Yamato
Encyclopedia
Yamato was originally the area around today's Sakurai City
in Nara Prefecture
of Japan
. Later the term was used as the name of the province
and also as an ancient name of Japan
. The term was semantically extended
to mean “Japan” or “Japanese” in general.
Yamato may erroneously refer to:
Sakurai, Nara
is a city in Nara, Japan.As of 2007, the city had an estimated population of 63,321 with a density of 630.01 persons per km². The total area is 98.92 km².The city was founded on September 1, 1956....
in Nara Prefecture
Nara Prefecture
is a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honshū Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Nara.-History:The present-day Nara Prefecture was created in 1887, making it independent of Osaka Prefecture....
of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Later the term was used as the name of the province
Yamato Province
was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters . The final revision was made in...
and also as an ancient name of Japan
Names of Japan
There are many names of Japan in the English, Japanese, and other languages. The word "Japan" is an exonym, and is used by a large number of languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nippon and Nihon . They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本...
. The term was semantically extended
Extension (semantics)
In any of several studies that treat the use of signs - for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, and semiotics - the extension of a concept, idea, or sign consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its comprehension or intension, which consists very roughly of...
to mean “Japan” or “Japanese” in general.
Japanese history
- Yamato peopleYamato peopleis a name for the dominant native ethnic group of Japan. It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of the mainland Japan from other minority ethnic groups who have resided in the peripheral areas of Japan, such as the Ainu, Ryukyuan, Nivkh, Ulta, as...
, the dominant ethnic group of Japan - Yamato periodYamato periodThe is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.While conventionally assigned to the period 250–710 , the actual start of Yamato rule is disputed...
, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province - Yamato-damashiiYamato-damashiiis a historically and culturally loaded word in the Japanese language. The phrase was apparently coined in the Heian period to describe the indigenous Japanese 'spirit' or cultural values as opposed to the cultural values imported into the country through contact with Tang dynasty China. Later, a...
, the nationalistic "Japanese spirit" - Yamato NadeshikoYamato Nadeshikois a Japanese term meaning "personification of an idealized Japanese woman", "ideal" in the historical context of the patriarchal, traditional culture of Japan...
, The ideology of the perfect Japanese woman - Yamato TakeruYamato Takeru, originally Prince Ousu was a Japanese legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty, son of Keikō of Yamato, a legendary monarch who is traditionally counted as the 12th Tennō or Emperor of Japan. The tragic tale of this impressive figure is told in the Japanese chronicles Kojiki and Nihon Shoki...
, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty - Yamato-eYamato-eYamato-e is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Tang Dynasty paintings and developed in the late Heian period. It is considered the classical Japanese style...
, classical Japanese painting
People
- YAMATO, the ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Masato OnoderaMasato Onoderais a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, known by his ring name Yamato , who competes for Dragon Gate and its international expansion Dragon Gate USA.-Dragon Gate:...
- Yamato Ganeko, a singer of the band Orange Range
- Yamato GōYamato GoYamato Go is a former sumo wrestler from Oahu, Hawaii, United States. His highest rank was maegashira 12.-Career:...
(born 1969), a former sumo wrestler from Hawaii - Yamato Manwa, a composer of kotoKoto (musical instrument)The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about length, and made from kiri wood...
music - Yūga YamatoYuga Yamatois a former top star for Cosmos Troupe of Takarazuka Revue. She joined the company in 1995 and became the top star in February 2007 upon the resignation of Kei Takashiro, which made her the first otokoyaku to be top in her class...
, the current top star of Takarazuka Revue
Japanese geography
- Yamato ProvinceYamato Provincewas a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters . The final revision was made in...
, a former province of Japan that covered the part of Honshū that is present-day Nara Prefecture - Yamato, KanagawaYamato, Kanagawais a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 225,866 and a density of 8,320 persons per km². The total area was 27.06 km².-Surrounding municipalities:*Zama*Fujisawa*Ebina*Sagamihara*Ayase...
, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture - Yamato, FukuokaYamato, Fukuokawas a town located in Yamato District, Fukuoka, Japan.On March 21, 2005 Yamato, along with the town of Mitsuhashi, also from Yamato District, was merged into the expanded city of Yanagawa....
, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture - Yamato, FukushimaYamato, Fukushimawas a town located in Yama District, Fukushima, Japan.On January 4, 2006 Yamato, along with the town of Shiokawa, and the villages of Atsushiokanou and Takasato, all from Yama District, was merged into the city of Kitakata....
, a town in Fukushima Prefecture - Yamato, SagaYamato, Sagawas a town located in Saga District, Saga, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 22,105 and a density of 398.86 persons per km²...
, a town in Saga Prefecture - Yamato, KumamotoYamato, Kumamotois a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto, Japan.The town was formed on February 11, 2005 from the merger of the municipalities of Yabe and Seiwa with the town of Soyō from Aso District....
, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture - Yamato, IbarakiYamato, IbarakiYamato was a village located in Makabe District, Ibaraki, Japan.On October 1, 2005 Yamato was merged with the town of Makabe, also from Makabe District, and the town of Iwase, from Nishiibaraki District, to form the new city of Sakuragawa....
, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture - Yamato, KagoshimaYamato, Kagoshimais a village located on Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The village belongs to the Ōshima District.-Population:As of August 1, 2011, the village has an estimated population of 1,719 and the density of 19.5 persons per km². The total area is 88.15 km².-External links:*...
, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture - Yamato, YamanashiYamato, Yamanashiwas a village located in Higashiyamanashi District, Yamanashi, Japan.On November 1, 2005 Yamato was merged with the town of Katsunuma, also from Higashiyamanashi District, and the city of Enzan to form the new city of Kōshū....
, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture - Yamato, GifuYamato, Gifuwas a town located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The town belonged to Gujō District.-History:The town was established as a village in 1955, promoted to a town in 1985, and Yamato was merged with the towns of Hachiman and Shirotori, and the villages of Meihō, Minami, Takasu and Wara to create the new...
, a former town in Gifu Prefecture, which on 1 March 2004 became a part of Gujo City, Japan - Yamato, NiigataYamato, NiigataYamato was a town located in Minamiuonuma District, Niigata, Japan.The town was established as a village in 1956, and promoted to a town in 1962.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 15,195 and a density of 116.07 persons per km²...
, a former town in Niigata, Japan, which on 1 November 2004 merged with the town of Muika, Japan forming the city of Minamiuonuma, Japan - Yamato, YamaguchiYamato, Yamaguchiwas a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan.On October 4, 2004 Yamato was merged with the city of Hikari and no longer exists as an independent municipality....
, a former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which on 4 October 2004 merged into Hikari, Japan - Yamato Town (as it was named upon its establishment in 1943), which changed its name to Wakō, SaitamaWako, Saitamais a city located in the southern part of Saitama, Japan, bordering on Tokyo.As of 1 May 2008, the city has an estimated population of 76,221. The total area is 11.04 km²....
on 31 October 1970 - Yamato Village (as it was named upon its establishment on 1 November 1919), which changed its name to Higashiyamato, Tokyo on 1 October 1970
- Yamato River, a river in Nara PrefectureNara Prefectureis a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honshū Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Nara.-History:The present-day Nara Prefecture was created in 1887, making it independent of Osaka Prefecture....
United States geography
- Yamato Colony, CaliforniaYamato Colony, CaliforniaYamato Colony, California was a Japanese agricultural community in Livingston, California. The Japanese farmers were instrumental in founding the Livingston Farmers Association.Most of the original area of the colony is now part of the city of Livingston...
, a Japanese-American agricultural community in California - Yamato Colony, FloridaYamato Colony, FloridaThe Yamato Colony was an attempt to create a community of Japanese farmers in what is now Boca Raton, Florida, early in the 20th century. With encouragement from Florida authorities, young Japanese men were recruited to farm in the colony...
, a Japanese farm settlement in South Florida in the first half of the twentieth century - Yamato Colony, Texas, a Japanese-American owned sugar cane plantation near Brownsville, TexasBrownsville, TexasBrownsville is a city in the southernmost tip of the state of Texas, in the United States. It is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Brownsville is the 16th largest city in the state of Texas with a population of...
Geology of Antarctica
- Yamato 691Yamato 691The Yamato 691 is the 4.5 billion year old chondrite meteorite discovered by members of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on the blue ice field of the Queen Fabiola Mountains in Antarctica, on December 21, 1969.-History:Yamato 691 was one among 9 meteorite specimens identified by the...
, a 4.5 billion year old meteorite discovered by members of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in 1969 - Yamato 791197Yamato 791197Yamato 791197, official abbreviation Y-791197, is a meteorite that was found in Antarctica on November 20, 1979.It is the first rock to be found on Earth identified as a lunar meteorite...
, the first rock to be found on Earth identified as a lunar meteorite
Entertainment
- Wadaiko Yamato, a Japanese musical group which performs Taiko music
- Yamato (film), a 2005 Japanese film about the World War II Yamato battleship
- Two military science fictionMilitary science fictionMilitary science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the principal characters are members of a military service and an armed conflict is taking place, normally in space, or on a planet other than Earth...
novels by Ken Kato, both set in the 24th Century: Yamato: A Rage In Heaven; and Yamato 2: The Way Of the Warrior. - Space Battleship Yamato (live action film), a Japanese live action film based on the classic anime series of the same name
- USS Yamato (NCC-71807), a Galaxy class starship and the sister ship of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) in the television series Star Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
. - Yamato Man is the name of one of the robot bosses in Mega Man 6Mega Man 6Mega Man 6, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System . It is the sixth installment in the original Mega Man series and was originally released in Japan on October 5, 1993 and in North America the following March. It was included in the Mega Man...
for Nintendo Entertainment System. - Takeshi Yamato, alter ego of Ultraman 80Ultraman 80is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show produced by Tsuburaya Productions which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System channel from April 2, 1980 to March 25, 1981, lasting a total of 50 episodes. It was the ninth TV show in the Ultra Series and began a week after the conclusion of the anime series The...
from the 1980 tokusatsu of the same name
Anime and Manga
- Space Battleship YamatoSpace Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers...
, a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft; called Star Blazers in the West - Kira YamatoKira Yamatois a fictional character first introduced as the protagonist from the 2002 Japanese anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by Sunrise, part of the Gundam franchise. In the series, Kira is a first-generation Coordinator, a genetically enhanced human being born of normal humans...
, the protagonist of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny - Minazuki Yamato, a character in the manga Kamikaze Kaito JeanneKamikaze Kaito Jeanneis a fantasy shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. The story is about the adventures of a high school girl, Maron Kusakabe, who is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc and transforms into a magical girl kaito—phantom thief—to collect the scattered pieces of God's power which...
- Yamato Delgado ("Daiwa" in the Japanese version), the main character in the Battle B-Daman anime and manga series
- Yamato "Matt" IshidaYamato "Matt" IshidaYamato "Matt" Ishida, known as simply in Japan, is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02. Although his first name is "Yamato", in the English version, he primarily goes by his dub-given nickname, Matt...
, a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 - Yamato (Naruto), a fictional character in the manga and anime Naruto
- Yamato Akitsuki, a fictional character in manga/anime Suzuka
- Waki YamatoWaki Yamatois a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story Dorobou Tenshi.Since this debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga...
, a manga author - Yamato Kotobuki, a fictional character in the anime/manga Super Gals!
- Shiroi Senshi YamatoShiroi Senshi Yamatois a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Takahashi, which was serialized between 1976 and 1989 in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump.-Protagonist Dogs:Yamato - ヤマト号: The main character of this manga....
(Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi - Takeru Yamato, the real Eyeshield 21 in the manga of the same name
- Yamato Nakano, a character from Loveless (manga)Loveless (manga)is an ongoing fantasy manga by Yun Kōga. It is currently serialized in the Japanese magazine Monthly Comic Zero Sum by Ichijinsha and collected in nine tankōbon as of November 2009...
- Swordmaster Yamato, a character in Gag Manga Biyori.
Ships
- Yamato 1Yamato 1Yamato 1 is a boat built in the early 1990s by Japanese conglomerate "The Mitsubishi Group" through their subsidiary company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd at Wadasaki-cho Hyogo-ku, Kobe. It uses a MagnetoHydrodynamic Drive , driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15...
, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive - Yamato class battleshipYamato class battleshipThe were battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy constructed and operated during World War II. Displacing at full load, the vessels were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. The class carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, nine naval...
, a class of 2 Japanese battleships of World War II- Japanese battleship YamatoJapanese battleship Yamato, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing...
, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after the Yamato Province
- Japanese battleship Yamato
- YamatoJapanese corvette Yamatowas the second vessel in the three ship of three wooden-hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named for Yamato province, the old name for Nara prefecture and the historical heartland of Japan...
, corvette of the Katsuragi class, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945 - Yamato Maru, originally the Italian ship Giuseppe Verdi that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis IslandEllis IslandEllis Island in New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. It was the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the...
; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines.
Companies
- Yamato TransportYamato Transportis one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies with market share of 41%, competing closely with Sagawa Express and Nippon Express...
, Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service company - Yamato Motor Co. Ltd., the producer of boats and motors for KyōteiKyoteiThe , literally "boat racing" and referred to as BOAT RACE, is a hydroplane racing event primary held in Japan. It is one of Japan's four , which are sports events where parimutuel betting is legal.Kyōtei was introduced in Japan in 1952...
- Yamato Life
Animals
- Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp), an invertebrate frequently used in the planted freshwater aquarium, known for eating algae
See also
Yamato is usually written as "大和", but these two characters can also be read as "Daiwa" or "Taiwa."Yamato may erroneously refer to:
- Daiwa, HiroshimaDaiwa, HiroshimaDaiwa was a town located in Kamo District, Hiroshima, Japan.On March 22, 2005 Daiwa, along with the town of Kui, from Mitsugi District, and the town of Hongō, from Toyota District, was merged into the expanded city of Mihara and no longer exists as an independent municipality.As of 2003, the town...
, a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, which on 22 March 2005 merged with two other towns to form the city of Mihara, Japan - Daiwa, ShimaneDaiwa, Shimanewas a village located in Ōchi District, Shimane, Japan.As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 1,881 and a density of 19.39 persons per km². The total area was 97.03 km²....
, a former village in Shimane Prefecture, which on 1 October 2004 merged with Ochi, Shimane to form the town of Misato, Japan - Taiwa, MiyagiTaiwa, Miyagiis a town located in Kurokawa District, Miyagi, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 24,963 and a population density of 110.66 persons per km². The total area is 225.59 km². The biggest, and the central community among an old town and four old villages consolidated is...
, a town in Miyagi Prefecture - Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona HoldingsResona Holdingsis the holding company of , the fourth-largest banking group in Japan.The company was originally established on December 12, 2001 as Daiwa Bank Holdings, Inc., the result of the consolidation of Daiwa Bank, Kinki Osaka Bank, and Nara Bank...
, which was part of a bond scandal in 1995