Yamato

Yamato (大和) was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara prefecture of Japan which became the Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.

Japanese history

• Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
• Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
• Yamato-damashii, the nationalistic "Japanese spirit"
• Yamato nadeshiko, The ideology of the perfect Japanese woman
• Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty
• Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting
• Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka (poetry)
• Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato
• Daiwa is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato.

People

• YAMATO, ring name of wrestler Masanori Toguchi (born 1948)
• YAMATO, ring name of wrestler Masato Onodera (born 1981)
• Hiroshi Yamato (born 1983), professional wrestler
• Yamato Ganeko, a singer of the band Orange Range
• Yamato Gō (born 1969), a former sumo wrestler from Hawaii
• Yamato Maeda (born 1987), baseball player
• Yūga Yamato (born 1977), the current top star of Takarazuka Revue

Geography

Meteorites

• Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
• Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth
• Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth

Ships

• Yamato (ship), several ships of this name
  • Japanese battleship Yamato

Companies

• Yamato Life Insurance Company, Japan
• Yamato Transport, Japan, delivery service

Animals

• Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp)

Language

• Yamato kotoba, native Japanese language vocabulary

Entertainment

• Wadaiko Yamato, Japanese musical group
• Yamato (film), about the World War II battleship Yamato
• Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), Japanese live action film
• USS Yamato (NCC-71807), fictional Star Trek Galaxy class starship
• Yamato Man, a robot boss in Nintendo Mega Man 6
• Takeshi Yamato, alter ego of Ultraman 80 in TV show
• Yamato, the signature sword wielded by Vergil in the Devil May Cry franchise
• The Ark of Yamato, an area in the video game Ōkami
• The Yamato Perpetual Reactor, a particle accelerator from Shin Megami Tensei IV
• Yamato, a battlecruiser cannon from the StarCraft franchise

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 the identically-written:

• Daiwa, Hiroshima, now part of the city of Mihara, Japan
• Daiwa, Shimane, now part of the town of Misato, Japan
• Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture
• Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings

See also

• Yamoto (disambiguation)