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Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce

peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian

barbarian

historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

expel the barbarians; expulsion of the foreigners; late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians; great, unifying leader

fire bomb; incendiary bomb

(in Japanese history) warrior from the eastern parts of Japan; eastern barbarians; people east of China (from the perspective of China)

hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia)

kobus magnolia; Magnolia praecocissima; Magnolia kobus