Meanings
proper noun
- A town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
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.
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 - The Battle of Sekigahara, fought in 1600.
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 関(せき)ヶ(が)原(はら) (Sekigahara).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 關原 /关原
- 關原 /关原Translations
Japanese 関ケ原
- 関ケ原 (Sekigahara)Translations
Cite this entry
APA
Sekigahara. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sekigahara
MLA
“Sekigahara.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sekigahara. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sekigahara,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sekigahara.
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