しもつけ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しもつけ – see the following entry.

【下野】 [proper noun] a placename, such as that of: [proper noun] (historical) Short for 下野国 (Shimotsuke-no-kuni): Shimotsuke Province, an old province of Japan, now part of Tochigi Prefecture [proper noun] Short for 下野市 (Shimotsuke-shi): Shimotsuke (a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan) [2006–] [proper noun] a surname [noun] the Japanese meadowsweet, Spiraea japonica Alternative spellings 繍線菊, シモツケ

(This term, しもつけ (shimotsuke), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)