Yamato

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

Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.

Japanese history

 * Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
 * Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
 * Yamato Kingship, the government of the Yamato period
 * Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period
 * Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind"
 * Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman
 * Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the imperial dynasty
 * Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting
 * Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka (poetry)
 * Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato
 * Daiwa (disambiguation) is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato

Japan

 * Yamato Province, Japan, former province, present-day Nara Prefecture
 * Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
 * Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
 * Yamato, Gifu, former town now part of Gujo City, Japan
 * Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
 * Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
 * Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
 * Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture
 * Yamato, Niigata, former town now part of the city of Minamiuonuma
 * Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
 * Yamato, Yamaguchi, former town now part of Hikari
 * Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
 * Yamato River, a river in Nara and Osaka Prefecture
 * Yamato Town, later renamed Wakō, Saitama
 * Yamato Village, later renamed Higashiyamato, Tokyo

United States

 * Yamato Colony, California, Japanese-American agricultural community
 * Yamato Colony, Florida, former Japanese farm settlement

Antarctica

 * Yamato Glacier
 * Yamato Mountains

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 Japanese ships of this name
 * Yamato-class battleship
 * Japanese battleship Yamato
 * Japanese corvette Yamato
 * Yamato 1

Companies

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

Animals

 * Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp)

Language

 * Yamato kotoba, native Japanese language vocabulary

People

 * Yamato (surname)
 * Yamato (given name)
 * Yamato (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler

Entertainment

 * Wadaiko Yamato, Japanese musical group
 * Yamato (film), about the World War II battleship Yamato
 * Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), Japanese live action film
 * Yamato Man, a robot master in Mega Man 6 and Mega Man Battle Network 3
 * 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
 * Takeshi Yamato, alter ego of Ultraman 80's TV show

Anime and manga

 * Space Battleship Yamato (disambiguation), Japanese TV, film and game series; Star Blazers in the West
 * Yamato Takeru (anime)
 * Yamato Takeru (film)
 * Shiroi Senshi Yamato (Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
 * Takeru Yamato, character in the Eyeshield 21 manga
 * Yamato, Kaido's daughter from One Piece

Publications

 * Yamato (magazine), Italian propaganda magazine published during World War II