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- account in the Kojiki on the first day of the first month, 660 B.C.E ... The Japanese tradition of respect, even of reverence, for the Emperor ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 20:44, 22 October 2025
- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... Jianzhen promulgated the LĂĽ-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 08:30, 2 January 2025
- 1333. The term "Bakufu" as a form of government was, however, coined ... as the aristocrats did, but in the spirit of simplicity and fortitude. Yoritomo’s ...8 KB (1,151 words) - 20:26, 21 November 2025
- 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 ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 12:23, 28 April 2026
- – 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 ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 15:56, 28 February 2025
- 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) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 12:04, 12 February 2025
- 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 ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- Koi is any of the ornamental, domesticated varieties of the common ... Koi is one of the world's most popular freshwater, ornamental ...13 KB (2,084 words) - 22:49, 18 October 2021
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically ... About the size of New Zealand, it is one of the largest peninsulas ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 16:05, 28 February 2025
- a zither. The koto was introduced to Japan from China in the early Nara ... It is played with picks on three fingers of the right hand, while the left ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 23:06, 3 March 2025
- 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 ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,499 words) - 21:28, 7 March 2025
- (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- Empire. Faced with increasing pressure from Japan on Korea's sovereignty ... Some have advanced that the declaration of Korea as an empire denoted ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 04:27, 8 June 2024
- read as Pimiku, was a legendary female ruler of the kingdom of Yamataikoku ... Yamatohime-no-mikoto, the legendary daughter of Emperor Suinin and founder ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 20:29, 17 July 2024
- abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... item, they have been important for thousands of years in the cuisines of many ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
