Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan north of Nagoya. It was ruled by powerful daimyos during the feudal period (16th–19th century).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun   The capital ofIshikawa prefecture in north-centralHonshū inJapan .
- proper noun   A ward of the city ofYokohama ,Kanagawa prefecture in Kantō region of Japan.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
 
				Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Kanazawa.
Examples
- 
								We're enjoying Takayama enough that we decided to stay here two more nights, skipping our planned stop in Kanazawa, and head straight to Tokyo from here. 9/8/07: In Takayama kateyule 2007 
- 
								The only one I wouldn’t recommend would be the Zennikku/ANA Hotel in Kanazawa - nice free coffee and cake package, but small, dark rooms desperately in need of renovation, which admittedly they may have done since I stayed there about four years ago. Room rate, food and hot tub top deciders when choosing Japanese hotel rooms 2007 
- 
								I've lived on the West Coast of Japan, where my wife comes from, a city called Kanazawa, one of the few cities in Japan that wasn't bombed during World War II. 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
- 
								He calls Kanazawa the "great idiot of social science" and points to a AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010 
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.