(collective) 平仮名 (hiragana) and 片仮名 (katakana)

traditional / conventional

hiragana, a Japanese syllabary script

a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana / a syllabogram, an individual character belonging to one of the syllabaries: kana / a temporary name, an alias

Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Chiefly thought of as being used for loanwords (cf. カタカナ語 (“loanword”, literally “katakana word”)), it has a number of other uses too, complementing hiragana; see Katakana#Usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

tradition, custom

general term

mean collectively

a town in the Shikinoshimo district in the Yamato Province of Japan, generally equivalent to modern Tenri area / A city in Kanagawa Prefecture

(historical) one of the old provinces that made up Japan, generally equivalent to modern Nara prefecture / (poetic) the country of Japan