Yamato - Definition and Overview

Yamato is the name of several places, times and things:

• the dominant Yamato peoples of ancient Japan
• Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
• Yamato, Fukushima, Japan
• Yamato, Ibaraki, Japan
• Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
• Yamato, Niigata, Japan
• Yamato, Yamanashi, Japan
• Yamato, Gifu, Japan (present Gujo)
• Yamato, Yamaguchi, Japan
• Yamato, Fukuoka, Japan
• Yamato, Saga, Japan
• Yamato, Kagoshima, Japan
• 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 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
• Daiwa, Shimane
• Taiwa, Miyagi
• Daiwa Bank (infamous by its bond scandal)