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あずま

obsolete readingarchaicnounnoun (generic)abbreviationmahjongprefix

Reading

Meanings

  • eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara), eastern provinces
  • east
  • wagon, yamatogoto, six-stringed native Japanese zither(explanation)
  • my spouse
  • east wind tile
  • winning hand with a pung (or kong) of east wind tiles
  • eastern, east
  • Tokyo

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Example sentences

あずま文化ぶんか西にしとはことなる独自どくじ発展はってんげた。

The culture of eastern Japan developed uniquely, distinct from that of the west.

古来こらいよりあずま武士ぶしたちはきょう朝廷ちょうてい対立たいりつすることもあった。

Since ancient times, the warriors of eastern Japan sometimes came into conflict with the imperial court in Kyoto.

平安時代へいあんじだい歌人かじんあずまはるかな辺境へんきょうとしてんだ。

Poets of the Heian period composed verses depicting eastern Japan as a distant, remote land.

あずまおとこ京女きょうおんなという言葉ことばいまもなおかたがれている。

The saying 'an eastern man and a Kyoto woman' continues to be passed down even today.

源氏げんじ勢力せいりょくあずまるにつれ、みやことの文化的ぶんかてき距離きょりひろがっていった。

As the Genji clan took root in eastern Japan, the cultural distance from the capital grew ever wider.