じょうもん

See also: しょうもん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of じょうもん – see the following entries.

【縄文】 [noun] (pottery) a pressed straw-rope pattern [proper noun] Short for 縄文時代 (Jōmon Jidai, “The Jomon period”): Period of Japanese pre-history, ca. 14000–1000 BCE

【城門】 [noun] castle gate

【上門】 [noun] superphylum

【定紋】 [noun] family crest

(This term, じょうもん (jōmon), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)