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  2. Koji Kashin - Wikipedia

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    Kashin Koji (果心居士), also called Shippo Gyoja (七宝行者, Pilgrim of the Seven Treasures), is a Japanese folkloric/legendary character of a late Muromachi period magician. There are stories of him performing magic before Nobunaga Oda , Hideyoshi Toyotomi , Mitsuhide Akechi , Hisahide Matsunaga , and others, but his historicity is ...

  3. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  4. Japanese script reform - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. This issue is known in Japan as the kokugo kokuji mondai ( 国語国字問題 , national language and script problem) .

  5. Siege of Shigisan - Wikipedia

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    In the 2020 Taiga drama, Kirin ga Kuru, Matsunaga Hisahide is played by actor Kōtarō Yoshida. This Taiga's narrative was that Hisahide left his alliance with Nobunaga after Tsutsui Junkei, his rival, was chosen as protector of the Yamato Province. Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada, with Akechi Mitsuhide, would defeat Hisahide at the Siege of ...

  6. Kanji - Wikipedia

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    Kanji (漢字, pronounced ⓘ) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. [1] They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana.

  7. The Japanese characters at the 'heart' of 'Bullet Train' - AOL

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    Actor Andrew Koji, who is half Japanese and was born and raised in England, said he’s always felt out of place. But in the new action-comedy film “Bullet Train,” Koji plays a Japanese ...

  8. Matsunaga Hisahide - Wikipedia

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    Matsunaga Hisahide is voiced by Masumi Asano in Japanese and by Shelley Calene-Black in English. In the 2014 anime Nobunaga Concerto , and its 2015 film adaptation, Matsunaga Hisahide is depicted as a Yakuza member before being transported to the past, Hisahide relishes the chaos of the Sengoku period, believing it to be a battle where only the ...

  9. Historiography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The strategies for writing history changed over time. The earliest works were created by Imperial edict. In 1793, the Tokugawa shogunate established the Institute for Japanese Studies (Wagaku Kôdansho). [24] In 1869, Emperor Meiji issued an Imperial rescript which explained the importance of historiography: