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unusual facts about Sado, Amarapura



Companhia das Lezírias

It comprised 48,000 hectares of land located between the Tagus and Sado Rivers.

Danzaburou-danuki

Danzaburou was a human merchant's name in Echigo, and in Meireki 3 (1657), there were on sale for-breeding small tanuki that were used in the Sado gold mines for taking skins for the sides of bellows, and afterwards Danzaburou, who started taking care of the tanuki in Sado, was sidely respected by the islands, and there is a theory that the tanuki itself was worshiped like an ujigami.

F.O. Oertel

Then, and in the following month, Oertel visited Mandalay, Amarapura and Sagaing from where he travelled down the Irrawady to Pagan and Prome (today Pyay).

Fumiko Enchi

A precocious child, at age 13, her reading list included the works of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Kyōka Izumi, Nagai Kafū, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and especially Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, whose sado-masochistic aestheticism particularly fascinated her.

Haruo Tomiyama

In 1994 Tomiyama was shown the archive of glass plates by the then-forgotten Sado-based amateur photographer Tomio Kondō.

Hernâni Neves

In a career greatly hampered by injuries, Hernâni only played one solid season as a professional, 1987–88, appearing in 23 out of 38 matches to help the Sado club finish in eighth position and attracting attention of top division powerhouse S.L. Benfica, which signed him in the subsequent off-season.

Honma clan

His death sparked a new rows of hostilities between the two branches, but Uesugi Kagekatsu invaded Sado in 1589, putting an end to clan's rule.

Island of Exiles

The story follows Sugawara Akitada, who is assigned by two shadowy officials to investigate the fatal poisoning on penal colony on Sado Island of the exiled and disgraced Prince Okisada.

Iwamuro, Niigata

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate, Maze was one of the ferry points to the banishment island of Sado.

Korean tea ceremony

As Korean tea culture died with the advent of Yi Dynasty in 1392, this newly revived "Korean Tea Ceremony," propagated by Panyaro Institute closely resembles the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and is considered an outright copy by the Japanese Sado practitioners, much the same way Tae Kwon Do, Yudo, and Haedong Gumdo are seen as copies of Karate, Judo, and Kendo by the Japanese.

Louise and Liza

"Louise and Liza" is a 7" single by NOFX. The songs are sequels of sorts to "Liza and Louise" from White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean with the lyrics "Louise" being about the lesbian characters engaging in sado-masochistic activity. The songs are sexually explicit, and lead singer Fat Mike has remarked that the lyrics make him "get embarrassed whenever I see them.

Mandalay District

Though the district used to consist of two cities, Mandalay and Amarapura, today, with the urban sprawl of Mandalay capturing Amarapura and Patheingyi, the district and the city of Mandalay are one and the same.

Mandalay Palace

The former royal palace of Amarapura was dismantled and moved by elephants to the new location at the foot of Mandalay Hill.

Princess Hwawan

Eventually, Princess Hwawan's machinations were discovered by King Jeongjo of Joseon, Crown Prince Sado's son and Princess Hwawan's nephew, and she was sent into exile.

Really Red

They often shared the bill with other such pioneering acts as D.O.A., The Dicks, Circle Jerks, The Offenders, 999, The Lewd, Articles of Faith, Mydolls, SPK, Negative Approach, Sado Nation, MDC, Vex, Culturcide, The Bad Brains, The Effigies, The Big Boys and The Dead Kennedys among many others.

Sado, Amarapura

Sado or Sartoe is a river village on the Myitnge River in Amarapura Township, Mandalay District, in the Mandalay Region of central Burma.

Salagama

The first bhikkhu was ordained in Burma in 1800 by the sangharaja of Burma in Amarapura, his party having been welcomed to Burma by King Bodawpaya.

Saya Gyi U Nu

U Nu served King Bodawpaya in Link Zin Kone, Amarapura, where he read and wrote articles, poems, and books.

Second Anglo-Burmese War

The war resulted in a revolution in Amarapura although it was then still called the Court of Ava, with Pagan Min (1846–1852) being overthrown by his half brother Mindon Min (1853–1878).

Shwegyin Nikaya

In the 1960s, with the ascent of Ne Win to power, the Shwegyin Nikaya gained monastic influence in the country, as Ne Win sought counsel from a monk at the Mahagandayon Monastery, a Shwegyin monastery in Amarapura.

Tarai Bune

A Tarai Bune or tub-turned boat is a traditional Japanese fishing boat found mainly on Sado Island and used for catching Abalone and other mollusks.

The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant

The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant is a 19th-century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876.

Tomio Kondō

Kondō was born on 24 January 1900 to a landowning family in Kanazawa village (subsequently part of Kanai, which in turn was amalgamated within "Sado City").

Wakō, Saitama

The story goes that one day, Nichiren the founder of Nichiren sect of Buddhism, dropped in at the house of his old friend, Tokimitsu on his way to Sado.

Yadanabon University

Located in the outskirts of Mandalay in Amarapura by Taungthaman Lake, the university offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in liberal arts and sciences, mostly to students from Mandalay suburbs and vicinity.

Yutaka Sado

Sado won first prize and became the third Japanese winner (after Seiji Ozawa in 1959 and Yoko Matsuo in 1982) at the 39th annual International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, France in 1989.

Sado also serves as Artistic Director and Artistic Advisor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center and principal conductor of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra which he helped establish in 2005.


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