Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana

writing, notation, transcription / textual representation; spelling

write, note, transcribe / be represented in text

one thing

law / measure, size

(archaic) antique, old-fashioned / (colloquial) ancient

ancient times, antiquity, remote ages

Short for 日本国 (Nihon-koku): Japan (a country and archipelago in East Asia) / a surname

Japan

(archaic) Japan