Yamato

Yamato (大和) may refer to:

Contents

1 Imperial Japanese Navy
2 Japanese history
3 Entertainment
4 Anime and manga
5 Japanese geography
6 United States geography
7 Companies
8 See also

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

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

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

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

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

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