Sado Island (佐渡島, Sadogashima or Sadoshima) is an island located in the eastern part of the Sea of Japan, under the jurisdiction of Sado City, Niigata...
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Sado (佐渡市, Sado-shi) is a city located on Sado Island (佐渡島, Sado-shima/Sado-ga-shima) in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised...
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eponymous Sado Island, off the coast of Niigata Prefecture (or in the past, Echigo Province). Sado was famous for the silver and gold mined on the island. In...
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Hokuriku region and features Sado Island, the sixth largest island of Japan in area following the four main islands and Okinawa Island. Until after the Meiji...
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The Sado gold mine (佐渡金山, Sado Kinzan) is a generic term for gold and silver mines which were once located on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture...
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Zeami Motokiyo (section Sado Island)
competing theories have been advanced, Yoshinori sent Zeami into exile to Sado Island. After Yoshinori's death in 1441, Zeami returned to mainland Japan, where...
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Kodō (鼓童) is a professional taiko drumming troupe. Based on Sado Island, Japan, they have had a role in popularizing taiko drumming, both in Japan and...
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Look up sado or Sado in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sado can refer to: Prince Sado, a Joseon Korean crown prince who never acceded Yutaka Sado, a Japanese...
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Sado Okesa (in Japanese: 佐渡おけさ) is a Japanese folk song that originated in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. "Okesa' or "Okesabushi" is a style of the Japanese...
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Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. On March 1, 2004, Ryōtsu and the other 9 municipalities in the island were merged to create the city of Sado....
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exhibits showed the complete history of the island. It also filed a request to have Sado Island, another island where forced labor took place, to be recognized...
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160 km (99 mi) by 20 km (12 mi) from the southwestern Noto Peninsula to Sado Island along a southeast-dipping fault. Slip was mostly concentrated entirely...
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found throughout Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Sado Island, Tsushima, Yaku Island) and the Korean peninsula. Japanese stag beetles are large...
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populous city in Chūbu region after Nagoya. It faces the Sea of Japan and Sado Island. As of 1 September 2022[update], the city had an estimated population...
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Honshu (redirect from Honshu Island)
these prefectures, notably including the Ogasawara Islands, Sado Island, Izu Ōshima, and Awaji Island. The regions and their prefectures are: Tōhoku region...
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Oomijima [ja] Sado Takashima, Shimane Tobishima (Yamagata) Oshakujima [ja] Tsunoshima Umashima, Shimane Dream Island (Yume No Shima) Odaiba (artificial island) Sarushima...
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of tanuki exist in the Sado Islands of Niigata Prefecture and in Shikoku, and among them, like the Danzaburou-danuki of Sado, the Kinchō-tanuki and Rokuemon-tanuki...
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Danzaburō-danuki) is a bake-danuki passed down in stories on Sado Island, particularly in Aikawa and Niigata. In Sado, tanuki were called "mujina (狢)", thus he was also...
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Hitomi Soga (category People from Sado, Niigata)
abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Japan, in 1978. In 1980, she married Charles Robert Jenkins, an American...
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Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, the Goto Islands, Iki Island, Izu Ōshima, the Oki Islands, Sado Island, Tanegashima, and Yakushima. It has also been...
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cabinet rather than displaying them to the public. During a vacation to Sado Island, Lucy's friendship with Lily sours when she discovers that Teiji has...
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Sado Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (佐渡汽船株式会社, Sado Kisen Kabushiki-gaisha) is a marine transportation company based in Sado, Niigata, Japan, founded as Sado Shosen...
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a combination of those two provinces, the region also contains Sado Island from Sado Province. It is located in the modern-day prefectures of Nagano...
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2012, it was confirmed that three crested ibis chicks had hatched on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, the first time chicks had hatched in the wild...
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Miage-nyūdō is a type of yōkai told about on Sado Island (Sado, Niigata Prefecture). They are a type of mikoshi-nyūdō. When climbing a small slope at...
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were formerly used throughout Western Japan but are now found only on Sado Island where about a hundred are left which are used for collecting abalone...
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over Sado island. The thirteen-year-old Kumawaka, who was in hiding at Ninna-ji, a main buddhist temple, caught wind of this news and traveled to Sado to...
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California, US Golden Track Studios, San Diego, California, US KODO Village, Sado Island, Japan Produced by Howard Benson and Sepultura Recorded and engineered...
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taiko playing and took them to Sado Island for training where Den and his family had settled in 1968. Den chose the island based on a desire to reinvigorate...
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Lake Kamo (Japanese: 加茂湖, Hepburn: Kamo-ko) is a brackish lake on the Sado Island in the Sea of Japan off the west coast of Honshu, Japan. The lake is...
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