Yamato

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Yamato (大和) may refer to:

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[edit] Japanese history

  • Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
  • Yamato period, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
  • Yamato-damashii, the nationalistic "Japanese spirit"
  • Yamato Nadeshiko, The ideology of the perfect Japanese woman, used as propaganda in World War II.
  • Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty

[edit] Ships

  • Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive

[edit] Imperial Japanese Navy

[edit] Japanese geography

[edit] Japanese organizations

  • Yamato (movement), a western Japanese movement for its independense[1]

[edit] United States geography

  • Yamato Colony, California, a Japanese-American agricultural community in California
  • Yamato Colony, Florida, 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 in Texas

[edit] Antarctic geography

[edit] Companies

  • Yamato Transport, Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service company
  • Yamato Motor Co. Ltd., the producer of boats and motors for Kyōtei

[edit] Entertainment

  • Wadaiko Yamato, a Japanese musical group which performs Taiko music
  • USS Yamato (NCC-71807), a Galaxy Class starship in the Star Trek fictional universe which was a sister ship of the USS Enterprise
  • Otoko-tachi no Yamato, a 2005 Japanese World War II film about the Yamato Japanese battleship
  • Yamato Man, A Robot Master from the video game Mega Man VI
  • Yamato Cannon, a powerful weapon of Terran Battlecruisers in the popular PC game, StarCraft .
  • The katana of Vergil, a character from the Devil May Cry series of video games
  • The name of a legendary ark in Ōkami
  • Two military science fiction novels by Ken Kato, both set in the 24th Century: Yamato: A Rage In Heaven; and Yamato 2: The Way Of the Warrior. Both were written during the early-to-mid-1990's; the paperback versions of each were published in a pair of separate installments, while the hardcover versions were published in a single installment.
  • Yamato, one of the Alliance Fleet ships that carried the squadron "Ronin" and later "Tigers" on the PC and Dreamcast title StarLancer

[edit] Anime and Manga

[edit] Animals

[edit] People

Yamato
Family Name

Pronunciation Yamato
Region of origin Japanese
Popularity Behind the Name 
Wikipedia articles All pages beginning with Yamato


[edit] 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, Hiroshima, a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, which on 22 March 2005 merged with two other towns to form the city of Mihara, Japan
  • Daiwa, Shimane, a former village in Shimane Prefecture, which on 1 October 2004 merged with Ochi, Shimane to form the town of Misato, Japan
  • Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture
  • Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings, Inc., which was part of a bond scandal in 1995

[edit] References

  1. ^ an article at Wikinfo: Yamato
  2. ^ an article at the Asian pop wiki Wiki.ThePPN: YAMATO