関東

See also: 關東

Japanese

Alternative spelling
關東 (kyūjitai)

“geographical region of eastern Japan”: Literally “east of the barrier", referring to the Hakone Barrier (箱根の関 (Hakone no seki, “tollgate of Mount Hakone”))”, a security checkpoint on the Tōkaidō road during the Tokugawa era. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
“shogunate”: As the region was the center of power from the Kamakura to Edo periods.
“area to the east of Hangu or Shanhai Pass”: Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 關東 / 关东 (Guāndōng).

関(かん)東(とう) • (Kantō) ^{←くわんとう (Kwantou)^?}

Kantō (a geographical region in eastern Japan, that includes the capital city of Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama and Tochigi)
Synonym: 関東地方 (Kantō-chihō)
(historical) the area east of 逢坂の関 (Ōsaka-no-seki, “tollgate of Ōsaka-yama”) or later, east of 箱根の関 (Hakone-no-seki, “tollgate of Mount Hakone”)
(archaic) the area to the east of 函谷関 (Kankoku-kan, “Hangu Pass”)
(archaic) the area to the east of 山海関 (Sankai-kan, “Shanhai Pass”)
a surname

関(かん)東(とう) • (Kantō) ^{←くわんとう (Kwantou)^?}

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN