the east (compass point) / the Orient / an easterly (wind blowing from the east) / (sumo) higher-ranked wrestlers listed on the right of a banzuke / an Eastern Bloc country

(dated) going from Kyoto to eastern Japan, especially to Edo or Kamakura

(dated) to go from Kyoto to eastern Japan, especially to Edo or Kamakura

a surname

(music)

east

(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

(mahjong) east wind (mahjong tile)

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

a placename / a female given name / a surname