island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
Fukushima (city, prefecture)
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
floating island (mass of floating aquatic plants); island that appears to be floating (due to the mirage effect)
Onigashima; island of ogres (in Japanese folklore)
Kagoshima (city, prefecture)
Yamato (province); Japan; the art of classical Japanese poetry
all over the island; throughout the island; on the island
Urashima Tarō; (a) Rip van Winkle; fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later
left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable
Tokushima (city, prefecture)
faint outlines of an island; vague shape of an island; silhouette of an island
Fukushima prefecture (Tōhoku area)
Shimane (prefecture); (arch.) island country
Tokushima prefecture (Shikoku)
Hiroshima prefecture (Chūgoku area)
Kagoshima prefecture (Kyushu)
Shimane prefecture (Chūgoku area)
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)
traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
lee of an island; area hidden by an island
Oshima tsumugi weave; type of pongee from Oshima
Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki
island country mentality; insular spirit; insularism; insularity
traditional Okinawan folk music
Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown
to set upon a journey; to start travelling; to set off on a trip
the island country of Japan; the Japanese Isles
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
from island to island; island-hopping
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
the art of classical Japanese poetry
escaping from an island exile
type of woman's hairdo (Edo period)
island language; island dialect
Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
matchlock; arquebus; harquebus
Invasion of Ryukyu (by the Satsuma-based Shimazu clan; 1609)
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware
Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)
Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)
hairyflower bellflower (Campanula chamissonis)
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex); white trevally
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
woolly geranium (Geranium erianthum)
Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)
arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus)
red-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile); red-faced shag; violet shag
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)
Japan; ancient name for Japan appearing in the Kojiki
Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)
Nakashima Station (Hiroshima)