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shikoku
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is the smallest ( long and between wide) and least populous (4,141,955 ) of the four main islands of Japan , located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu . Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima . The current ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Japanese island, literally "four provinces," from shi "four" + koku "province."
Usage examples of shikoku.
The year before last, in 1135, Kiyomori had accompanied his father and some men-at-arms for the first time from Kyoto to Shikoku and then to Kyushu on an expedition against the pirates of the Inland Sea.
August when the three small fisher-boats arrived on the northeastern coast of Shikoku Island near Sakade.
I came to Shikoku on a pilgrimage in the hope that chance would bring me here, where my music would comfort the royal exile.
Shikoku, visiting the eighty-eight temples associated with the Daishi.