Search Results

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

Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce

fete in honor of Ebisu (honour)

the barbarians beyond the borders of old China

barbarians to the west (from Chinese)

barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China)

Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce

junk (Chinese ship)

hollyhock