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... Japanese fleet , including four heavy and three light aircraft carriers , with orders to engage and destroy the Amer- ican fleet and invade Midway . U.S. intelli- gence had divined Japanese intentions after breaking the Japanese naval ...
... Japanese fleet , including four heavy and three light aircraft carriers , with orders to engage and destroy the Amer- ican fleet and invade Midway . U.S. intelli- gence had divined Japanese intentions after breaking the Japanese naval ...
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... Japan - d . June 6 , 1790 , Edo ) , Japanese kabuki actor who introduced male roles into the kabuki theatre's dance pieces ( shosagoto ) , which had been traditionally reserved for fe- male impersonators . Nakamura was left an orphan ...
... Japan - d . June 6 , 1790 , Edo ) , Japanese kabuki actor who introduced male roles into the kabuki theatre's dance pieces ( shosagoto ) , which had been traditionally reserved for fe- male impersonators . Nakamura was left an orphan ...
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... ( Japanese : " likeness painting " ) , form of sketchy portraiture that became fashionable in the court circles of 12th- and 13th - century Japan . Realistic art was originally outside the tradition of Japanese portraiture , which , un ...
... ( Japanese : " likeness painting " ) , form of sketchy portraiture that became fashionable in the court circles of 12th- and 13th - century Japan . Realistic art was originally outside the tradition of Japanese portraiture , which , un ...
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