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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 ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- 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
- family, who died in 1332, left a large part of Shikoku in a state of civil war. Ashikaga Takauji brought this war to end. This was the last successful ...8 KB (1,151 words) - 20:26, 21 November 2025
- ***Abies veitchii var. sikokiana - Shikoku Fir * Section Grandis (western North America to Mexico and Guatemala, lowlands in north, moderate altitudes ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- 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 (1,609 words) - 02:45, 30 January 2025
- Banjyo, who was traveling in Tosa Province on Shikoku Island. In this journal Kondo wrote about an encounter with RyÅkan. One evening as darkness approached ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- from tombs in the Kansai and eastern Shikoku regions. The discovery of the mirror in the Hokenoyama tomb suggests the possibility that Himiko ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 20:29, 17 July 2024
- 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) - 18:58, 31 July 2025
- 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 ...16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
- 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) - 21:57, 30 June 2025
- defeated and exiled to Sanuki Province on Shikoku. According to legend, he ... 2001 The people of KÅchi 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 KantŠregion, 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 (2,543 words) - 12:04, 12 February 2025
- main islands of Japan (HonshÅ«, HokkaidÅ, Shikoku and KyÅ«shÅ«) and the immediately ... Division, with some responsibility for Shikoku. HonshÅ« was occupied by ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 18:53, 31 July 2025
- 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 ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 19:45, 4 May 2024
- 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
- Honen to death and ordered exiled Honen to Tosa on Shikoku Island. Honen, who was 75 years old at the time, was stripped of his status as a monk. Through ...19 KB (3,029 words) - 07:41, 19 July 2024
