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    A shōen (荘園 or 庄園, shōen) was a field or manor in Japan. The Japanese term comes from the Tang dynasty Chinese term "莊園" (Mandarin: zhuāngyuán, Cantonese:...
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    comparison. Shōen painted another version of The Beauty of Four Seasons for the exposition and received an award for the painting. Shōen drew from her...
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  • Mark V. Shoen (born 1951) is an American billionaire businessman and vice-president of the moving equipment and storage rental company U-Haul, which was...
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    foundations, acquired ever larger shōen and greater wealth during the early tenth century. By the early Heian period, the shōen had obtained legal status, and...
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    Honederamura Shōen ruins (骨寺村荘園遺跡, Honederamura Shōen iseki) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale shōen manor from the Kamakura...
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  • Leonard Samuel Shoen (February 29, 1916 – October 4, 1999) was an American entrepreneur who founded the U-Haul truck and trailer organization in Ridgefield...
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  • Edward Joseph Shoen (born March 28, 1949) is an American billionaire businessman and lawyer. He is the president, chairman, and chief executive officer...
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  • The Yugeshima Shōen site (弓削島荘遺跡, Yugeshima-shō iseki) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of a Heian to Kamakura period shōen located on the...
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  • U-Haul (category Shoen family)
    that has been in operation since 1945. The company was founded by Leonard Shoen and Anna Mary Carty in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in a garage...
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    foundations, acquired ever larger shōen and greater wealth during the early tenth century. By the early Heian period, the shōen had obtained legal status, and...
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    The Nitta shōen (新田荘遺), also known as Nitta-no-shō, was a vast shōen, or landed estate dating the from Heian period which existed in Kōzuke Province (present-day...
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    Shōen-ji (正圓寺) is a Buddhist temple in Abeno-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 939. Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Osaka Wikimedia Commons has...
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    name from his shōen named "Mōri" in Aikō District, Sagami Province. After the Jōkyū War, Suemitsu was appointed to the jitō office of a shōen in Aki Province...
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    The Yokoe Shōen site (横江荘遺跡, Yokoe-no-shō iseki) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of a Heian period to Sengoku period shōen located in...
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    The Shoen Library was a library on the now defunct Marylhurst University campus, in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States. The building was completed in 1968...
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    The Hine shōen (日根荘), also known as Hine-no-shō, was a vast shōen, or landed estate which existed in Izumi Province (present-day city of Izumisano, Osaka...
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    decapitated. After his death, Princess Takiyasha continued living in the ruined shōen, or rural manor-house, of the Sōma clan, Masakado's former residence. This...
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  • Kamakura also appointed stewards, or jitō, to positions in the manors (shōen). These stewards received revenues from the manors in return for their military...
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    province. During the Heian period, the province was divided into numerous shōen controlled by local samurai clans, primarily the Chiba clan, which sided...
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    Subcontinent Indian feudalism, Indian feudalism Fengjian, Chinese feudalism Shōen the Japanese system Particuliere landerij, 17th-century Dutch East Indies...
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    tax-exempt status for their private shōen manors. By the eleventh century, more land in Japan was controlled by shōen owners than by the central government...
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  • Corporation Stephen A. Schwarzman, 1972 – founder of Blackstone Group Joe Shoen, 1973 – billionaire chairman of AMERCO Martin A. Siegel, 1971 — former Kidder...
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  • Donald Strout Alex Boxall as Sgt. Monroe Thornton Elan Butler as Lt. Robert Shoens Lino Facioli as Lt. Adams Christopher Lakewood as Col Thomas Jeffery Dimitri...
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    Aristocracy, History, Japan, Asia – Taika reforms, clan chieftain, sesshu, shoen, land redistribution". www.countriesquest.com. Archived from the original...
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    "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שעהן, or Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין, [ˌbaj ˈmir ˌbistu ˈʃejn], "To Me You're Beautiful") is a popular Yiddish...
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    needed] During the Heian period, the province was divided into numerous shōen controlled by local samurai clans. However, by the Sengoku period, the province...
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    aristocracy, the remnants of the imperial governmental systems, the daimyōs, the shōen system, the great temples and shrines, the sōhei, the shugo and jitō, the...
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    National Historic Site since 1981. It was the first ruin of a shōen to receive such status. The shōen or landed estates were private, tax-free, and autonomous...
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    the old Shōtoku land reform systems declined. By the mid-eighth century, shōen (landed estates), one of the most important economic institutions in prehistoric...
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    Nihonga Honō (焔, Flame) by Uemura Shōen, 1918. Tokyo National Museum. This work was inspired by Lady Rokujō, the ikiryō from The Tale of Genji and the...
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