Search results for "Sea of Japan" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...
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  • monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... Jianzhen promulgated the Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...
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  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...
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  • – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured ... As an official poet to the court of three successive rulers, Hitomaro ...
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  • Sea to the south; and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. South Korea ... Yellow Sea to the south; the East Sea (Sea of Japan) borders the east coast ...
    14 KB (2,131 words) - 17:54, 15 January 2021
  • its southwest. It is connected to the Sea of Japan (also known as "Korean ... Kuril Islands straits, waters from the Sea of Japan flowing through the La ...
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  • West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Together ... Endo’s greatest work, Silence, portrays the courage of Japanese ...
    12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
  • - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... four other fishermen from Tosa Province, Japan, and rescued by the American ...
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  • Ganghwa Island (江華島), known as the first line of defense for ... island in South Korea, sits in the estuary of the Han River on the west coast ...
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  • Koi is any of the ornamental, domesticated varieties of the common ... Koi is one of the world's most popular freshwater, ornamental ...
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  • The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically ... About the size of New Zealand, it is one of the largest peninsulas ...
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  • Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...
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  • (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...
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  • in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1891, Hearn married ... in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. Most Japanese identify ...
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  • Ryōkan (良寛) (1758-1831) was a Zen Buddhist monk of the Edo period ... in Echigo Province, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, in 1758. His father, ...
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  • abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... item, they have been important for thousands of years in the cuisines of many ...
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  • benthic, being anchored to the bottom of the ocean or to solid structures. for seaweed, are a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic ...
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  • The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese ... genetic expansion from the area of the Sea of Japan towards the rest of eastern ...
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  • have been formed by the incidental isolation of an existing piece of land during ... others were intended to isolate one group of people from another. More recently ...
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  • regarded as the holiest temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...
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