Sawara may refer to:

Locations in Japan

Sawara-ku, Fukuoka is one of the wards in Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Kyūshū, Japan. Data *Population: 213,178 people (as of January 1, 2012) *Area: 95.88 square kilometers (the largest in Fukuoka-shi) History On April 1, 1889, Fukuoka-shi was founded. The no ...

* Sawara, Fukuoka *

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 ...

* Sawara District, Fukuoka ( :ja:早良郡), former administrative region in the

Chikuzen Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyūshū. It was sometimes called or , with Chikugo Province. Chikuzen bordered Buzen, Bungo, Chikugo, and Hizen Provinces. History The original provincial ...

People

* Sawara clan ( :ja:佐原氏), an influential Japanese family * Megumi Sawara ( :ja:早良めぐみ), a Japanese actress and fashion model * 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 ...

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 was the 49th emperor of Japan, Emperor Kōnin, Tahara no Higashi Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional order of succession. Kōnin's reign lasted from 770 to 781. Traditional narrative The personal name of ...

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 The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

* Tokusuke Sawara ( :ja:佐原篤介), a journalist from the

Meiji period The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...

Other

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 ...

* Japanese Spanish mackerel and Atlantic Spanish mackerel, two species of saltwater fish called "sawara" on sushi menus {{disambiguation