Sawara may refer to:
Locations in Japan
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Sawara-ku, Fukuoka
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Sawara, Fukuoka
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Sawara, Chiba
was a city located in Katori District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
History
Sawara has been settled since prehistoric times, and has numerous remains of Jōmon period shell middens and Kofun period burial mounds. By the Nara period, it had devel ...
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Sawara District, Fukuoka (
:ja:早良郡), former administrative region in the
Chikuzen Province
People
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Sawara clan (
:ja:佐原氏), an influential Japanese family
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Megumi Sawara (
:ja:早良めぐみ), a Japanese actress and fashion model
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Morizumi Sawara (
:ja:佐原盛純), a Japanese
sinologist
Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...
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Prince Sawara
(750? – November 8, 785) was the fifth son of Prince Shirakabe (later Emperor Kōnin), by Takano no Niigasa.
Biography
In 781 he was named heir-presumptive after his elder brother succeeded the abdicated Emperor Kōnin as the Emperor Kanmu. In ...
, (
:ja:早良親王), a Japanese prince and son of
Emperor Kōnin
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Sawara no Kinsaburō Sawara may refer to:
Locations in Japan
*Sawara-ku, Fukuoka
* Sawara, Fukuoka
*Sawara, Chiba
* Sawara District, Fukuoka ( :ja:早良郡), former administrative region in the Chikuzen Province
People
* Sawara clan ( :ja:佐原氏), an influential J ...
(
:ja:佐原喜三郎), a
knight-errant from the
Edo period
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Tokusuke Sawara (
:ja:佐原篤介), a journalist from the
Meiji period
Other
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Sawara Cypress
''Chamaecyparis pisifera'' (Sawara cypress or Sawara ja, サワラ , translit=Sawara) is a species of false cypress, native to central and southern Japan, on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū.Farjon, A. (2005). ''Monograph of Cupressaceae and ...
, a species of
coniferous tree
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extant ...
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Japanese Spanish mackerel and
Atlantic Spanish mackerel, two species of
saltwater fish called "sawara" on
sushi menus
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