# Yamato

Yamato (大和) 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

## 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 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

### 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
* Takeru Yamato, character in the Eyeshield 21 manga
* Yamato, Kaido's daughter from One Piece

## Publications

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