伊

Family or surname

Kinokuniya

Company name

Kinokuniya (book store chain)

iroha poem

Japan, Germany and Italy

Japan and Italy; Japanese-Italian

Card games

iroha karuta; matching card game usu. consisting of 48 reading cards and 48 picture cards

iroha order; traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary (based on a Buddhist poem)

stationed in Italy

Izanami Boom (economic boom lasting from February 2002 to October 2007)

Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)

Japanese-Italian dictionary

France and Italy; French-Italian

Hollywood juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. kaizuka); Chinese pyramid juniper

Service

Tobu Isesaki Line

Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)

Historical term

Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

Historical term

mid-Edo period Imari ware

Historical term

Izanagi Boom (economic boom of 1965-70)

Historical term

Jurchen pirate tribe who invaded Tsushima in 1019

Early Japanese Christian term

brother; lay brother; non-ordained member of a Christian religious order

chivalrous female

Proverb; Rare term

the best men are from Kyoto; the best women from Ise

Derogatory; Proverb

merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites); robbers from Ōmi, beggars from Ise