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  • The name Ichi, is strikingly suggestive of the natural Chinese pronunciation of the word Inca.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • With the waiters urging us on, we'd count to three in Japanese, "Ichi, ni, san, sake bomb!" drop the shot glass into the beer and chug the whole thing.

    Politics Salon staff 2010

  • With the waiters urging us on, we'd count to three in Japanese, "Ichi, ni, san, sake bomb!" drop the shot glass into the beer and chug the whole thing.

    Politics Salon staff 2010

  • However, he did teach me how to count to five in Japanese: 'Ichi, ni, san, shi, go.'

    Janet Langhart Cohen: Remembering Isao Janet Langhart Cohen 2011

  • She went to sleep and I kept drawing lines on cardstock while watching first this amazingly twisted grand guignol Japanese BDSM Yakuza film called Ichi the Killer, then (finally) watching the Animatrix (uneven but not bad, with moments of coolness).

    Mon-Tues: media blitz, whiteway stroll and dreamachine construction badger 2004

  • Muroyama, so that no less than fourteen provinces of the Sanyo-do and the Nankai-do owned Taira sway, and by the beginning of 1184 they had re-occupied the Fukuhara district, establishing themselves at a position of great natural strength called Ichi-no-tani in the province of Harima.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • Above ordinary Ujigami ranked the deities worshipped in the chief Shinto temples of the various provinces, which temples were termed Ichi-no-miya, or temples of the first grade.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The performance is subtitled Ichi-go Ichi-e, an expression central to the Japanese tea ceremony, that no matter how many times the very same people may gather, the moment can never be repeated.

    Buffalo Rising 2010

  • There is (or was) a place called Ichi Ban ( "Number One") on Thurlow Street, between Robson and Alberni.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • I am also a big fan of "Ichi" (Zatoichi), the blind Japanese masseur swordsman, played by Shintaro Katsu.

    Sit Down, Shut Up 2008

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