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Main hall, or hondō, Saidai-ji
Enjō-ji, Nara
Shin-Yakushi-ji, Nara

The Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Yamato (大和十三仏霊場, Yamato jūsan butsu reijō) are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in Nara Prefecture. Yamato was a former province of Japan corresponding to today's Nara Prefecture. The majority of the temples in this grouping are part of Japanese esoteric Shingon Buddhism.

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Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Yamato

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The Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Yamato (大和十三仏霊場, Yamato jūsan butsu reijō) are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in Nara Prefecture. Yamato was a former...

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Yamato Province

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battleship Yamato Yamato people (Japanese) Yamato-damashii - 'the Japanese spirit' Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Yamato Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Yamato" in...

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Thirteen Buddhas

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states that in 577 King Wideok of Baekje sent to the Yamato polity another Buddhist image, a temple architect, and a maker of images. The passage clearly...

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Iwate Prefecture

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the town of Hiraizumi. While the entire island of Honshū was claimed by the Japanese, or Yamato, government from earliest times as a sort of divine right...

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Japanese art

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the subject matter of painting, but they also modified the use of color; the bright colors of Yamato-e yielded to the monochromes of painting in the Chinese...

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Ise Grand Shrine

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imperial residence in Yamato, then briefly at Kasanui in the eastern Nara basin. When Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto arrived at the village of Uji-tachi, she...

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History of Shinto

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side of the country at the Miyanaka Jōri Site Ōfunatsu of Kashima, Ibaraki or the Odaki Ryōgenji Site in Minamibōsō, Chiba, which indicates Yamato Kingship...

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Christianity in Japan

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positive image in Japan. The majority of Japanese people are, traditionally, of the Shinto or Buddhist faith. The majority of Japanese couples, about 60–70%...

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Maurya Empire

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century of centralized rule under Ashoka. Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism and sponsorship of Buddhist missionaries allowed for the expansion of that faith...

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Japan

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Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is favored for official uses, including...

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Noh

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Konparu school; and the Kongō school. All of these schools were descendants of the sarugaku troupe from Yamato Province. The Ashikaga Shogunate supported...

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Foreign relations of imperial China

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(420–589), but also saw the flourishing of Buddhist sites along the Silk Road. This includes Buddhist sites such as the Yungang Grottoes, the Longmen...

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Oda Nobunaga

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Nagoya Castle by his father at the age of 8 and lived there for thirteen years until he took Kiyosu Castle at the age of 21. He had one or two older brothers...

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Internment of Japanese Americans

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(Supreme Court of the United States 1944). Yamato, Sharon (October 21, 2014). "Carrying the Torch: Wayne Collins Jr. on His Father's Defense of the Renunciants"...

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Human history

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developed during the Yamato period (c. 300–710). Buddhism was introduced, and there was an emphasis on the adoption of elements of Chinese culture and...

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Han dynasty

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Han (前漢; 前汉; Qiánhàn), thirteen centrally-controlled commanderies—including the capital region—existed in the western third of the empire, while the eastern...

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