吾妻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
吾	妻
Jinmeiyō	Grade: 5

Alternative forms

東
吾嬬

Etymology

From an earlier /aduma/.

Noun

吾妻 (hiragana あずま, rōmaji azuma, historical hiragana あづま)

the east
- c. 715: Fudoki (Hitachi)
  古者自相模國足柄岳坂以東諸縣惣我姬國 [...]
the lands east of the capital

See also

関 (かん)東 (とう) (Kantō)

References

Akimoto, Kichirō (1958) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Fudoki (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

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