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  • Japanese (Bandō) : meaning ‘east of the slope’, referring to provinces east of Ōsaka (‘great slope’). Two characters meaning ‘slope’ and a third character, meaning ‘wooden board’ but similar in appearance to the two meaning ‘slope’, are used to write it. The name is found mostly in western Japan.