Yamato

Not to be confused with Yamamoto or Daiwa.

Yamato (大和) was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.

Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.

Japanese history

• Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
• Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
• Yamato Kingship, the government of the Yamato period
• Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period
• Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind"
• Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman
• Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the imperial dynasty
• Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting
• Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka (poetry)
• Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato
• Daiwa (disambiguation) is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato

Geography

Japan

• Yamato Province, Japan, former province, present-day Nara Prefecture
• Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
• Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
• Yamato, Gifu, former town now part of Gujo City, Japan
• Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
• Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
• Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
• Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture
• Yamato, Niigata, former town now part of the city of Minamiuonuma
• Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
• Yamato, Yamaguchi, former town now part of Hikari
• Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
• Yamato River, a river in Nara and Osaka Prefecture
• Yamato Town, later renamed Wakō, Saitama
• Yamato Village, later renamed Higashiyamato, Tokyo

United States

• Yamato Colony, California, Japanese-American agricultural community
• Yamato Colony, Florida, former Japanese farm settlement

Antarctica

• Yamato Glacier
• Yamato Mountains

Meteorites

• Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
• Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth
• Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth

Ships

• Yamato (ship), several Japanese ships of this name
  • Yamato-class battleship
    • Japanese battleship Yamato
  • Japanese corvette Yamato
  • Yamato 1

Companies

• Yamato Life Insurance Company, Japan
• Yamato Transport, Japan, delivery service

Animals

• Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp)

Language

• Yamato kotoba, native Japanese language vocabulary

People

• Yamato (surname)
• Yamato (given name)
• Yamato (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler

Entertainment

• Wadaiko Yamato, Japanese musical group
• Yamato (film), about the World War II battleship Yamato
• Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), Japanese live action film
• Yamato Man, a robot master in Mega Man 6 and Mega Man Battle Network 3
• Yamato, the signature sword wielded by Vergil in the Devil May Cry franchise
• The Ark of Yamato, an area in the video game Ōkami
• The Yamato Perpetual Reactor, a particle accelerator from Shin Megami Tensei IV
• Yamato, a battlecruiser cannon from the StarCraft franchise
• Takeshi Yamato, alter ego of Ultraman 80's TV show

Anime and manga

• Space Battleship Yamato (disambiguation), Japanese TV, film and game series; Star Blazers in the West
• Yamato Takeru (anime)
• Yamato Takeru (film)
• Shiroi Senshi Yamato (Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
• Takeru Yamato, character in the Eyeshield 21 manga
• Yamato, Kaido's daughter from One Piece

Publications

• Yamato (magazine), Italian propaganda magazine published during World War II

See also

• An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
• Yamoto (disambiguation)

Yamato is usually written as "大和", but these two characters can also be read as "Daiwa" or "Taiwa".

Yamato may erroneously refer to the identically written:

• Daiwa, Hiroshima, now part of the city of Mihara, Japan
• Daiwa, Shimane, now part of the town of Misato, Japan
• Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture
• Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings