Crossword clues for shikoku
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Japanese island, literally "four provinces," from shi "four" + koku "province."
Wikipedia
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 name refers to the four former provinces that made up the island: Awa, Tosa, Sanuki, and Iyo.
The is a native, primitive Japanese breed of dog from Shikoku island that is similar to a Shiba Inu. The Shikoku was recently added as recognized breed of the American Kennel Club as an AKC FSS standard [ Foundation Stock Service ], it is recognized by the Japan Kennel Club, an organization recognized by AKC as an official foreign registry (AKC recognizes the Shiba Inu, however). The Shikoku is also in the Canadian Kennel Club Hound group and the United Kennel Club, awaiting full recognition. In 1937 the Japanese Crown recognized the Shikoku dog as a living "natural monument" of Japan.
is a 1999 Japanese supernatural thriller film directed by Shunichi Nagasaki and written by Kunimi Manda and Takenori Sento.
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.