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List of Kuge families include the high level bureaucrats and nobles in the Japanese Imperial court. [1] This list is based on the lineage of the family (the clan from which the family derives, such as the Minamoto , Fujiwara , or Taira ) and the kakaku ( 家格 [ ja ] , rank).
United 93 is a 2006 film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Greengrass.The film largely chronicles the events aboard the eponymous hijacked flight, [3] one of the four hijacked flights during the September 11 attacks on America.
The kuge (公家) was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. [1] The kuge were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th century until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in the 12th century, at which point it was eclipsed by the bushi .
Young women in colorful kimono with hakama participate in Tōshiya. In 1861, after 255 years, the Tōshiya ceased being held, but a contest based on the Tōshiya called Ōmato Taikai, or Tournament of the Great Target still continues today, drawing roughly 2,000 participants from throughout Japan.
Lauren Grandcolas (August 31, 1963 – September 11, 2001) was one of the passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, who made calls providing information about the hijacking of the flight as part of the September 11 attacks.
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The emblem of the Koga is an artistic representation of the roxanne Autumn Bellflower (Gentiana scabra var. buergeri).. During the Meiji Restoration, the head of the Koga family was given the title of marquis (侯爵 kōshaku) as part of the kazoku, the hereditary peerage that combined the kuge and the daimyō.
Tachibana clan (kuge) (橘氏), a clan of kuge (court nobles) prominent in the Nara and Heian periods; Tachibana clan (samurai) (立花氏), a clan of daimyō (feudal lords) prominent in the Muromachi, Sengoku and Edo periods