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Yamashiro in Hollywood, depicted on a postcard from c. 1914. The Yamashiro Historic District is located on Sycamore Avenue in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles , California, United States.
Yamashiro Province (山城国, Yamashiro no Kuni) was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshū . [ 1 ] Aliases include Jōshū ( 城州 ) , the rare Sanshū ( 山州 ) , and Yōshū ( 雍州 ) .
Yamashiro (山城町, Yamashiro-chō) is a district of the city of Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was named for the old Yamashiro Province. It was a town in its own right in Sōraku District until 2007. Yamashiro and the towns of Kamo and Kizu (all from Sōraku District) merged to create the city of Kizugawa on March 12, 2007.
The Izumo Province Yamashiro-gō Sites (出雲国山代郷遺跡群, Izumo-no-kuni yamashiro-gō iseki-gun) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the Oba-cho, Yata-cho, and Yamashiro-cho neighborhoods of the city of Matsue in Shimane prefecture in the San'in region of Japan.
Kyoto is located in a valley, part of the Yamashiro (or Kyoto) Basin, in the eastern part of the mountainous region known as the Tamba highlands. The Yamashiro Basin is surrounded on three sides by mountains known as Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama (literally "east mountain", "north mountain" and "west mountain" respectively), with a ...
Yamashiro Historic District, a villa, restaurant, and gardens in Los Angeles, California Yamashiro, or yamajiro , category of Japanese castle in which the main structures are located on a mountain In addition to kanji variation, the word could also be read as Yamagusuku in the Ryukyu Islands .
The Koma-dera ruins are located in the rice terraces to the east of Kamikoma on the north bank of the Kizu River. On the opposite bank was Izumitsu (Kozu Ruins), which was the main port for shipping on the Kizu River. Koma-dera is believed to have been the oldest temple built in former Yamashiro Province, dating from the Asuka period.
[2]: 565–587 Kyoto Prefecture is located on the Sea of Japan coast and extends to the southeast towards the Kii Peninsula, covering territory of the former provinces of Yamashiro, Tamba, and Tango. Kyoto Prefecture is centered on the historic Imperial capital of Kyoto, and is one of Japan's two " prefectures " using the designation fu rather ...