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Tanegashima (種子島) is one of the Ōsumi
Islands belonging to
Kagoshima Prefecture, ****an. The island, 444.99 km2 (171.81 sq mi) in area, is the
second largest...
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Tanegashima (種子島), most
often called in ****anese and
sometimes in
English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured arquebus...
- (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The
Tanegashima Space Center (種子島宇宙センター,
Tanegashima Uchū Sentā) (TNSC) is the
largest rocket-launch complex...
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Tanegashima clan (種子島氏,
Tanegashima-shi) is a ****anese
aristocratic family of
samurai origins that
originated on the
Tanegashima Island, just south...
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Tanegashima Tokitaka (1528 –
October 21, 1579) was a ****anese daimyō of the
Sengoku period, the 14th head of the
Tanegashima clan. He is
known for having...
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family of the Higo clan
settled in
Tanegashima and
became the
Tanegashima clan. The
islands other than
Tanegashima were
grouped as the
Twelve Islands...
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matchlock which became known as the
tanegashima was
through the
Portuguese in 1543. The
tanegashima seems to have been
based on snap matchlocks...
- New
Tanegashima Airport (新種子島空港, Shin
Tanegashima Kūkō) (IATA: TNE, ICAO: RJFG), also
known as
Tanegashima Airport, is
located in Nakatane, on Tanegashima...
- of the matchlock,
which became known as the
tanegashima, was
through the
Portuguese in 1543. The
tanegashima seems to have been
based on snap matchlocks...
- from the
nearby island of
Tanegashima,
which is home to the ****anese
Space Centre.
Periodic rocket launches from
Tanegashima can
clearly be seen from Yakushima...
