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  2. The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō - Wikipedia

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    An example is the view of the station Ishibe „Megawa Village“ which is almost identical to the view in the Tōkaidō meisho zue. [5] The first of the prints in the series was published jointly by the publishing houses of Hōeidō and Senkakudō, with the former handling all subsequent releases on its own. [3]

  3. Edo meisho zue - Wikipedia

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    Edo meisho zue (江戸名所図会, "Guide to famous Edo sites") is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called meisho, and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Tokyo, then known as Edo. It was printed using Japanese woodblock printing techniques in 20 books divided among seven volumes.

  4. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.

  5. Meisho - Wikipedia

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    Meisho (名所, lit. ' famous places ' ) originally referred to sites in Japan famous for their associations with specific poetic or literary references. With the development of woodblock printing and newer styles of tourism during the Edo period , the term came to denote a wider range of places of interest.

  6. Suda Hachiman Shrine Mirror - Wikipedia

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    It is a bronze mirror cast with 48 Chinese characters around the fifth century. It is an important artifact for the research in Japanese archaeology and Old Japanese language. It was found at Suda Hachiman Shrine , and its earliest mention in text is in the 3rd volume of the Kii no kuni meisho zue (紀伊国名所図会; "Illustrated Guide to ...

  7. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China.

  8. Tawara Tōda Monogatari - Wikipedia

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    The name Chikushi (遅来矢) has been ascribed to the sword given by the Dragon King in the Wakan sansai zue encyclopedia (1712) and the Tōkaidō meisho zue almanac (1797). [j] [17] [18] [19] Hidesato's alleged armor from the Dragon Palace bore the similarly scripted name Hiraishi (避来矢) according to the Ujisatoki (before 1713 [20]).

  9. Nue - Wikipedia

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    The Settsu Meisho Zue states that "the Nuezuka is between Ashiya River and Sumiyoshi River." [ 10 ] According to the Ashiwake bune , a geography book from the Edo period , a nue drifted down and washed ashore on the Yodo River, and when the villagers, fearful of a curse, notified the head priest of Boon-ji about it, it was courteously mourned ...