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Bonin Islands
Bonin Islands , Jap. Ogasawara-gunto, volcanic island group, c.40 sq mi (100 sq km), in the W Pacific Ocean, c.500 mi (800 km) S of Tokyo; part of Tokyo prefecture, Japan. The largest and principal island is Chichi (formerly Peel Island), c.10 sq mi (30 sq km), the site of Omura, the capital of... Read more |
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Satsuma
Satsuma , peninsula, Kagoshima prefecture, SW Kyushu, Japan. It gives its name to a famous porcelain, Satsuma ware, which was first manufactured there by Korean artisans in the 16th cent. As a feudal province, Satsuma was controlled by the powerful Shimazu clan, which exacted tribute from the Ryukyu... Read more |
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Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan. Religious Architecture The... Read more |
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Anglo-Japanese treaty
Anglo-Japanese treaty, 1902. Concluded on 30 January to improve British security against France and Russia in the Far East, each party agreed to fight only if the other became involved in war with at least two other powers. The treaty promised to localize any war, and facilitated Japan's decision to... Read more |
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Mark Tobey
Mark Tobey 1890-1976, American painter, b. Centerville, Wis. An avid traveler, Tobey visited China and Japan in 1934. He then developed his celebrated "white writing," in which he attempted to symbolize the human spirit by applying principles of Eastern calligraphy to the rhythms of Western... Read more |
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zaibatsu
zaibatsu [Jap.,=money clique], the great family-controlled banking and industrial combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu after World War II) are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Dai Ichi Kangyo, Sumitomo, Sanwa, and Fuyo. They gained a position in the Japanese economy with no exact... Read more |
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Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, imperialistic conflict that grew out of the rival designs of Russia and Japan on Manchuria and Korea . Russian failure to withdraw from Manchuria and Russian penetration into N Korea were countered by Japanese attempts to negotiate a division of the area into spheres... Read more |
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Mitsubishi Motors Corp
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation 33-8 Shiba 5-chomeMinato-kuTokyo 108JapanTelephone: 81-3-3456-1111Fax: 81-3-5232-774Web site: http://www.niitsubishi-motors.co.jp Public CompanyIncorporated: 1970Employees: 63,143Sales: ¥3.20 trillion ($24.02 billion) (2002)Stock Exchanges: TokyoNAIC:... Read more |
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Saicho
Saicho Saicho (767-822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who bore the posthumous title Dengyo daishi. He was the founder in Japan of the Tendai sect, which he imported after a period of study in China. In 783 the emperor Kammu decided to remove his capital from the city of Nara, where it had... Read more |
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San Rafael
San Rafael , residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. Several large companies have their regional headquarters there and various light manufactures are produced. The city is the seat of the... Read more |
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An American in Japan: Frank Lloyd Wright.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
...FrankLloyd Wright loved ukiyo...1907 trip to Japan. His passion...commissions in Japan. "Three Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright...the FLW in Japan Exhibit Committee...effects of light." The show...divided by screens and shaped...his Mayan influences - ... |
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Super Sondheim; Olney's Classy `Side by Side'
...which first saw the light of day some 12 years...songs is to say that Frank Lloyd Wright built houses or Daumier...Perry's opening of Japan to the nefarious influences of the West. Such...it to the stage or screen. Since the show also... |
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'PATTERNED FEATHERS, PIERCING EYES: EDO MASTERS FROM THE PRICE COLLECTION'...
...protection for light-sensitive...venue tour in Japan that attracted...time when Japan had purposefully...three large screens, including...pattern, the screen is believed...protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. It was under Wright's influence that Price...its tour ... |
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For love of Edo; 'Structure of beauty' as revealed by nature.(ARTS &...
...nature and light; new connections...time when Japan isolated...venue tour of Japan. The exhibition...friendship with Frank Lloyd Wright, the celebrated...with its lights shifting...enormous paired screens titled...European influences at the end of Edo. The ... |
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Hiroshi Sugimoto builds on his art with 'Architecture' photographs
...his native Japan so dramatically...country's influence on the world...measure, from Frank Lloyd Wright to the present...white luminous screens at their centers...skilled use of light give each...Building or Wright's S.C...interplay of Japan and the West... |