国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central
government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan),
land, earth
国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native,
local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to
meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e.
Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
根の堅州国 【ねのかたすくに】 underworld, netherworld |