Oaza - Dainoji

Japanese: 大字 - だいのじ

〘Noun〙① The character "大" (big). Also, something that is shaped like the character "大". In particular, it refers to a person sleeping with their arms and legs spread out. *Storybook, Shikanomakihide (1686), vol. 4 "The character "大" is written with a horizontal line at the beginning." *Sono Menkage (1906), Futabatei Shimei, vol. 71 "There he was, lying there in the "大" character, already snoring." ② In Kyoto, on the night of the 16th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar (currently the 16th day of the 8th month), bonfires were lit in the shape of the "大" character on the west side of Mount Nyoigatake in Higashiyama. A fire in the shape of the "大" character. *Haiku poem, Ruikanshi (1707), vol. 1 "Thus snow, the character "大" looks shining through the mountain grass."

Dai-ji [large character]

〘noun〙① Large characters. Capital letters. ※Lingshu Ji (868) official website: "The mark says. Penalties. To refer _{to legal} texts, _one _small character is used. _{To conclude} the matter, the text is made _into _two large characters _. " ※Half-Fun (1917) <Miyatake Gaikotsu> Type size and newspapers: "Newspaper articles also came to use large characters (daiji) in the headlines to benefit readers' time economy." [Nanshi - Biography of Liu Muzhi] ② Characters such as 屍, 弐, 三, etc. used in place of Chinese numerals 一, 二, 三, etc. ※Lingshu Ji (868) official website: " _{There are} numbers, _two large characters are used, _{and an} explanation says, three characters _{are made into} three types."

O- Azaoho... [Oaza]

A municipality is an administrative division of a city, town, or village. It is a relatively large area that includes small villages . It is a region that once had the name of a town or village, but was incorporated into the division of a municipality when the municipal system was enacted in the early Meiji period.

Source: The Selected Edition of the Japanese Language Dictionary About the Selected Edition of the Japanese Language Dictionary Information

Japanese:

〘名〙① 「大」という字。また、「大」の字に形が似たもの。特に、人が両手・両足を広げて寝た形をいう。※咄本・鹿の巻筆（1686）四「大の字は、先横に一文字を引」※其面影（1906）〈二葉亭四迷〉七一「其処に大の字になって、もう鼾をかいてゐる」② 京都で、旧暦七月一六日（現在は八月一六日）の夜、東山の如意ヶ岳の西面に「大」の字の形に連ねてたくかがり火。大文字の火。※俳諧・類柑子（1707）上「うす雪や大の字かるる山の草」

だい‐じ【大字】

〘名〙① 大きく書いた文字。大文字。※令集解（868）公式「跡云。科罪。謂引_二律正文_一為_二小字_一。結_レ事文処為_二大字_一」※面白半分（1917）〈宮武外骨〉活字の大小と新聞「新聞の記事も〈略〉見出しに大字(ダイジ)を用ひて読者の時間的経済に便益しなければならぬやうになった」〔南史‐劉穆之伝〕② 漢数字の一、二、三などのかわりに用いる壱、弐、参などの文字。※令集解（868）公式「有_レ数者、為_二大字_一釈云、三字作_レ参之類」