Yamato
Yamato (great peace) is the name of several places, times and things in Japan:
- the dominant Yamato peoples of ancient Japan
- Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
- Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
- Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
- Yamato, Niigata, a town in Niigata Prefecture
- Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
- Yamato, Gifu, a former town in Gifu Prefecture (now part of the city of Gujo)
- Yamato, Yamaguchi, a former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture (now part of the city of Hikari)
- Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
- Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
- Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
- Wako, Saitama, Japan (former name)
- Higashiyamato, Tokyo, Japan (former name)
- former Yamato Province of Japan
- many other small areas around Japan
- the country of Japan (archaic)
- the Yamato period in Japanese history
- Yamato, a Japanese World War II battleship
- Space Battleship Yamato, the English translation of the Japanese anime series 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
- Yamato weapon, a fictional space gun
- USS Yamato (NCC-1305), a Galaxy-class starship in the Star Trek fictional universe
Yamato is usually written as "大和", but these two characters can also be read as "Daiwa" or "Taiwa". So "Yamato" is often used to erroneously refer to following things:
- Daiwa, Hiroshima, a town in Hiroshima Prefecture
- Daiwa, Shimane, a village in Shimane Prefecture
- Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture
- Daiwa Bank (infamous by its bond scandal)
Yamato is sometimes used as a fictional Japanese surname. It can refer to the following people:
- Waki Yamato (pseudonym)
It can also refer to the following fictional characters:
Yamato can also refer to a Japanese given name. It can refer to the following fictional characters:
- Yamato Delgado a.k.a. Yamato Daiwa, of Battle B'Daman (a.k.a. Bedaman)
- Yamato "Matt" Ishida of Digimon
- Minazuki Yamato, of Phantom Thief Jeanne (also known as Jeanne, the Kamizake Thief or Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne)