mura
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mura
From Japanese
Example Sentences
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Word came from Tokyo that he had been superseded by Vice Admiral Kichisaburo No mura.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a stranger comes to reside here, enquiries shall be made as to the mura whence he came, and a surety shall be furnished by him ….
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio
WINTER-SCENE Yuki no mura; Niwatori naite; Ake shiroshi.
From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio
The word taosa signifies the head man of a mura, or village, as villages were governed in the old days; but why the hototogisu is called the taosa of Shide I do not know.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
This singularity threatened to beget discords in the mura, especially as he married his children to strangers, and thus began in the midst of the kitsune-mochi to establish a sort of anti-Fox-holding colony.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
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