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Over the course of 1959, the Bund worked in concert with another Zengakuren splinter group, a group of students affiliated with Trotskyist philosopher Kan'ichi Kuroda's Revolutionary Communist League (abbreviated Kakukyōdō in Japanese), to seize control of the Zengakuren-member student associations (jichikai) at colleges and universities across Japan, in some cases, Bund leaders later ...
The ability for Japanese families to track their lineage over successive generations plays a far more important role than simply having the same name as another family, as many commoners did not use a family name prior to the Meiji Restoration, and many simply adopted (名字, myōji) the name of the lord of their village, or the name of their ...
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Even by the standards of Japanese names, there is an unusual degree of variation in the second kanji used to write Watanabe, with at least 51 recorded variants including the common 渡部, 渡邉 and 渡邊. [8] According to the 'Japanese Family Names and Family Crests', the surname Watanabe is a toponymic surname (and never an occupational ...
The aristocratic Tsuchimikado family, descended from Abe no Seimei, survived into the Meiji era and were considered the heirs to the main Abe clan line despite having a different name. [5] [6] A family by the name of Abe also proved significant during the Edo period, serving successively in the post of Rōjū, or Elders, who advised the ...
The Oda clan (Japanese: 織田氏, Hepburn: Oda-shi) is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they reached the peak of their power under Oda Nobunaga and fell soon after, several branches of the family continued as daimyo houses until the Meiji ...
The Mononobe clan (物部氏, Mononobe uji) was a Japanese aristocratic kin group of the Kofun period, known for its military opposition to the Soga clan.The Mononobe were opposed to the spread of Buddhism, partly on religious grounds, claiming that the local deities would be offended by the worshiping of foreign deities, but also as the result of feelings of conservatism and a degree of ...
Yuzuki no Kimi left Japan but soon returned, in 283, with additional members of his clan "from 120 districts of his own land". [1] Some point out to the name of Yuzuki no Kimi being of Korean origin. According to Japanese linguists, "弓月君" could be a direct translation of "Kudara (くだら)" a unique name for Baekje in Japanese.