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... called the Muromachi period . Generals holding im- portant positions in the shogunate lived permanently in Kyōto and thus had closer contact with the life of the nobility than had the warriors of the Kamakura period . They believed in ...
... called the Muromachi period . Generals holding im- portant positions in the shogunate lived permanently in Kyōto and thus had closer contact with the life of the nobility than had the warriors of the Kamakura period . They believed in ...
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... called flickering clusters . The average clus- ter size , n , decreases with increasing temperature or pres- sure , thus accounting for such properties as the maxi- mum in the temperature dependence of the density and the minimum in the ...
... called flickering clusters . The average clus- ter size , n , decreases with increasing temperature or pres- sure , thus accounting for such properties as the maxi- mum in the temperature dependence of the density and the minimum in the ...
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... called below semasiography , belong various types of forerunners of writing . ( 2 ) The later stage , in which the signs of writing , whether pictorial or linear , became visual substitutes for the signs of the oral language , such as ...
... called below semasiography , belong various types of forerunners of writing . ( 2 ) The later stage , in which the signs of writing , whether pictorial or linear , became visual substitutes for the signs of the oral language , such as ...
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