Yamato

Yamato (大和 "great peace" in Japanese) is the name of various places, times, ships, and other elements of Japanese culture. In the Japanese language, Yamato is usually written "大和", but these two characters can also be read "Daiwa" or "Taiwa". These are also names of Japanese townships, and are sometimes mistakenly called Yamato.

History

Yamato was the old name for Japan known as the Yamato Empire with the Yamato Dynasty.

• Yamato people, name of the majority ethnic group in Japan.
• Yamato period in Japan's history.
• Yamato-e, classic Japanese painting style inspired by the pictorial works of the Tang dynasty and developed at the end of the Heian period.
• Yamato Nadeshiko, name of the ideal of female beauty in Japan.
• Yamato uta, Japanese poetry genre, best known as waka.
• Yamato Takeru, originally Prince Ousu, was a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato clan.

Ships

• Yamato class, class of Japanese battleships of World War II.
• Yamato, Japanese battleship of World War II, leader of the previous class.
• Yamato, Japanese class tie Katsuragi.
• Yamato 1, first functional prototype equipped with a magnetohydrodynamic thruster.

Fiction

• Otoko-tachi no Yamato (▪, The Yamato men^?), Japanese anti-belicist film of 2005.
• USS Yamato (NCC-71807), a Star Trek's Star Trek fiction starship Galaxy class.
• Yamato Man, a Robot Video Game Master Mega Man 6.
• Yamato (Devil May Cry), Name of the katana that bears the character Vergil, of the video games saga Devil May Cry.

Anime and manga.

• Yamato Space Cruise, Japanese Anime Series Uchū Senkan Yamato (, 'Uchū Senkan Yamato'^?).
• Yamato Canyon, a fictional space weapon, used in the previous anime and video game Starcraft.
• Yamato, a ninja from the village of Konoha on the sleeve and anime Naruto.
• Takeruhiko Yamato, sovereign of the fictitious country of Kina on the sleeve Magi: The Labyrinth Of Magic!.
• Kira Yamato, the protagonist of the anime series Gundam Seed and an important character in Gundam Seed Destiny.
• Yamato Ishida is an anime and manga character Digimon Adventure and Digimon 02.
• Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, shōjo sleeve written by Tomoko Hayakawa.
• Super battled Yamato, which together with her sister Musashi, are the flagship ships of the fog fleet, the anime Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
• Yamato, daughter of Kaido on the sleeve and anime One Piece.

Geography of Japan

• Yamato (Fukushima)
• Yamato (Ibaraki)
• Yamato (Kanagawa)
• Yamato (Niigata)
• Yamato (Yamanashi)
• Yamato (Gifu)
• Yamato (Yamaguchi)
• Yamato (Fukuoka)
• Yamato (Saga)
• Yamato (Kagoshima)
• Higashiyamato (Tokio) (old name).
• Former Province of Yamato
• Yamato, archaic term to refer to all Japan.

Astronomy

• (5282) Yamatotakeru, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1988 by Yoshiaki Oshima.