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unusual facts about Emperor Go-Nara



13th century in poetry

Princess Shikishi 式子内親王 (died 1201), late Heian and early Kamakura period poet, never-married daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa; entered service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1159, later left the shrine, in later years a Buddhist nun; has 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū anthology

Alexey Zakharov

Aleksei Vladimirovich Zakharov (born 1985), Russian association football player with FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk

Anton Piskunov

Anton Vyacheslavovich Piskunov (b. 1989), Russian footballer who last played for FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk in the first half of 2009

Archival Recovery Team

Operating as part of NARA's Office of the Inspector General, they have had some notable successes in recovering items like presidential pardons from Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Jackson or a Remington bronco statute given to George H.W. Bush.

Asuka-dera

Following the transfer of the capital from Asuka to Heijō-kyō (now Nara city), the buildings of Asuka-dera were also removed from the original site in Asuka to Nara in 718 CE, and developed into a huge temple under the name of Gangō-ji.

Awataguchi Takamitsu

Prince Fushimi went on to say that these paintings by Takamitsu were stored in the monastery on Eizan until the ninth year of Eikyō (1436 A.D.) when the fourth volume's text was removed so that it would be rewritten by Emperor Go-Hanazono.

Coicent

In 2710, a boy named Shinichi is on a school field trip to a rebuilt 21st century version of the city Nara.

Daylight, Moonlight: Kitaro Live In Yakushiji

It was recorded over three evenings at the Yakushiji temple in the ancient Japanese capitol of Nara.

Emperor Go-Fushimi

Fushimi acted as cloistered emperor for a period, but after a while, from 1313 to 1318, Go-Fushimi acted in that function.

Emperor Go-Kōgon

Emperor Go-Kōgon was forced to repeatedly flee from Kyoto to Ōmi Province and other places.

Emperor Go-Kōmyō

1652 (Keian 5, 5th month): Nihon Ōdai Ichiran is first published in Kyoto under the patronage of the tairō Sakai Tadakatsu, lord of the Obama Domain of Wakasa Province.

Emperor Go-Murakami

The Emperor and his retinue were confined to Otokoyama, but escaped to Kawachi Province during an attack by Yoshiakira, and a few months later returned to Yoshino.

In 1348, Kō no Moronao attacked Yoshino, and the Emperor left for modern-day Nishiyoshino Village in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, which was then Yamato Province.

When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kemmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan.

Emperor Go-Reizei

1051 (Eishō 6): In Michinoku, Abe no Sadatō and Munetō instigate a rebellion which becomes known as the Nine Years War (1051–1062) because, even though the period of strife lasts for 11 years, the actual fighting lasts for nine years.

Emperor Go-Shirakawa

1169 (Kaō 1, 6th month): Emperor Go-Shirakawa entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 42.

Emperor Tsuchimikado

In 1198, he became emperor upon the abdication of Emperor Go-Toba, who continued to exercise Imperial powers as cloistered emperor.

Ghazi Nara

Ghazi Nara is a scenic and touristic hillside settlement near Jhelum City in the Punjab province of Pakistan approximately 15 km from Dina and 10 km from Khukha.

Hitomi Shimizu

Born in Nara, Japan, she majored in music composition at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

Japanese sculpture

Earliest examples of Buddhist art may be seen in accumulated splendor at the seventh century Horyuji temple in Nara, whose buildings themselves, set in a prescribed pattern with main hall, belfy, pagodas, and other buildings enclosed within an encircling roofed corridor, retain an aura of the ancient era, together with the countless art treasures preserved within their halls.

Kaoru Kobayashi

At the time of the murder, he was employed as a newspaper deliveryman for Mainichi Shimbun in the Ikoma district of Nara Prefecture.

Kooperativa Förbundet

The grocery retail group, Coop, stands for around 85 per cent of the sale with store brands like Coop Konsum, Coop Nära, Coop Extra and Coop Forum.

Lanxi Daolong

Daolong died in Kenchō-ji, and was given the Posthumous Name as Dajue Zen Master by Emperor Go-Uda (後宇多天皇).

Louis Calhern

Calhern died of a sudden heart attack in Nara, Japan, while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Mne s Toboy Horosho

The CD Single released contains 4 remixes of the song and the exclusive official English version: Don't Get Mad At Me (Nara Nara Na Na), being the Gabry Ponte Remix Radio Edit the most popular one and the one used in performances such as at the Dome 31.

