東
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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
The culture of eastern Japan developed uniquely, distinct from that of the west.
Since ancient times, the warriors of eastern Japan sometimes came into conflict with the imperial court in Kyoto.
Poets of the Heian period composed verses depicting eastern Japan as a distant, remote land.
The saying 'an eastern man and a Kyoto woman' continues to be passed down even today.
As the Genji clan took root in eastern Japan, the cultural distance from the capital grew ever wider.
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