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Mutsu Science Museum
Mutsu may refer to: Places * Mutsu, Aomori, a city in Aomori prefecture, Japan * Mutsu Province, one of the old provinces of Japan * Mutsu Bay, a bay inside Aomori Prefecture, Japan * Mutsu, Estonia, a village in Vastseliina Parish, Võru County, Estonia People * Mutsu Munemitsu (1844–1897), diplomat in Japan during the Meiji period * Mutsu Hirokichi (1869–1942), Japanese diplomat and an educator in Meiji and Taishō period Japan * Iso Mutsu (1867–1930), author of the first guide to Kamakura ever written Other uses * , a 1970 merchant ship that was Japan's only nuclear-powered ship * , a 1920 battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy * Bluefish, a sushi/sashimi ingredient * Mutsu (apple), a yellow-gold apple also known as Crispin * The fictional Mutsu clan in the manga and anime series ''Shura no Toki - Age of Chaos'' * Mutsu Kokubun-ji Yakushidō is a Buddhist temple in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Japan, belonging to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and is the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu, Aomori
is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 56,244, and a population density of 65 persons per km2, in 28,778 households. The total area of the city is , making it the largest municipality in Aomori Prefecture in terms of area. Geography Mutsu occupies most of Shimokita Peninsula and is bordered by Mutsu Bay to the south and Tsugaru Strait to the north, and is the northernmost city on the island of Honshū. The volcanic Osorezan Mountain Range extends across the northern portion of the city, and includes a number of caldera lakes. Parts of the city is within the limits of the Shimokita Hantō Quasi-National Park, including Mount Osore, Yagen Valley, and Taijima. Neighboring municipalities *Aomori Prefecture ** Kazamaura ** Ōma **Higashidōri ** Sai **Yokohama Climate Mutsu has a rare oceanic climate (Köppen: ''Cfb'') or warm-summer humid continental climate (''Dfb'') by 0 °C isoterm, the south of the city being the norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu Province
was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture. Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa, which together make up the entire Tōhoku region. History Invasion by the Kinai government Mutsu, on northern Honshū, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the largest as it expanded northward. The ancient regional capital of the Kinai government was Tagajō in present-day Miyagi Prefecture. * 709 ('' Wadō 2, 3rd month''), an uprising against governmental authority took place in Mutsu and in nearby Echigo Province. Troops were dispatched to subdue the revolt. * 712 (''Wadō 5''), Mutsu was separated from Dewa Province. Empress Genmei's ''Daijō-kan'' made cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu Bay
is a bay located within Aomori Prefecture, in the northern Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has an east-west distance of approximately and a north-south distance of approximately at its eastern end, with a total area of approximately . Names ''Mutsu Bay'' is the dominant English term used in English for the body of water; however it has historically been referred to as the ''Gulf of Mutsu''. The Japanese name for the body of water is . Geography It is bordered by the Tsugaru Peninsula to the west, the Shimokita Peninsula to the east and north, with an east-west distance of approximately and a north-south distance of approximately at its eastern end, with a total area of approximately . The outlet of the bay is the wide Tairadate Strait which connects Mutsu Bay to the Tsugaru Strait separating the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. The bay has an average depth of to , with a maximum depth of near its outlet to the Tsugaru Strait. Mutsu Bay includes Aomori Bay in the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu, Estonia
Mutsu is a village in Estonia, in Võru Parish, which belongs to Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality an .... (retrieved 28 July 2021) References Villages in Võru County Võru Parish {{Võru-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu Munemitsu
Count was a Japanese statesman and diplomat in Meiji period Japan. Early life Mutsu Munemitsu was born in Wakayama domain, Kii Province as the sixth son of Date Munehiro, a ''samurai'' retainer of the Kii Tokugawa clan. His father was active in the ''Sonnō jōi'' movement, and Mutsu Munemitsu joined forces with Sakamoto Ryōma and Itō Hirobumi in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Meiji bureaucrat After the Meiji Restoration, Mutsu held a number of posts in the new Meiji government, including that of governor of Hyōgo Prefecture and later governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, both of which were host to foreign settlements. He was head of the Land Tax Reform of 1873–1881, and served on the ''Genrōin''. He conspired to assist Saigō Takamori in the Satsuma Rebellion and was imprisoned from 1878 until 1883. While in prison he translated Jeremy Bentham's ''Utilitarianism'' into Japanese. After he left prison, he rejoined the government as an official of the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu Hirokichi
