(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

Short for 関東 (Kantō):: the Kantō region of Japan / Short for 東国 (Tōgoku): a historical administrative division of Japan, corresponding to the modern Kantō and Tōkai regions / Short for 東京 (Tōkyō): Tokyo

(obsolete) the east

a surname / a male given name

east

nurture counts more than nature, breeding over birth

former name of Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture prior to 1902