Sekigahara

Borrowed from Japanese 関(せき)ヶ(が)原(はら) (Sekigahara).

Sekigahara

1. A town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
   • 1981 [1935-1939], Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by Charles S. Terry, Musashi, Harper & Row/Kodansha International, translation of 宮本武蔵 [Miyamoto Musashi] (in Japanese), →ISBN, page 2:

     Low, dark clouds shifted ominously across the sky. The night before, sometime between midnight and dawn, a blinding rain had drenched the plain of Sekigahara.

2. The Battle of Sekigahara, fought in 1600.

Sekigahara

1. Rōmaji transcription of せきヶはら