Sekigahara
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 関ヶ原 (Sekigahara).
Proper noun
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- A town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
- 1981 [1935-1939], Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by Charles S. Terry, Musashi, Harper & Row/Kodansha International, translation of 宮本武蔵 [Miyamoto Musashi] (in Japanese), →ISBN, page 2:
- Low, dark clouds shifted ominously across the sky. The night before, sometime between midnight and dawn, a blinding rain had drenched the plain of Sekigahara.
- The Battle of Sekigahara, fought in 1600.
Japanese
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- English proper nouns
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- en:Towns in Gifu Prefecture
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- en:Places in Japan
- English terms with quotations
- en:Historical events
- Japanese non-lemma forms
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