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Owari and Mino provinces were separated by the Sakai River, which means "border river." The province's abbreviated name was Bishū (尾州). Ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige, Owari, from The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States (六十余州名所図会), depicting a festival at Tsushima Shrine. Owari is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.
Owari may refer to: The Owari Mandarin orange, a widely cultivated fruit of Japanese origin; Additional Japan-related topics: Owari House, a branch family of the Tokugawa clan that ruled Japan during the Edo era; Owari Province, a former region in Japan; Owari Domain, a feudal domain of Japan in the Edo period; Owari clan, an ancient Japanese clan
The Nagoya dialect (名古屋弁, Nagoya-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.In a wide sense, Nagoya dialect means the dialect in the western half of the prefecture (formerly part of Owari Province), and in that case, it is also called Owari dialect (尾張弁 Owari-ben).
Maru-ni-mitsuba'aoi ("Circle Around Three Hollyhock Leaves"), the Tokugawa clan's crest (). The Tokugawa Go-san-ke (徳川御三家, "the Three Houses of the Tokugawa"), also called simply Go-san-ke (御三家, "the Noble Three Houses"), or even San-ke (三家, "the three houses"), were the most noble three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan: Owari, Kii, and Mito, all of which were ...
The Owari-Han, also known as the Owari Domain, was a significant feudal domain in Japan during the Edo period. [1] Situated in the western region of what is now Aichi Prefecture , it covered portions of Owari , Mino , and Shinano provinces, with its central administration based at Nagoya Castle.
The Owari Tokugawa family (尾張徳川家, Owari Tokugawa-ke) is a branch of the Tokugawa clan, and it is the seniormost house of the Gosanke ("three honourable houses of the Tokugawa"). [ 1 ] History
Owarai (お笑い) is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. The word owarai is the honorific form of the word warai (by adding o-prefix), meaning "a laugh" or "a smile". Owarai is most common on Japanese variety shows and the comedians are referred to as owarai geinin or owarai tarento. Presently [when?
The so-called wakizashi was a blade of peculiar design forged by famous Japanese swordsmith Hata Mitsuyo, because of this, the blade was nicknamed Onibōchō (Oni kitchen knife). Yagyū Kōichi Taira-no-Toshinobu, Sōke (headmaster) of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū since 2006, from the main line of Owari Yagyū.