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was the Tokugawa shogunate's officially sanctioned cinnabar monopoly or cinnabar guild ( za) which was created in 1609.
Initially, the Tokugawa shogunate was interested in assuring a consistent value in minted coins; and this led to the perceived need for attending to the supply of cinnabar.
This bakufu title identifies a regulatory agency with responsibility for supervising the handling and trading of cinnabar and for superintending all cinnabar mining and cinnabar-extraction activities in Japan.
WKAZ can refer to:
- WKAZ (AM), a radio station (680 AM) located in Charleston, West Virginia, United States
- WKAZ-FM, a radio station (107.3 FM) located in Miami, West Virginia, United States
WKAZ (680 AM, "68 KAZ-AM") is an oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, serving Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia. WKAZ is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Corporation.
The Adeonellidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomata. Colonies are often upright bilaminar branches or sheets. The zooids generally have one or more adventitious avicularia on their frontal wall. Instead of ovicells the adeonids often possess enlarged polymorphs which brood the larvae internally.
The apparent similarity in characters to the family Adeonidae can makes their separation debatable.
Usage examples of "adeonellidae".
Who besides Gilles had the keys to the cellaret the cognac was in, and the keys to the mill.
A pull at the Cognac flask served him for breakfast and he paddled away on his voyage with vigorous stroke.
KGB Rezident at the Soviet embassy was standing in front of him, smiling and raising a glass of cognac in salute.
In front of the Cognac on the top shelf was a bottle of Haitian Barbancourt Rhum, aged fifteen years and as expensive as unblended Scotch.
He busied himself, first by pouring a glass of water and then a sifter of fine Cognac.
Lemoyne instructed as he exchanged the empty glass for the sifter of Cognac.
It is made artificially from high wines by the addition of oil of Cognac, to give it flavor, burnt sugar to give it color, and logwood or catechu, to impart astringency and roughness of taste.
Deputy Barras is old money: the hounds, the horses, the snifters of fine cognac .
For a moment he was filled with a vague feeling of disturbance, which he traced, much later at Berchtesgaden, to Councillor Berner and a couple of reckless hours spent over a cognac bottle.
Ramsey Osborn passed mellowly to cognac and cigars and watched the races on television.
The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.
Taverner came in bearing coffee and a pair of fine decanters, one containing cognac, the other extremely rare unblended Scotch whisky.
Some were translucent lemon-coloured, others dark amber or cognac, with all shades in between, while again there were those that were untinted, clear as snow-melt in a mountain stream, with frosted facets that reflected the flames of the smoky little fire.
The noted author will show the visitors through the rooms, offer them cognac, and take them to the synagogue and the Judaica library.
Mercedes purred with gentle health on the road towards Madrid, Father Quixote realized with his nose that the bishop had left behind him for a brief instant an agreeable smell compounded of young wine, of cognac, and of manchegan cheese, which before it dispersed a stranger might well have mistaken for an exotic incense.