Japan (en)
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(Japonia.)
Notatio
[+/-]“Natio ortus solis.” Ab origine Sinice 日本国 (rìběn-guó, Japonia natio), fortasse via Lusitane Japão.
Nomen proprium
[+/-]Japan
- Japonia (-ae, f.)
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- 1619: AMONGST other coũtryes which were unknowne to us of Europe untill in this later age they were diſcouered by the Spaniardes & Portugalls , one is Iapone under which name be conteyned diuers Ilandes lying in the eaſt Ocean of the great Kingdome of China , a chief prouince of Aſia [...] — A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books, W. W. Gent