Yamato (Japanese battleship)

Yamato

Yamato (大和) is an ancient name of Japan. The term was semantically extended to mean “Japan” or “Japanese” in general. As such, the Ryukyuans sometimes use this name in contrasting mainland Japan with Okinawa Prefecture, and in the Okinawan language, Yamato is called "Yamatu". The term is thus a name for many things, and due to these, it is occasionally a point of contention.

Japanese history

Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
Yamato period, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
Yamato-damashii, the nationalistic "Japanese spirit"
Yamato Nadeshiko, The ideology of the perfect Japanese woman, used as propaganda in World War II.
Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty
Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting

Ships

Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive

Imperial Japanese Navy

Yamato class battleship, the largest naval vessel of World War II and the largest, heaviest battleship ever constructed.

Japanese battleship Yamato, nameship of the aforementioned class, named after the Yamato Province

Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi class, launched in 1885 and sunk on September 18, 1945

Japanese geography

Yamato Province, a former province of Japan that covered the part of Honshu that is present-day Nara Prefecture
Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture
Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamato, Gifu, a former town in Gifu Prefecture, which on 1 March 2004 became a part of Gujo City, Japan
Yamato, Niigata, a former town in Niigata, Japan, which on 1 November 2004 merged with the town of Muika, Japan forming the city of Minamiuonuma, Japan
Yamato, Yamaguchi, a former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which on 4 October 2004 merged into Hikari, Japan
Yamato Town (as it was named upon its establishment in 1943), which changed its name to Wako, Saitama on 31 October 1970
Yamato Village (as it was named upon its establishment on 1 November 1919), which changed its name to Higashi-yamato, Tokyo on 1 October 1970

Japanese organizations

Yamato (movement), a western Japanese independence movement

United States geography

Yamato Colony, California, a Japanese-American agricultural community in California
Yamato Colony, Florida, a Japanese farm settlement in South Florida in the first half of the twentieth century
Yamato Colony, Texas, a Japanese-American owned sugar cane plantation in Texas

Antarctic geography

Yamato Glacier

Companies

Yamato Transport, Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service company
Yamato Motor Co. Ltd., the producer of boats and motors for Kyōtei
Yamato Life Insurance Company

Entertainment

Wadaiko Yamato, a Japanese musical group which performs Taiko music
USS Yamato (NCC-71807), a Galaxy Class starship in the Star Trek fictional universe which was a sister ship of the USS Enterprise
Otoko-tachi no Yamato, a 2005 Japanese World War II film about the Yamato Japanese battleship
Yamato Man, A Robot Master from the video game Mega Man VI
Yamato Cannon, a powerful weapon of Terran Battlecruisers in the popular PC game, StarCraft .
The katana of Vergil, a character from the Devil May Cry series of video games
The name of a legendary ark in Ōkami
Two military science fiction novels by Ken Kato, both set in the 24th Century: Yamato: A Rage In Heaven; and Yamato 2: The Way Of the Warrior. Both were written during the early-to-mid-1990's; the paperback versions of each were published in a pair of separate installments, while the hardcover versions were published in a single installment.
Yamato, one of the Alliance Fleet ships that carried the squadron "Ronin" and later "Tigers" on the PC and Dreamcast title StarLancer

Anime and Manga

Space Battleship Yamato, a Japanese science fiction anime series created by Leiji Matsumoto and the name of its eponymous space craft; called Star Blazers in the West
Kira Yamato, the protagonist of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
Minazuki Yamato, a character in the manga Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
Yamato Delgado ("Daiwa" in the Japanese version), the main character in the Battle B-Daman anime and manga series
Yamato Ishida ("Matt" in the English dub), a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02
Yamato, a fictional character in the manga and anime Naruto
Yamato Akitsuki, a fictional character in manga/anime Suzuka
Waki Yamato, a manga author
Yamato Kotobuki, a fictional character in the anime/manga Super Gals!
Shiroi Senshi Yamato (Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
Yamato, a big battleship headed by Isoroku Yamamoto in the anime Zipang (the anime's depiction of the real battleship).
Takeru Yamato is the real Eyeshield 21 in the same called manga/anime.