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  2. Miyagi (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Miyagi (written: 宮城 lit. "shrine fortress") is a Japanese surname. It can be read as Miyashiro , or Naagusuku in the Ryukyu Islands . Notable people with the surname include:

  3. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Prefecture Kanji origin and meaning of name Aichi 愛知県: Aichi-ken (愛知県) means "love knowledge". In the third volume of the Man'yōshū there is a poem by Takechi Kurohito that reads: "The cry of the crane, calling to Sakurada; it sounds like the tide, draining from Ayuchi flats, hearing the crane cry".

  4. Miyagi Prefecture - Wikipedia

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    Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県, Miyagi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. [2] Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,265,724 (1 August 2023) and has a geographic area of 7,282 km 2 (2,812 sq mi).

  5. Sendai - Wikipedia

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    Sendai (仙台市, Sendai-shi, ⓘ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region.As of 1 August 2023, the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, [1] making it the twelfth most populated city in Japan.

  6. Mr. Miyagi - Wikipedia

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    Nariyoshi Miyagi, better known as Mr. Miyagi, is a fictional character and the overarching protagonist of Robert Mark Kamen's The Karate Kid franchise, appearing in The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and The Next Karate Kid (1994). He was portrayed by Japanese-American actor Pat Morita.

  7. Prefectures of Japan - Wikipedia

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    43 of the 47 prefectures are referred to as ken (県, pronounced when a separate word but when part of the full name of a prefecture, e.g. and become [aitɕi̥ꜜkeɴ]). The Classical Chinese character from which this is derived carries a rural or provincial connotation, and an analogous character is used to refer to the counties of China ...

  8. Meibukan - Wikipedia

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    The Meibukan crest is the kanji "mei," which is the first kanji in the first names of Yagi and his two sons. Meitatsu’s two sons, Akihito and Akihiro also share the kanji. The following are three interpretations of the crest. The kanji mei is a combination of the kanji for sun and the kanji for moon.

  9. Gōjū-ryū - Wikipedia

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    On his return to Okinawa Prefecture, he reported this incident to Chōjun Miyagi, who decided on the name Gōjū-ryū ("hard soft style") as a name for his style. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Chojun Miyagi took the name from a line of the poem Hakku Kenpo , which roughly means: "The eight laws of the fist," and describes the eight precepts of the martial arts.