofun period) is the period of Japanese when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from day Nara prefecture then known as Yamato province.
		The court's supremacy challenged throughout the period from Bizen and Bitchū provinces in what is now known Okayama prefecture and it was only into the century A.D. that the Yamato clans could said to have any major advantage over neighbouring clans.
		Syntactically and morphologically the similarity the Korean and Japanese languages was very strengthened although the lexical and phonological influence the Ainu and Malayo-Polynesian languages cast a shadow on the subsequent evolution of the language.
	www.freeglossary.com /Yamato_period (600 words)

	Maeda - Miyoshi
		Toshiie was born in Arako Village in the Aichi District of Owari province and was the 4th son of Maeda Toshiharu.
		Nobutada was the son of Matsudaira Nagachika and held Anjô Castle in Mikawa Province.
		Suketsuku was a retainer of Itô Yoshisuke of Kyuga Province.
	www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/m1.html (5692 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yamato Province
		"Yamato Damashii" or the Spirit of Yamato is used colloquially in a nostalgic way by conservative Japanese to refer to a mysterious Golden Age of Japanese Culture when life was simple and people were honest and worked hard.
		The main icon of the hokkedo is the Fukukensaku Kannon, a splendid, dry-lacquer statue, made around 746.
		In 741 the Kinshoji became the provincial monastery-temple for Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yamato-Province (410 words)

	Yamato Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Yamato (大和) is a province of Japan which covers area of Nara Prefecture.
		"Yamato Damashi" or the Spirit of Yamato used colloquially in a nostalgic way by Japanese to refer to a mysterious Golden of Japanese Culture when life was simple people were honest and worked hard.
		The Kofun Period of Japanese culture is also called the Yamato Period by Western Scholars this local Chieftain ship eventually rose up become the Imperial Dynasty at the end the Kofun Period.
	www.freeglossary.com /Yamato_Province (427 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Iki is an island between Hizen Province and the island of Tsushima.
		Iki was invaded and overrun by the Mongols in 1274 and 1281.
		A province in the area that is today part of ōsaka Prefecture.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/i.html (1110 words)

	Yamato period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Yamato period (&22823;&21644;) (better known as the Kofun period) is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato province.
		The court's supremacy was challenged throughout the period from Bizen and Bitch&363; provinces in what is now known as Okayama prefecture, and it was only into the 6th century A.D. that the Yamato clans could be said to have any major advantage over their neighbouring clans.
		After the fall of Baekje, the Yamato government sent envoys to the Chinese court, from which they obtained a great wealth of philosophical and social structure.
	yamato-period.area51.ipupdater.com (259 words)

	Japanese Swords 3 - Legends of Yamato Province
		There was a legend from the smiths of Yamato Province in the history of Japan.
		Amakumi and his son gathered and examined the sword remnants after they found that nearly half of the returning soldiers from the war were carrying broken swords that they made.
		Besides, many swords like police and parade sabers, which were manufactured during the last forty-year cannot be considered samurai swords because of the plating and methods of forging contrary to the conventional methods of hand-forging and tempering of samurai swords.
	www.japanesesamuraiswords.com /japanese-samurai-swords-3.htm (674 words)

	Japanese Arts - History
		Yamato was thus able to mingle with the women of the Kumaso borthers, and was allowed to sit with them during a feast that night.
		The organization of provinces (kuni) was outlined, and the practice of reign names established (the first being, of course, Taika); the government was restructured along Chinese lines, and steps were taken towards economic reforms, which included a new system of taxation.
		In that a former ambassador to China and Inspector of the provinces of Sagami, Shimotsuke, and Kozuke, Tajihi Agatamori, was assigned the rank of Jeisetsu Sei-I-shôgun and given authority to war on the emishi.
	www.shaolin-society.co.uk /shaolin_legacy/history.php?history=13 (22309 words)

	austraLasia #1186 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		YAMATO (YOKOHAMA CITY): 4th July 2005 -- Just three months into the experience, the three Salesian confreres who form the pastoral nucleus of Japan's latest push into migrant worker ministry have declared that they are working through a daily Pentecost experience - and loving it.
		Yamato parish is a complex reality, but one which the Province had decided to accept as part of the restructuring of ministry requested by last year's Provincial Chapter.
		At Yamato they see three apparently equal priests (though Fr Lap is the one in charge of the parish).
	www.bosconet.aust.com /austral/ozlas1186.htm (421 words)

