island; one's territory (of a sex worker, organized crime gang, etc.); one's turf
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
Hiroshima (city, prefecture)
Fukushima (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)
all over the island; throughout the island; on the island
Yamato (province); Japan; the art of classical Japanese poetry
Urashima Tarō; 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 (Kyūshū)
Shimane Prefecture (Chūgoku area)
bottom part of the upper cross-beam of a torii
Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)
left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable
traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
Kuril Islands; Kurile Islands; Chishima Islands
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 made in the Amami islands)
Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (usu. contains noodles and meat and/or seafood which are not mixed in with the batter)
island country mentality; insular spirit; insularism; insularity
traditional Okinawan folk music
unswept hairdo originating in the mid-eighteenth century (now popular at traditional weddings)
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
Fukushima Prefectural Police (abbr)
type of woman's hairdo (Edo period)
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
mythical island inhabited only by women; isle of women; women-only location
from island to island; island-hopping
Kagoshima Prefectural Police (abbr)
the art of classical Japanese poetry
escaping from an island exile
Kashima Antlers (Japanese pro soccer team)
Hiroshima cabbage (var. of Chinese cabbage)
Enoshima Electric Railway
Hiroshima Prefectural Police (abbr)
Takashimaya; Takashimaya (Japanese department store chain)
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)
Liancourt Rocks dispute (territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea)
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
Tanegashima (Japanese matchlock gun); arquebus; harquebus
Hiroshima Women's University
Fukushima Women's Junior College
Kagoshima Women's College
Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's College
Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University
Hiroshima Jogakuin University
The University of Tokushima (abbr)
Hiroshima City University
Tokushima Bunri University
Hiroshima Prefectural University
Hiroshima International University
Hiroshima Bunkyo University
The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing
Hiroshima Junior College of Automotive Engineering
Hiroshima Denki Institute of Technology
Hiroshima Shudo University
Hiroshima Institute of Technology
Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University
Hiroshima University of Economics
Invasion of Ryukyu (by the Satsuma-based Shimazu clan; 1609)
Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen University
The International University of Kagoshima
Shimane Medical University (merged with Shimane University in 2003)
Hiroshima Cosmopolitan University
Fukushima Medical University
Kagoshima Keizai University
Shimane University Library
SPC Electronics Corporation
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Tokushima Prefectural Library
Hiroshima Peace Institute
island platform; center platform; centre platform
Fukushima Industries Corporation
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (Japanese pro baseball team)
Shimane Prefectural Police (abbr)
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
Nabeshima porcelains; Nabeshima ware
Tsushima Faction (of the LDP)
Tokushima Prefectural Police (abbr)
Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)
hairyflower bellflower (Campanula chamissonis)
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus japonicus)
striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex); white trevally
elegant pit viper (Protobothrops elegans); elegant tree viper
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)
Kyushu azalea (Rhododendron kiusianum)
Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)
Bupleurum stenophyllum (species of medicinal herb)
yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola)
arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus)
red-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile); red-faced shag; violet shag
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)
Xenograpsus novaeinsularis (crab species)
Himalayan ash (Fraxinus griffithii); Griffith's ash
Tamatsu Island (a fictional island in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)
Nakashima Station (Hiroshima)