Kanazawa

American  

[kah-nah-zah-wah] / ˈkɑ nɑˈzɑ wɑ /

noun

1. a seaport on W Honshu, in central Japan.

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Kanazawa British  

/ ˌkænəˈzɑːwə /

noun

1. a port in central Japan, on W Honshu: textile and porcelain industries. Pop: 439 892 (2002 est)

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Example Sentences

In the large cities of Toyama and Kanazawa, life is already returning to some kind of normalcy.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

Joni Kanazawa, director of Ellie’s Elves, was thrilled that a child would honor Ellie’s memory.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2021

“Also, everything is open-sourced,” said Angjoo Kanazawa, who specializes in “pose detection”—figuring out, from a photo of a person, how her body is arranged in 3-D space.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

First opened more than 350 years ago, Akasaka Asada serves kaga ryori, a cuisine hailing from Japan’s Kanazawa area.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2018

Lured by the fame of the springs, these men had come from Kanazawa in Kaga, where they were engaged in teaching chemistry, to make a test of the waters.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival