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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 .
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
19th-century Japanese writers (9 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Japanese writers of the Edo period" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total.
Japanese writers of the Edo period (3 C, 104 P) Pages in category "People of Edo-period Japan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 501 total.
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
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 ...
Shiryu Fujiwara (藤原 志龍) (born 2000) Japanese footballer; Morita Shiryū (森田 子龍) (1912–1998) Japanese artist; Shiryu Hayashi (林 紫龍, born. during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan) a notable swordsman; Kazuhiro "Kaz" Hayashi (born May 18, 1973) is a Japanese professional wrestler who has used the name Shiryu as an alias.
Zenigata Heiji (銭形 平次, Zenigata Heiji) is a Japanese fictional character, the hero of a series of Japanese novels, films and TV programmes set in the Edo period (1603–1868) of Japanese history. He is a policeman (岡っ引き, okappiki) who catches criminals by throwing coins, the zeni of the title, thus Zenigata Heiji.