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 ...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 Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- 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 (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- – 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
- 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 (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- 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) - 02:34, 5 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
- (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
- 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 (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- 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, ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- 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
- benthic, being anchored to the bottom of the ocean or to solid structures. for seaweed, are a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 17:38, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,641 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 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
- Tuna is any of 14 species of ocean-dwelling fish comprising the tribe ... and the Philippines and probably the Sea of Japan/East Sea, then migrate ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 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
- The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid ... of the northern winds coming across the Sea of Japan. The winds pick up moisture ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- 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
- miles (1,300 km) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to the Russian Kamchatka ... after which they began settlement. A group of the southern islands were seized ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- between northwestern Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, and Sea of Okhotsk ... near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (west), the Sea of Okhotsk ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- size and a more pointed snout than the sea lions in the same family ... The one species of Callorhinus, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- centered in the area around the Sea of Japan, and particularly in the ... center of expansion from the Sea of Japan but cannot indicate dates ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most ... Since approximately 75 percent of the resident population of the state ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- Elapidae, whose members are known as elapids, is a family of venomous ... Elapids are a diverse group of more than 300 species placed in about ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests 750 ... Image:Rinux2.jpg|The Sea of Japan can be seen on a clear day from ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- 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
- tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered ... at shrines at the base and around the rim of the crater, and Buddhists called ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 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
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured ... Kingdoms." Founded soon after the fall of Gojoseon, the three city-states ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large ... The Southern Ocean lies in the farthest edge of the Southern Hemisphere ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ... Tottori prefecture) on the coast of the Sea of Japan, and a year later he moved ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part ... The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- " Her myths are the most important of the indigenous Japanese faith ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- 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
- later use. Mochi is used to make a variety of traditional Japanese sweets ... In Japan, mochi is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki ...16 KB (2,504 words) - 12:55, 10 March 2023
- Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and nearly ... of Echigo province, located along the Sea of Japan, in the northern part ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical ... "to seek," which was the name of an island in the Red Sea that ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
