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  2. Ie (Japanese family system) - Wikipedia

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    The physical ie: a Japanese House. Ie (家) is a Japanese term which translates directly to household. It can mean either a physical home or refer to a family 's lineage. It is popularly used as the "traditional" family structure. The physical definition of an ie consists of an estate that includes a house, rice paddies and vegetable gardens ...

  3. Japanese family - Wikipedia

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    A great number of family forms have existed historically in Japan, from the matrilocal customs of the Heian.. As official surveys conducted during the early years of the Meiji dynasty demonstrated, the most common family form during the Edo period was characterized by patrilocal residence, stem structure, and patrilineal primogeniture, [2] so a set of laws were promulgated institutionalizing ...

  4. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world. [1] Since the Jomon period, ancestral groups like the Yayoi and Kofun, who arrived to Japan from Korea and China, respectively ...

  5. Edo society - Wikipedia

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    Edo society was a feudal society with strict social stratification, customs, and regulations intended to promote political stability. The Emperor of Japan and the kuge were the official ruling class of Japan but had no power. The shōgun of the Tokugawa clan, the daimyō, and their retainers of the samurai class administered Japan through their ...

  6. Japanese clans - Wikipedia

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    Sakai clan (酒井氏) – cadet branch of Nitta clan, by the Tokugawa clan descended from Seiwa Genji. Sakuma clan (佐久間氏) – cadet branch of Miura clan who descended from Kanmu Heishi. Sanada clan (真田氏) – descended from Seiwa Genji (disputed); famous for Sanada Nobushige who is more commonly known as Sanada Yukimura.

  7. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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    In this respect, the organization is a variation of the traditional Japanese senpai-kōhai (senior-junior) model. Members of yakuza cut their real family ties and transfer their loyalty to the oyabun. They refer to each other as family members— oyaji (親父, fathers), ojiki (叔父貴, uncles), and kyōdai (兄弟, elder and younger brothers).

  8. Iemoto - Wikipedia

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    Iemoto (家元, lit. 'family foundation') is a Japanese term used to refer to the founder or current Grand Master of a certain school of traditional Japanese art. It is used synonymously with the term sōke (宗家) when it refers to the family or house that the iemoto is head of and represents. The word iemoto is also used to describe a system ...

  9. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    The current structure (family name + given name) did not materialize until the 1870s, when the Japanese government created the new family registration system. In feudal Japan, names reflected a person's social status, as well as their affiliation with Buddhist, Shintō, feudatory-military, Confucian-scholarly, mercantile, peasant, slave, and ...