was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.

Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.

Japanese history

  • Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan
  • Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
  • Yamato Kingship, the government of the Yamato period
  • Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period
  • Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind"
  • Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman
  • Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the imperial dynasty
  • Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting
  • Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka (poetry)
  • Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato
  • Daiwa (disambiguation) is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato

Geography

Japan

  • Yamato Province, Japan, former province, present-day Nara Prefecture
  • Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture
  • Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture
  • Yamato, Gifu, former town now part of Gujo City, Japan
  • Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture
  • Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture
  • Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture
  • Yamato, Niigata, former town now part of the city of Minamiuonuma
  • Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture
  • Yamato, Yamaguchi, former town now part of Hikari
  • Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture
  • Yamato River, a river in Nara and Osaka Prefecture
  • Yamato Town, later renamed Wakō, Saitama
  • Yamato Village, later renamed Higashiyamato, Tokyo

United States

  • Yamato Colony, California, Japanese-American agricultural community
  • Yamato Colony, Florida, former Japanese farm settlement

Antarctica

  • Yamato Glacier
  • Yamato Mountains

Meteorites

  • Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
  • Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth
  • Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth

Ships

  • Yamato (ship), several Japanese ships of this name
  • Yamato-class battleship
  • Japanese battleship Yamato
  • Japanese corvette Yamato
  • Yamato 1
  • 2GO Maligaya, a passenger ferry originally named Yamato

Companies

  • Yamato Life Insurance Company, Japan
  • Yamato Transport, Japan, delivery service

Animals

  • Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp)

Language

  • Yamato kotoba, native Japanese language vocabulary

People

  • Yamato (surname)
  • Yamato (given name)
  • Yamato (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler

Entertainment

  • Wadaiko Yamato, Japanese musical group
  • Yamato (film), about the World War II battleship Yamato
  • Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), Japanese live action film
  • Yamato Man, a robot master in Mega Man 6 and Mega Man Battle Network 3
  • Yamato, the signature sword wielded by Vergil in the Devil May Cry franchise
  • The Ark of Yamato, an area in the video game Ōkami
  • The Yamato Perpetual Reactor, a particle accelerator from the video game Shin Megami Tensei IV
  • Yamato, a battlecruiser cannon from the StarCraft franchise
  • Takeshi Yamato, alter ego of Ultraman 80's TV show
  • Yamato, sister ship to the USS Enterprise in the second season episode "Contagion" of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • "Yamato", a 2026 song by Sabaton

Anime and manga

  • Space Battleship Yamato (disambiguation), Japanese TV, film and game series; Star Blazers in the West
  • Yamato Takeru (anime)
  • Yamato Takeru (film)
  • Shiroi Senshi Yamato (Yamato, the White Fighter), a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Ishida Yamato, character in the Digimon franchise
  • Takeru Yamato, character in the Eyeshield 21 manga
  • Yamato, character in the One Piece manga

Publications

  • Yamato (magazine), Italian propaganda magazine published during World War II

See also

  • An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
  • Yamoto
  • Daiwa

Yamato is usually written as "大和", but these two characters can also be read as "Daiwa" or "Taiwa".

Yamato may erroneously refer to the identically written:

  • Daiwa, Hiroshima, now part of the city of Mihara, Japan
  • Daiwa, Shimane, now part of the town of Misato, Japan
  • Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture
  • Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings