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Ito

(Encyclopedia)Ito, city, Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Izu Peninsula and the Sagami Sea. It is an important fishing port and hot spring resort. ...

De-jima

(Encyclopedia)De-jima, island, Japan: see De-shima. ...

Seto-naikai

(Encyclopedia)Seto-naikai, sea: see Inland Sea, Japan. ...

Hearn, Lafcadio

(Encyclopedia)Hearn, Lafcadio lăfkäˈdēō hûrn [key], 1850–1904, American-Japanese author, b. Lefkás, Ionian Islands, of Irish-Greek parentage. After a difficult childhood, he was educated in Ireland, Englan...

Ieyasu

(Encyclopedia)Ieyasu (Ieyasu Tokugawa) ēāˈyäso͞o tōko͞ogäˈwə [key], 1542–1616, Japanese warrior and dictator. A gifted leader and brilliant general, he founded the Tokugawa shogunate. Early in his caree...

Endo, Shusaku

(Encyclopedia)Endo, Shusaku shəsäˈko͝o ĕnˈdō [key], 1923–1996, one of the finest 20th-century Japanese novelists, b. Tokyo. Baptized a Roman Catholic at 11, he is often compared to Graham Greene for his de...

shogun

(Encyclopedia)shogun shōˈgŭnˌ [key], title of the feudal military administrator who from the 12th cent. to the 19th cent. was, as the emperor's military deputy, the actual ruler of Japan. The title itself, Sei-...

Tanaka, Kakuei

(Encyclopedia)Tanaka, Kakuei käko͞oˈā tänäˈkä [key], 1918–93, Japanese political leader and prime minister (1972–74). Born to a poor rural family, he moved to Tokyo at the age of 15 and by 1937 had esta...

Kiso Ontake, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Kiso Ontake, Mount, volcano, Japan: see Ontake, Mount. ...

Yeddo

(Encyclopedia)Yeddo or Yedo: see Tokyo, Japan. ...