Yamato
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Yamato (大和) may refer to:
Imperial Japanese Navy
- The Yamato class battleships - The largest naval vessels of World War II and the largest, heaviest battleships ever constructed
- Yamato - Nameship of the aforementioned class, named after the Yamato Province
- Yamato - Sloop of the Katsuragi class, launched in 1885 and sunk in 1945
Japanese history
- The Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of ancient Japan
- The 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
Entertainment
- Yamato (music), a Japanese musical group which performs Taiko music
- The 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 siege weapon of Terran Battlecruiser (StarCraft) units, in the StarCraft computer game
- The katana of Vergil, a character from the Devil May Cry series of video games
Anime and manga
- Yamato Ishida, a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02
- Kira Yamato, the protagonist of the television anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- Space Battleship Yamato, a Japanese science fiction anime series created by Leiji Matsumoto and the name of its eponymous space craft
- Yamato Delgado, the main character in the Battle B-Daman anime and manga series
- Minazuki Yamato, a character in the manga Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
- Yamato (Naruto), a fictional character in the manga Naruto
- Waki Yamato, a manga author
- The Wave motion gun, a fictional space gun from the anime series Space Battleship Yamato
Japanese geography
- The 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, an attempt to create a community of Japanese farmers in South Florida in the early twentieth century
- Yamato Colony, Texas, a Japanese-American owned sugar cane plantation in Texas
Companies
- Yamato Transport, Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service company
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
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