Sentence examples for the matsu from inspiring English sources

The earliest printed notations of koto, samisen, and flute pieces from the Tokugawa period are found in the Shichiku shōshinshū (1664), the Shichiku taizen (1685), and the Matsu no ha (1703).

We were led to the Matsu No Ma (Pine Suite), spacious enough to fit both a tatami mat room with sliding fusama doors for privacy, and a Western-style bedroom.

The Matsu islets are tucked away in a corner of the Taiwan Strait, their rocky shores eroded into outlandish formations by the sea.

The museum tells stark tales, like how Taiwanese soldiers were massacred in the middle of the night by swimming Chinese troops, and how the Matsu residents' bravely defended their island.

The Matsu Kikan personnel spent the night on the boat and reconnoitred the area again the following day, before returning to Kupang.

In addition, the Matsu Kikan personnel were ordered to collect information which would assist any covert reconnaissance or raiding missions on the Australian mainland.

The discovery in Matsu brought the islands into the global limelight.

The unfinished Matsu class destroyer Yaezakura broke in two and sank after being bombed, and the submarine I-372 was destroyed by another bomb; at the time the submarine's crew was ashore and did not suffer any fatalities.

For example, we were told by the weak of heart and the peddlers of despair that unless we yielded Quemoy and Matsu, the islands off the China coast, to the Communists, a terrible war would result.

But by and large, the "Ike's Bluff" theory effectively explains his behavior in the Korean War, the Suez Canal crisis, the showdowns with China over the islands Quemoy and Matsu and the downing of an American U-2 spy plane in the Soviet Union.

The 500 passengers on the ship from Matsu, which docked in the southeastern port of Fuzhou, will visit a mainland temple to the goddess Matsu, the patron of fishermen popular in Taiwan and southeastern China.