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island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang), one's turf
Island; insula, island, islet
islands
island country
on an island, on-island
Shimane (prefecture); island country
- 島民とうみん
islander, inhabitant of an island
- 島嶼とうしょ
islands
- 島田しまだ
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure
- 島流ししまながし
exile, banishment
- 島影しまかげ
faint outlines of an island, vague shape of an island, silhouette of an island
- 島人とうじん
islander
- 島外とうがい
off an island, away from an island, off-island
- 島梟しまふくろう
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
- 島巡りしまめぐり
island tour
- 島台しまだい
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
- 島名とうめい
name of an island
- 島主とうしゅ
island chief
- 島伝いしまづたい
from island to island, island-hopping
- 島田髷しまだまげ
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure
- 島山しまやま
island mountain
- 島陰しまかげ
lee of an island, area hidden by an island
- 島嶼国とうしょこく
island country
- 島根県しまねけん
Shimane Prefecture (Chūgoku area)
- 島言葉しまことば
island language, island dialect
- 島嶼部とうしょぶ
island area, insular region
- 島ぞうりしまぞうり
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
- 島司とうし
island governor
- 島帝国とうていこく
island empire
- 島風しまかぜ
island wind
- 島の制約しまのせいやく
island constraint
- 島庁とうちょう
island government office
- 縞物しまもの
striped cloth
- 島皮質とうひしつ
insular cortex, insula
- 島豆腐しまどうふ
Okinawan-style tofu
- 島宇宙しまうちゅう
galaxy, island universe
- 島言葉しまくとぅば
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised); Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
- 島唄しまうた
traditional Okinawan folk music
- 島原の乱しまばらのらん
Shimabara Rebellion (1637-1638)
- 島寒菊しまかんぎく
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)