Musikas

:"And in the second year (he), disregarding Satakamini, dispatches to the western regions an army strong in cavalry, elephants, infantry (nara) and chariots (ratha) and by that army having reached the Kanha-bemna, he throws the city of the Musikas into consternation."

Nara Document on Authenticity

In this part, it is indicated that the Nara Document was stemmed from the Venice Charter of 1964.

New Zealand Parliament Buildings

It is the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Old Government Buildings, Wellington

It was completed in 1876, and until 1998 was the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan).

Park Bum-shin

Of special note are Country of Fire (Bur ui nara) and Country of Water (Mul ui nara), which appeared in The Dong-a Ilbo in the early and mid-1980s and won critical recognition.

Qurbani Jatt Di

Jeeto's three brothers Jora(Yograj Singh), Nara(Gugu Gill) & Dheera ( Deep Dhillon) not satisfied with this, of deceased attempt to break-up Jeeto's marriage with Jagroop(Raj Babbar), and also prevent her look-alike sister, Preeto, from getting married to Sucha's brother Karamjeet(Gurdas Maan), setting off a feud that will result in more acrimony, and many more deaths.

Rakuyōshū

Two complete copies were survived during the turbulent feudal period of Japanese history: one is now held by the Tenri Central Library, in Tenri, Nara, and the other is held by the British Library through Ernest Satow who bought this copy from antique dealer in Edo.

Religion in Eritrea

Additionally, many of the Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nara ethnic minorities also adhere to Islam, as do some of the Kunama Nilotes.

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

In March 2005, the Nixon Foundation invited the National Archives to jointly operate the Nixon Library, and then-Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein allowed for the Nixon Library to become the twelfth federally funded presidential library, operated and staffed by NARA in conjunction with the Nixon Foundation.

San'yōdō

Emperor Go-Daigo in the 14th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th century, and many others used it to flee from conflict, to return to the core of the country (kinai), or to move troops.

Sanae Takaichi

Born and raised in the city of Nara, Takaichi graduated from to Nara Prefectural Unebi Senior High School for her secondary education, then she received Bachelor of Business Administration from Kobe University in 1984.

Sansei Yamao

At that time, Sansei Yamao and Gary Snyder traversed the Ominesan mountain range in Nara, which is known as the Shugendō mountain, together for a week.

Seiyō Ogawa

He took photographs of Buddhist sculptures at the old temples in Nara and Kyoto, as well as of ruins in foreign countries, such as the Yungang Grottoes in China; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; and Borobudur and Candi Prambananin in Central Java.

Sento-kun

The city of Nara has a long tradition of adopting guardian deities such as Nio (a pair of temple guardians), Asura, Jūni Shinshō (Twelve Heavenly Generals) and Shitenno (Four Guardian Kings).

Shinjō, Okayama

It is also said that Emperor Go-Toba passed this way in exile on his way to an island in the Sea of Japan where he died.

Takemikazuchi

The Nakatomi clan, essentially the priestly branch of the Fujiwara clan, also placed the veneration of the Takemikazuchi/Kashima deity in the Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara.

Tatunca Nara

In the 1970s, German foreign correspondent Karl Brugger met "Tatunca Nara", who told him of the history of Akakor, an underground city below the rain forest.

Tokushōryū Makoto

Tokushōryū Makoto (born August 22, 1986 as Makoto Aoki) is a professional sumo wrestler from Nara, Japan.

Tomio

Tomio Station (富雄駅), a train station on the Kintetsu Nara Line in Nara, Japan.

Tomoko Sugawara

With Swedish professor Bo Lawergren, whom she met at a kugo museum exhibit in Nara, Japan she engineered a fully working model of a kugo and hired American harp builder Bill Campbell to construct it.

Ugab River

Also found there indigenously are some stunted acacia trees, nara bushes, Acanthosicyos horridus, with their (almost leafless) spiky green stems, and improbably large melons.

Wanda Nara

Wanda Nara (born 9 December 1986) is an Argentine model and vedette, sister of Zaira Nara, ex-wife of Maxi López and has an affair with Mauro Icardi.

Yamagata, Gifu

The name, Yamagata, has already existed in one of the oldest Japanese family registry which was published in 702 and has been stored in Shosoin, Nara.


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