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57 relations: Ancient Chinese coinage, Architecture, Ōnin War, Buddhism, Devon, Edo period, Emperor Go-Reizei, Emperor Go-Sanjō, Emperor Go-Suzaku, Emperor Horikawa, Emperor Ichijō, Emperor Kazan, Emperor Meiji, Emperor Uda, F&W Media International, Fujiwara clan, Gautama Buddha, Glossary of Japanese Buddhism, Higashiyama culture, Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities), Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japan, Japanese garden, Japanese rock garden, John Cage, Kanji, Kōan, Kyūjitai, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Leaf peeping, List of compositions by John Cage, List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments, Materialism, Medial axis, Muromachi period, Myōshin-ji, Nature (journal), Newton Abbot, Poverty, Radical (Chinese characters), Randomness, Rinzai school, Rotational symmetry, Sanmon, Sōami, Shape analysis (digital geometry), Shinjitai, Temple, Tourism in Japan, ..., Tsukubai, Tuttle Publishing, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, UNESCO, Wolfsburg, World Heritage site, Zen. Expand index (7 more) »
Ancient Chinese coinage
Ancient Chinese coinage includes some of the earliest known coins.
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Architecture
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.
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Ōnin War
The was a civil war that lasted from 1467 to 1477, during the Muromachi period in Japan.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Devon
Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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Emperor Go-Reizei
was the 70th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Go-Sanjō
was the 71st emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Go-Suzaku
was the 69th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Horikawa
was the 73rd emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Ichijō
was the 66th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Kazan
was the 65th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Meiji
, or, was the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from February 3, 1867 until his death on July 29, 1912.
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Emperor Uda
was the 59th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Fujiwara clan
, descending from the Nakatomi clan and through them Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto, was a powerful family of regents in Japan.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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Glossary of Japanese Buddhism
This is the glossary of Japanese Buddhism, including major terms the casual (or brand-new) reader might find useful in understanding articles on the subject.
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Higashiyama culture
The Higashiyama culture (東山文化 Higashiyama bunka) is a segment of Japanese culture originated and promoted in the 15th century by the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, after he retired to his villa in the eastern hills (東山 Higashiyama) of the capital city Kyoto.
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Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) encompasses 17 locations in Japan within the city of Kyoto and its immediate vicinity.
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Hosokawa Katsumoto
was one of the Kanrei, the Deputies to the Shogun, during Japan's Muromachi period.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese garden
are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetic and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape.
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Japanese rock garden
The or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden, creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kōan
A (공안 gong-an; công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice.
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Kyūjitai
, are the traditional forms of kanji, Chinese written characters used in Japanese.
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Kyoto
, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Kyoto Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of the island of Honshu.
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Leaf peeping
Leaf peeping is an informal term in the United States for the activity in which people travel to view and photograph the fall foliage in areas where leaves change colors in autumn, particularly in northern New England and the upper Midwest.
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List of compositions by John Cage
This is a list of compositions by John Cage (1912–1992), arranged in chronological order by year of composition.
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List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments
To protect Japan's cultural heritage, the country's government selects through the Agency for Cultural Affairs important items and designates them as Cultural Properties under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.
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Materialism
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
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Medial axis
The medial axis of an object is the set of all points having more than one closest point on the object's boundary.
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Muromachi period
The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
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Myōshin-ji
is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, and head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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Radical (Chinese characters)
A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
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Randomness
Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.
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Rinzai school
The Rinzai school (Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: 临济宗 línjì zōng) is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (with Sōtō and Ōbaku).
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Rotational symmetry
Rotational symmetry, also known as radial symmetry in biology, is the property a shape has when it looks the same after some rotation by a partial turn.
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Sanmon
A, also called, is the most important gate of a Japanese Zen Buddhist temple, and is part of the Zen shichidō garan, the group of buildings that forms the heart of a Zen Buddhist temple.
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Sōami
was a Japanese painter and landscape artist.
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Shape analysis (digital geometry)
This article describes shape analysis to analyze and process geometric shapes.
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Shinjitai
are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946.
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Temple
A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.
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Tourism in Japan
Japan attracted 28.69 million international tourists in 2017.
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Tsukubai
In Japan, a is a washbasin provided at the entrance to holy places for visitors to purify themselves by the ritual washing of hands and rinsing of the mouth.
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Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.
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Ukyō-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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Zen
Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryōan-ji
