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121Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka — was a torpedo boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was ordered in 1885 from the shipbuilder Yarrows in London, Great Britain, where she was built in parts along Japanese specifications, and then assembled in Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan.She… …
122Kanrei — was a high political post in feudal Japan; it is usually translated as Shogun s Deputy. After 1337, there were actually two Kanrei , the Kyoto Kanrei and the Kantō Kanrei .Originally, from 1219 until 1333, the post was synonymous with the… …
123Giretsu Kuteitai — was an airborne special forces unit of the Imperial Japanese Army formed from Army paratroopers, in late 1944 as a last ditch attempt to reduce and delay Allied bombing raids on the Japanese home islands. The Giretsu Special Forces unit was… …
124Taira no Kiyomori — was a general of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai dominated administrative government in the history of Japan. After the death of his father Taira no Tadamori in 1153, Kiyomori assumed control of the Taira clan and …
125Uchimura Kanzō — was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, and the founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai) of Christianity in the Meiji period and Taishō period Japan.Early lifeUchimura was born in Edo, and exhibited a talent for languages from a very… …
126Ashikaga Yoshimasa — was the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ… …
127Björn Ironside — was claimed by antiquarians to be Björn Ironside s grave.A powerful Viking chieftain and naval commander, Bjorn and his brother Hastein conducted many (mostly successful) raids in France in a continuation of the tradition initiated by their… …
128Jōkyū — was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō , lit. year name) after Kempō and before Jōō. This period spanned the years from 1219 through 1222. The reigning emperor was Juntoku tennō (順徳天皇). [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp.… …
