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'Yamato' (大和) may refer to:

Contents

Japanese history

Ships

Imperial Japanese Navy

Japanese geography

United States geography

Antarctic geography

Companies

Entertainment

Anime and Manga

People

See also

Japanese history

★ Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of ancient Japan

★ Yamato period, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province

★ Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty

Ships

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

Imperial Japanese Navy

★ ''Yamato'' class battleship, the largest naval vessels of World War II and the largest, heaviest battleships ever constructed

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★ 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 [1]

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

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

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: ; and . 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.

Anime and Manga

★ ''Space Battleship Yamato'', a Japanese science fiction anime series created by Leiji Matsumoto and the name of its eponymous space craft

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★ Wave motion gun, a fictional space gun from the American version of the anime series ''Space Battleship Yamato'' called "Starblazers". Called the "tachyon gun" in the original.

★ 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, the main character in the ''Battle B-Daman'' anime and manga series

★ Yamato Ishida, 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 charater 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).

People

★ Yamato Gō, a former sumo wrestler from Hawaii.

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:

★ Daiwa, Hiroshima, a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, which on 22 March 2005 merged with two other towns to form the city of Mihara, Japan

★ Daiwa, Shimane, a former village in Shimane Prefecture, which on 1 October 2004 merged with Ochi, Shimane to form the town of Misato, Japan

★ Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture

★ Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings, Inc., which was part of a bond scandal in 1995