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  • fled to the coast and passed over to Shikoku, leaving five hundred dead.) ... on the Taira headquarters at Yashima, on Shikoku. Minamoto Yoritomo spent ...
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  • his clan's fortresses in western Honshū and Shikoku. ... was surrounded, and the Taira retreated to Shikoku. However, the Minamoto were ...
    23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
  • ***Abies veitchii var. sikokiana - Shikoku Fir * Section Grandis (western North America to Mexico and Guatemala, lowlands in north, moderate altitudes ...
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  • as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the second ... on Honshu), and Tosa (Kochi prefecture on Shikoku). === Exposure to ...
    18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
  • that was necessary. He was exiled to the island of Shikoku. * Chosai, the last of Honen's direct disciples, felt that all practices in Buddhism ...
    10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
  • Banjyo, who was traveling in Tosa Province on Shikoku Island. In this journal Kondo wrote about an encounter with Ryōkan. One evening as darkness approached ...
    10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
  • about to launch invasions into Echigo province and Shikoku. ... to prepare for an invasion of Shikoku, and sent Akechi Mitsuhide ...
    25 KB (4,007 words) - 23:52, 17 November 2022
  • to a new assignment at Ozu in the Iyo province of Shikoku where he studied calligraphy and Chinese poetry with a monk. When he was fourteen, a chief retainer ...
    13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
  • Kyoto, driving the Taira (and Emperor Antoku) to Shikoku and quickly installing Emperor Go-Toba. Yoritomo's half brothers, Minamoto no Yoshitsune ...
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  • teaching at Ehime Prefecture Middle School in Shikoku, the setting for his novel Botchan. Along with fulfilling his teaching duties, Soseki published ...
    14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
  • defeated and exiled to Sanuki Province on Shikoku. According to legend, he ... 2001 The people of Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku believe in a creature called ...
    37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
  • Honen was exiled to Shikoku Island and Shinran to Echigo Province on the coast of the Sea of Japan. After five years Honen and his disciples ...
    16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
  • part of the Kantō region, Chūgoku region, Shikoku, and Okinawa Prefecture. These three festival days are not listed as public holidays, but it ...
    17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
  • There is a large statue of Manjiro Nakahama at Cape Ashizuri, on Shikoku. In Fairhaven, the Manjiro Historic Friendship Society is renovating ...
    17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
  • main islands of Japan (Honshū, Hokkaidō, Shikoku and Kyūshū) and the immediately ... Division, with some responsibility for Shikoku. Honshū was occupied by ...
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  • raised sea levels so that the southern islands of Shikoku and Kyushu were separated from the main island of Honshu. Warmer temperatures meant an increase ...
    18 KB (2,641 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
  • and cheese making. In 1905, the Island of Shikoku was given to the Spanish Dominicans. In February 1981, Pope John Paul II paid a visit to Japan ...
    21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
  • , a village now in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, on Shikoku.Mark Weston ... reminiscent of Ōe's own rural Shikoku childhood. Ōe identified ...
    45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
  • of the Tosa clan which controlled the part of Shikoku where Iwasaki Yataro was born. Maintaining the value of the logo as a symbol of quality and ...
    21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
  • because it was located between Kyoto, Shikoku and Tokyo. == Sightseeing == [[Image:Nagoya Castle 01.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Nagoya Castle]] ...
    21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023

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