a male or female given name / a surname

to grow into adulthood / to excel

length

(military, historical) the Imperial Japanese Army

(military, historical) the Imperial Japanese Navy

(history) the Holy Roman Empire

(theater); (historical) a red-light district in Edo located east of Edo Castle (today in Fukagawa, Kōtō Ward) / (Buddhism) Short for 東本願寺 (Higashi Hongan-ji): a Buddhist temple in Kyoto

(obsolete) the east

(archaic) the east / (archaic) the lands east of the 都 (miyako, “imperial capital”)

a placename / a female given name / a surname