Meanings

type of yellow carrot grown in Okinawa

Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)

Oshima tsumugi weave (type of pongee made in the Amami islands)

Turks and Caicos Islands

British Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands

chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)

the art of classical Japanese poetry

Yamato (province)

Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)

to set upon a journey

the four northern islands (held by Russia)

pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period

islands of the Pacific Ocean

deportation boat

left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal)

left utterly helpless

Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

small isolated island

island group