	Japanese history: Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun
		By the beginning of the Kofun Period (300 - 538), a center of power had developed in the fertile Kinai plain, and by about 400 AD the country was united as Yamato Japan with its political center in and around the province of Yamato (about today's Nara prefecture).
		Yamato Japan extended from Kyushu to the Kinai plain, but did not yet include the Kanto, Tohoku and Hokkaido.
		The emperor was ruler of Yamato Japan and resided in a capital that was moved frequently from one city to another.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2131.html (451 words)

	Takemata-Tokugawa
		The Takenaka of Mino Province claimed descent from Minamoto Yorimitsu and were an off-shoot of the Tôki clan.
		Ieyasu was the son of Matsudaira Hirotada and was born on 13 January 1542 at Okazaki in Mikawa Province.
		A hostage at the Imagawa capital of Sumpu in Suruga Province for a time as an infant, he was later named the keeper of Okazaki in Mikawa province and fought at Nagashino in 1575.
	www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/t2.html (5420 words)

	NIHONTO.COM:ABOUT SWORDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Hosho school is one of the five schools of the Yamato Den.
		The works of the swordsmiths of this school are known for their uniformity and it is very difficult to distinguish them from one another based upon individuality of workmanship.
		The masame hada of the Hosho school is considered to be representative of the true Yamato masame hada.
	www.nihonto.com /abtarthosho.html (503 words)

	HKJ +++ Historia i Kultura Japonii +++
		They suspect that this fact took place in the 1st or 2nd century B.C. The first three centuries of the present era is the time of forming a new structure of the society and creating of the great Japanese families and houses.
		One of them, who owned the land in the Yamato province had gradually expanded his lordship and in the V century had most of the Honsiu island under his ruling.
		In 538 in the Asuka town, where the ruler of Yamato stayed, arrived a legation of one of the Korean countries that brought as a gift a statue of Buddha, buddhist flags and ornaments and holy books.
	www.pjwstk.edu.pl /~s3388/en (381 words)

	Yamato Glossary/Characters, Monomyth Website, ORIAS, UC Berkeley
		He is said to have traveled from Kyûshû, the main westernmost island of Japan, to the central province of Yamato where he conquered all the local leaders and pacified the region.
		The pantheon of deities reflects the political structure of Japan as it was established prior to the compilation of the myths, which fixed this structure and the legitimacy of the imperial lineage.
		Yamato Takeru is famous for his subjugation of the aboriginal people found in western and eastern Japan and for extending the territory under the control of the Yamato Court.
	www.ias.berkeley.edu /orias/hero/yamato/characters_yamato.html (6437 words)

	The Kojiki: Volume II: Section LX.--Emperor Kō-rei
		No river of this name is anywhere else mentioned as flowing through the province of Harima, and one is tempted to suppose that there is some confusion with the celebrated river Hi, which figures so frequently in the Idzumo cycle of legends.
		196:19 One of the central provinces of Japan, on the northern shores of the Inland Sea.
		Shimo-tsu-michi means "the lower road," and was the ancient name of a portion of the province of Bitchiū, which formerly was a part of the land of Kibi.
	www.sacred-texts.com /shi/kj/kj067.htm (917 words)

	Around Japan
		The ruling Yamato chieftain consolidated his power by making a primitive form of Shinto the general religion and, thus, a political instrument.
		Nara in Yamato became the fixed capital in 710; in 794 Kyoto was made the imperial residence and, with few interruptions, remained the capital until 1868.
		In the north the Japanese Manchurian army occupied and annexed the province of Chengde and threatened to occupy the cities of Beijing and Tianjin.
	aroundjapan.wordpress.com (12629 words)

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