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Unlike its other Sinosphere counterparts, Japanese era names are still in official use. Government offices usually require era names and years for official papers. The five era names used since the end of the Edo period in 1868 can be abbreviated by taking the first letter of their romanized names. For example, S55 means Shōwa 55 (i.e. 1980 ...
The branch of the Taira adopted the name and became the Chiba clan, and held strong influence over the area of the prefecture until the Azuchi–Momoyama period. The name "Chiba" was chosen for the prefecture at the time of its creation in 1873 by the Assembly of Prefectural Governors (地方官会議 Chihōkan Kaigi), an early Meiji-period ...
The Edo period 江戸時代, Edo ... Eras during the Edo period; Era name Japanese kanji Approximate years Keichō 慶長 1596～1615 Genna 元和 1615～1624 Kan'ei ...
This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans ( gōzoku ) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period , during which new aristocracies and families, kuge , emerged in their place.
Portrait of Hiraga Gennai by Nakamaru Seijuro. Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, born c.1729; died 1779 or 1780) was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period.He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, physician, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer) [1]: 462 and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth) [2]: 67 .
Meireki (明暦) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") of the Edo period, after the Jōō era and before Manji era. This era's period spanned the years from April 1655 to July 1658. This era's period spanned the years from April 1655 to July 1658.
Category:Edo period 1603-1868 Succeeded by:Meiji period Category:Empire of Japan 1868-1945 ... The Japanese Letter-Writing Era; Jin'ya; K. Kasei culture;
Tokugawa (Shinjitai spelling: 徳川; Kyūjitai spelling: 德川) is a surname in Japan literally meaning "virtuous river".. It originated with Tokugawa Ieyasu, who took the surname in 1567, reviving an ancestral placename.