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), spelled using the same kanji as Yamato
Places
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 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 2GO Maligaya, a passenger ferry originally named Yamato
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
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 Ishida Yamato, character in the Digimon franchise Takeru Yamato, character in the Eyeshield 21 manga Yamato (One Piece), character in the One Piece manga
Other media 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 the video game 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 "Yamato", a 2026 song by Sabaton
Publications Yamato (magazine), Italian propaganda magazine published during World War II
See also An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus Yamoto (disambiguation) Daiwa (disambiguation)
Yamato may erroneously refer to the identically written: Daiwa, Hiroshima, now part of the city of Mihara, Japan Daiwa, Shimane, now part of the town of Misato, Japan Taiwa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture Daiwa Bank, now a part of Resona Holdings