Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo)

inlet

inlet

Edo period (1603-1868)

(true) Tokyoite

Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

Tokyo style

Edo shogunate (1603-1867)

to (try to) act like a big-shot

Matsue (city in Shimane)

Edo Bay

canal

Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)

type of Japanese music

muddy inlet or creek

to hit someone where they least expect it

Edo-period literature

Iris ensata

Edo dialect

Edo dialect

Yangtze River (China)

(on the) bank of a large river

riverbank (esp. the Yangtze River)

Jiangsu Province (China)

the public ②rivers and lakes ③secluded place

Yangtze River (China)

Edo

Yangtze and Yellow rivers

rivers and mountains

village along a (large) river

Zen disciples

Zhejiang financial clique

large river (esp. the Yangtze) ②Lake Biwa

type of red brocade originally from the ancient Chinese country of Shu and passed on in Japan ②type of brocade made in Sichuan during the Ming period

Liujiang man

Heilongjiang Province (China)

Jiangxi Province (China)

Zhejiang Province (China)

Battle of Baekgang (663)

Pearl River (China)

Ōmi (former province located in present-day Shiga Prefecture)

Omi beef

merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites)

Ōmi Code (668 A.D.)

Tōtōmi (former province located in the west of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)

Miracle on the Han River (rapid economic growth in South Korea following the Korean War)

Jiangsu University