a shrine

(Shinto) the place where a god resides: a shrine / (Buddhism) a temple holding a Buddhist statue / the place where a ruler resides: a palace / a member of the imperial family

a surname / an old name for a region in the Atsuta area of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, where the Atsuta Shrine is located

a palace / (traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège

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

Japan

(archaic) Japan

historian

study of history

(Internet slang, especially anime and manga fandom) events or things from the past which one wants to whitewash/erase from history (due to it being embarrassing, poorly received, etc.); dark past