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- until 1873. was the thirty-third emperor of Japan, according to the traditional ... with good governance and the promotion of a value based social system ...9 KB (1,420 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of ... *Keene, Donald. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- scholar, administrator, and waka poet of the Nara period. Little is ... History shows that China, Korea and Japan had frequent cultural and ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... Jianzhen promulgated the Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- was not transferred to the Emperor of Japan with the forced end ... *Keene, Donald. 2002. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His world, 1852 ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- :For other uses of the word Taira see Taira (disambiguation) ... clan name bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period on certain ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:27, 21 January 2024
- Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous ... two leaders, who both supported the Emperor of Japan, were brought together ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- or “ama shogun” (尼将軍) because of her role in the founding of ... Born in 1156 as the eldest daughter of the leader of the influential ...16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
- regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process ... significant improvement and standardization of papermaking by adding essential ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- , is the Japanese festival honoring the autumn moon, a variant of ... Traditionally in Japan, moon viewing was a way of honoring the moon ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji Era’s most famous ... As a youth, Itō joined the Sonno joi (“to revere the Emperor and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- Emperor Hirohito or Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa Tennō) (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor (July 25, 1852 – January 21, 1919), ... an heir. The Dowager Queen Sinjeong, mother of King Heonjong, the king before ...17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- political theorist, statesman, and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment in ... During his youth, Kato was a liberal advocate of constitutional government ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... and Viscount Mutsu Munemitsu for the Emperor of Japan and Li Hongzhang and ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- (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
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect ... quot; or "crest") of the emperor of Japan today, and therefore ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The Battle of Cheongsanri (Chingshanri in Chinese) was fought in October ... Although no dramatic change in the status of relations between the ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October ... * Keene, Donald. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His world, 1852-1912 ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- along the Silk Road to China, Korea and Japan. The technique was also highly ... confused with Canton enamel, a similar type of enamel work that is painted ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- as a Japanese hero and a founding father of the modern age. He was a visionary ... known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... literature, Tung Chungshu influenced the Emperor Han Wu-ti and held official ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- Donald Keene. Emperor Of Japan: Meiji And His World, 1852-1912. (New ... *Keane, Donald. Emperor Of Japan: Meiji And His World, 1852-1912. ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- essayist, Biblical scholar, and founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai ... ("worshiping") before the portrait of Emperor Meiji and the Imperial ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... After World War II, Japan was occupied by a foreign power for the ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- 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
- A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... place at the center with varying degrees of success. The Sinocentric tribute ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- Genpei gassen, 1180–1185) was a series of conflicts between the Taira ... as Gempei) comes from alternate readings of the kanji for 'Minamoto ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- , also known as Jodo Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism, derived ... as expressed in the nembutsu (repetition of the name of Amida). Through ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
- Min, married to King Gojong, the 26th King of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1902 ... Queen Min, an unlikely person to take the reins of Korea during the ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- , born Yáng Yùhuán (楊玉環), was one of the Four Beauties of ancient ... been a court favorite, began the Rebellion of Anshi, taking the capital of ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- - 1662), was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born ... Zheng Chenggong was a prominent leader of the Ming loyalist movement ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- – 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) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ... (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976–1994 ... Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan. Morita died on October ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- There are not specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area ... and still others around contests where many of the participants sport loin ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- " Her myths are the most important of the indigenous Japanese faith ... became the ancestor of Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan. ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological birds ... Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... Buddhism, reasserting the importance of repentance and internal enlightenment ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas ... to harmonize the rituals and practices of two different world religions ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite ... the Malay archipelago for its key importance of protecting trade to China. ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the ... east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- Qiao (房喬) but went by the courtesy name of Xuanling, ... formally Duke Wenzhao of Liang (梁文昭公), was the lead editor ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- waiting in the imperial court at the height of the Heian period (795–1185 ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- 1190) was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura ... his own poems against each other. Many of his poems are included in the ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... details that revealed the characteristics of the figures he drew and paid ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- played a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from India to ... His teachings point to a direct experience of Buddha-Nature rather ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor ... This genealogy shows the line of succession from the founding monarch ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- 1954) was a Japanese pearl farmer, inventor of the cultured pearl and businessman ... Mikimoto once said to the Emperor of Japan, “I would like to adorn ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 17:55, 9 November 2022
- 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
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... The cultivation of rice allowed the development of a sedentary agricultural ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- during the Meiji and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed ... Kendo is rooted in the lifestyle and the spirit of the Samurai tradition ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist ... June Kinoshita and Nicholas Palevsky, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and ... new theories about him. Shinran’s theory of Buddhism came from deep insight ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during which the capital ... during the Asuka period, borrowing systems of political and social organization ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...16 KB (2,213 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- The Yongle Emperor or “Yung-lo Emperor” (永楽帝 ) May 2, 1360 ... Though he was despotic and ruthless, Yongle is considered one of the ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... Traditionally, waka has had no concept of rhyme (certain arrangements ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- in central Seoul, South Korea. One of the city's largest institutions ... Emperor Gojong bestowed The name, meaning “Pear blossom academy ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... It is believed that the first emperor of Japan was born from a union ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- , 772–846) was a poet of the T'ang dynasty (618–907) in China ... distributed to ensure their survival. Two of his most famous works are the ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- born Hiyoshi-maru日吉丸; coming of age (Genpuku) as Kinoshita ... Hideyoshi is noted in Japanese history for a number of political and ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 12:36, 18 April 2023
- considered the foremost intellectual leader of China during the first two ... writings influenced an entire generation of Chinese young people. Liang ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... symbolized the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrated ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's ... The city of Nagoya was established in 1610 when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- and the Meiji period. An inquisitive student of foreign culture, Kaishu made ... Washington, DC, for the formal ratification of the Harris Treaty. He remained ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- Japan's justification for abducting Korean, Chinese, and Southeast ... Some Japanese historians, using the diaries and testimony of military ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Kudara no Konikishi (ja|百濟王) from the emperor of Japan. ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- author, (waka) poet, essayist, and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry ... Kamo no Chomei is best known as a classic example of a man of artistic ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ... Toju understood the virtue of filial piety as the supreme virtue among ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- martial art that utilizes a large variety of techniques in defense against ... established judo in 1905, but many schools of jujutsu continued to evolve ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
- , 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... history. His style assimilated the essence of the previous 500 years, and ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
- (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), The Throne of Blood (1957), Kagemusha (1980 ... drew his subject material from a wide range of literary sources—from Shakespeare ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Korean mythology represents Dangun Wanggeom as the founder of Gojoseon ... Although myth shrouds the origins of the Korean people, the message ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known ... The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka ... no daidokoro) or the gourmet food capital of Japan. The city has a long ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- President Fillmore's letter to Emperor of Japan.]] ... States, Millard Fillmore, to the Emperor of Japan. Although he had invested ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... to constantly point south by the use of differential gears without ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- in adapting to the culture and traditions of a society in order to introduce ... gwang, who later helped shape the foundation of the Silhak movement in Korea. ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- this direction he helped lay the foundations of modern Korea. ... Henry Appenzeller was the second of three sons born to Gideon and ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- impressions thereof that are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents ... The Privy Seal of Japan is the Emperor of Japan's official seal ...36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
