Yamato (大和) may refer to:

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 2.
• Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty

The Yamato people ) are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan. ... The following text needs to be harmonized with text in the article History of Japan#Yamato period. ... Yamato Damashi (Japanese: 大和魂, yamato damashii) is a concept meaning Japanese Spirit or the Soul of Old Japan. 大和 (Yamato) refers to the Yamato, or the ancient Japanese and culture that existed before contact with China, and Damashii is the rendaku form of 魂 (tamashii, soul or spirit). This is often explained as... Yamato nadeshiko is a term used in Japan for a beautiful, perfect woman. ... Yamato Takeru subjugates Kumaso Takeru. ...

Ships

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

The Yamato 1 on display in Kobe, Japan A MHD thruster from the boat, at the Ship Science Museum in Tokyo. ...

Imperial Japanese Navy

• Yamato class battleship, the largest naval vessels of World War II and the largest, heaviest battleships ever constructed
  • Japanese battleship Yamato, nameship of the aforementioned class, named after the Yamato Province
• Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi class, launched in 1885 and sunk on September 18, 1945 [1]

The Yamato class battleships ) of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were the largest naval vessels of World War II and were the largest, heaviest battleships ever constructed to this day, displacing 72,800 metric tons (at full load) and armed with nine 46 cm (18. ... Yamato (大和), named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... French steam corvette Dupleix (1856-1887) Canadian corvettes on antisubmarine convoy escort duty during World War II. A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft. ... is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Japanese geography

• Yamato Province, a former province of Japan that covered the part of Honshu that is present-day Nara Prefecture
• Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
• Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
• Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
• Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
• Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture
• Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
• Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
• Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
• Yamato, Gifu, a former town in Gifu Prefecture, which on 1 March 2004 became a part of Gujo City, Japan
• Yamato, Niigata, a former town in Niigata, Japan, which on 1 November 2004 merged with the town of Muika, Japan forming the city of Minamiuonuma, Japan
• Yamato, Yamaguchi, a former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which on 4 October 2004 merged into Hikari, Japan
• Yamato Town (as it was named upon its establishment in 1943), which changed its name to Wako, Saitama on 31 October 1970
• Yamato Village (as it was named upon its establishment on 1 November 1919), which changed its name to Higashi-yamato, Tokyo on 1 October 1970

Yamato () was a province of Japan. ... Yamato (Japanese: 大和市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. ... Yamato (大和町; -machi; lit. ... Yamato (山都町; -machi) is a town located in Yama District, Fukushima, Japan. ... Yamato (大和町; -chou) is a town located in Saga District, Saga, Japan. ... Yamato (山都町; -machi) is a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto, Japan. ... Yamato (大和村; -mura) is a village located in Makabe District, Ibaraki, Japan. ... Yamato (大和村; -son) is a village located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. ... Yamato (大和村; -mura) is a village located in Higashiyamanashi District, Yamanashi, Japan. ... Yamato is a former town located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. ... Yamato (大和町; -machi) is a town located in Minamiuonuma District, Niigata, Japan. ... Yamato (大和町; -cho) was a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan. ... Wakō (Japanese: 和光市; -shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ... is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Higashiyamato (東大和市; -shi) is a city located in Tokyo, Japan. ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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

Yamato Colony, California was a Japanese agricultural community in Livingston, California, California. ... The Yamato Colony was an attempt to create a community of Japanese farmers in South Florida early in the 20th Century. ...

Antarctic geography

• Yamato Glacier

The Yamato Glacier () is a glacier about 6 miles (10 km) wide, flowing west between Mount Fukushima and Mount Eyskens in the Queen Fabiola Mountains. ...

Companies

• Yamato Transport, Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service company

Yamato Transport Co. ...

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 game "Star Lancer"

Wadaiko Yamato is a Japanese musical group of taiko drummers founded in 1993 by Masa Ogawa. ... The Enterprise-D, a Galaxy Class Starship. ... Otoko-tachi no Yamato (男たちの大和, English title: Yamato) is a 2005 Japanese war movie. ... Not to be confused with Robot Master (Transformers). ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed compared to the rest of the article. ... “Starcraft” redirects here. ... This is a list of characters in the Devil May Cry video game series. ... This article is about the first game in the series. ... For the subspecies of gray wolf, see Japanese Wolf. ... Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein is a well-known example of military science fiction. ...

Anime and Manga

• Space Battleship Yamato, a Japanese science fiction anime series created by Leiji Matsumoto and the name of its eponymous space craft
  • Wave motion gun, a fictional space gun from the American version of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato called "Starblazers". Called the "tachyon gun" in the original.
• Kira Yamato, the protagonist of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Minazuki Yamato, a character in the manga Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
• Yamato Delgado, the main character in the Battle B-Daman anime and manga series
• Yamato Ishida, a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02
• Yamato, a fictional character in the manga and anime Naruto
• Yamato Akitsuki, a fictional character in manga/anime Suzuka
• Waki Yamato, a manga author
• Yamato Kotobuki, a fictional character in the anime/manga Super Gals!
• Shiroi Senshi Yamato (Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
• Yamato, a big battleship headed by Isoroku Yamamoto in the anime Zipang (the anime's depiction of the real battleship).
• Evil Yamato Man, A Robot Master from the video game Mega Man VI

Starblazers redirects here. ... For other uses, see Wave motion gun (disambiguation). ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Mobile Suit Gundam SEED ), shortened to Gundam SEED, is an anime television series by Sunrise and Bandai Visual. ... Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny ) is the second TV series set in the Cosmic Era universe of Gundam by Sunrise. ... Serialized in Ribon Magazine Original run February 1998 – July 2000 Volumes 7 TV anime: Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne Director Atsunobu Umezawa Studio Toei Animation Network TV Asahi Original run 13 February 1999 – 29 January 2000 Episodes 44 Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne ), also known as Divine-Wind Phantom-Thief Jeanne or Phantom-Thief... Yamato Daiwa (大輪ヤマト Daiwa Yamato) known as Yamato Delgato in the English version is the main character in the Battle B-Daman series. ... Yamato Matt Ishida Yamato Ishida (石田 ヤマト Ishida Yamato) is a character in the anime and manga Digimon. ... Yamato ) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto. ... Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Shonen Jump Weekly Comic Original run November 1999 – Ongoing No. ... Suzuka ) is a Japanese romance manga by Kouji Seo. ... Waki Yamato (大和 和紀 Yamato Waki, March 13, 1948 - ) is a Japanese mangaka. ... Gals!, is a shōjo manga written by mangaka Mihona Fujii. ... Yamato the White Fighter (白い戦士ヤマト Shiroi Senshi Yamato) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Takahashi, which was serialized between 1976 and 1989 in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump. ... Yoshihiro Takahashi ) is a Japanese manga artist. ... Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ) (4 April 1884 – 18 April 1943) was Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, graduate of Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and an alumnus of U.S. Naval War College and Harvard University (1919–1921). ... Zipang ) is a manga by Kaiji Kawaguchi. ... Not to be confused with Robot Master (Transformers). ...

People

• Yamato Gō, a former sumo wrestler from Hawaii

Yamato Go (born 17 December 1969 as George Kalima) is a former sumo wrestler from Oahu, Hawaii, United States. ... For other uses, see Sumo (disambiguation). ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

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

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