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    The Kishu (紀州犬, Kishū-Ken), sometimes called Kishu Inu or Kishu dog, is a Japanese breed of dog. It is descended from ancient medium-sized breeds and...
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    The kishu mikan (Citrus kinokuni ex Tanaka) is a hybrid variety of mikan, or mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), found in Southern China and also grown...
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    The Kishū Domain (紀州藩, Kishū-han), also referred to as Kii Domain or Wakayama Domain, was a feudal domain in Kii Province, Japan. This domain encompassed...
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  • Kishu Izuchi (井土紀州, Izuchi Kishū, born 1968) is a film director and screenwriter from Japan. He has often collaborated with Takahisa Zeze. Izuchi began...
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  • he was saved by Kishu. Thereafter Gopi and Kishu become friends, after which Gopi tries to know about Kishu from the villagers. Kishu was in love with...
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    The Kishū Tokugawa family (紀州徳川家, Kishū Tokugawa-ke) is a branch of the Tokugawa clan based in Kii Province. The family was founded in 1619, when Tokugawa...
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    The Kishū dialect (Japanese: 紀州弁 kishū ben) is a Kansai dialect of Japanese spoken in the former province of Kino, in what is now Wakayama Prefecture and...
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    In Orikuchiism, kishu ryūritan (貴種流離譚, lit. "noble wandering narrative") is a plot archetype found in Japanese folklore and Japanese literature. In these...
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    Kishū Tōshō-gū (紀州東照宮) is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Wakayama Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines the deified first Shōgun of the Tokugawa...
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    satsuma mandarin or Japanese mandarin. During the Edo period of Japan, kishu mikans were more popular because there was a popular superstition that eating...
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    in Japan. Binchō-tan produced in Wakayama is referred to as Kishū binchō-tan (紀州備長炭), Kishū being the old name of Wakayama. White charcoal is made by pyrolysing...
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    appear in four texts: Oushuku Zakki (1815), Toen Shōsetsu (1825), Hyōryū Kishū (1835) and Ume-no-chiri (1844). According to the legend, a young woman aged...
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    Kii Province (redirect from Kishū)
    Kii Province (紀伊国, Kii no Kuni), or Kishū (紀州), was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern...
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    The Kishu Railway Line (紀州鉄道線, Kishū Tetsudō-sen) is a railway line in Japan, running from Gobō Station to Nishi-Gobō Station. The railway line is located...
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    low-ranking samurai of the Kishu-Tokugawa family, the ruling family of the Kishu Domain. Torakusu's father was an astronomer for the Kishu clan, who gave Torakusu...
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    Gosanke (redirect from Kishu-Tokugawa clan)
    seniority was Kii or Kishū House. The founder was Tokugawa Yorinobu, the tenth son of Ieyasu. Yorinobu was daimyō of the Kishū Han with its castle at...
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    from a cross between a Huanglingmiao/Kishu and a non-King Kunenbo that was itself a pomelo × Huanglingmiao/Kishu cross. It is a seedless variety, of which...
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    Kalpi Kanpei Kawachi bankan Key lime Khasi papeda Kinkoji unshiu Kinnow Kishu mikan Kiyomi Kobayashi mikan Koji Komikan Laraha Lemonade fruit Limón de...
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    today open to the public; Hamarikyu (Kofu Tokugawa family), Shibarikyu (Kishu Tokugawa family), Koishikawa Korakuen (Mito Tokugawa family), Rikugien (Yanagisawa...
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    period, as well as many materials pertaining to the Kishū Tokugawa clan, who ruled as daimyō of Kishū Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa Shogunate. Wakayama...
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    The Kaientai (海援隊, Kaientai, "Maritime Support Force") was a trading and shipping company and private navy, considered to be the first corporation in modern...
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    Kalpi Kanpei Kawachi bankan Key lime Khasi papeda Kinkoji unshiu Kinnow Kishu mikan Kiyomi Kobayashi mikan Koji Komikan Laraha Lemonade fruit Limón de...
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    world. Yuzu, kunembo, daidai, and kishu mikan are believed to have been introduced to Japan from China, where Kishu mikan were the mainstay until the...
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    ninja document from Kishū province. Written by Natori Masatake in 1681 it describes the espionage strategies of the shinobi from Kishū. Together with the...
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    1636, the heads of the gosanke (the three branches with fiefs in Owari, Kishū, and Mito) also bore the Tokugawa surname, so did the three additional branches...
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    Honmaru Palace was lost during the Boshin War. In its place the Kishū Palace (紀州御殿 Kishū Goten) was moved here from Wakayama Castle to serve as an imperial...
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    classify their activities such as spying (kanchō), scout (teisatsu), ambush (kishu), andAgitprop (konran). The ninja clans organized into a larger confederation...
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  • in Japan as a foreign advisor providing training to troops loyal to the Kishū Domain. Based at Wakayama Castle between 1869 and 1871, Köppen specialized...
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    the size of a house mouse, or the size of a matchbox. The Shōzan chomon kishū (想山著聞奇集) (1850) also provided visual illustration of a specific anecdotal...
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  • lineages are usually recognized as being from Tamiya-ryū: Ko Tamiya-ryū, Kishū Tamiya-ryū and Shin Tamiya-ryū. However, while traditionally accepted as...
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