かんとう
Meanings
Noun
1. Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures
2. Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)
Pitch accent
んとう
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
whole district of Kanto
the eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke and Shimotsuke)
Kantō dialect
eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region)