Much of the credit for candlestick charting goes to Munehisa Homma, (1724–1803), a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Ojima Rice market in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Although Sakata suffered defeats for these top titles, he went on to win many other titles, including the Judan and Oza.
Mount Haguro (Haguro-san), Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, one of the sacred Three Mountains of Dewa
That season, he made the top eight of four Grand Prix across three continents, finishing 3rd at Grand Prix Barcelona and Yamagata, 8th at Grand Prix Toronto, and fifth at Grand Prix Malmö.
Nishikawa is located in mountainous central Yamagata and includes Mount Gassan and Mount Asahi within its borders.
Following peasant unrest, Numa was sent to investigate the situation in Sakata Prefecture late in 1875.
Sakata Tōjūrō, stage name taken on by a number of Kabuki actors
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Lenn Haruki Sakata (born 1954), former American professional baseball player
Silk, 2007, a film set in the 19th century, about a silkworm merchant and his love life, based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco
One of Jean Cacicedo's shibori designs is called "For Sandra" in homage to Sakata and Obiko.
Yamagata-ben was used for comic effect in the Japanese film Swing Girls, 2004, to suggest that the film was set in a rural, 'backward' location.
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.