(archaic, colloquial) a nickname of Ariwara no Narihira, Heian-period waka poet

very distant past

earth; ground

earth, land, ground / a place, a region, a piece of land / territory, dominion / (of a crate, etc.) the bottom / (printing, of a page) the bottom margin

place, area

the ground / earth, dirt, mud, soil / the earth (as opposed to the heavens) / the ground or bottom of something (as of a price range)

a colony (region or governmental unit)

the emperor's residence, the imperial palace / the capital, especially within an empire

(historical) (Japanese colonial era) Seoul, also known as Gyeongseong (the Korean reading of these same Chinese characters) and Keijō

(obsolete) the emperor's residence, the imperial palace / (obsolete) the capital, especially within an empire