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Places

• Miura, Kanagawa
  Miura, Kanagawa
  
  is a cities of Japan located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.It is a city bordering the sea. It is well known for Miura Marathon which is normally held in March First Week....
   - Japanese city bordering the sea
• Miura-Kaigan Station
  Miura-Kaigan Station
  
  , is a train station located in Miura, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan....
  
• Miura District, Kanagawa
  Miura District, Kanagawa
  
  is a districts of Japan located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It consists of only one town, Hayama.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 31,396 and a population density of 1,840.33 persons per km?....
  
• Miura Peninsula
  Miura Peninsula
  
  The Miura Peninsula is a peninsula located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies south of Yokohama and Tokyo and divides Tokyo Bay, to the east, from Sagami Bay, to the west....
  

People

• Miura clan
  Miura clan
  
  The was one of the branch families descended from the Taira clan. They held large fiefs, and great political influence. They were one of the primary opponents of the Hojo clan family of Shikken, in the mid-13th century, and again at the beginning of the 16th....
   - Japanese descended clan of the Taira
• Aika Miura
  Aika Miura
  
  is a popular and award-winning Japanese AV idol who made a clear mark on the AV industry. In a remarkably long and prolific career for an AV actress, she released an average of one film a month over a seven year period-- excepting 1998-- before she retired in 2002....
   - Japanese AV idol
• Ayako Miura
  Ayako Miura
  
  is a Japanese novelist. She has published over eighty works of both fiction and non-fiction. Many of her works are considered best-sellers, and a number have been remade as feature-length films....
   - Japanese authoress
• Hiromitsu Miura
  Hiromitsu Miura
  
  Hiromitsu Miura is a professional mixed martial arts fighter and who currently competes in the welterweight division for World Extreme Cagefighting....
   - mixed martial artist
• Kazuyoshi Miura
  Kazuyoshi Miura
  
  Kazuyoshi Miura , often known simply as Kazu, is a Japanese football striker. He has played for the Japan national football team and was the first Japanese recipient of the Asian Footballer of the Year award in 1993, an award presented annually by the Asian Football Confederation....
   - Japanese football player
• Kazuyoshi Miura (businessman)
  Kazuyoshi Miura (businessman)
  
  was a Japanese people businessman, who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife, Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle lasting decades ended when he presumably committed suicide in October 2008....
   - Japanese suspected murderer
• Kentaro Miura
  Kentaro Miura
  
  is a Japanese mangaka best known for his popular Seinen manga, Berserk ....
   - Japanese manga artist
• Masako Miura
  Masako Miura
  
  is a seiyu born on November 29, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan. She is employed by the talent management firm Arts Vision....
   - Japanese seiyu
• Miura Anjin, honorific title of William Adams (sailor)
  William Adams (sailor)
  
  William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an England navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Great Britain ever to reach that country....
  
• Miura Goro
  Miura Goro
  
  Viscount , was a lieutenant general in the early Imperial Japanese Army....
  
• Tamaki Miura
  Tamaki Miura
  
  was a Japanese opera singer famous for her performances as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.Miura made her operatic debut in Tokyo in 1911 and the same year went to Europe to perform and study....
   - Japanese opera singer
• Tomokazu Miura
  Tomokazu Miura
  
  is a Japanese actor. Born January 28 1952 in Enzan, Yamanashi, his real name is Miura Minoru . He attended Hino high school in Tokyo, and married actress and singer Momoe Yamaguchi in 1980....
   - Japanese actor
• Tsutomu Miura
  Tsutomu Miura
  
  Tsutomu Miura was a Japanese Linguistics born in Tokyo.He studied language as expression from contentism and criticized formism and functionism, like structural linguistics or the theory of generative grammar....
   - Japanese linguist

Fictional characters

• Miura Hayasaka from Yotsuba&!
  Yotsuba&!
  
  is an ongoing Japanese comedy manga series by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh. It is published in Japan by MediaWorks , now ASCII Media Works, in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh and collected in eight tankobon volumes as of August 2008....
  

Other

• Miura map fold
  Miura map fold
  
  The Miura-fold folded Miura-fold can be packed into an area no larger than the size of one of the segments that make up the overall shape, its thickness restricted only by the thickness of the folded material....
  
• The Lamborghini Miura
  Lamborghini Miura
  
  The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car built in Italy by Lamborghini between 1966 and 1972. A mid-engined layout had been used successfully in competition, including by the Ford GT40 and Ferrari 250 LM at 24 hours of Le Mans....
  , a sports car
• Miura (bull breeders) is the name of a Spanish ganadería (bull breeding estate) raising bulls used for bullfighting that are famous for their ferocity

See also

• Miguel Mihura
  Miguel Mihura
  
  Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spain playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa , a work reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre....
   (the h is silent), Spanish playwright