Yamato Province - Citizendia

Map of Japanese provinces with Yamato Province highlighted

Yamato (大和, Yamato^? "great harmony") or Yamato no kuni (大和国, Yamato no kuni^? "great harmony country") was one of the historical Provinces of Japan, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. Before the modern prefecture system was established the land of Japan was divided into tens of kuni (国 countries) usually known in WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture in the Kinki region on Honshū Island, Japan or Honshu is the largest Island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of

The Yamato Period in the History of Japan refers to the late Kofun period (ca. This is summary of two more detailed articles Kofun period and Asuka period. The written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts The is an era in the History of Japan from around 250 to 538 The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era 250-538 CE) and Asuka period (538-710 CE). The, was a period in the History of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592-645 although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. Japanese archaeologists and historians emphasize the fact that during the early Kofun period the Yamato chieftainship was in close contention with other regional powers, such as Kibi Province near present-day Okayama Prefecture. was a province of Japan, in the area of Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on Honshū Around the 6th century CE, the local chieftainship gained national control and established the Imperial court in Yamato Province.

Yamato was semantically extended to mean "Japan; Japanese" in general, and in that sense is referred to as "Great Yamato". In any of several studies that treat the use of signs for example in Linguistics, Logic, Mathematics, Semantics, and Semiotics, the Some examples are

Yamato people "the predominant ethnic group in Japan"
Yamato-damashii "the nationalistic 'Japanese spirit'"
Yamato Nadeshiko "the idealized Japanese woman"
Yamato-e "classical Japanese painting"
Yamato "a World War II battleship"

The Ryukyuans sometimes use this name in contrasting mainland Japan with Okinawa Prefecture. The are the dominant native Ethnic group of Japan. It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of the Mainland is a historically and culturally Loaded word in the Japanese language. is referred to by Japanese as a woman with attributes that were considered traditionally desirable from the perspective of a male dominated society; generally ascribed to people with Yamato-e (大和絵 is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Tang dynasty paintings and developed in the late Heian period. Construction The Yamato class was built after the Japanese withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty at the Second London Conference of 1936 World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Ryukyuans ( Japanese: 琉球民族 Ryūkyū minzoku; Japanese Gairaigo based on Uchinaguchi ウチナンチュ Uchinanchu) are the Indigenous is one of Japan 's southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1000 km long which extends southwest from Kyūshū In the Okinawan language, Yamato is called "Yamatu". Okinawan (Uchināguchi 沖縄口 Japanese ja ウチナーグチ, ʔucināguci) is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan on the southern island of

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