Nijō can refer to:
Places
*, one of numbered east–west streets in the ancient capital of
Heian-kyō
Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180.
Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, mov ...
(present-day Kyoto, Japan)
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Nijō Castle, a castle in
Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto
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Nijō Station (Kyoto), a train station in
Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto
*, a former town in
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
People
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Emperor Nijō (1143–1165), 78th emperor of Japan
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Nijō family
is a Japanese aristocratic kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nijō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 42 retrieved 2013-7-7. The Nijō was a branch of the Fuj ...
, one of the five regent houses (''go-sekke'')
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Nijō Tameuji (1222–1286), also known as Fujiwara no Tameuji, poet and founder of:
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Nijō poetic school, a conservative school of Japanese waka (poetry)
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Lady Nijō (1258–c. 1307), Japanese writer, author of ''The Confessions of Lady Nijo''
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