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These three Japanese girls were sent to America as part of the Iwakura Mission in 1871, at the ages of 11, 10, and 6 respectively, to receive ten years of American education before returning to Japan in 1882. Nimura explores the personalities and emotional experiences of these girls as they grow into young women and attempt to reconcile ...
The historiography of Japan (日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan.. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE.
The antecedents of the modern Japanese encyclopedia date from the ancient period and the Middle Ages. Encyclopedic books were imported from China from an early date, but the first proto-encyclopedia produced in Japan was the 1000-scroll Hifuryaku (秘府略), compiled in 831 upon the emperor's orders by Shigeno no Sadanushi (滋野貞主) and others, only fragments of which survive today.
Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (日本三代実録, "The True History of Three Reigns of Japan"), abbreviated as Sandai Jitsuroku, is an officially commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 901, it is the sixth and final text in the Six National Histories series.
Mother: Minamoto no Harako (源柄子), daughter of Minamoto no Yoshiari (源能有), son of Emperor Montoku Wife: daughter of Tachibana no Shigefuru (橘繁古女) or daughter of Fujiwara no Toshinari (藤原敏有女)
Ann Takamaki (高巻 杏, Takamaki An, IPA: [ta̠ka̠ma̠kʲi ã̠ɴ], Anne Takamaki in the Japanese version) is one of the main characters in the 2016 video game Persona 5.She is a Japanese-American teenage girl and a second-year student at the fictional Shujin Academy.
The Nakatomi was an influential clan in Classical Japan.Along with the Inbe clan, the Nakatomi were one of the two clans that oversaw certain important national rites, and one of many to claim descent from divine clan ancestors "only a degree less sublime than the imperial ancestors". [3]
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石, 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916), pen name Sōseki, born Natsume Kin'nosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist.He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness.