Edo (shogunate capital, now 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

(on the) bank of a large river

riverbank (esp. the Yangtze River)

Jiangsu Province (China)

the public ②rivers and lakes ③secluded place

Yangtze River (in 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)

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

Omi beef

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

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