Direction
Some names contain a word indicating a direction:
- chūō (中央) or naka- (中) - central; e.g., Yokosuka Chūō; Naka-Okachimachi
- higashi (東) - east
- kita (北) - north; e.g., Kita-ku, literally meaning North Ward
- minami (南) - south
- nishi (西) - west
- u (右) ("right") and sa (左) ("left"), directions relative to the Kyōto Imperial Palace (and from the viewpoint of the Emperor, who faces south, so that sa is east and u is west): Sakyō-ku, Ukyō-ku
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Famous quotes containing the word direction:
“Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)