Count was a Japanese diplomat and an educator in Meiji- and Taishō-period Japan. He was the oldest son of Mutsu Munemitsu who was Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was sent to the U.K. to study in 1887 as a barristerHota-Lister, A. ''The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East''. London: Routledge, 2013. pp 49-50 and by 1895 was appointed to diplomatic positions, residing in London, Washington, DC and Rome. While in Europe he met Gertrude Ethel Passingham whom he later married in 1905. She took the Japanese name Mutsu Iso and followed him back to Japan 1910 where she created a name for herself as a writer. Mutsu was again called upon to serve as a diplomat in 1914 and was appointed Envoy to Brussels but with failing health he retired to Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iso Mutsu
Countess , born Gertrude Ethel Passingham, was a British writer. She married a Japanese nobleman and diplomat, came with him to Japan in 1910 and lived in Kamakura until her death in 1930.The Japan TimesKamakura: Fact and Legend In 1918 she wrote the classic guide ''Kamakura: Fact and Legend''. She was born in Oxford. Her father was the landlord of Count Hirokichi Mutsu, son of the then Japanese foreign minister Munemitsu Mutsu, who was studying at Cambridge, and they fell in love. His father strongly opposed his wedding a foreigner and a commoner. Her family was contrary to the union too. The two didn't give up and, after his father died, when Hirokichi was appointed Consul in San Francisco, he managed to convince her to join him there. This in spite of the fact they hadn't met in over five years. Because he was a diplomat, marriage still had to wait, and to stay with him she finally had to pretend to be a child's governess. It was with that role that she first arrived in Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluefish
The bluefish (''Pomatomus saltatrix'') is the only extant species of the family Pomatomidae. It is a marine pelagic fish found around the world in temperate and subtropical waters, except for the northern Pacific Ocean. Bluefish are known as tailor in Australia and New Zealand, elf and shad in South Africa. It is a popular gamefish and food fish. The bluefish is a moderately proportioned fish, with a broad, forked tail. The spiny first dorsal fin is normally folded back in a groove, as are its pectoral fins. Coloration is a grayish blue-green dorsally, fading to white on the lower sides and belly. Its single row of teeth in each jaw is uniform in size, knife-edged, and sharp. Bluefish commonly range in size from seven-inch (18-cm) "snappers" to much larger, sometimes weighing as much as 40 lb (18 kg), though fish heavier than 20 lb (9 kg) are exceptional. Systematics The bluefish is the only extant species now included in the family Pomatomidae. At one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu (apple)
The apple (also known as Crispin) was introduced in 1949 and is a cross between the ' Golden Delicious' and the 'Indo' apple cultivars first grown in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The apple's name is the former name of a large section of the Tōhoku region, Mutsu Province, which Aomori was created from during the Meiji Restoration.Crispin apple 'Mutsu' is a cultivar. /ref> It is highly susceptible to the disease Blis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shura No Toki - Age Of Chaos
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masatoshi Kawahara. The story follows a young Karate practitioner named Tsukumo Mutsu, 40th master of the deadly Mutsu Enmei Ryu style. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Monthly Shōnen Magazine'' from April 1987 to November 1996. The individual chapters were collected and published into 31 ''tankōbon'' volumes published between October 1987 and May 1997. A prequel series, ''Mutsu Enmei-ryū Gaiden: Shura no Toki'' also ran in ''Monthly Shōnen Magazine'', premiering in July 1989 and running until November 2005. Its chapters were published in 15 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Kodansha. It was adapted into a 26-episode anime series by Media Factory and Studio Comet that aired from April 6, 2004, until September 28, 2004, and is licensed for release in North America by Media Blasters. ''Shura no Mon'' received the 1990 Kodansha Manga Award for the '' shōnen'' category, and has sold over 30 million copies. Two other spin-off s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu Kokubun-ji Yakushidō
is a Buddhist temple in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Japan, belonging to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and is the provincial temple ("kokubunji") of former Mutsu Province. The grounds of the temple are a National Historic Site. and one of its structures, the early Edo period is an Important Cultural Property. Ancient Mutsu Kokubun-ji The '' Shoku Nihongi'' records that in 741, as the country recovered from a major smallpox epidemic, Emperor Shōmu ordered that a monastery and nunnery be established in every province, the . In the late Nara period, after the establishment of a centralized government under the ''Ritsuryō'' system, the Yamato court sent a number of military expeditions to what is now the Tōhoku region of northern Japan to bring the local Emishi tribes under its control. After the establishment of Taga Castle, Yamato forces gradually pushed into the hinterland of what is now Miyagi Prefecture, establishing several fortified settlements along with several l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
